This article by the Inter Press Service discusses the importance of women’s involvement in building peace and resolving conflict as conflict in the world grows and the nature of conflict changes:
Women can play an important role in peacebuilding and the prevention of conflict.
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Addressing the Security Council Tuesday, several speakers emphasized that women’s involvement in peace building and conflict prevention is as important as ever as the nature of conflict evolves.
U.N. Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told delegates the changing nature of conflict was affecting women and girls,
“As we look around at a world in crisis, there is a sense that we are experiencing not simply an increase in violence and insecurity, but a shift in the nature of conflict itself”, she told the Security Council.“In more and more parts of the world – Iraq, Northern Nigeria, Syria, Somalia, and Mali, to name a few – violent extremists are taking control of territory, and directly threatening and targeting women, girls, and their communities. This is the terror that contributes to the high levels of displacement we are discussing today.”
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