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Our Interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
October 25, 2011 | Gini Reticker
This interview between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Women, War & Peace Executive Producer Gini Reticker was conducted on July 8, 2011 and appears in part in the film War Redefined.
FULL TRANSCRIPT
GINI RETICKER: So the first question I wanted to ask you about was — this hour that we’re doing is called War Redefined, and talks about how in today’s conflicts, women really bear the brunt of a lot of conflict, but they’re often overlooked in conflict resolution. So if –- when you’re thinking of war from the perspective of women in today’s conflict zones, how does that redefine the way we look at war?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I think it’s way past time that we redefine what we mean by war, because there are no front lines in the wars in today’s world. There are often not even organized military units, unfortunately. There are states, there are networks, there are terrorist groups, there are militias. And the fact is that in today’s wars around the world, the primary victims are women and children. It didn’t used to be that way when there was a more organized military campaign. But today, we see women being victimized in great numbers all over, in every conflict.
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