peace, this is one hour and 20 good morning and welcome to our friends and colleagues in the room and online. for the last four years since the inception of the wilmington building please consult i've been honored to serve cochair along with our moderator, megan buyer. it is fitting that we gather today in march, and month in which the u.s. celebrates

women's history and the world acknowledges and preserves international women's day. we are here to recognize for extraordinary women whose invaluable contributions to we celebrate their courage,us their vision and their unwaveri commitment. fees for women are from the democratic republic of the congo, kenya, syria and haiti. these women continue to advance peace by mediating conflicts with armed actors, building systems to holca address the needs of marginalized women,

youth and persons with disabilities. training networks of peace builders and adopting creative forms of healing. the world needs the example to learn how to yield to a different kind of power■ó and influence and one that carries us towards a more secure and peaceful world. yet these women are not alone. countless women risk their lives to create peace in community. this year as in years past, the women building peace council and the÷c u.s. ipt has put out a cal for nominations from 42 countr are receiving 150

nominations of women from civil societies, women working on front lines. the council then began the very difficult at adjudication process that rendered the finalists into single awardee. and so it is my privilege to introduce the moderator for today's conversation with the ■" peace builders. megan is a journalist, lifelong advocate and cochair of the women building peace council. [applause] >> thank you. happy women's history month. if you listen to the un last year in the report there was

some history that we are not living up to what we should be doing for women and girls all around the world. but sometimes those moments of difficulty that haven't returned to action and so there is some hope in that and in the year 2000, there was some bad news as well and that was a threat and an opportunity that came to life at the same time. it was a very obvious pivot on the battleground and in the places where terrorism and conflict occur, where civilians were theotably women and children were the targets. at the same time we were collecting so much data that the impression, the first a veryobvious trends that came ous

when you integrated the structural into the peace negotiations and peace process, that piece was much more■ sustainable and not by a little, but by 50%. and so with those two things, the un security council with resolution 13-25 it was unanimously accepted and there were promises made in the resolution to integrate women structurally into the peace and try to get some of that dividend the data showed us that we would have, because you know, it was an appreciation of what women do. you take out the women, you take out the village. we put women on the lead and you

have a durable peace. while it's a bad news and good news situation, clearly arises from the recognition that women are really the answer and that's what you're going to learn about today with of the winner of our women building peace award. the stories of the finalists this year trace the geography of some of the most conflicts in the area and we will begin in a syria. please join me. what began as a protest aimed at the syrian president bashar al-assad and exploded into so many years in the civil war with

a virtual proxy conflict taking place between the united states and allies and aired on, hezbollah and to that it's become internally 6.9 million with more than 5.4 million'ç abroad. add to that the attacks it's unimaginable destabilization so i'm setting the stage. please watch this video before.

>> you with -- tell us about your approach and how you feel motivated. when you feel that your

neighbors are fighting or you might lose your house, there is enough conflict around you. >> what came of this dialogue? >> tre were so many outputs according to the group. so it might be around a domestic issue because we have less resources with different ethnic roots and it might also be based on the political background or based dialogues so there are several of dialogues and each one has itsa$ own.

>> the dialogue is over. even the process at the beginning has had a lot of patience and tolerance and anyone over personal conflict and stepping inside him area where we have a common understanding about tision to the country. so now there is no time to have normal dialogues. it has to be into the work that he or she is doing. >> when we hear about situation, the dialogue process that you initiated and have been

involved in, does that give people the confidence to word some kind of a positive resolution? i almost wonder how you can do you do. >> i would be surprised to see that they have enough so far especially the syrians, 12 years of conflict. regional conflict and so that you cannot say i am staying home i'm tired. the people are engaging from their own money for transportation that is so expensive just to be engaged and they want us to listen.

