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  • Alumni Spotlight: Ketty Anyeko and Lindsay McClain Opiyo

    Episode 16
    Published: 2020-04-07
    Length: 38:06
    Hosts: Anne Hayner

    Kroc Institute Associate Director for Alumni Relations, Anne Hayner, talks with 2014 Kroc Institute Master's alums Ketty Anyeko, a current Ph.D. student at the University of British Colombia, and Lindsay McClain Opiyo, the director of development and partnerships for Generations for Peace in Washington, D.C. They discuss reparations and justice for women survivors of war in Uganda, youth and peacebuilding, and how they chose to study peace and where it's taken them.

    Topics: Alumni, Peace Studies, Reparations, Uganda, Women, Youth in Peacebuilding

  • The Current Crisis Facing Afghan Women

    Episode 54
    Published: 2022-03-15
    Length: 46:50
    Hosts: Malalai Habibi

    Malalai Habibi, 2019 Peace Studies alum and Program Officer at the International Civil Society Action Network, hosts a conversation on the realities on the ground for Afghan women after the takeover by the Taliban. Guests include Wazhma Frogh, Founder of the Afghan Women and Peace Studies Organization (WPSO) and Heather Barr, Associate Director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch.

    This is the second in a series of podcasts exploring the situation in Afghanistan following the events of August 2021. For more information on the Kroc Institute's Afghan Peace and Development Research Program, visit kroc.nd.edu/afghanistan.

    Topics: Afghanistan, Alumni, Gender, Taliban, Women

  • What’s Happening with Afghan Women: An Inside Look

    Episode 50
    Published: 2022-01-25
    Length: 62:00
    Hosts: Malalai Habibi

    Kroc Institute alumna Malalai Habibi (MGA '19), Program Officer at the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), talks with Mahbouba Seraj, Executive Director of Afghan Women Skills Development Center who is joining us from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, Founder and Executive Director of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and director of the London School of Economics Center for Women, Peace and Security, for a conversation about the current situation on the ground in Afghanistan.

    They focus in particular on the impact on Afghan women of the U.S. withdrawal and the country's subsequent return to Taliban control in summer 2021. 

    Topics: Afghanistan, Alumni, Gender, Taliban, U.S. Foreign Policy, Women