--- --- # How Women Could Help the Syrian Peace Talks Succeed by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 2, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 2, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Put women at the negotiating table if you want Syrian peace talks to succeed.**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/01/want-peace-syria-put-women-negotiating-table/125536/) By Matthew Rycroft and Swanee Hunt in Defense One **2\.** [**Could Vietnam be the world’s next Silicon Valley?**](http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35227626) By Vivienne Nunis at BBC News **3\.** [**This is the single worst public policy mistake America can make, and we keep making it.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/01/the-biggest-public-policy-mistake-were-continuing-to-make-year-after-year/) By Jared Bernstein in the Washington Post **4\.** [**To combat harassment and worse, this Indian state has women-only and transgender-only taxis.**](http://fusion.net/story/262529/kerala-transgender-policy-g-taxis/) By Nidhi Prakash in Fusion **5\.** [**With this unorthodox move, doctors are trying to boost the immunity of C-section babies.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/01/464905786/researchers-test-microbe-wipe-to-promote-babies-health-after-c-sections) By Rob Stein at NPR  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How Women Could Help the Syrian Peace Talks Succeed ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4204211/women-syrian-peace-talks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4204211/women-syrian-peace-talks/"},"headline":"How Women Could Help the Syrian Peace Talks Succeed","datePublished":"2016-02-02T17:01:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:29.306Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4204211/women-syrian-peace-talks/","keywords":["Innovation","Vietnam","Syria","Transgender","Childbirth"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4204211/women-syrian-peace-talks/","name":"How Women Could Help the Syrian Peace Talks Succeed"}}]}] ```