Here is some important research on women in peace negotiations. Do these numbers surprise you? This is the first I have read a news report of women’s leadership in peace in Syria. The unanswered question is how can that be scaled up to the level of international peace negotiations.
And why has this war become a footnote in our daily or weekly news? This is still the exponentially tragic event that it was in the beginning. Yesterday the U.S. State Department was very evasive in response to questions about what they are doing.