Why are women underrepresented at peace talks?
Today’s link is from Le Monde Diplomatique.
Why I think it’s worth sharing: Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, whom I hadn’t heard of until today, works at the intersection of women, peace and security. In this piece advocating for more women at peace negotiations, she recalls being present at the 2012 Somali peace talks:
The politicians spent most of the time wrangling about their share of parliamentary seats and governmental posts, insisting on dividing these posts between the four major and one minor clans. … [A]mong 200 delegates to the conference, a minority were women, very few of those genuinely active as politicians, lawyers, humanitarians and peacebuilders. The Somali political leaders brought their daughters and female cousins, not independent women who would challenge them.
Here’s the full commentary, by Anderlini.