{"id":58923,"date":"2019-01-23T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=58923"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:17:05","slug":"alaa-murabit-on-womens-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2019\/01\/alaa-murabit-on-womens-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"SDG Advocate Alaa Murabit on the necessity of women\u2019s inclusion in peace and security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"UHD - Trailblazing Activists: Female Profiles in Courage\" width=\"1350\" height=\"759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPe88GUToMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\" id=\"newslead\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p class=\"p1\">Dr. Alaa Maurabit spoke on women\u2019s inclusion at the Ukraine House Davos panel \u2018Trailblazing Activists: Female Profiles in Courage.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p class=\"p1\">Giving first her personal story of founding \u2018The Voice of Libyan Women\u2019, which focused on increasing female representation in Libyan security processes, Dr. Murabit reminded the audience that women\u2019s rights are necessary pre-requisites to peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She pointed out that currently, 90 percent of peace processes fail within five years. \u201cThe silver lining,\u201d she said, \u201cis that we\u2019ve begun to figure out what we can do differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To achieve long-lasting, inclusive, sustainable security, Dr. Murabit advises the inclusion of women in peace processes.\u00a0\u201cIf we include women, peace processes are 35 times more likely to last 15 years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">If we include women, peace processes are 35 times more likely to last 15 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The single biggest indicator of whether a nation will fall into conflict is \u201cthe devolution of women\u2019s rights internally,\u201d says Dr. Murabit, \u201cmore so than territory conflict or resource conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She reminded the audience that women\u2019s inclusion is not a singular issue; it is inherently connected to each sustainable development goal, and each goal is better achieved with the inclusion of women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to Dr. Murabit, necessary inclusion of women in leadership roles can only happen if they are ensured education and healthcare. She acknowledged that many local leaders in conflict-prone countries are already working on these issues and the role of supporting international organizations should be to amplify those local voices and respect their indispensable role in nation building.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alaa Maurabit spoke on women\u2019s inclusion at the Ukraine House Davos panel \u2018Trailblazing Activists: Female Profiles in Courage.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdg-advocates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}