If history has taught us anything, it is that isolating people only alienates them. Coercing governments backfire. Engagement is the best, the only, policy for achieving lasting peace.
Our women’s walk for peace springs from this clear lesson. Its goals are simple: end the Korean War by replacing the 1953 ceasefire with a permanent peace treaty. It also seeks to reunite separated families and ensure that women are involved at all levels of the peace-building process. Read more…
On the 70th anniversary of Korea’s tragic division by the United States and the former Soviet Union, 30 women peacemakers will walk in support of the peaceful reunification of Korea. Our delegation includes two Nobel Peace laureates, Mairead Maguire and Leymah Gbowee, and authors, such as Gloria Steinem, artists, retired U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright, academics, humanitarian aid workers, faith leaders, mothers and grandmothers from a dozen countries, including several nations that fought in the 1950-53 Korean War. Read more…