Wiser World 86. Women at the Peace Table: Why It Works and Why It's Still a Struggle // Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
In this episode, I sit down with Sanam Naraghi Anderlini — peace strategist, founder of the International Civil Society Action Network and one of the architects of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 — to talk about what it actually takes to build lasting peace. We cover the research behind women's inclusion in peace processes, how a scrappy international coalition got a landmark resolution passed at the UN Security Council, why women's unique approach to peacebuilding is a superpower rather than a liability, and what ordinary people can do right now when the architecture of international peace feels like it's crumbling.
- 00:00 — Introduction to Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
- 01:20 — Sanam's origin story: the Iranian Revolution, Rwanda, and South Africa
- 05:06 — The 1998 women in war zones conference that changed everything
- 10:04 — Defining peacemaking and peacebuilding
- 14:23 — The story behind UN Security Council Resolution 1325
- 26:27 — The four pillars of Resolution 1325 explained
- 30:07 — Has 1325 worked? An honest assessment 25 years later
- 34:57 — Why is there still so much resistance to women at the peace table?
- 42:32 — How ICAN finds, trains, and supports women peacebuilders worldwide
- 51:17 — Women's unique role in understanding and countering radicalization
- 1:00:57 — What cutting international aid and multilateralism means for this work
- 1:09:48 — What sustains Sanam — and what ordinary people can do
You can find Sanam's podcast "If You Were In Charge" anywhere you get your podcasts.
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