35 Women Building Peace: A Tribute to the Women PeaceMakers Program

When war descends and countries or families shatter, it is often women who put
the pieces together. From their own experiences of exclusion or surviving without
full rights, they understand what a society needs to create sustainable peace —
to make the voiceless heard, to realize human rights for all.

Women who make peace seldom have their stories told. Their lessons and
techniques, while deeply effective, risk being lost in the wayside of history.


35 Women Building Peace shares some of these forgotten or overlooked stories.


They are gathered from materials produced in the award-winning Women
PeaceMakers Program, held at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
and funded by the Fred J. Hansen Foundation.