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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PEACE BY PEACE: WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES
A feature-length documentary by PEACE X PEACE
celebrating the work of women peace-builders around the world
November 1, 2003: Women on the Frontlines,
a global documentary more than a year in the making, was viewed in a
special preview showing at the Gather The Women Congress: Weaving a
World that Works, held October 17-19 in San Francisco. Produced by GTW
Congress co-sponsor PEACE X PEACE, the film reveals directly and intimately
the unheralded work of women reweaving peace and healing their cultures
after devastation in Afghanistan, Argentina, Burundi, Bosnia, and the
US.
To rebuild cultures after the breakage of violent conflict takes work.
Peace takes work; and it is women who are doing the on-the-ground work
of building peace by healing communities and reweaving cultures. PEACE
BY PEACE: Women on the Frontlines documents that work, which is often
ignored or taken for granted and reveals it as the primary force for
peace in the world today.
No matter the devastation or the odds, women remain defiantly resilience
and committed to building a world in which they, their families, and
their culture not only survive but thrive. PEACE X PEACE has filmed
in five nations - Hutu and Tutsi women working together to operate a
peace radio station in Burundi, former underground teachers educating
women and children in Afghanistan, community builders providing micro-credit
loans to women in Bosnia-Herzegovina, female leaders of the unemployed
masses promoting participatory democracy in Argentina, and women who
lost family September 11 leading the search for peace in the United
States.
These women’s struggles may differ, but the way they organize following
circle principles are the same; and the questions are universal: What
makes women embrace peace, not violence, in the face of shattering personal
crises? How can women be empowered to affect a shift towards peace on
a global scale? Why are women linked together in groups of peers so
effective?
Woven through the film is the wisdom of the wise women of the PEACE
X PEACE Circle of Advisors, including interviews with Jean Shinoda Bolen
on circles and the Feminine Principle, Barbara Marx Hubbard on the Internet
and participatory democracy, Isabel Allende on how women organize during
cultural crisis, Susan Collin Marks on women being the primary force
in healing cultures, and Azizah al-Hibri on “adalah,” restorative justice.
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of UNIFEM, speaks on the world situation
for women now, and how women can be empowered, especially at the peace
table.
The documentary is currently being considered by PBS for primetime broadcast
early 2004; and UNIFEM is in process for a gala screening of PEACE BY
PEACE: Women on the Frontlines at the United Nations for the 191 member
states and the general public late fall.
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CONTACT:
Peace X Peace
2086 Hunters Crest Way
Vienna, Virginia 22181 USA
www.peacexpeace.org
703-391-5626
Patricia Smith Melton
Director, Peace x Peace
Email: patricia@peacexpeace.org
Jenny Town
Public Relations Manager
PEACE X PEACE
703.869.2249
jtown@peacexpeace.org
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