Community Cinema at Soka University of America
September 22nd, Pauling 216, 7 p.m.
Peace Unveiled
When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled follows three women who immediately began to organize to make sure that women have a seat at the negotiating table. One is a savvy parliamentarian who participated in writing the Afghan constitution that guarantees equality for women; another, a former midwife who is one of the last women’s rights advocates alive in Kandahar; and the third, a young activist who lives in a traditional family in Kabul. Convinced that the Taliban will have demands that jeopardize women’s hard-earned gains, they maneuver against formidable odds to have their voices heard in a peace jirga and high peace council. We go behind Kabul’s closed doors as the women’s case is made to U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer, General David Petraeus and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who promises the women that “peace and justice can’t come at the cost of women and women’s lives.” But will this promise be kept? Narrated by Tilda Swinton.
For more information about this film and the series please visit the ITVS website:
http://www.itvs.org/films/women-war-and-peace
Panelists: Professor Ryan Caldwell, Professor Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli and Mike Whipple, Chairman/CEO, International Orphan Care.
For more information about IOC please visit their website at:
http://www.orphanproject.org/
Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli 