AFGHANISTAN IN CRISIS:

How Can Women Wage Peace?

As part of the Third Annual Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace Colloquium, experts on gender and peace building will lead a panel discussion focusing on the need for new actors and alternative policy solutions in stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan, especially with regard to geopolitical concerns.

WHO:	Rina Amiri, (Core Member: Afghanistan) Senior Associate for Research and Outreach, Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; Name Withheld, (Core Member: Afghanistan) Director of Refugee Relief and Education. Ms. P. will phone in from a refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan to participate in the discussion. Owais Aslam Ali, Pakistan, chairman of Pakistan Press International; Rita Manchanda, (Core Member: India) Executive Director of the South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR); Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Chair of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace. Moderator: Jim Trengrove, Senior Producer of the Capitol Hill Unit at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.
WHEN:	Thursday, November 15, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
WHERE:	John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Ground Floor

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