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Women's Global Security Summit - 2007

9/20/2019

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Global Women Leaders Flex Security Muscles in New York City
                                                           Judith Hand

PictureJumeirah Essex House Hotel
On November 15-17 of 2007, over seventy five women—current and former heads of state, influential ministers, and leaders of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations—were invited to the first International Women Leaders Global Security Summit at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel in New York City. This may prove to be a pivotal historic event. The stated goal was to provide women leaders a forum to discuss, evaluate, and endorse meaningful strategies for global security.

For reasons explained in two books and on this website, the creation and maintenance of social stability is a priority of special importance to women, and we have arrived at a moment in history where many women have sufficient influence and power to begin to address security issues with authority. (Hand 2003, Women, Power and the Biology of Peace; 2018 War and Sex and Human Destiny)  Perhaps we have reached an historical "tipping point."

PictureJudith Hand - Press Room Sign-In
I attended as an observer and was struck with the sensation that this conclave resembled the seminal meeting of July 19-20, 1848, when some three hundred women and roughly forty men met in Seneca Falls, NY, to consider the denial to women of the right to vote.
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The Seneca Falls Convention was a first-of-its-kind meeting in the United States of America and is generally considered to be the origin of this country’s suffragist/feminist movement. The participants arrived by buggy and coach to the Wesleyan Chapel. Among those present were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrecia Mott, two of the meeting’s five co-organizers. Noted slavery abolitionist Frederick O. Douglass was among the forty or so supportive men. That meeting energized what would be women’s long battle in the United States to win the right to vote.

PictureAdelaide Johnson statue of (left to right) E.C. Stanton, S.B. Anthony, and L. Mott
The Seneca Falls participants adopted a "Statement of Sentiments," (see below) modeled on the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Its opening included a key modification to the famous phrase from the original: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." The document ended as follows:
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"In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and national Legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf. We hope this Convention will be followed by a series of Conventions, embracing every part of the country. Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the Right and the True, we do this day affix our signatures to this declaration."

PictureSigners of "Declaration of Sentiments"
Sixty-eight women and thirty-two men signed. 

The Essex House global security summit meeting, which drew together a large number of highly influential women from all parts of the globe, was also a first-of-its-kind event. Sessions that included all attendees were held along with smaller working groups. The organizers identified four issues on which to concentrate efforts to create a world where all persons live free from fear and want (details are supplied in the CALL TO ACTION included at the end of this report):
  • The economics of insecurity
  • The requirement to produce effective responses to terrorism
  • The need to mitigate the harmful effects of climate changes which will increase risks of social collapse and war
  • The need to fulfill the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) provisions of the United Nations with respect to genocide and crimes against humanity.
For each of the above issues, the CALL TO ACTION lists specific objectives that will address the attendees concerns. On the second day of the conference, attendees made specific commitments to the objectives. 
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Particularly relevant was that these women of power and high status emphasized the crucial importance of working together to negotiate non-violent solutions to both domestic and international disputes, and that their task and commitment would most especially be to reach out to local women and ask for their input, ask what they need to make change happen in their communities. As Madeleine Albright, former United States Secretary of States, said, "Security can only be built from the ground up." This is a significant change in approach to matters of security which are now usually addressed from the top down.

PictureSigning the Call to Action, Jumeirah Essex House, 2007
During the dinner gala, Poet Laureate, Maya Angelou, delivered a reading of the essence of the CALL TO ACTION (via video recording), and at the dinner’s conclusion, all persons willing to commit to these actions were invited to sign. This included the official delegates plus their aides and other observers. 
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It was as I signed that I felt the uncanny sense of the similarity to Seneca Falls. Given the stature of the delegates, I also felt an enormous surge of hope and inspiration: perhaps, like the meeting at Seneca Falls, this was the beginning of something big, a major shake-up in our approach to human security. In the case of Seneca Falls, the result 72 years later was the passage in 1920 of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which granted women the right to vote. It’s my hope, the hope of A Future Without War, that this meeting of wives, mothers, and grandmothers who are proven leaders will ultimately result in the abolition of war.

PictureKim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada (1993) (left) and Mary Robinson, President of Ireland (1990-1997) right))
The labor required to facilitate this gathering was provided by four organizations of vision:
  •      The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
  •      Council of Women World Leaders
  •      Women Leaders Intercultural Forum
  •      The White House Project
Marie Wilson, Director of The White House Project, sponsored my attendance. The summit hosts were Her Excellency Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland (1990-1997), U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights, and Vice President of the Club of Madrid, and the Right Honorable Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada (1993), Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and Minister of National Defense. (A full list of the invited delegates is given below after this report).

