Measure and Inspire: How a New Tool Tracks Women, Peace, and Security

“I firmly believe that data not only measure progress but inspire it," said Hillary Rodham Clinton recently, referring to the potential uses for the inaugural Women, Peace and Security Index, a new tool for measuring the role of women in making progress on global peace and security. Clinton recognized "the work that remains to confront the violence, injustice, and exclusion that still hold back too many women and girls around the world," but she believes this new global index on women, peace and security will help "to inform public debate and discussion and hold decision-makers to account.” With our current GOP administration, the threat of war has increased substantially. Now, perhaps more than ever, the role that women play in achievin