May 10-12th 2009: openDemocracy partnered the Nobel Women’s Initiative to cover their second international conference in Guatemala where 80 women activists and scholars met to redefine democracy.
There, Rosemary Bechler met Galia Golan, a contributor to the openDemocracy debate on UN Resolution 1325. Galia Golan is a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the Hebrew University, and a co-founder of Peace Now and of Bat Shalom as well as being/having been a member of the Meretz Party executive, of the Editorial Board of the Palestine-Israel Journal and Director of IPCRI.
She explains why, despite the fact that the war on Gaza has alienated her from her government and fellow-countrymen as never before, she believes that the time has come for a solution.