World Savvy Monitor

Women are increasingly being recruited as agents of diplomacy, conflict prevention, reconstruction, and reconciliation.  

• Several organizations such as Women Waging Peace work to train and integrate women into power structures that help to put post-conflict societies back together and mediate hostilities.  

• The recent appointments of Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton as U.S. Secretaries of State are major advances for women in the halls of diplomacy. 

• Fifteen years after the genocide in Rwanda, many women hold political office and oversee institutions of justice that are critical to the country’s peace and stability.

• Liberia, a country destroyed by years of brutal civil war, is on the mend under the leadership of Africa’s first female President and peace activist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

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