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This report summarizes the discussions held at the International Conference on Strengthening the Role of Women MPs in Stabilizing and Transforming Afghanistan, organized by the EastWest Institute and the Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention, and hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels on December 7th, 2010. The meeting brought together over seventy leading lawmakers from Afghanistan and Pakistan, and representatives from the Muslim world, alongside experts and officials from Europe and the United States. The aim: to find ways to enhance the role of women lawmakers in Afghanistan's political processes.