Activities
23. February 2010
“Security in Safe Hands: Women Make the Difference!”
Second Global SAVE Conference
Terrorism and violent extremism have become a part of our lives, whether due to personal proximity or media exposure. This is a new global experience for all of us; terrorism and violent extremism are ...
16. February 2010
Spreading Peace and Harvesting Harmony
Indonesian Students Declare "SAVE Indonesia!"
One hundred students from fifty Javanese high schools, universities, and pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) came together in late December 2009 to declare the birth of SAVE Indonesia (Students Against ...
21. December 2009
The Way Out
A poem about the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai Written by an Indian student
The pigeons were fluttering over the Taj People were rushing to catch the train at Victoria The light at Leopold was shining bright Mumbai looked so normal that night Then suddenly there was ...
14. December 2009
Schools Against Violent Extremism India
Workshops one year after 26/11
Archana Kapoor, our SAVE India representative, held two workshops at DPS schools in Lucknow. One workshop was held on November 26th, one year after the devastating attack in Mumbai; the other workshop ...
04. December 2009
Surviving Terror - One Year After the Attacks in Bombay
A Women without Borders SAVE trip on the occasion of the first anniversary
Women without Borders/SAVE travelled to Mumbai from November 23-27, 2009 to launch further local SAVE activities on the occasion of the first anniversary of the November 26th, 2008 attacks. Initial meetings ...
16. November 2009
Petition: SAVE - Peace Bridge in Pakistan
The SAVE Pakistan group created a petition calling for peace and tolerance.
The following points reflect our feelings and our resolve to be part of the worldwide SAVE campaign. • Women in Pakistan desire peace through dialogue, understanding and engagement, both at home ...
13. November 2009
Join our Blog!
Please click here to enter to Women without Borders SAVE blog. Join the discussions, post your comments and be part of a world wide network. ...
03. November 2009
Yemen - Hope, Action, Perseverance
A SAVE journey to Sana´a (October 26th until November 2nd 2009)
“Extremism pulls countries apart and creates new divisions between East and West, Muslim and non-Muslim. Terrorism is not about religion, or nationality. It is about human nature which has not been ...
22. Oktober 2009
SAVE India launches its campaign in Lucknow
"We are conscious of our responsibility as a school and the role that education can play in allaying the fears of minority communities," says Kevin Arnold Dacosta, Principal of Study Hall, a ...
15. Oktober 2009
SAVE documentary screening and discussion
Mon 19th October, 6pm, Brasenose College
Sisters Against Violent Extremism unites women against violent extremism: raising awareness, encouraging peaceful alternatives and promoting a global response. SAVE and OxWip will be screening a 13-minute ...
02. Oktober 2009
“This is Me, Who are You?“
Young Muslims and non-Muslims discover the world of “the other.” An action-oriented listening project in Vienna, Vorarlberg and Upper Austria.
Social tensions, mutual resentment, prejudice, misunderstanding, divisions along ethnic lines and fears about political security in connection with the Muslim population are hot topics in Austria, from ...
30. September 2009
“Journeys through Darkness” Film Screenings at Oxford and SOAS
Women without Borders/SAVE screened the SAVE film “Journeys through Darkness” at two premier English universities in late October to emphasize the role students must play in challenging extremist ...
29. September 2009
Mothers for Change!
A SAVE (Sisters Against Violent Extremism) Campaign
Mothers for Change! is a new global initiative to empower mothers to sensitize and to mobilize youth being trapped by ideologies of violent extremism. Situated at the critical nexus between family and ...
29. September 2009
Schools/Students Against Violent Extremism
A SAVE (Sisters Against Violent Extremism) Campaign
Schools/Students Against Violent Extremism! is a new global campaign to sensitize school pupils and university students to the threat of violent extremism and to empower them to use readily - available ...
15. September 2009
SAVE UK Advisory Board
Welcome Elham Danish, Shaista Gohir, Hanan Ibrahim and Sasha Havlicek
In June 2008 we established the SAVE UK Advisory Board. We are proud to win Elham Danish, Shaista Gohir, Hanan Ibrahim and Sasha Havlicek as board members. Please read short portraits of the offical ...
