Sahana Dharmapuri, senior advisor for One Earth Future’s program, Our Secure Future, advocates for more women serving as U.N. peacekeepers as one way to decrease the incidence of sexual violence and exploitation at the hands of those trusted to keep the peace in conflict zones.

U.S. News and World Report interviewed Our Secure Future Director, Sahana Dharmapuri, about the impact of female U.N. peacekeepers and the prevention of sexual violence in conflict zones.  This article sheds light on one of the many reasons women’s participation in peacekeeping is essential to any p...

Female peacekeepers don’t seem to have that track record. So, the thinking is, if we had more female peacekeepers on the ground there would be less of these cases.

Nearly 150 peace advocates, students, and socially active citizens of the greater Denver area joined One Earth Future and the United Nations Association of Denver at the Posner Center for International Development in celebration of this year’s International Day of Peace.

Sahana Dharmapuri, the Senior Advisor to the Women, Peace and Security Initiative at the One Earth Future Foundation, was a featured speaker at the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Conversations with Extraordinary Women Speaker Series through their Women & Peacebuilding Affinity Group on Sept. 15th.