and is n to do what they want, it is the only bubble of oxygen we could provide the for the people who have been in this conflict for so many years. including i also need this from time to time. we think of women as having the strength of relationship and communication. the bottom line of the magic power that we hold, it seems that this piece process and this peace initiative is driven by that. what actions have come out of the communication, the dialogue that is thexy traction? >> giving more resilience and reduce the level of violence, asking people not to hold weapons against each other,

bringing a commo understanding of all the futures, acknowledgment and valuing the diversity in our community. weid not have the chance to listen to each other before. we were like isolated islands but unfortunately there was something good in this conflict where we could come to gather, listen to the kurdish state, listen to the religious diversity, east west together and to think and to have a dream and we have the right to dream, this dialogue gisis mostly women. >> easier to bring women to dialogue than men. >> women have so much in

common, being mothers for example and the threat of their children being recruited by >> there was an incident during the high level of conflict between a woman coming from that. both women came together because they don't want small children or more families to be killed. of the women had this peace initiative. sometimes, they give to their children and ask them to fight. not in the case that we meant. >> i want to make one note about what happened the other night whenreward

and at the united states, ambassador linda thomas greenfield. i know you had a private conversation with her and i wondered how that went. >> it went very good because in my heart i believe there is something called woman for woman and so our duty is to support women in all levels. when they are displaced, when they are in a decisionmaking position, making things happen so they can make the right decisions, the peace decision and this is what we have been doing. it is our duty over time to support each other. we don't go against each other. this is the biggest mistake if a woman does are going to go ne

middle east to the caribbean. our next finalist is doctor marie-marcelle deschamps. haiti, she is from haiti. it has a profile that sounds familiar to what is going on ie and haiti's socioeconomic, political, economic unrest over th■;pa years including the brutal assassination of the president in 2,020 one, armed ngviolence, kidnapping, other crimes that destroyed the social fabric of haiti, in the city of port-au-prince where gangs terrorize the population, women

and children are particularly vulnerable. everything everywhere all at once like syria.3 marie-marcelle deschamps, we will see a little bit of your story. >> my name is marie-marcelle deschamps. i am from haiti. violence and crime and gangs, we are surrounded and surrounding us our families. education in haiti, primary education, health and human development.

all those people, the war line, and come from that. >> kids from four years old or 10 years old come here and pursue their education. the right example of a public program. it takes courage and determination. even in a war zone, you can accomplish activities.

>> host: so glad we have that video. before you got involved, they hadn't had this approach. this was your creation. >> yes, good morning, everyone. as a tradition in 1982, so i had the approach of communicating a lot with my patients. and you here, you communicate. and from there, i was targeting women because they were more at risk in haiti. polygamy exists a lot and we realized early the women, their partners, violence, and others,

i had to integrate more because they were asking for md8ore an some are seeing -- being treated for hiv but i have no way to send my kids to school or feed my family or a job, so i went with my staff, and then started their, we speak to primary school and they said doctor, okay, every tradition on the same ■campus, find a wa and the program had been key because it allows us not to worry about the cost of the drugs because it gave us the opportunity to have access to the drugs. i had not to worry about drug school,

educational school and caring for it and that is how it started and from month-to-month it spread out and in 2021 the president got assassinated and with no leadership gangs took over and they used women as their weapon because they need to control sexually. that is where we are now. it is estimated we have more than 200 gangs because they are spreading around. no police, no army, no 911 to call, no way to report. but amazingly, every day i leave home. and are going to islam where there are so many gangs but they let me go, they know who i

am, let her go, she is going good. in get. in a way i am very grateful that i am able to provide these services. >> host: do you think yousafe you are doing? >> oh yes, definitely. there is what they call some ur territory so you can be dealing with gangs in that territory when they are fighting each other. it is mainly an issue of poverty as well and lack of leadership in our country where we are left alone, civil society take over and take action. so women, myself, i realized early that i had to work with women to convince them being

together and working with me, we can change and now what is amazing is to see beside all this catastrophe situation, children have access to school in my area but yesterday, they were shooting by the airport so all the patients have to run away. the institutions tragic. >> i was wondering how they get to school everyday given this violence around fr reflects the of what you have done. they risked their lives to get a semblance of order and catch >> what you're saying is right. what happens, what do i say, how do i -- when they come to me, do you know the difference between you and i? my level of education.■mc, i went to school.

