Swanee Hunt

Swanee Hunt is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Chair of the Institute for Inclusive Security. As U.S. Ambassador to Austria (1993-1997), she hosted negotiations to stop the Balkan War. She had led numerous international and local symposia related to multi-ethnic reintegration in Bosnia and is the author This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace, and Worlds Apart: the Bosnian Case in Pursuit of Global Security (in publication), both with Duke University Press.

A customer shops for a turkey at a Walmart store in Los Angeles, California

How we can carry Thanksgiving forward into the rest of our political year

November 22, 2016Global Politics

Our foreign neighbors can teach us lessons about how to adapt the moments we share at Thanksgiving to finding unity and equality in our politics.

The World

Opinion: A miscarriage of British justice

August 2, 2016Commentary

The World

Opinion: Time for women to call the shots

August 2, 2016Commentary

Opinion: Learning compassion from Srebrenica survivors

August 1, 2016Commentary

Opinion: Leymah and a thousand other points of change

July 31, 2016Commentary

Serbia in paradox

July 31, 2016Commentary

Commentary: Support for moderate women politicians can help country achieve a better future.

For action on Syria, some lessons from Bosnia

July 31, 2016Politics

Commentary: In seeking political solution, don’t shut out women and minorities.

For the sake of democracy, elect women

July 30, 2016Politics

Commentary: Good governance requires elected women and minorities from both parties.

20 percent women, 100 percent effective

July 30, 2016Commentary

Commentary: We can stop the cross-aisle squabbling by electing more women.

Rebuilding Rwanda: Women in the private sector

July 30, 2016Commentary

Commentary: As we approach the 20th anniversary of one of humanity’s darkest moments, a look forward in five parts.