Women, War & Peace challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men's domain. The series reveals that women have become primary targets in today's armed conflicts and are 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.
War Redefined, the capstone of Women, War and Peace, challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men's domain through incisive interviews with leading thinkers, Secretaries of State and seasoned survivors of war and peace-making.
Not long ago, the Foca river valley in eastern Bosnia was known as the black hole of Bosnia because of its reputation for harboring war criminals. Now, the mayor is trying to remake Foca as a tourist town.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee tells her story of survival, victory and revolution at a launch event for the PBS series, Women, War and Peace.
This clip explores the complicated legacy of the Tribunals final judgments in the affected communities in Bosnia.
This clip provides historical background on Yugoslavia, and how it began to unravel with a series of national separatist movements in the early 1990s.
This clip describes 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.
The clip features Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal Testimony from witnesses against their accused Bosnian Serb rapists.
The clip describes how atrocities against civilians in the Bosnian civil war were broadcast to an international audience on television with little impact.
An introduction to the Liberian civil war, which began in 1989, and the birth of that country's women's resistance movement.
A look at the early stages of women's non-violent protests in Liberia.
A look at steps the women of Liberia took to end a bloody civil war in their country.
A look at 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.
An overview of the efforts of Leymah Gbowee and the women of Liberia to further democracy and peace after the end of Liberian civil war in 2003.
Geena Davis, narrator of War Redefined, says that in today's wars, it can be more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier.
A short clip from an interview with Cherif Bassiouni, who investigated war crimes in Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Bahrain, and was instrumental in the establishment of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
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