PictureAngelique Kiddo
Stars added sparkle and shine to the gala. The powerful voice of Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo touched hearts and got bodies swaying in the shared joy of song. The lovely and imposing actress Geena Davis, who convincingly portrayed the first woman president of the USA on the television show "Commander-in-Chief," introduced an inspiring trailer for a film documentary on "Real Security," to be released in 2008

PictureGeena Davis
It’s the conviction of my project, A Future Without War, that
1. We can abolish war – there is no biological impediment to doing so. What is required is the will to alter aspects of our dominator cultures that foster war, and
2. The sane course of action is to abolish war. War devours resources needed to address all of the concerns of these conference attendees, and
3. The united efforts of all possible leaders—women and men—will be needed to wage this great campaign, and
4. No single cause could so powerfully unite the global community—legions of organizations, governments, and individuals—than a call to participate in the global campaign to abolish this avoidable evil. Were the efforts of these legions united in common cause, nothing could stop that massive cultural shift from taking place.

This security summit did not adopt as a goal the abolition of war. Viewed in total, however, the CALL TO ACTION is precisely a description of goals to advance us well along the path to a just society in which all people live free from want and fear of violence, including the violence war. The CALL TO ACTION embraces many elements of eight of AFWW’s nine cornerstones (AFWW Cornerstones), lacking only the commitment to EMBRACE THE GOAL.
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No great cause can go forward without a plan and leaders determined to execute it. Earlier visionaries waged campaigns that at first were thought impossible—e.g., to abolish the British slave trade, to win for women the right to vote, to free India from British Rule, to end segregation in the American south, to end apartheid in South Africa. It’s my hope that at some future meeting of these women, they will expand their mandate and draw up a global PLAN OF ACTION to abolish war.

