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Published in: 50.50Nobel Women’s Initiative at 10: When We Are Bold“It is time to stand up, sisters, and do some of the most unthinkable things. We have the power to turn our...
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Published in: 50.50I shall leave as my city turns to dust: Queens of Syria and women in warIn ‘Queens of Syria’, ancient Greek tales of loss and dislocation in conflict echo through to the contemporary...
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Published in: 50.50We feel that we found our self after we lost it in the warMy home Syria is a beautiful place, but war took it from us. As refugees in Amman, rehearsing and performing...
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Published in: 50.50Gender, war and peace: "We the people."Feminism: a way of thought and a way of being that can and has made change. We must stand up for humanity now so...
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Published in: 50.50U.S. Defense: the question of women's roles in conflictThe U.S. Department of Defense has paid scant attention to local women in conflict as either aggressors, crucial...
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Published in: 50.50John Kerry, where are women’s voices in the Syria peace talks?The US may be tempted to congratulate itself for wrangling Russia to the table for the meeting on Syria’s peace...
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Published in: 50.50Women, peace and security: the UN's rhetoric-reality gapUN Security Council resolution 2242 passed with overwhelming support. but effective implementation was immediately...
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Published in: 50.50On the frontline: women building peaceGender is a matter of international peace and security. The anniversary of SCR 1325 provides a platform to reclaim...
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Published in: 50.50The UN: are development and peace empty words?As governments adopt the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, their roles in producing and selling weapons...
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Published in: 50.50Mobilising for peace and freedom: from aspiration to lasting changeThe 2015 WILPF manifesto outlines how those who choose peace over conflict must act, and recognises that...
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Published in: 50.50NPT: nuclear colonialism versus democratic disarmament
A host of nuclear free states are claiming back their power to create the conditions for a much-needed legally...
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Published in: 50.50Where your conscience can take you: North Korea
On 24 May, thirty women peacebuilders crossed the De-Militarized Zone that separates Korean families. Ann Wright...
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Published in: 50.50Libya: "Rejoicing at our bloody democracy"For sustainable peace, the UN must refuse to sanction militarism as the default response to unwanted migration and...
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Published in: 50.50The masculinisation of complexityYou would think a peace movement would be the least patriarchal of all social movements but you can masculinise...
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Published in: 50.50World disarmament? Start by disarming masculinityMassive world military spending is driven by the profit motive of the arms industry and politicians’ weaponized...
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Published in: 50.50There are more of us who want peace than want the killing to continue
The ‘utopian’ slur against peacemakers is defeatist propaganda for pro-war, pro-militarisation and securitisation...
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Published in: 50.50A new narrative on human rights, security and prosperityIt’s up to us to ‘reframe the narrative’ of development, to move beyond the historic thrust of capital and war and...
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Published in: 50.50The pacifist dilemma: women peacemakers’ responses to Islamic StateCan non-violent strategies defeat the new fascism of Islamic State and its allies? Women peace makers’ hopes and...
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Published in: 50.50Speaking truth to power at the UN"This may be the last time our voice is heard here…" excerpt from the Women's International League for Peace and...
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Published in: 50.50Women's power to stop war: rereading Virginia WoolfThree Guineas was published in 1938 but it remains startlingly relevant. War will not end while women are kept out...
