Angelica Arbulu

“I am wearing large overalls and am but a couple of months away from maternity leave myself. It dawns on us that there isn’t a chance in hell I’m going to get that job. ”
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I was reading a recent post by J. at Tales From the Hood about “local” being an article of faith in the Church of Aid, and it occurred to me that Gender is the G-spot.
You know I’m right. You just cannot (and certainly should not) have a document, meeting, program or strategy that does not address gender. Depending on the place …

Yasmine Mahmoud Fakhry
Egypt
“It is time for us to build Egypt and contribute to peacebuilding and positive change, rather than engage in violence and create chaos.”
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This is a time of great turbulence in Egypt, during which the country has been shaken by violence and political instability and people have become increasingly desperate and frustrated every day.  This is especially true because the Egyptian media’s focus has been only on negative and disturbing news. In such a critical time, I seized the opportunity to engage my students at the College of Engineering …

“[T]he more I work on peacebuilding, the more I’m convinced that it isn’t a job, it’s an identity- so I love that what I do is an extension of who I am, or at least, who I try to be.”
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Below is an interview with our Generation Peace Award winner, Claire Naylor.  Claire is the Co-founder of Women LEAD, an organization that works to empower women and girls in Nepal.  You can hear more about her project on December 5th, at our Women, Power, and Peace Awards.  Get your …

Roni Aloni-Sadovnik
with an introduction by Irit Hakim
Israel
“This project is called Women’s Spring, and it is a peace initiative in the form of a written document.  The document appears below. We hope that it will help create a peace agreement in our wounded region. We feel and believe that women might succeed where men had been failed until now.”
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Introduction
I am an advocate for women’s rights and for peace in Israel. I have joined with Roni Aloni-Sadovnik, a lawyer who works tirelessly for women and children, on a new initiative …