The Initiative for Inclusive Security

According to their website The Institute for Inclusive Security "advocates for the full participation of all stakeholders, especially women, in peace processes. Creating sustainable peace is achieved best by a diverse, citizen-driven approach. Of the many sectors of society currently excluded from peace processes, none is larger—or more critical to success—than women. Since 1999, Inclusive Security has connected more than 400 women experts with over 3,000 policy shapers to collaborate on fresh, workable solutions to long-standing conflicts across the globe."

"Launched at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, The Institute for Inclusive Security is currently an operating program of Hunt Alternatives Fund, which advances innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at local, national, and global levels." [1]

The Institute for Inclusive Security

See their website for details of the women involved in many different countries. [www.inclusivesecurity.org]

• Iraq: Zainab Al-Suwaij, Nasreen Barwari, Songul Chapouk, Hanaa Edwar, Basma Fakri, Rend Franke, Tanya Gilly, Zakia Hakki, Siham Hattab Hamdan, Riva Khoshaba, Dr. Rajaa Habib Dhaher Khuzai, Hind Makiya, Zainab Salbi, Neeran Saraf, Ala Talabani, Pascale Warda. [2]
• Afghanistan: Rina Amiri, Farida Azizi, Masuda Sultan, Maliha Zulfacar

Management

• Ambassador Swanee Hunt - Chair, The Institute for Inclusive Security President, Hunt Alternatives Fund
• Sarah Gauger - Executive Director, Hunt Alternatives Fund
• Evelyn Thornton - Chief Executive Officer
• Jacqueline O'Neill - Director
• Miki Jacevic - Vice Chair

Staff

• Michelle Barsa - Senior Advocate and Afghanistan Team Leader
• Ryan Bright - Executive Assistant and Office Coordinator
• Kelly Case - Program Assistant, South Sudan and Sudan
• Deborah Cavin - Senior Adviser
• Sarah Chatellier - Program Associate and Researcher
• Farah Council - Program Manager, South Sudan and Sudan
• Pari Farmani - Development and Network Coordinator
• Shereen Hall - Communications Manager
• Jaime Horn - Communications Specialist
• Anna Kuchenbecker - Senior Partnerships Adviser
• Mariam Mansury - Community of Experts Manager
• Elizabeth Kidd McWhorter - Organizational Growth and Development Officer
• Melissa Lawrence - Manager of Finance and Operations
• Rebecca Miller - Senior Program Officer
• Carrie O'Neil - Senior Training Specialist
• Brittany Persinger - Program Assistant, Resolution to Act
• Travis Wheeler - Senior Policy Adviser
• Tobie Whitman - Senior Adviser, Policy and Research
• Kristin Williams - Writer and Program Associate
• Angelic Young - Senior Coordinator, Resolution to Act

Advisory Council

• Susanna Agnelli - Italian Foreign Minister (1986-91)
• Nasreen Barwari al-Yawar - Minister of Municipalities and Public Works, Iraq
• Oscar Arias - Nobel Peace Laureate (1987); Former President of Costa Rica
• Derek Bok - Former President, Harvard University
• John Brademas - Chair, National Endowment for Democracy
• Jimmy Carter - Nobel Peace Laureate (2002); Former President of the United States
• Kevin Clements - Former Secretary General, International Alert
• Marian Wright Edelman - President, Children's Defense Fund
• Roger Fisher - Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School
• John Kenneth Galbraith - Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University; Former US Ambassador to India
• John Galvin - Former Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO
• Noeleen Heyzer - Executive Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women
• Jose Ramos Horta - Nobel Peace Laureate (1996); Special Representative of the National Council of Maubere Resistance of East Timor
• Edward M. Kennedy - United States Senator
• Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
• Olara Otunnu - Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Edward Perkins - Former US Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia
• Kenneth Roth - Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
• William Schulz - Executive Director, Amnesty International
• Leticia Ramos Shahani - Secretary General, United Nations Third World Conference on Women
• Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf - President of Liberia; Chair and CEO, Kormah Development and Investment Corporation
• Sheila Sisulu - Deputy Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme; Former South African Ambassador to the US
• Simon Wiesenthal - International Union of Resistance and Deportee Movements, US Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Jody Williams - Nobel Peace Laureate (1997); founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines

Related SourceWatch articles

• Jolynn Shoemaker
• Mirsad Miki Jacevic - Policy Coordinator

Contact details

Washington Office 1615 M Street NW, Suite 850 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 403-2000 Fax: (202) 808-7070

Mt. Auburn Office 625 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: (617) 995-1900 Fax: (617) 995-1982

Web: [www.inclusivesecurity.org]