.” The film, which featured the three Laureates and premiered in New York City on September 16, depicts the role of women in the fight for peace, justice, freedom, and prosperity in Ukraine, and was produced by an all-women Ukrainian creative team.spoke with them about their personal journeys and what brought them to Ukraine, the stories they heard there, and how Ukrainian women are fighting for peace in their country. The below interview has been edited for clarity.
Women Under Siege: Tell us why it was important for you to visit Ukraine, amid an active conflict, and document the stories of the women there.I was very happy that we were able to do a delegation to Ukraine. Over the sixteen years that the Nobel Women’s Initiative has existed, we’ve done many delegations, but I feel that this one was particularly important at this point in time.
I’ve often said that men are the ones who’ve waged war since the beginning of humans, and women clean up the mess. Two of my favorite Nobel friends, the Dalai Lama and [the late] Archbishop Desmond Tutu, both said independently that men have messed up the planet for a long time and they should step aside and let women clean up the mess, and it’s the truth.We’ve made a lot of delegations to countries that suffer from war and conflict — from Syria to Korea and Latin America.
Is there anything that stood out to you about Ukraine, that maybe differs from other conflicts you’ve observed?You cannot compare between countries and regions. But Ukraine is special because there is a war now, there is an ugly dictator that is there to kill Ukrainian people because he was encouraged to do this when he attacked and killed Syrian people, supporting the dictator Bashar al-Assad. It was the same thing when he.