According to renowned Indonesian academic and policymaker Dewi Fortuna Anwar, women—like men—can be either spoilers or contributors to peace. Despite the success of women peacebuilders in solving community-level conflicts across the region, Dewi, Amina, and Ayesah had much to say about the continued exclusion of women from peace processes in ASEAN countries. As an expert on Indonesian foreign policy, Professor Dewi also weighs in on how Indonesia can use its "nurturing role" in the ASEAN to champion the Regional Plan of Action on Women, Peace and Security. 

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Enass Muzamel is a civil society leader in Sudan and Executive Director of the Madaniya organization. In this episode, she tells Amina and Ayesah her experiences in organizing weekly protests against a military junta, campaigning against female genital mutilation (FGM), and empowering women through cycling. Apart from the incumbent dictatorship, Enass laments the deeply-rooted patriarchal values of Sudanese society which create insecurity for women.

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Commemorating the 22nd anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on October 31, three young women share their thoughts on the value of the WPS agenda in peaceful communities, and what governments can do to support women peacebuilders.

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The tech industry is notoriously male dominated, partly due to the misconception that women are uninterested in STEM. Ruth Yu-Owen, co-founder of Connected Women, challenges the status quo and offers an avenue for Filipino women and girls to participate in the fourth industrial revolution: artificial intelligence. In this episode, Amina and Ruth chat about how Connected Women creates decent work-from-home tech jobs for thousands of women in the Philippines.

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Reach Out Executive Director Esther Omam gives Amina a rundown on the role of civil society in ending armed conflict in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. With 2 decades of experience in humanitarian work, Esther shares stories of villages burned to the ground, a WhatsApp group for women peacebuilders, and being called "black legs" by separatist groups. Above all, she calls for strengthening the role of women in mediation to temper the egos of men.

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Amina and Ayesah chat with singer-songwriter and former child star Ice Seguerra, the first transgender man appointed to a national goverment position in the Philippines as Chairperson of the National Youth Commission (NYC). He shed light on government's inadequacy in dealing with ground level problems, particularly in conflict areas, and how he used music to comfort evacuees during the siege of Marawi.

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Peacebuilder Ayu Kartika Dewi tells us how she promotes tolerance in diverse Indonesia by meditating, sending youths on trips to post-conflict communities, and getting President Joko Widodo to read comics. Ayu also describes what it was like to live in America's Bible Belt as a Muslim woman. New episodes of She Talks Peace are released every Sunday at 8:00 AM (GMT +8).

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Amina and Salma recall how they were empowered by their mother, Senator Santanina Rasul⁠. In this episode,the two sisters discuss the remarkable life of their mother as an educator and advocate for adult literacy, a Muslim senator, and a trailblazer in promoting and protecting rights of Filipino women. 

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Philippines' Women's Rights Representative Lourdesita Sobrevega-Chan gives us an inside look on all things women's rights in the ASEAN Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Women and Children (ACWC). In this episode, she talks about the ACWC, discusses the ASEAN's collective progress in lobbying for the protection of women, engaging with civil society, and drafting a Regional Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.

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