Mission “Visibility – Connectivity – Expertise”
PWAG’s main goals in the last decade have been to support deeper and sustainable connectivity of PeaceWomen across the globe, to increase the visibility of their work, to expand their bodies of knowledge and skills, and to disseminate their expertise outside their own spheres of influence. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of this project, PWAG plan
s to embark on a project for the mission of “visibility-connectivity-expertise” by documenting and highlighting the work of not only one thousand women, but one million women. Primarily through creating a website “WikiPeaceWomen” to document the stories, the project will also expand the network for connecting PeaceWomen across different backgrounds and languages. Aim
The aim of the WikiPeaceWomen project is to expand the bodies of knowledge and skills of not only the Thousand PeaceWomen nominated in 2005 for the Nobel Peace Prize, but those of a Million PeaceWomen working in all fields of human security, conflict resolution, ecological security, environmental justice, health, education, legislation, and others. While their work will be made visible and recognized, their expertise will also be disseminated outside their current spheres of influence, so as to contribute to different levels ranging from the communities to the global. The process of inviting stories of Million PeaceWomen to be written and translated, and of fostering connections, will be a process of re-activation of the interest and commitment of old and new coordinators from different regions of the world, and of connection and reconnection to the 1000 PeaceWomen as well as the thousands of volunteers who have related in various ways to the PWAG project in the last decade. A broad network of partners will be formed. The language sites, while being linked to the global world of dozens of languages, would each be a forum for documentation, discussion and research on themes for peace-building. The goal is to reach one million stories by 2020. This will be a global campaign involving a million people to relate to the WikiPeaceWomen project.
