About this season
What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women mattered? These two questions were at the heart of this critically acclaimed five-part special series.
Episodes (5)
1. I Came to Testify
Aired 11 October 2011 • 57 min
16 women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca broke history’s great silence and stepped forward to take the witness stand in an international court of law. The resulting verdict led to new international laws about sexual violence in war.
2. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Aired 18 October 2011 • 62 min
Liberian women came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. Among the women featured is Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, the leader of the Liberian women’s peace movement.
3. Peace Unveiled
Aired 25 October 2011
When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. Three women risked their lives to make sure that women had a seat at the negotiating table.
4. The War We Are Living
Aired 1 November 2011
In Cauca, a mountainous region in Colombia’s Pacific southwest, two indomitable Afro-Colombian women are fighting to stay on their gold-rich lands. They are standing up for a generation of civilians who have been deliberately terrorized and forcibly displaced during the course of Colombia’s decades-long civil war.
5. War Redefined
Aired 8 November 2011
Series capstone challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain through incisive interviews with leading thinkers, secretaries of state, seasoned peacemakers, and survivors of war.