Peace X Peace

Peace X Peace, "the rapidly growing international organization that connects women across cultures for friendship, support, and action for peace. Our global community of women is building a more balanced, peaceful world where our lives, stories, and voices are valued and honored."

"Peace X Peace began in 2002 when Patricia Smith Melton, a poet, playwright, film maker, and photographer, gathered six experts in peace and women's rights from around the world to discuss how they might respond as women to the violence of 9/11/2001. The organization was incorporated as a 501(c )(3) nonprofit and hired its first staff person at the end of that year. It launched a website and an online news service and began connecting US women with women outside the US, across geographic and cultural divides, via the internet...

"In addition to the Global Network, Peace X Peace programs include a globe-spanning volunteer team, Regional Development initiatives, and a coalition-based outreach that mobilizes women across the United States: Women Stand With Iraq."

What is in a Name
Richard Perle, a leading neocon, worked with Benjamin Netanyahu to help it reformulate and sell its policy. Out of this exercise came what later became known as PNAC. A key concept that was pushed in this document was that Israel should not seek a "land for peace" deal, but rather push for a "peace for peace" deal. In other words, the Palestinians would not get a state or any land over which they could have sovereignty. The term "Peace x Peace" can be viewed as a neocon construct; peace without justice.

Directors & Personnel
Accessed July 2009:
 * Patricia T. Morris – Executive Director
 * Patricia Smith Melton - Founder and Chair
 * Smith Melton
 * Amal Bennett-Judge
 * Barclay A. Greene
 * Gail Montplaisir
 * Kathleen Johnson Murphy
 * Fatima Nazar
 * Rajiv Salimath
 * Russell Stevenson, JD

Advisory Board
Accessed July 2009:


 * Azizah al-Hibri
 * Isabel Allende
 * Jean Shinoda Bolen
 * Riane Eisler
 * Fatima Gailani
 * Ela Gandhi
 * Noeleen Heyzer
 * Barbara Marx Hubbard
 * Mario Morino
 * Lynne Twist

Global liaisons
Accessed July 2009:


 * KENYA - Mercy Chidi
 * FRANCE and MIDDLE EAST - Ruth Gardner
 * INDONESIA - Lucy Heffern
 * ISRAEL - Elana Rozenman
 * PALESTINE - Rula Salameh

Contact

 * Web: http://www.peacexpeace.org

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Basma Fakri