Experts:
Kathleen Kuehnast

Violent wars disrupt the social fabric of communities and impose severe limitations for women's economic access during and after conflict. Nevertheless, women entrepreneurs in war-torn societies are reshaping the business landscape and stretching beyond the micro-lending niche. The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), hosted a public event focused on women and their understudied yet significant entrepreneurial activities underway in conflict and post-conflict societies.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon presented her widely acclaimed New York Times best-selling book, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Women Who Risked Everything to Keep them Safe. Patti Petesch discussed her new USAID report, "Women's Empowerment arising from Violent Conflict," which draws upon 125 women's life stories to examine factors shaping women's agency and local recovery processes in four conflict-affected countries.Borany Penh and Stacey Young drew upon the central themes discussed by Tzemach Lemmon and Petesch in a discussion about the roles women and entrepreneurship play in the reconstruction of war-torn communities.

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Speakers:

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Deputy Director, Women and Foreign Policy Program
Council on Foreign Relations
Patti Petesch
Consultant and coauthor of the World Bank's Voices of the Poor and Moving Out of Poverty
Mercy Corps
Borany Penh, Discussant
Senior Economic Advisor, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs
U.S. Agency for International Development
Stacey Young, Discussant
Senior Knowledge Management Advisor, Microenterprise Development Office
U.S. Agency for International Development
Kathleen Kuehnast, Moderator
Director, Gender and Peacebuilding Center
U.S. Institute of Peace

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