Peace X Peace 101

Peace X Peace is an international women's organization that connects women across cultures to act together in peace. It does this through the Peace X Peace Global Network, where women everywhere in the world connect with each other on the basis of common interests and a desire to help and support each other. They know that what happens to one of us happens to us all.

Women connect for friendship, dialogue, and mutual support. They share information, expertise, and experience firsthand, independent of governments, political agendas, and corporate or media spin. They create projects and initiatives and share resources for the causes they care about.

Our mission is to improve the status of women worldwide and to build sustainable peace. As of March 2008, mre than 95 nations are represented in our Global Network of individual women and Circles. Circles are dynamic, inclusive, non-hierarchical groups, either formal or informal, that meet on a regular basis to support each other and share an online connection with sisters in another country.

Email communications within Circles are direct, private, and password protected. Women whose cultures or governments discourage public gatherings or travel outside their communities gain a safe and productive opportunity to interact with sisters across the globe. US women gain access to a wider world. Soon strangers become friends, and friends become as dear as family. Together, they take on peacebuilding projects in areas such as education, health, micro-enterprise, social equity, and leadership development.

Peace X Peace was founded in 2002 by Patricia Smith Melton. Please read about our founder whose dream we are carrying into the future and the Original Dialogue that started it all.

As a 501(c)(3), Peace X Peace is a not-for-profit organization that relies on private donations. Though membership is free, most members support the programs they value through easy monthly donations. When you give $50 or more, you can request a free copy of the documentary Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines.