10 years of women making peace
A decade of dedication, determination and action for a political agreement with the participation of women
Editor's note
Women making peace celebrate a decade!
Celebrating and not celebrating. Cherish the past and look to the future.
The site represents, makes accessible and derives ten years of extensive, dedicated and determined activity, activity of thousands of women (and men), who did and are doing for a better future for us and our children.
We acted according to a strategy, without giving up even in difficult moments, without apologizing, out of a sense of deep and heavy responsibility - as citizens, as mothers, as women.
When we founded the movement, following the cursed Eitan Cliff War, we never imagined that ten years later we would still be living in ceaseless rounds of fighting, and now in the longest war in the country's history, and all this with no visible political horizon!
We do not despair, we continue to work for a respectful political agreement, with the participation of women, hoping and demanding a listening ear. Only political agreements bring security.
This is the only way! We don't have children for unnecessary wars.
Vivian Silver, our friend who was brutally murdered on October 7, 2023 in her home in Kibbutz Bari, used to quote Mahatma Gandhi:
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
We wish for the end of the war and the return of the abductees.
We will keep the hope for better days and continue to work for their arrival. Join us!
We worked to influence the decision makers
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We stood outside the Prime Minister's house; We stood outside the Knesset; We sat in tents; We fasted - as in the days of the Tzuk Eitan War - outside the Prime Minister's house; We repeatedly visited the Knesset and the Knesset committees; We drafted the policy alternatives bill first, we demanded from the parties: include the issue of the importance of a political agreement with the participation of women in your platform; We met with decision makers, we called on citizens to vote for peace.
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We worked to influence Israeli public opinion
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We worked to influence public opinion that peace is possible, we worked to convince that only a political agreement would bring security; We made sure to preserve the hope that it should and can be better here.
We did it in every possible way:
we sang; we danced; We marched, and marched, and marched; we shouted; We blocked; we rode; we ran; We stood at intersections and bridges; we painted; we lay; We have represented; We tested; Shagno; We congratulated the agreement with the Emirates; We established the path of peace; We sent peace
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We worked to bring hearts together and get to know a variety of populations in Israeli society
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We held introductory meetings between different groups of women: Jewish and Arab, secular and religious, right-wing and left-wing, young and less young, periphery and center; We learned about the needs, the challenges, the differences; We were looking for a way to the bridge.
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We worked to show that women have a critical role in resolving the conflict, and that it is imperative to act in the spirit of Security Council Resolution 1325
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Resolution 1325 of the Security Council requires the parties involved in violent conflicts to respect women's rights and to support the participation and representation of women in peace negotiation processes and conflict resolution. This decision is at the core of the movement and we have worked hard to raise awareness and demand the implementation of the decision.
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We worked to mobilize global public opinion to support our way And we even received extensive international recognition
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2020 we received the status of an advisory organization to the United Nations; in 2017 we received the Parliaments Prize; in 2024 we were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and we reached the finals of the Sakharov Prize on behalf of the European Parliament; in 2024 we were awarded prizes, together with the Women of the Sun: the Guntwallerp Prize for press freedom and rights Adam; The Albies Award from the Amal and George Clooney Foundation Women of Justice; Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security Award; representatives of both movements were included in the list of 12 women of the year at the Clinton Global Initiatives conference , and the conversation was moderated by Nobel Peace Prize winner Laima Gaboui.
We sent messages to world leaders (Biden and Trump) that we are ready for peace; We held regular meetings with embassies and ambassadors from around the world; Peace fighters from around the world came to support us at the event in October 2023 and were even hosted in the Gaza Envelope just 4 days before the disaster.
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We worked to join Palestinian partnerships from the West Bank and Gaza because we always believed that there was a partner
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We wrote together "The Call of Motherhood" and worked to spread it in Israel and around the world.
The motherhood call of Women Making Peace and Women of the Sun has been widely recognized. Thousands of women and men in Israel and around the world have signed it, including the Pope, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and two Nobel Peace Prize laureates: the librarian Leima Gaboi and the Iranian Shirin Abdi. We also received the blessing of the Dalai Lama.
We established projects for the joint activity of Israeli and Palestinian women under the auspices of the US MEPPA project;
A large Israeli crowd came to the introductory meetings we held across the country with a representative of the Palestinian Women of the Sun.
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We have become an expert in the issue of conflict resolution
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We worked closely with Prof. Iran Halperin's team and developed creative ways to deal with barriers to peace among the Israeli public; We brought the best experts to give lectures at the International Congress of Women Making Peace - The Youth Congress 2018. As part of the event, we held a hackathon to develop new ideas for removing barriers to peace in the Middle East;
We held training for the movement's activities as part of a seminar on softening barriers to peace; We learned and practiced promoting and enabling discourse;
We studied various conflicts in the world that were solved, among other things, thanks to the involvement of women and sent delegations to Northern Ireland and South Africa to deepen the learning; We researched and developed the connection between peace and the environment, religions, education and more;
We presented the policy alternatives bill first in professional forums.
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We worked in cooperation with organizations
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Based on the concept that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, we work in cooperation with women's organizations and peace organizations working for the same goal.
We did everything together: in friendship and evil, with respect, determination and solidarity
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Landmarks throughout the 10 years of the movement
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