Women and Armed conflicts

Armed conflicts impact the lived experiences of individuals in diverse and varied ways, in relation to their social locations (gender, class, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age). While women were always affected by armed conflicts—as worriers and/or family members of warriors, as means to harm the morals and continuity of the rival group, as survivors—through history, women’s wartime experiences were rarely recorded. This series will focus on a range of ways in which armed conflicts, in various geographic locations, impact women’s lived experiences. It aims to help us familiarize ourselves with less discussed wartime experiences, to better understand question of complex victimhood and agency in oppressive and violent circumstances, and mostly to challenge our views regarding ) wars (particular ones and wars in general).

Beyond Victimhood: Inclusive Security and Women’s Role in Stopping Armed Conflicts

A workshop with Ambassador Swanee Hunt
Monday, November 26, 12:30-14:00, Abba Eban Hall
Alfred Davis Building, Mount Scopus Campus

Swanee Hunt is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Under Dean Joseph Nye, she created and led the school’s Women and Public Policy Program. As President Clinton’s US Ambassador to Austria from 1993–97, she hosted negotiations and international symposia to stabilize the Balkan states and support women leaders throughout Eastern Europe. For two decades she has chaired Inclusive Security, a DC-based NGO, working with thousands of women leaders and policy-makers in more than 60 countries.

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