Comments on: Meetings with Remarkable Women: Lan Mercado’s journey from megaphone to microphone http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11801 duncan green poverty to power oxfam development Wed, 22 May 2013 13:03:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Elena M. http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11801&cpage=1#comment-249275 Elena M. Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:50:43 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11801#comment-249275 Thanks for a fascinating post today! Our lives are really enriched by learning Lan’s story of unstinting courage, and the title, “Meetings with Remarkable Women” immediately caught my eye. Her trajectory puts me in mind of other women around the world whose experiences might also be of interest to your readers. They are the 35+ participants (three of whom are from the Philippines, as it happens-- all participants are listed at this link: http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/conferences/BreakingBarriersSpeakers.php ) in the Women PeaceMakers Program, currently celebrating its 10th anniversary with the conference, “Breaking Barriers: What it Will Take to Achieve Security, Justice and Peace,” taking place in San Diego this week (see http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/conferences/BreakingBarriers.php Some of the women find that their work indeed traverses the seeming divide between development and peacebuilding, and many are involved in international policy advocacy work as well -- indeed some have, like Lan, gone from the megaphone to the microphone, while others have not necessarily left the megaphone behind. Thanks again Duncan, for an exhilarating post. Thanks for a fascinating post today! Our lives are really enriched by learning Lan’s story of unstinting courage, and the title, “Meetings with Remarkable Women” immediately caught my eye. Her trajectory puts me in mind of other women around the world whose experiences might also be of interest to your readers. They are the 35+ participants (three of whom are from the Philippines, as it happens– all participants are listed at this link: http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/conferences/BreakingBarriersSpeakers.php )

in the Women PeaceMakers Program, currently celebrating its 10th anniversary with the conference, “Breaking Barriers: What it Will Take to Achieve Security, Justice and Peace,” taking place in San Diego this week (see http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/conferences/BreakingBarriers.php

Some of the women find that their work indeed traverses the seeming divide between development and peacebuilding, and many are involved in international policy advocacy work as well — indeed some have, like Lan, gone from the megaphone to the microphone, while others have not necessarily left the megaphone behind.

Thanks again Duncan, for an exhilarating post.

]]> By: Martin http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11801&cpage=1#comment-248458 Martin Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:44:51 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11801#comment-248458 Fantastic blog – one of the best and most inspiring things I’ve ever read. Just brilliant. Fantastic blog – one of the best and most inspiring things I’ve ever read. Just brilliant.

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