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Women, War & Peace - TV Series
ABOUT
THE PBS TV SERIES – Including Photos: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/about/
FILM SEGMENTS: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/features/women-war-peace-series-preview/
Women, War
& Peace
is a bold new five-part PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) television series
challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. The
vast majority of today’s conflicts are not fought by nation states and their
armies, but rather by informal entities: gangs and warlords using small arms
and improvised weapons. The series reveals how the post-Cold War proliferation
of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary
targets and suffering unprecedented casualties. Yet they are simultaneously
emerging as necessary partners in brokering lasting peace and as leaders in
forging new international laws governing conflict. With depth and complexity, Women, War & Peace
spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones from
Featuring
narrators Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, Geena Davis and Alfre Woodard, Women, War & Peace is the
most comprehensive global media initiative ever mounted on the roles of women
in war and peace. The series will present its groundbreaking message across the
globe by utilizing all forms of media, including
The five
episodes in the series:
I Came to Testify is
the moving story of how a group of 16 women who had been imprisoned and raped
by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
is the astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on the warlords and
regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a
once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003.
When the
The War We Are Living
travels to Cauca, a mountainous region in
War Redefined, the
capstone of Women, War &
Peace, challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are
men’s domain through incisive interviews with leading thinkers, Secretaries of
State and seasoned survivors of war and peace-making. Interviewees include
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee;
Bosnian war crimes investigator Fadila Memisevic; and globalization expert
Moisés Naím.