my parents insisted i go to school so if they send their kids, have access to education, they see it better and we care about our children, we care about our families. so we go to make sure to school but there is a time when i say be careful. do not take the risk. somes we need to do better to address this. without peace, nowhere the country can progress. we need to focus on what we do with other priorities. >> you said you never thought of yourself as a peacemaker before. >> i am a peacemaker. you take action, you do your

daily activities, and when i got the award, then from day one, day 2, it is amazing and if this is what i'm going to bring back. so i going to go down -- women, this is what we are going to do next and next and next and promote it and expand the program, and institute of peace and leaving the program. learning from each other. can go to syria and kenya. we have a lot of things in mm and the lesson we learn,

we learn a lot from this. thank you. >> host: our next finalist em first finalist who was a woman with disabilities. she had polio as a child and the association for purples -- persons with disabilities in kenya and that she's committed to building a peaceful society and providing opportunity and security for all who work kenya and her focus is to stop terrorists from somalia recruiting young men in her community, hisa zaja supported hundreds of youths in starting their own businesses. we are hearing the same,

education and training to create hope in the future. take a look at this video and we will start up. ♪♪ >> my name is hamisa zaja. i'm a woman peace builder in kenya. we have so many challenges. it is a place where conflict, to do a piece walk, my walk goes direct to empowerment. tangible projects that enhance life.

getting out every year more than one in 500 youth, women with empowerment with different life skills that focus on their livelihood.■h >> i'm walking away with my machine and i'm going to start my ownus >> the walk is coming from ■0 forecasting on transforming people from one step to the other step of being best. >> do you think maybe having a

disability has made you the person who would step up to give hope to others? thank you, everyone who is here. my disability was one disadvantage. to me. to my society. to my family. but my disability today is a big advantage and opportunity.i what i have done is what everyone was saying, i cannot come into i can.

>> that is something women say generally in the world, that daunting feeling that i'm not a leader. i'm not the one who can do this. how do you feel when you got the letter that you had been selected? >> it came. and until i waited for the fifth time, and they nominated me.■j■s so then, i called my son. i'm sure he wanted to make sure maybe i missed something that i didn't grab from school. so i told him to read.■;

he was also confused, he was like mom, this is huge. the part that say it will remain confidential and this is huge. can we started calling. we received a call for a proposal and we proposed you for this because -- really?you will go -- that is what we think so we decided after a few hours until the response came up, now we are going to take

the process on. >> you and marie seem to have the imposter syndrome. my god, you should get this attention and more. what do you think ths for people with disabilities? >> before g the restaurant, the possibility that to me this is huge. this is very huge. people say all dreams are valid, but this one, i didn't dream it. i wake up every morning, as many people in my area as

possible, for someone all the no, you are supposed to come for this, i had never seen it coming. it is huge, to my community, it is huge to my family. it is very huge. to the risk the fraternity, this is p to describe because i know you sip have been nominated, nominating women every year but have never given it to women with disability and first time to

have received this i feel like flying. 's >> host: we have a few more questions for you. tell me about any transformation of your efforts that of put out into the world or an incident of trsf work has created in kenya. realizin have peace with persons with disabilities many of our youths and women have been brought into extremism, radicalization, issues of drug or drug abuse,

we need to reach farther to the rest of the community so we can give economic empowerment, so that we can transform them from all they are to some people who are better in society and this is where i came up with income generating project for the youth, women and living with disabilities so we can all be transformed. if we leave them behind we are still not in an environment that is conducive. so i decided we will involve everyone in my region that is being lured into these activities. this is why we■r began the ince generating project and the first transformation we did was

to change public toilets into income generating projects. i know every one had not thought of this, originally saying i had a dream, my dream has become this when iis very early in the morning and this is what i say, we have public toilets, of cose change them and give them to youths and they become employment. so on the doors of the embassy, they agreed, they came, they gave us some funds, we did renovation of the public toilets and then we hired the youths that will transfer

funds, if you want to go for a long unit, you pay for what you are going do it so you pay 20 and if it is short you also pay because then we will buy tissue paper, toiletries so that others would be washing. we started with 12 young people. and women with disabilities and youth with dili narrow the 400t

from the group so we taught them how to make liquid soap, held to purchase toilet paper and the toiletries come from that group so each group will supply us for 6 months, 6 months, 6 months. we have a long period of other groups being transformed. >> even supply-chain strategies and it is all creating empowerment. you can see how hard this was forced to choose amazing women like this and now we have come to our selected candidates. our 2023 wom -- petronille vaweka, if you can join us, from the democratic congress of

congo, she grew up in the one peaceful province there and today it is a humanitarian catastrophe, national armies, local militias, gangs, burned villages, préoners, companies and gangs attracted by minerals, valuable gems, uncod logging, stripping forests into moonscape's. it is a place that appears to have no hope at all and yet incredible violence, living day today is a challenge. overall the conflict have uprooted 1.7 million people, fully 1/4 of the province's estimated population and before we view the video, a little background.

she has said that her courage is multi-general and she tells the story of her grandmother going out to farm one day from the village and suddenly a huge leopard confronted her and this was in the days when that was the big danger, leopards. the leopard was snarling angrily, slowly she bent her knees to lower the knife and she told petra ny, i began to talk to the leopard and looked straight in his eyes, kept my voice calm and a told him leopard, you and i, we are doing the same thing this morng.or food to eat and i am going to my field to grow crops for my children.

let us not disturb each other. we have nothing to fear, you and i and the leopard went away, so despite her fear, her grandmother showed only calm, and you will hear that that is exactly what she does. she has driven or sometimes even walked into unprotected deep forests ruled by men with guns and grudges, she's negotiated cease-fires, freed hostages and saved lives, standing up to commanders of some of the world's most violent militias, her children encouraged her to do it. let's take a look and then we will begin our conversation with our winner.i

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>> i love that metaphor about a fire. you have to profit. it was your idea to use this approach. >> translator: i worked for a humanitarian to help the people in displaced people's camps, people displaced and there is no water because there is no

water, there is no food so there's this program and i was the person responsible for this program. wa had to bring the water to this environment and help with hygiene because of your displaced person, you don't have anything to wash yourself with and i remember my first assignment is a humanitarian i had to do, they were in conflict with how that i went through territory after territory and they said to me, humanitarians are going to pass the territory to go to their enemies we cannot let that happen so they asked me can you help to reconcile these people

so humanitarian aid can be channeled and i've never done something like that. i started to reflect. and working together with the chief and at the end he said to me humanitarian aid can be channeled through our territory. and then my boss said can you not work for peace and i said no, look what is going on around me. people are killed. i have children. how do you want me to go to war? and at that moment in time, the war separated me from my been. for 7 years i didn't know where know where i was with the children so those are things that happened during war. it took me 8 months and i said i'm not going to do this and at the end my boss said to me i

really think you can do it. at the end i asked my children, i said to my children, this■o what they ask of me and i thought they would say don't do this. i left the decision and my children, i would not have done it but strange enough the i think you can do it, god is going to help you and when the children said it, i was proud, i said÷v■a okay, going to go and i started out very slowly and here i am today. >> those children had confidence in you. what's it like. are you like your grandmother appealing to theum of a leopard when talking with trying to do these negotiations

when advocating for peace in these dangerous situations? >> translator: yes. i think that is what my grandmother told me and when she told me this story, i didn't know at that time how it was going to me but later, when i was in a scenario of danger facing armed men, i was thinking about what my grandmother told me, there were lions, there were leopards, there were elephants that could run over me and so what was the attitude which i have to have to face these dangers? and how am i going to react with these militias, and i

think to bring about peace, you have to transform yourself within yourself. i was not like you see me today. i was getting angry. i didn't have the patience. when i waited for somebody in few minutes i left. the task i undertook was to change myself andmost difficul you have to say no, you don't have the same choices in your life because if you work for peace, that's very difficult you want to eat, sometimes i'm not eating for four days. you have to deal with the sacrifices and it made me become very humble.

i was an unarmed woman facing armed men, why is more continuing? beuse the whole entire world thinks that war is the solution. we see that war is never the and on the other side you have the same thing and people are fighting. i understand and i understood on the other side of these weapons, if you have peace withinou this is what my grandmother taught me. you look the danger right in the eye and then you are at peace within yourself and you make peace and this is how i won. it times it was very difficult. i had to work on myself.

