Women are the best representative of
    nonviolence possible because:

    Women are socialized to be less violent than men therefore the
    likelihood of violent conflict is much less.  Women have been the
    caretakers of family and society throughout history.  Women are
    more collaborative than men.  If women ruled the world, life would
    be different.  Isn’t that what the world is looking for now, something
    different?  Women want power with, not power over, therefore
    there is no threat of violence or the taking of a life.  There is a
    threat to power.


    Women can facilitate unity.  Therefore, without the use of fear and
    oppression, the strength of unity will empower and initiate paradigm
    change.  

    When women are empowered, there will be peace!

    A Call to Women is about changing the world.  If it is a peaceful
    change, then everyone will benefit in the long run. A Call to Women
    is about EDUCATING and Socializing the Children.

    UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan wrote, “Women, who know the price of conflict so well,
    are also often better equipped than men to prevent or resolve it.  For generations, women
    have served as peace educators, both in their families and in their
    societies.  They have proved instrumental in building bridges
    rather than walls.  They have been crucial in preserving social
    order when communities have collapsed.”

    An extract from the writings of Baha’u’llah, the founder of the
    Baha’i Faith, in a book entitled Women, states about women,
    “…when they form a conscious and overwhelming mass of public
    opinion against war there can be no war.”

    Women have an advantage...

    If a woman comes up to a man and hits him,
    What would a man do?
    Would he hit back?
    Would he hurt her?

    What if the woman just stops him from doing what he’s doing?

    Will men kill women?
    Yes, but the chances are, not as likely, except with extremists?
    Would men kill men?
    Would women kill?


    Why Women?

    A woman may not have as strong an inclination to go to war as a
    man.
    A woman may have more compassion and trust.
    A woman may make better decisions for children.
    Women are the caretakers of families and society.   
    It is a different way of finding a solution.

    Women are more collaborative


    Why women?

    Not to say women have all the answers, or are morally superior,
    but what is plausible is if women are the peacemakers, it can be
    DIFFERENT.  The logic of this argument is hard to dispute.  The
    Bush administration is using techniques that are similar.  They are
    appealing to human emotion and patriotism, logical tools that are
    hard to dispute.  Logic vs. logic would be a strong strategy by
    women and the Peace movement.

    Why women?
    Because:  Women want UNITY & PARTNERSHIP, not Dominance and Separation,
                    according to Louise Diamond, in the Peace Book
    Because:  Women are Proud of our differences and Respectful of others
    Because:  Women want to find a Humane way for a better world
    Because:  Women will communicate

    Why women?
    Because they are women?
    Because they are better than men?
    Because they have all the answers?
    No, Because they are spiritual.
    Spiritual is philosophical.
    Philosophical is political.

    Plato taught, according to Thomas Merton in Ghandi and the One Eyed Giant ,
    “To philosophize and concern oneself with politics is one and the same thing.”



    Women would be empowered around the world.  The window of opportunity has opened
    at this time in history for women to take the lead in the quest for Peace.  Is it a type of
    revolution?  Yes.  Women, challenge other women, on both sides of the political spectrum,
    Republican or Democrat, hawks or doves, once and for all, to take a stand for all women,
    then challenge the men.  Women can set an example for the direction of the world!  

    There is evidence of change, but nowhere near enough!  Here is a beginning:

    The U.N. passed Resolution 1325 stressing women should be part of all conflict
    prevention and resolution, before, during and after the conflict.  
    Resolution 1325
    Adopted by the Security Council at its 4213th meeting, on 31 October 2000

    Reaffirming the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of
    conflicts and in peace-building, and stressing the importance of their equal
    participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion
    of peace and security, and the need to increase their role in decision-making with
    regard to conflict prevention and resolution.

    A UN report in 2006 says women are losing ground.  Where does it go from here?

    The women become an army of peacekeepers, messengers.

    The stage has been set.  The world needs women, now!



    Quotes

    Sister Joan Chittister, author, lecturer, founder of Benetvision, Co-Chair of Global Peace
    Initiative of Women, Co-Chair of Tikkun, at the Omega/VDay Conference, Sheraton
    Manhattan, NYC, NY, September 11, 2004, a conference of 1,400 women, with about 10
    men, gave an amazing speech about why women should be in the forefront.  She said, “It’
    s time for women to reach across the borders that men will not breach, to take the hands
    of the other, not to bind them, but to bond them.  It’s time for women’s analysis of world
    situations and women’s solutions to conflict to be heard.”  

    Sister Joan Chittister, September 11th, 2004, at the Omega / V Day conference, “Women
    and Power” said, “The lives of our children, the protection of millions, the hopes of all
    humankind, wait again now for women, from opposite cultures, opposite tradition, to step
    over the line of political hatred to save them.”  


    Sister Joan Chittister Speech Paraphrase – Read the Paraphrase, by Andre Sheldon

    Two women – the Pharaoh’s family – The Moses story
    Sister Joan said, “The presence of the women in the Moses story, its empowering
    cooperation of Moses’ mother and Pharaohs’ daughter was an antidote to extremism then,
    was the beginning of community then, was the seed of another newer nurturing world that
    was needed then, and its even more needed now!”


    Bahai To the Peoples of the World - A Statement on Peace
    By the Universal House of Justice
    Page 8  2nd para
    “The emancipation of women, the achievement of full equality between the sexes, is one
    of the most important, though less acknowledged prerequisites of peace.”


    See If Women Ruled the World  http://www.ifwomenruledtheworld.com/about.htm
    “…women are still no more than a token presence in the upper echelons of real power
    and in the corporate boardrooms and political establishment, the technology gender gap
    if anything has been widening, and the average wages for women still haven't exceeded $.
    75 for every dollar earned by a man.”

    See Quotes by Women
    See Quotes by Men
    See Quotes

    See Support for Women by Patricia Melton Smith
    See The Daily Power of Women in Peace Building, by Patricia Melton Smith
    http://www.peacexpeace.org/about/documents/DailyPowerofWomen.pdf


    Women obtain strength and power, not to Rule, but to Lead!!


    SMILE
PEACE and LOVE

How beautiful the world is when we live and work together in peace.
Global Strategy of Nonviolence
Mother Theresa said, “Peace begins with a smile.”
Welcome! A Global Strategy of Nonviolence
FOR the CHILDREN A World-Wide Unity Campaign
A Strategy to Bring Peace For the Children and Stop  War
(GS of NV)
GUIDELINES

In 3 years, we the
people, can change the
world.

PLAN ALL 3 PHASES

PHASE ONE:

Mobilize, in every village,
town, and city,in every
country!

Select Demands
and Deadlines

One year awareness
campaign

Starting Event

September 11, 2020
+23 scheduled events


PEOPLE POWER

The People must be
HEARD, the Moderate
Voice

We want the children to
see an overt exhibit of
nonviolence.
PHASE TWO:

Conflict Resolution
and Disarmament

PHASE THREE:

Programs For the
Children