Grantee name: Women Waging Peace

Mission: Women Waging Peace advocates for the full participation of all stakeholders, especially women, in formal and informal peace processes around the world. Women Waging Peace originally operated as part of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The Women Waging Peace Network is now housed at The Initiative for Inclusive Security, a program of Hunt Alternatives Fund founded by peace and security expert Ambassador Swanee Hunt.

WAPPP annually convened women peace leaders from the world's most violent conflict regions to share struggles and strategies, meet with U.S. foreign policy experts, to participate in the Women & Public Policy Executive Training to advance their capacity for leadership in peace development, and to establish networks and coalitions for ongoing work.  

Delegates included grassroots organizers, parliamentary members, journalists, academics, military officers, lawyers, judges and other civil society activists.   WWP discussions and trainings promoted ratification, implementation and enforcement of international human rights, as defined in the UDHR, CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325.  

The range of delegates' peace and security work included conflict resolution bridging ethnic and party lines, negotiation of peace agreements, demanding recognition of rape as a war crime, instituting women's rights and gender equity in constitutions, establishing rapid response teams and strategies to counter terrorist actions, survival trainings, trauma processing for victims of rape, torture and imprisonment, reconciliation processes for reintegration of ex-combatants and repatriations, investigation and documentation of war crimes, increasing women's participation in electoral government and observation of elections, founding progressive political parties, bringing human rights training to women in refugee camps, educating youth in human rights conflict resolution and non-violence, and building the presence and influence of social justice NGO's in civil societies.

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA and Washington DC, USA

Website: www.huntalternatives.org/pages/7_the_initiative_for_inclusive_security.cfm

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/InclusiveSecurity

Channel Grants: Channel sponsored a delegate to attend the conference in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Photos of the Women and Security Executive Training Program courtesy of the Women and Public Policy Program.