Multimedia
USIP’s Center for Gender and Peacebuilding, in collaboration with Kate Spade New York and Women for Women International, convened experts to explore the impact of private business and civil society partnerships on women's empowerment in the post-conflict contexts of Afghanistan, Bosnia and Rwanda.
On May 10, 2011, Bosnia and Herzegovina High Representative, Valentin Inzko, provided his assessment of the country's current political conundrums at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP).
April 6, 2011
Father Ivo Markovic, a Bosnian Friar, is a founder of Pontanima, an interreligious choir based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is widely acclaimed as an innovative peacemaking project, a shining representation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a major contributor to the country's cultural life. Father Ivo gave a talk on the status of interreligious cooperation and reconciliation in today's Bosnia, which remains a very unsettled place even 16 years after the war ended.
Session 3: Framing Women and War through Media, Film, and Music
“Framing Women and War through Media, Film, and Music” is a moderated dialogue with Patricia Mitchell, and focuses on the role of media, film, and music in depicting a myriad of roles women play in peacebuilding. Speakers include Abigail Disney, Filmmaker, Philanthropist, Producer of the film “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” Founder of Fork Films; Agnes M. Fallah-Kamara Umunna, Journalist and Radio Producer, Executive Director and Founder of Straight from the Heart Project; Morley, Composer and Singer; Femke van Velzen, Filmmaker, Philanthropist, Producer of the film “Weapon of War,” Co-Founder of IF Productions; and Sheldon Himelfarb, Director, Center for Science, Technology, & Peacebuilding, USIP.

