First Women Peace Museum in Afghanistan
Asia Green Hut Organization (AGHO) established 1st Women Peace Museum in Sorobi district and Kabul city. The purpose of establishing women peace museum was bridging the current social gap between youth through cultural, art, peace dialogue, and promoting social harmony in sustainable peace program. This peace museum itself convey a strong message of peace and solidarity through its diorama and further than that open a door of opportunity for any future peace advocacy program.
Two full days workshop has been organized on the topic of peace education and peace dialogue for youth on the root causes of conflict, overview of the Afghanistan historic decisions, concepts of peace such as peace definition, peace process and peace dimensions, defining national values, negotiation, communication, and mediation skills. AGHO trained 62 participants for five days on peace education among (32 males and 30 females) successfully and also conducted peace dialogue for total 62 participants ( 32 males and 30 females) for five days.
AGHO Honored the Worthy Services of Women
The organization honored the worthy services of women in order to ensure the rights of women and peace during a gathering with the active participation of the Afghan Women’s Network and the participation of most women rights activists and civil society organizations, Deputy Minister of Information, Culture and Art. The Afghan Women’s Network appreciates and supports such a good deed and initiative of the Asian Green Cottage Foundation
Opening Ceremony
Gender Specific Results
AGHO is woman led organization and organization’s mission is to promote promote the roles of women and girls in society specially maintain gender equality in all of its program and in this project AGHO successfully managed to keep the number of women equal to men even have more women participants in most of the activities. The following chart shows, the number of women peace museum visitors stands at 580 440 for men and similarly, in peace dialogue and art contestants program the number of women were more than men which is difficult to maintain gender equality in current Afghanistan situation but AGHO did it successfully. We can conclude that by conducting more cultural and artistic program by women-led organization will have more positive impact and encourage more women and girls to participate and it will steadily shift the power of male dominated perception towards gender equality based participation for future programs and become norm and culture.