i had to humiliate myself facing the danger but i was always the winner. >> you said something when you receive your award the other night and we need to listen to you because you are the expert in peace buildinyo how the ric mineral gems, that you grew up in that was so beautiful at fat time when you grow up and how that has become the reason for so much of the conflict and you proposed a peaceful unwinding of that. >> translator: yes. when we grs a ground, minerals and it was

discovered especially in the congo there are so many minerals, you have the feeling all the minerals in the world are in our ground. the minerals in your cell phone come from us, from our ground, your laptops, your electric cars. there are people who are manufacturing bombs and all of the used to do these things, some minerals that have not been found or discovered yet. everybody needs the minerals. there are thieves coming to steal our minerals and they kill. there are so many weapons circulating in my province and

you know, i work with these groups and when they work on development, we asked them to hand over the weapons and they do it which ones, i was the getting the weapons back to the united nations or the government or the military personnel they came to me and gave me their weapons. they were at home in my house and, you know, i know they were weapons became from the us, from russia, these weapons come from all countries in the world. what is happening, young people dig for gold and minerals, those who need these minerals,

to exchange the mineral with guns and they rape the women, they@ñl$ kill the people, so id to stay in the united states, to say look, the united states is a huge power and they also need the the whole world, to open a free-trade market for those minerals and so the young people don't need their gums anymore. with the free-trade agreement, minerals whenever you need them in the world and so you could buy them just like any other so the population can benefit from it. that way we could have a better life for the people who live in our countries, in the beginning i didn't know. i thought that it was a conflict between ethnic groups

but i thought it worked on this. i saw that it was because of the minerals a neighboring countries have their own visions and it is so strange the international community and the american government prefer to work with the country that has the minerals and it's a little bit like a lake, instead of coming to fish you give money to the thieves to steal the fish from our pond, that is little bit what's happening and i'm wondering why in this pond there are fish just come toof sending thieves who kill and who fish for you in your name,t the whole world needs these minerals but should

be in a fair way and should be marketed in a free-trade agreement like it is done with other merchandise in the world without people having to die. >> you created the foundation for durable peace, a free-trade agreement, is that part of that? >> translator: not at all. my s a humanitarian where they told me i should work on peace building so the ngos that i he foundation for sustainable peace. at that point i was convinced that the problem was in the

ethical communities and i started working with the communities. but i did not have the vision that this was a problem of wealth but only later when i isar it came from everywhere and on an international level i saw the international community prefer our neighbors who don't have one drop of gold so than the world says they are the first producer and that's not true. but■ since they come and rob u and think they are the producer but don't have one drop of goldeverything, maybe they

will find some minds in their countries but up to this moment in time it is in our ground. and i had my eyes closed in those days. i thought was an ethical probleme had and later on my eyes opened wide. the armed groups told me this and should to me is the problem, they were talking to me, they looked at me as a person that could trust, they hq told me they gave us the mo and we gave them gold and then this is the problem, people give them money in something in exchange. i want to add something here. when i was governor, this wasn't the case but today, you have armed groups. they are working in these minds, but the minds belong to

the chinese. you see these minds are on our ground and the groups that are in charge of these minds, the we have to open our eyes.this we have to understand, and have to find a ■solution, if we had our free-trade agreement it would be clear and fair. you could purchase what you need on that market because the high price that we c o >> ground level, coping with the effects of all this violence and disruption. you have th o extrapolating what was going on in the ground and having any

perfidy about the bigger picture. i want to open it up now to all of you to exchange a little. please join us, particularly with those up here to think about are there some lessons, some, now laddies you see, things they can learn from the experience of all of you being similar environments really but all over the world. >> when you look at it from africa you're all dealing with a common issue which is violence.■ like if the word is

focusing more, going to war and women who are trapped in this policy, this institution, we try to change the dialogue and make them understand instead of investing in the war, let's invest in peace. >> that the conversation i think every nation has. when you look at the cynical peace table and the data shows this is a phenomenon when you have no gender equality, it can be reduced to the spoils of war through that lens but when you add the women they take the lens we have heard about, the

lens of the family and the community and the economy that keeps families thriving and that is why the piece is more durable. >> i have learned, in each community, inside each person there is a positive need.■s women need to discover this, in each of our communities. there's a champion for peace and goodwill that we need to discover and work around. >> there must be somebody who has a question. over here. can someone bring a mic to these two individuals and take the question from the one who gets the mike first. your name please.