11. September 2009
9/11 - 8 Years Later
Sisters Against Violent Extremism (SAVE) remembers the families affected by the tragic terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. SAVE condemns terrorism in all forms. Women, as key stakeholders ...
09. September 2009
Open Minds to Accept the Other
SAVE India at Lucknow University
Lucknow University is a partner in SAVE (Sisters Against Violent Extremism) India, which was launched in January 2009. At the start of the new academic session, the Academic Staff College organised an ...
09. September 2009
SAVE India - Schools Against Violent Extremism
Spreading the Message
SAVE is the response to potential and actual global violence and aims to produce a positive climate of change in local societies. This new movements seeks to equip women for the challenges posed by political ...
31. July 2009
SAVE India - Schools Against Violent Extremism is taking off
Teachers´ and Students´ Voices
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab is today a famous man. He is an internationally recognized face. His name is synonymous with terror. Ajmal Amir Kasab is the only Mumbai attacker captured alive by the Mumbai ...
31. July 2009
SAVE India - We Must Not Allow The Boys To Give Up Books And Pick Up Guns
Archana Kapoor, our Indian representative discusses Secretary Clinton's visit to India and what it means to SAVE
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has recently visited India. Secretary Clinton began her trip in Mumbai, and visisted the scene of the horrendous terror attack on November 26, 2008. With this ...
19. June 2009
Women & Power: Connecting Across Generations
Edit Schlaffer is invited to present Women without Borders and SAVE at this OMEGA conference in Rhinebeck, USA
"For the past seven years, Omega’s Women & Power conferences have been attended by thousands of women from around the world. Hailed for their groundbreaking speakers and uplifting community ...
08. June 2009
Women without Borders SAVE presentation at the Alliance of Civilizations in New York
On June 12 at the UN headquarters
Edit Schlaffer presented SAVE and Women without Borders at the Building Meaningful Partnerships for Youth Employment in the Middle East / North Africa seminar organized by the Alliance of Civilizations ...
02. June 2009
Panel Discussion and Film Presentation in New York City
Arab Women and the West: The Emerging New Global Sisterhood
On June 8th at 6.30 pm in the Austrian Cultural Forum New York City With Edit Schlaffer, founder and chair of Women without Borders and SAVE – Sisters Against Violent Extremism Manal ...
29. April 2009
Der Mut, mit “den anderen” zu sprechen:
Exit Strategies to overcome Violent Extremism
Women without Borders and SAVE (Sisters Against Violent Extremism) cordially invite you to: Presentation of the film ”Encounter Point” and discussion with Robi Damelin from Israel and ...
27. February 2009
SAVE Israel - Palestine
We must give Peace a Chance. Voices from the Israeli-Palestinian Frontline
The Courage to Speak with the Enemies – Voices of Civil Society A public event in the Kunsthalle Wien project space Karlsplatz Sunday, March 15th at 6 pm Presentation of the documentary ...
17. February 2009
SAVE India
26/11: Never Again?
The global launch of SAVE in Vienna sadly coincided with the 29/11 Mumbai attacks. The unstable and emotionally charged environment that the Mumbai attacks created put the SAVE initiative, newly christened ...
17. February 2009
SAVE UK
The Road to Understanding: Listening to the Other
On January 16th, Women without Borders officially launched SAVE UK at the Austrian Embassy in London. SAVE UK will address the pressing issues regarding violent extremism and will focus particularly on ...
12. January 2009
Launch of SAVE UK, Brussels and India
Start of local SAVE chapters
After the successful launch of SAVE - Sisters Against Violent Extremism, the first women´s anti-terror platform in November/December 08 in the Palais Schönburg in Vienna a global network ...
02. December 2008
The First SAVE Conference / SAVE Declaration
Vienna, November 28th until December 1st 2008
The global SAVE initiative, standing for Sisters Against Violent Extremism, brought women from around the world together in Vienna for a strategy conference from November 28 to December 1st 2008 in order ...
13. November 2008
PRESS CONFERENCE, December 1st, 2008
Presentation of the first women´s anti-terror platform
WOMEN WITHOUT BORDERS cordially invites you to the PRESS CONFERENCE to introduce SAVE Sisters Against Violent Extremism THE FIRST WOMEN´S ANTI-TERROR PLATFORM Monday, ...