And once having a plan, I hope to see these visionaries create an organizational structure to ensure that the campaign, once begun, is continued until the goal is achieved.
It is the hope of A Future Without War that at some time in our future, people will look back to this meeting at the Jumeirah Essex House in New York City in 2007 as a pivotal moment when dominator, violent models of living began a swift decline and ultimate fall.
Judith L. Hand
1 December 2007
INVITED PARTICIPANTS and CALL TO ACTION follow:
Co-Hosts
  • Her Excellency Mary Robinson, President, Ireland (1990-97), Co-Host* 
  • The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, Prime Minister, Canada (1993), Co-Host*
Co-Chairs
  • Her Excellency Tarja Halonen, President, Finland, Honorary Co-Chair* 
  • Her Excellency Emily Saidy de Jongh-Elhage, Prime Minister, Netherlands Antilles* 
  • The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, Former Prime Minister, Jamaica (2006-2007), Honorary Co-Chair* 
  • Her Excellency Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Former President, Latvia (1999-2007), Honorary Co-Chair*
Participants
  • Ms. Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Executive Director, African Women's Development Fund, Nigeria 
  • Ms. Mahnaz Afkhami, Founder and President, Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace, Iran 
  • The Honorable Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State, United States (1997-2001) 
  • Ms. Mónica Alemán, Coordinator, International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI); Program Director, MADRE, Nicaragua 
  • Dr. Deborah Alexander, Principal Director for Governance and Security, United States Joint Forces Command 
  • Dame Margaret Anstee, United Nations Under-Secretary General (1987-1992) 
  • Ms. Elizabeth Bernstein, Director, Nobel Women’s Initiative 
  • Ms. Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Coordinator, femLINKPACIFIC-Media Initiatives for Women, Republic of the Fiji Islands 
  • Ms. Betty Bigombe, Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace; former Chief Mediator between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army; former Cabinet Minister for Pacification and Reconstruction of Northern and Northeastern Uganda. 
  • Ms. Sylvia Borren, Executive Director, Oxfam Novib, The Netherlands 
  • Ms. Beth A. Brooke, Global Vice Chair of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs, Ernst & Young, USA 
  • Ms. Charlotte Bunch, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership 
  • Ms. Deepti Choubey, Deputy Director, Nonproliferation Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United States 
  • Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict 
  • Ms. Bineta Diop, Executive Director, Femmes Africa Solidarite, Senegal 
  • Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, United States 
  • Ms. Asha Hagi Elmi Amin, Member, Transitional Parliament of Somalia; Founder, Save Somali Women and Children; Chairperson, The Sixth Clan 
  • The Honorable Anna Fotyga, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland
  • Ms. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School, Japan 
  • Ms. Leymah Roberta Gbowee, Executive Director, Women Peace and Security Network, Africa 
  • Ms. Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, General Secretary, World YWCA  
  • Ms. Theresa Hitchens, Director, The Center for Defense and Information, United States 
  • The Honorable Swanee Hunt, United States Ambassador to Austria (1993-1997); Chair, Initiative for Inclusive Security 
  • Ms. Angela Kane, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA) 
  • Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, Director, Population Program, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation 
  • Ms. Juliette Kayyem, Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Massachusetts, United States 
  • Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy (Retired), United States Army  
  • Ms. Irene Zubaida Khan, Secretary General, Amnesty International 
  • Ms. Angélique Kidjo, Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Children’s Fund, Benin 
  • Dr. Suzanne Kindervatter, Chair, Commission on the Advancement of Women 
  • The Honorable Olubanke King-Akerele, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Liberia 
  • Vice President Akua Kuenyehia, First Vice-President, International Criminal Court 
  • Her Excellency Chandrika Kumaratunga, President, Sri Lanka (1994-2005) 
  • Dr. Ranjana Kumari, Director, Centre for Social Research, India 
  • The Honorable Rosebud Kurwijila, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agricultur African Union Commission 
  • Ms. Livia Jaroka, Member, European Parliament, Hungary 
  • Ms. Ellen Laipson, President and CEO, Henry L. Stimson Centre 
  • The Honorable Barbara Lawton, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, United States 
  • Her Excellency Maria Liberia-Peters, Prime Minister, Netherlands Antilles (1984-86, 1988-93) 
  • Ms. Laura Liswood, Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders, United States 
  • Ms. Carmen Lomellin, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission of Women, Organization of American States 
  • The Honorable Cecilia Lopez, Senator, Colombia 
  • The Honorable Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations 
  • The Honorable Carolyn McAskie, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, United Nations 
  • Dr. Montgomery McFate, Senior Social Science Adviser, Human Terrain System Program, United States Army 
  • Ms. Rachel Mayanja, Special Advisor on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, United Nations 
  • The Honorable Asha-Rose Migiro, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General 
  • Dr. Gertrude Mongella, President, Pan-African Parliament 
  • Madame Ton Nu Thi Ninh, Vice Chair, National Assembly Foreign Affiars Committee, Viet Nam 
  • The Honorable Dr. Sadako Ogata, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1991-2001) 
  • Her Excellency Ing Kantha Phavi, Minister for Women’s Affairs, Cambodia 
  • The Honorable Elisabeth Rehn, Minister of Defense, (1990-1995), Minister of Equality Affairs, (1991-1995), Finland; United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights (1995-1998), United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary General, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998-1999) 
  • Dr. Hannah Safran, Co-Founder, Women in Black, Israel 
  • The Honorable Wijdan Salim, Minister of Human Rights, Iraq 
  • Dr. Sima Samar, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in the Sudan 
  • Ms. Joanne Sandler, Ad Interim Executive Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