>> i would like to ask you which countries do you want to have free-trade agreements and how would this benefit mine workers in congo?■p >> translator: what country? as far as i know, technology right now needs the minerals that we have, and that technology is used by all countries. any country that wants to evolve, what country exists that i could mention the doesn't have cell phones and gold know what country isn't thinking about electric vehicles and those who want to

go to war, what country does need uranium to make its bombs? and that is, how can i say this? the challenge that isn't just the concern of my country but concerns the world. how to come together, you know how divided the world is, how many wars there are. that is why each power comes and takes for itself. perhaps we could come together, a single market, but my country, democratic republic of the congo should define in its policies how to interact with the various powers and3 how to organize this market. unfortunately i don't work at that level.

and i'm under the impression that i would dare say this because these are people at high levels but i would say the democratic republic of the congo needs to think about this. the time has come to begin. reflection. otherwise there would be small existed, democratic republic of the congo, and uganda, would not be attacking one another, because they haven't realized there might be a way, through dialogue, through diplomacy to find a path. it's a■r problem that to this date has not been broached passively. so that it doesn't lead to death. that's all i can say about this.

at the level where these m decisions are made. >> thank you. your name please? >> i must say that i'm fascinated by the discussions. to all of you. my question is to petronille vaweka. you mentioned regarding women in syria. my old experience from my background is conflict fragments in societies, women

are also not subject from the risk of society so i would like to know what keeps women glued to each other, what is so special that keeps their unity together which is very much important?question, i forgot the name. you spoke about, guns and groups that are in conflict. as mentioned before, in that conflict, there is something human in the person which is about peace. do you see there are some values because of yourdoing, t for peace?

>> abir haj ibrahim will answer the question. >> there are two factors that help them come together more easily. the first, they don't have losses for other women and that is women together on the community, the second, the women advisory board, interaction of bringing back to women the expert in well-being into the international photos where there is a peace negotiation where one of the successes we managed to do and that is because of the great syrian woman, not me. i'm not included. they did a huge work to educate, to bring the women

voices and they were so engaged with the community so& it was like a bottom up approach where we worked with women, to ask them what they sees the best chance to overcome these losses and the government advisory board who also have enough input in the geneva talks where this was coming together. >> thank you for the question. regarding haiti and the work i'm doing, i think we respond to their needs and not only the needs of the gang but of the community of the the youth and the leaders as well so we see this as an opportunity and i think the communication that we

established with the staff■b■ the field worker, they are listening to what we have to say and what we are doing and that is probably what's missing, the dialogue and communication, we are not there for war. we are there to respond to their needs and the institution in the country, the work we've been doing for 40 years now, and the impact. >> are there any other questions, this will be our last one. we are wrapping up. if we can get a microphone. >> thank you.■

i am from the international society action network, thank you very much for all your remarks and being here today. congratulations to all of you. it was in the video when you said one of the greatest challenges is speaking withrs groups and i think across all your contacts in which you work, there areple who ha vest conflict. so my question is how can the international community best support you to intervene to bring them to the table? >> hamisa zaja reference to that so i will let you start and anyone else who wants to chime in. >> in many of the ways that we can stop war, many times that

we have to be seen, need to come together on the table without any cards below the table. we either ree, disagree, or agree. so that all of this is put to a stop. >> i think she's also asking what are those interests even monetary possibilities. talking about the outside influences creating such violence on the ground. ..ground. how can they help to mitigate the influence from outside the community beyond your peace tforts on the ground?

>> people who want to intervenex into whatever we are doing, it's to direct, and support our work. >> were going out and onto that. i'm very sorry. i didn't mean to interrupt you this is been an amazing conversation. it is the come you've seen of the living representations. would you like to say when worker to?ad. >> very quickly. i think that those who were o begin by looking for trying to understand what's happening far away from where what is happening in syria, what is happening in kenya, what is happening -- that's what has to

come first. and then you can better understand. and then read the reports. there are many reports i thhumanitarian workers. there are reports from u.n. mission that is on the ground. there are reports by experts who go do research to read his report. you'll get a undstanding. me, wo support women. whatever the external reasons, but if the population has this resilience, support of such that women can find her place is at the negotiations table so that women can talk.e their vision. they have the way of going about things. women think with their heads and their hearts.

support wen [applause] >> no one could say it better than that. thank you very much for joining us. the women's buildin p council, appreciate your support and we look for to seeing you next year and we will be in touch and connected to our finalistshe year here at usip. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]■

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