Nobel Women's Initiative

{{Short description|Canada-based international advocacy organisation}}

The Nobel Women's Initiative is an international advocacy organisation based in Ottawa, Canada.{{Cite web|url=https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit/1e93745ce00d4398a66eb4bdc1527e56-nobel-womens-initiative-ottawa|title=Nobel Women's Initiative|website=www.idealist.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-04}} It was created in 2006 by six female winners of the Nobel Peace Prize to support women's groups around the world in campaigning for justice, peace and equality.{{cite book|author1=Shawkat Alam|author2=Natalie Klein|author3=Juliette Overland|title=Globalisation and the quest for social and environmental justice: the relevance of international law in an evolving world order|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bCgmUyRNjYC&pg=PA200|accessdate=15 January 2012|date=13 January 2011|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-49910-1|page=200}}{{cite book|author=Joseph De Rivera|title=Handbook on building cultures of peace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keWf3JXYj6oC&pg=PA135|accessdate=15 January 2012|date=1 November 2008|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-387-09574-5|page=135}} The six founders are Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchú, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, and Betty Williams.{{cite book|author=Karin Klenke|title=Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJ16kb4sgS8C&pg=PA231|accessdate=15 January 2012|date=27 April 2011|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing|isbn=978-0-85724-561-8|page=231}} The only other living female Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, was under house arrest at the time of the initiative's formation. She became an honorary member on her release in 2010.{{cite web|title=Aung San Suu Kyi|url=http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/meet-the-laureates/aung-san-suu-kyi/|work=nobelwomensinitiative.org|publisher=Nobel Women's Initiative|accessdate=6 February 2012}} The initiative's first conference, in 2007, focused on women, conflict and security in the Middle East.{{cite book|author=Valentine M. Moghadam|title=Globalization and social movements: Islamism, feminism, and the global justice movement|url=https://archive.org/details/globalizationsoc0000mogh|url-access=registration|accessdate=15 January 2012|year=2009|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-5572-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/globalizationsoc0000mogh/page/84 84]}}

The initiative defines "peace" as "the commitment to quality and justice; a democratic world free of physical, economic, cultural, political, religious, sexual and environmental violence and the constant threat of these forms of violence against women—indeed against all of humanity."{{cite book|author=Carolyn Ladelle Bennett|title=Same OLE Or Something New|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQAzNUFS8_YC&pg=PA224|accessdate=15 January 2012|date=12 May 2010|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4500-8688-2|page=224}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}}