  • The Honorable Irene Santiago, Senior Adviser to the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, The Philippines 
  • Ms. Sarah Sewall, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University, United States 
  • The Right Honorable Jenny Shipley, Prime Minister, New Zealand (1997-1999) 
  • Ms. Barbara Stocking, Director, Oxfam Great Britain 
  • Ms. Marcela Del Mar Suazo, Executive Director, FUNDECAS; Minister, National Institute for Women's Affairs, Honduras (2002-2006) 
  • Mrs. Tone Tingsgård, Vice-President, Parliamentary Assembly; Special Representative on Gender Issues, The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 
  • Her Excellency Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minster, Ukraine (2005) 
  • Ms. Ann Veneman, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 
  • Ms. Melanne Verveer, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Vital Voices Global Partnership 
  • The Honorable Ella Vogelaar, Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration, The Netherlands 
  • Ms. Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California 
  • Her Excellency Margot Wallström, Vice-President, Institutional Relations and Communication, European Commission 
  • Ms. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) (2002-2006), Canada 
  • Ms. Marie Wilson, President and Founder, The White House Project 
  • Ms. Saadia Zahidi, Head, Women Leaders Programme, World Economic Forum 
  • Ms. June Zeitlin, Executive Director, Women's Environment & Development Organization, United States
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International Women Leaders Global Security Summit - 2007
Call to Action
We, the participants of the International Women Leaders Global Security Summit, share a common vision for a more secure, peaceful and just world.  Our different cultures and backgrounds are unified by our common sense of urgency and shared resolve to ensure that all people may live free from fear and want.  We commit to supporting effective policies that increase human and state security and challenge affronts to both.
We recognize that the people of every nation deserve an accountable government, and a security system that provides for its own defense and sustains the safety and well being of its citizens.  Nevertheless, in a world where threats to peace are not contained by borders, military force must not be the only tool used to address insecurity. An over-reliance on military solutions diverts resources--both financial and human--away from solutions that favor prevention and persuasion over coercion and force. The arms industry and the proliferation of small arms carry a high human and economic toll that undermines human rights, diverts resources and encourages violence.   Recognizing that expanding defense budgets do not buy greater security, we call on governments to create a balanced response to security that accurately reflects today's real security threats and creates the momentum for long-term solutions.
The imperative to act could not be more urgent.  Tens of thousands of people die each day from hunger and poverty-related causes, including 30,000 children under the age of five from preventable disease.   Over 1.6 million people die each year from violence, of which 90% live in developing countries.   In every country, women experience and sometimes die from gender-based violence and sexual assault, with systematic rape increasingly visible as a weapon of war.  Eradicating threats such as terrorism, HIV/AIDS, environmental degradation, grinding poverty and pandemic disease require the energies of all leaders—both women and men.  Security cannot be effectively discussed or achieved with the involvement of only half of humanity. The accumulated experiences of women leaders now rising to power must be brought systematically to bear on local, national and international security policy.  As women leaders, we commit ourselves to ensuring that the realities of women who do not have access to power inform our actions.  Anything less would be a waste of resources, and an act of unconscionable neglect.
We call on both governments and individuals to effectively use the local, regional and international tools already in our hands, such as United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, internationally agreed human rights standards including CEDAW, and evolving norms such as the Responsibility to Protect, which are endorsed by heads of government and the international community.  Similarly, policies that address the common ground shared by development and security are widely recognized as good practice, and should increasingly provide the framework for defense and economic strategies.
There is an urgent need to strengthen the application of these tools.  We call on leaders to use them as designed: consistently, jointly and in global unison.  Policymaking on security will then be squarely rooted in human rights principles and international law.  We can also further strengthen their implementation by supporting reform at the UN that calls for a stronger, consolidated body for women’s rights and empowerment that operates robustly at the global policy and field levels.
We also recognize that global business can play a role in addressing global insecurity.  With influence that transcends the boundaries and power of governments, the private sector should be held accountable for abuses and called upon to contribute to the positive objectives of governments, empowering women and fulfilling human rights for all.
As leaders, we now exercise our collective agenda-setting power to detail changes we know will contribute to a more secure and just world.  We commit to asserting our individual and collective political will to ensure these recommendations are widely implemented.
We have identified four issues on which to concentrate our collective efforts toward global security.
To address the economics of insecurity, we will partner with other leaders to:
  • Clearly and consistently articulate that poverty is an affront to human dignity, is a source of global instability, disproportionately affects women and is a violation of human rights for which states and non-state actors must be held accountable.
  • Set international standards of reporting on corporate responsibility that incorporate human rights and environmental standards.
  • Restructure economic and development priorities to end unfair trade rules and focus more directly on generating productive and decent work opportunities, especially for the poor—the vast majority of whom are women—in insecure sectors such as agriculture and the informal economy.
