With its advantages, urbanization also brings risks and challenges for fragile cities like Bangkok which are trying to cope with fast population growth.
Author: Andrea Ó Súilleabháin
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In this interview, IPI’s Andrea Ó Súilleabháin speaks with New York Peace Institute CEO Brad Heckman about the linkages between community-level disputes and international mediation.
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What is the perspective of children in conflict zones? Nour, a 15-year-old board member of the Children’s Council in Lebanon, discusses.
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“In Lebanon, many of the religious leaders seem to have a very negative stigma as being opposed to gender equality or gender issues, things that they do not see themselves as opposed to,” said Anthony Keedi, a program manager at ABAAD, a resource center for gender equality in Lebanon.ABAAD produced a video last year that features […]
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To bring more women into peacebuilding, they need to be encouraged to stand up and take on leadership positions in every sphere of their lives, said Akinyi Walender of Cordaid.
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Any post-2015 agenda should have both a stand-alone goal for women and girls and specific roles for women in the broader agenda, said Lilianne Ploumen, minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands.
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In modern conflicts, it takes community-based approaches to really address the conflicts that are occurring.
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The new gender adviser in the Irish Defense Forces looks at how to attract and retain more women in a field dominated by men.
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As the UN pushes to include more women in peacebuilding, the challenges facing Ugandan women range from finding the time to finding the courage to get involved.
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How bringing the gender perspective to peacebuilding requires men to participate.
