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Video
clip - short (3-5mn) face to face video interviews with the following
guest speakers who participated in UNESCO's Round Table "Women
Peacemakers" held during Internatinal Women's Day (8 March
2007)
Ř
Ms
Swanee
Hunt
(
USA
), Ambassador Swanee Hunt is the founding director of the Women and Public
Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She is also
the founder of the Initiative for Inclusive Security which advocates for
the full participation of all stakeholders, especially women, in formal
and informal peace processes.
Ř
Ms
Luz
Mendez (
Guatemala
) , President of the Advisory Council to the National
Union
of Guatemalan Women (UNAMG). Before this post, from 1991 to 1996, Ms Méndez
participated in the Guatemalan peace negotiations which brought an end to
35 years of violent conflict.
Ř
Ms
Sylvie
Kinigi
(
Burundi
), former Prime Minister of the first democratically elected, ethnically
mixed government of
Burundi
. She survived the violent 1993 coup, during which the President, Melchior
Ndadaye, was assassinated, only to find herself in charge of a
conflict-beleaguered nation. |
