The Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement is a non-profit, non-governmental international association established in 2003.It focuses on the positive and holistic aspects of peace, helping to forge alternative communication networks, developing capacities, creating avenues for cooperative action and making silent voices heard! The Movement’s main objective is to enhance the conditions conducive to sustainable peace and human security.
ORIGINS
""If women are to
play their full part in negotiating peace accords, mediating disputes, creating
new governments, rebuilding judicial and civil infrastructures, and the many
other activities that support peace, the world needs to make an investment in
building up their skills for doing so".
H.E. Kofi A.
Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations,
Statement to the Security Council on Women,
Peace and Security - October 28th 2002.