Video Interview Swanee Hunt on Women Peacemakers

• © Swanee Hunt

Watch Swanee Hunt speak out on the important role that women play in peacemaking processes throughout the world in a special interview taped on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2007.

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Swanee Hunt is the founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she also teaches. She also chairs The Initiative for Inclusive Security (including the Women Waging Peace Network), which advocates for the full participation of all stakeholders, particularly women, in peace processes. She has conducted training for women leaders in more than 40 countries. From 1993 to 1997, Hunt served as ambassador to Austria, where she hosted negotiations and international symposia focused on stabilizing the neighboring Balkan states.

She also participated in a roundtable on Women Peacemakers, held at UNESCO Headquarters on 8 March 2007. This international conference brought together distinguished women who contribute, through their work, to the promotion of peace around the world.

• Source:UNESCO Bureau of Public Information
• 08-03-2007