ICAN, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Sweden, and Canada, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (UKFCDO), the Ministry of Gender, Child and Welfare of South Sudan, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and the National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI), convened a 1.5-day workshop to discuss how to strengthen community security as a localized, transformative approach for sustainable peace.
The End of the Beginning: Tunisia’s Revolution and Fighting for the Future. (Spring 2012)
Tunisia marked the first anniversary of its largely peaceful revolution on January 14 2012. It has been a momentous year since spontaneous public uprisings involving women and men, old and young, rural and urban, led to the demise of a dictatorship. In October 2011, the first free and fair parliamentary elections in decades took place. But the story is not over. The economy is still in shambles and institutions of governance are weak. The security sector will need reform. There are also thorny issues of justice, truth-telling and reconciliation to deal with the past and move forward.
Despite the opening of public and political space for activism and civil engagement, women are among the first groups to experience a backlash, largely orchestrated by conservative Islamic groups.
The struggle for the identity, soul and future of Tunisia is just beginning. What happens to women now, how they are treated, and what role they play will be critical indications of the direction the country takes. ICAN’s first “What the Women Say” Tunisia brief addresses the evolving political landscape, the implications for women, their actions and their requests to international and domestic actors
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