  • Promote core labor standards and decent work, including labor rights for informal workers, business rights for informal entrepreneurs, and property rights and social protection for all.
  • Press donors to honor their foreign assistance commitments without conditionalities, especially for fragile states and Least Developed Countries, to build long-term capacity and market access, while addressing urgent threats to livelihoods, life and human dignity. 
To catalyze more effective responses to terrorism, we must:
  • Consistently advocate that appropriate responses to acts of terror bring perpetrators to justice and respect the rule of law and human rights protections.
  • Formulate and support policies that address the root causes of terrorism, including despair, humiliation, marginalization, discrimination and lack of opportunity, and ensure that interventions provide viable alternatives.
  • Reiterate that the lack of consensus around a definition of terror does not negate the universal agreement that harming civilians for political, ideological or religious ends is an abuse of human rights, dignity and life in all value systems. 
  • Condemn torture and abuse of international humanitarian law under any circumstances.
To mitigate the harmful effects of climate change, we pledge to:
  • Publicly reframe climate change as not only an economic and environmental challenge, but also an urgent social and ethical problem that disproportionately violates the rights of the poor and vulnerable, and increases the risk of social collapse and war.
  • Publicly reinforce the message that climate change is having a direct negative impact on:
    • Food security for those relying on marginal agriculture, subsistence hunting or the oceans for human survival;
    • Water security in a world of decreasing and polluted fresh water resources; and 
    • Disease management as tropical diseases migrate to populations lacking protective antibodies.
  • Reinforce policy linkages between energy management and global warming, with an emphasis on conservation and the development and deployment of clean and renewable energy technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Press governments and donors to adopt an approach to climate change adaptation that puts equity and the people affected at the center of development plans in order to limit its impact on poor communities.
  • Call on the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali and the wider global community to create a new world compact for the post-2012 period that acknowledges the differentiated burden of all nation states to:
    • Abate greenhouse gas emissions in a fair and balanced way, through systems such as carbon caps and emissions trading for developed countries and expanded carbon markets that provide incentives for developing countries; and
    • Address the damage already incurred by the communities in the world’s most vulnerable regions, including the Arctic, Antarctica and low-lying island states.
To fulfill the responsibility to protect, we must:
  • Clearly and consistently articulate the international community’s responsibility to first take action through diplomatic and other non-violent means when states manifestly fail to prevent or respond effectively to genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, including those committed by non-state actors.
  • Press government representatives at the United Nations to articulate a clear threshold for taking military action to prevent these crimes and to protect civilian populations when governments are unwilling or unable to do so, followed by a commitment to follow it without exception.
  • Insist that women’s views are sought and women leaders are included in all peace and security initiatives, including Track I and II negotiations.
  • End impunity for violence against women and promote gender awareness in all stages of peace processes by mandating training for all civilian and military personnel on the various ways insecurity manifests for women, including rape, murder, sexual harassment, unfair treatment and unequal power relations between men and women. 
  • Call on world leaders to protect the impartial and independent space of humanitarian actors working alongside military forces in areas of crisis. We realize that taking action to fulfill these goals is our duty to the global community in which we live, and we commit ourselves to fulfilling it. We encourage others – women and men – to join us in strengthening our collective action.
We realize that taking action to fulfill these goals is our duty to the global community in which we live, and we commit ourselves to fulfilling it. We encourage others – women and men – to join us in strengthening our collective action. 
(This Call to Action was signed by over 100 women and a number of men)
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    • How Far We Have Already Come
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    • How Long It Will Take
    • What You Can Do
    • The AFWW Logo Explained
    • Examples of War Expenses
    • Biological Differences
    • What Makes People Happy
  • Nine Cornerstones
    • Summary of the Nine Cornerstones
    • Embrace The Goal
    • Empower Women
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      • #28 Biology and Ending War
      • #27 Drone Warfare
      • #26 Ending War IS Possible
      • #25 Warmongers, Women, People & Change
      • #23 Special Edition - The Mutilation of Wonder Woman
      • #22 Special Edition: Film Launch
      • #21 Shaping our Destiny - Paradigm Shift
      • #20 Women on the Frontlines
      • #19 Media Favorites: Peace Movements Worldwide
      • #18 Capstone Essay
      • #17 AFWW, Sarah Palin, Origin of War, Empathy
      • #16 Women and Girls
      • #15 Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
      • #14 - Twitter, Ardi and more!
      • #13 Economics, Ending War, Building Lasting Peace
      • #12 - Nuclear Disarmament
      • #11 - Nonviolence: Powerful and Necessary
      • #10 - Economics and Social Transformation
      • #9 - Proof That Humans Can Live Without War
      • #8 - Changing History: The Next Big Shift
      • #7 Global Women Leaders Flex Security Muscles
      • #6 Economic Change
      • #5 Report: World Peace Conference
      • #4 AFWW Goes to a World Peace Conference
      • #3 Democracy in Action
      • #2 Seasons Greetings!
      • #1 A Newsletter for AFWW
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      • Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan
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      • Hrdy - Mothers and Others
      • Myers - Why Women Should Rule
      • Zak - The Moral Molecule
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