Warburg Lecture Series: Women and Globalization
4:00 pm | February 14, 2002
Main Campus Building C-103

"Women Waging Peace"
While women around the world continue to struggle against systemic obstacles to be recognized at formal peace negotiation tables, for many years they have worked in vital, often unrecognized ways to bring stability to areas torn apart by conflict.

Warburg Professor, Charles Dunbar, invites Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, to speak on this topic. Ambassador Hunt will identify the essential role and important contributions of women in preventing violent conflict, stopping war, and sustaining peace in fragile areas around the world. She will give examples of women peace builders in diverse areas of conflict, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Rwanda, and discuss how policy makers should redesign the paradigm of war and peace to support the innovative peace building efforts of women. She will point to lessons we all must learn from examples of their work.

Ambassador Hunt is widely honored for her national and international policy shaping and humanitarian work. After sixteen years of civic leadership in Dever, Colorado, she served as the US Ambassador to Vienna. Since 1997, she has been Director of the Women and Public Policy program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Contact Person: Jessica Robash, Department of Political Science and International Relations
Email: jessica.robash@simmons.edu
Phone: 617-521-2571