The following is a conversation with Rasha Jarum, founder and director of Peace Track Initiative, on the efforts to secure more meaningful involvement and representation for women in the process to …
Project Ploughshares: Our 2018 Plan
Last year was remarkably active for virtually all Project Ploughshares program areas—and 2018 is turning out to be at least as busy. From unscrupulous arms transfers that fuel human rights …
Public events: On women, peace, security and South Sudan
Monday November 27 in Waterloo, Ontario 10:00 a.m. to noon Round Table: Women, Peace and Security: The Case of South Sudan Location: Boardroom • Balsillie School of International Affairs • 67 …
Agents of beneficial change: Women have played—and must continue to play—a key role in the nuclear disarmament movement
Author Jennifer Allen Simons The Ploughshares Monitor Spring 2012 Volume 33 Issue 1 Originally prepared for the Global Zero Blog, October 25, 2011. Jennifer Allen Simons, C.M., Ph.D., LL.D. is …
A glaring omission: Landmark UN Resolution 1325 on women and peace makes no reference to small arms and light weapons
Author Maribel Gonzales The Ploughshares Monitor Spring 2012 Volume 33 Issue 1 United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, unanimously adopted in 2000, was a turning point in how the …
‘Why women?’
The Ploughshares Monitor Spring 2012 Volume 33 Issue 1 Adapted from “Why is women’s participation important in small arms control and disarmament?” Women’s Network of the International Action Network on …
A complicated business: To help those in need we must address underlying policy and political considerations
Author Samantha Nutt The Ploughshares Monitor Spring 2012 Volume 33 Issue 1 Samantha Nutt is the founder of War Child and author of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid. This …
Peace in action: A look at women’s groups addressing armed violence
The Ploughshares Monitor Spring 2012 Volume 33 Issue 1 Gun-Free Kitchen Tables, Israel GFKT demands enforcement of an already existing Israeli law that restricts the authorization for security guards to …
Meet Our Caribbean Partner: The Women’s Institute for Alternative Development
Author Maribel Gonzales The Ploughshares Monitor Spring 2009 Volume 30 Issue 1 Annual murder rates in the Caribbean—at 30 per 100,000 inhabitants—are higher than in any other region of the …