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Women, War & Peace is a bold five-part PBS television series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. The vast majority of today’s conflicts are not fought by nation states and their armies, but rather by informal entities: gangs and warlords using small arms and improvised weapons. The series reveals how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented casualties. Yet they are simultaneously emerging as necessary partners in brokering lasting peace and as leaders in forging new international laws governing conflict. With depth and complexity, Women, War & Peace spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones from Bosnia to Afghanistan and Colombia to Liberia, placing women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security, and reframing our understanding of modern warfare.
Major funding for Women, War & Peace is provided by the 40x50, a group of visionary donors who have provided key support for this initiative; Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Foundation to Promote Open Society; Ford Foundation; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Swanee Hunt Family Fund of the Denver Foundation; Starry Night, an Anne Delaney Charitable Fund; The Atlantic Philanthropies; Dobkin Family Foundation; Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family; Bill Haney; Pierre N. Hauser; Susan Disney Lord; Partridge Foundation, a John and Polly Guth Charitable Fund; Vital Projects Fund; Elizabeth H. Weatherman and The Warburg Pincus Foundation; The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; Barbara H. Zuckerberg; Sigrid Rausing Trust; more than 1,500 Members of THIRTEEN; and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for I Came to Testify is also provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, and for Peace Unveiled by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Funding for the online Education Guide is provided by The Overbrook Foundation.
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Achieving PeaceThis video from Women, War & Peace features a sit-in and other nonviolent actions conducted by the women of Liberia in 2003 to get participants at the peace talks in Accra, Ghana to sign a peace agreement in order to bring about the end of civil war in Liberia. |
9-12 |
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Building The CaseIn this video from Women, War & Peace, students learn about the precedent set by Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal prosecutors in establishing rape as a specific war crime, and the bravery of the witnesses they called to testify. |
9-12 |
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Cauca's Most Valuable Resources This video segment from Women, War & Peace introduces Cauca, a resource-rich region in Colombia whose residents are threatened with internal displacement due to the interests of potential investors.
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9-12 |
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The Changing Face of WarIn this lesson students watch and discuss videos from the PBS series Women, War & Peace to explore what warfare in the “new world order” means for the millions of people—especially women—affected by today’s intense but often obscure conflicts. |
9-12 |
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The Cost of Human RightsThis video segment from Women, War & Peace follows Clemencia Carabali, a community activist from Cauca,Columbia as she travels to Washington, D.C. to share with congressional staffers the perspective of Cauca’s residents who are facing displacement.
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9-12 |
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Cycle of Violence In this video segment from Women, War & Peace, the eviction date for residents of La Toma, Columbia has been set by the mayor.
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9-12 |
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EmpowermentThis video from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the power of women and suggests that presence of women at peace talks is essential.
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9-12 |
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Fighting to Be HeardThis video from Women, War & Peace looks at how the women of Afghanistan to participate in government and the peace process.
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9-12 |
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Human SecurityThis video from Women, War & Peace, introduces the idea of “human security” as is an individual’s and or a community’s feeling of security |
9-12 |
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In Pursuit of DemocracyIn this video from Women, War & Peace, learn about the efforts of Leymah Gbowee and the women of Liberia to further democracy and peace after the end of Liberian civil war in 2003. |
9-12 |
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Judgment And LegacyThis video from Women, War & Peace explores the complicated legacy of the War Crimes Tribunal’s final judgments in the affected communities in Bosnia. |
9-12 |
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Legal StrugglesThis video segment from Women, War & Peace explains how the legal struggles of Cauca and La Toma began 10 years ago in Columbia, when Héctor Sarria was granted a license to mine gold in the mountain.
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9-12 |
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Life During and After Taliban RuleThis video from Women, War & Peace provides an overview of life in Afghanistan during and after Taliban rule and women’s efforts to participate in the country’s peace process.
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9-12 |
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Neighbor On NeighborThe video from Women, War & Peace describes how atrocities against civilians in the Bosnian civil war were broadcast to an international audience on television – with little impact. |
9-12 |
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A New World Order This video from Women, War & Peace explains how women and their dependents are most affected by the changed nature of warfare since the end of the Cold War.
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9-12 |
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Peaceful ProtestsThis lesson uses video from Women, War & Peace: “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” to help students learn about nonviolent resistance movements that have taken place around the world and to explore how women’s nonviolent protests helped bring about the end of a bloody civil war in Liberia in 2003. |
9-12 |
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Peaceful Protests in LiberiaLook at the early stages of the women’s non-violent protest movement in Liberia in this video from Women, War & Peace. |
9-12 |
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Populations at Risk: The Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons WorldwideIn this lesson, students use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations existing in nations and territories today. |
9-12 |
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Return to the Land? This video segment from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the determination of residents of La Tomato resist the pending evictions from their land.
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9-12 |
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Steps Toward PeaceThis video from Women, War & Peace looks at steps the women of Liberia took to end a bloody civil war in their country. |
9-12 |
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Supporting the Women of Afghanistan A look at Afghanistan’s need for international support and actions taken by the U.S. to advocate for Afghan women in this video from Women, War & Peace. |
9-12 |
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The TestimonyThis video from Women, War & Peace features Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal Testimony from witnesses against their accused Bosnian Serb rapists. |
9-12 |
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Truth and ConsequencesIn this lesson, using video segments from Women, War & Peace, students will examine the unfortunately widespread and longstanding phenomenon of wartime rape through a case study of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, convened in 1995 to prosecute atrocities committed during the 1993-1995 war in Bosnia. |
9-12 |
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War and the Rise of Women's Resistance in LiberiaThis video from Women, War & Peace provides an introduction to the Liberian civil war, which began in 1989, and the birth of the women’s resistance movement. |
9-12 |
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War Was In The AirThis video from Women, War & Peace provides historical background on Yugoslavia, and how it began to unravel with a series of national separatist movements in the early 1990s. |
9-12 |
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Women in Afghanistan TodayA look at efforts two Afghan women are taking to help others, as well as dangers faced by women in Afghanistan today in this video from Women, War & Peace.
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9-12 |
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Women on the Rise in AfghanistanIn this lesson from Women, War & Peace students learn about the life of women in Afghanistan, including progress they have made as well as the obstacles and dangers they still face. |
9-12 |
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