Taking Stock of Conflicts in Colombia, Liberia, Bosnia, and Afghanistan: Women, War & Peace

Monday, November 14, 2011
Speaker
Abigail E. Disney

Cocreator, Women, War & Peace and Founder, Daphne Foundation

Presiders
Stewart M. Patrick

Senior Fellow and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Women and Foreign Policy Program

This meeting was presented by the International Institutions and Global Governance Program and the Women and Foreign Policy Program.

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