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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: What Happens When Women Are Excluded From Peace Talks?
Description: As I am recording this, the United States is deep into negotiations with the Taliban over some sort of political arrangement that would enable the Taliban's entrance into Afghan politics while the US drew down its troop levels. The specifics of these negotiations are opaque--not much is known about what is on the table.  What we do know is that there are precisely zero Afghan women at the table.  And what we also know, thanks to research done in part by my guest today Anna Tonelli, is that the exclusion of women from peace negotiations is a pred...