UN Women: The missing peace

United Nations Women Lebanon, an NGO, increased its overall reach with #TheMissingPeace which removed half the alphabet from communications to show how losing women’s voices affects peace dialogues.

November 15, 2021. Lebanon woke up to a strange tweet.

Speculation and confusion flooded social feeds.

50% of letters were removed from the tweet. It was intentional, to protest the exclusion of 50% of the population from peace dialogues.

Peace agreements are 64% less likely to fail and peace is more likely to last for two years if women are at the peace table – UN Security Resolution 1325

But looking at peace dialogues in Lebanon...

Throughout Lebanon's unstable history, war and peace have been negotiated by half the population.

Women have never been included in the peace process and...

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