Podcast: A Woman Attorney General for the Bangsamoro (Interview with Attorney General Sha Elijah Dumama-Alba)

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Over the past two decades, the UN Security Council has adopted a series of resolutions calling for the inclusion of women in peacemaking and security efforts. Not all Asian governments are actively pursuing this agenda, but this week we meet Sha Elijah Dumama-Alba, the young, energetic, and female attorney general of the BARMM, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, in the Southern Philippines. As her homeland emerges from five decades of conflict and violence, she’s building bridges between the old guard and the new and working to create a durable peace. Of her success so far, she observes, “With women around, there seems to be a looming obligation to get things done.”

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