Abigail Disney is an executive producer of the new PBS series Women, War & Peace, which explores women’s role in peace and conflict. Its final episode, “War Redefined,” features interviews with Patrick Cammaert, Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton, and will air on PBS Tuesday, Nov. 8. Check local listings.
Distraught over the violence that marred the eve of Liberia’s elections, a tearful Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the author of Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, risked her life to force a meeting with Liberia’s leaders to help broker peace.
U.N. peacekeeping specialist says rape is one of war’s cheapest weapons. But solutions are cheap, too.
