There seems to be no crisis, no simmering conflict, no active war or threat of violence that Trump isn’t set on making worse. Thankfully, women around the world are countering his macho blathering with a real peace agenda.
We don’t yet live in a world where these women would be consulted as the policy advisors they deserve to be. But we don’t have to wonder what women like these would think, because they’re already letting us know—by organizing their communities and amplifying their voices to confront the policy actions that threaten them.
In Iraq, through years of U.S. military attacks, civil war and ISIS occupation, women have led efforts to keep people safe. Groups like the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq have delivered humanitarian aid and set up a network of shelters, often reaching people in war zones that no other group can. And on this foundation of lifesaving work, they’ve built a policy platform. They’ve , addressing poverty and sectarian divisions so that groups like ISIS never emerge again.
And there are the women’s rights activists in Colombia, who persevered through decades of civil war, creating safe spaces in war-torn communities and bringing trauma counseling to survivors of rape and violence., these activists are once again mobilizing their hard-won expertise. Groups like Proceso de Comunidades Negras have molded their wisdom on how to cement a lasting peace into concrete policy demands.
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