Ambassador Swanee Hunt is founder and chair of The Initiative for Inclusive Security (including The Women Waging Peace Network), a program of Hunt Alternatives Fund. During her tenure as US Ambassador to Austria (1993-97), Dr. Hunt hosted negotiations and several international symposia to focus efforts on securing the peace in the neighboring Balkan states.

Building on her extensive work with US non-governmental organizations, she became a specialist in the role of women in post-communist Europe, leading to the July 1997 “Vital Voices: Women in Democracy” conference of 320 women leaders in business, law, and politics, and the film documentary “Voices.” Her work in Europe prefaced the creation of Inclusive Security to advocate for the full participation of all stakeholders, especially women, in formal and informal peace processes.

She has authored articles for US and international newspapers and professional journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, and Rocky Mountain News; she also writes a nationally-syndicated column for Scripps Howard news service.

Ambassador Hunt is active in Democratic politics. Her book, This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace, was published in January, 2005 by Duke University Press; her autobiography, Half-Life of a Zealot will be out in July, 2006.

Articles by Swanee Hunt

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