ITVS and Meridian International Center are excited to relaunch the monthly Global Perspectives Film Series. Meridian International Center is the perfect host for this series that engages young and seasoned foreign affairs professionals socially around film content that promotes dialogue and diplomacy here in Washington, DC’s global community.
The new season begins Wednesday, October 19 at 7 PM with Peace Unveiled from the Women, War & Peace series by Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, and Gini Reticker.
Following the film is a discussion with J. Alexander Thier, Assistant to the Administrator and Director, Office of Afghanistan-Pakistan Affairs, USAID, moderated by Tamara Gould, Vice President, ITVS International.
The Global Perspectives event is FREE. Reservations are REQUIRED. Email publicprograms@meridian.org.
Meridian International House is located at 1630 Crescent Place, NW, Washington, DC 20009.
ABOUT: When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan organized to make sure hard-fought gains in women’s rights weren’t lost in peace deals made with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled follows the efforts of three of these women: a savvy parliamentarian who participated in writing the Afghan constitution, a former midwife and one of the last women’s rights advocates remaining in Kandahar, and a young activist from a traditional family in Kabul. The film takes us 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 that “peace and justice can’t come at the cost of women and women’s lives.”
This film is part of Women and Girls Lead, a major public media initiative to support and sustain a growing movement to empower women and girls, their communities, and future generations. Women and Girls Lead is spearheaded by ITVS in partnership with CPB and PBS.
