Starr Forum: Dissolving War: Women as Peacemakers

March 14, 2008 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Sanam Naraghi Anderlini's latest book, Women Building Peace: What They Do, Why it Matters, continues her ground-breaking exploration of gender and conflict. A longtime consultant to the U.N. and NGOs on these issues, Anderlini has produced several important field studies and analyses of how women build and sustain peace in their war-torn countries and communities, often in unconventional ways. Sanam Naragi Anderlini was born and raised in Iran and educated at Cambridge University in the U.K. She has held leadership posts with International Alert, Women Waging Peace, and is now, in addition to her consultancies, a Research Affiliate of MIT's Center for International Studies.

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies and the Technology and Culture Forum.

Free & open to the public | Refreshments served