Whenever we talk about peace, suddenly conflict comes in our
minds and it directly goes to men which divert our mind towards men.It is well
known that violent conflict indirectly affects women and girls and strength
enpre existing gender inequalities and discrimination.It is directly related to
the violence that exists in women's lives during peacetime. Throughout the
world, women experience violence whether physical, psychological and sexual
because they are women, and often because they suffer the imbalances of power
relations.Remember women not as hapless victims, but as agents of change who
invest in their families and communities and who have the potential to build
peaceful and prosperous societies. Women with jobs are also far more likely than
men to invest their income in food, education and health care for their
families. With healthier and better educated children, societies can begin to
end cycles of poverty and violence.
Women as mothers
Despite having important roles and responsibilities in their cultures, women
have struggled to participate in the formal peace process, which has been
dominated by men. women were wives and mothers, few worked outside the home, and
except for royals born to power. Women taught their daughters and sons, proper
behavior and the ethos of society, and impressed on them the importance of such
values as honesty, uprightness and the necessity to compromise. As such, women
have always been active promoters of harmony in the community, which can be
referred to as a "culture of peace". This natural role of women is not unique to
any ethnic group, but rather is generalized throughout the world.
Women as Mediators
Given the extent and significance of women’s peace activism it is surprising how
uniformly women have been excluded from formal peace processes. UN women’s 2012
report Women’s participation in peace negotiations provides countless examples
of women being excluded from the peace table by national leaders and the
international community alike. International, as well as national, organizations
employ minimal numbers of women as mediators and at times, none in total
disregard of the international and regional legal frameworks in the name of
protocols and resolutions.
Women in Peace building
Countries that are emerging from violent conflict may be potential sites of
positive change for women. The profound effects of war on gender roles including
women’s participation in labour previously seen as male only can sometimes
produce new openings for women to influence social and political structures
that, in peacetime, were closed to them. Big changes will happen if we can
ensure that women play a key role in the design and implementation of peace
building activities and give them a confidence to do so.It is time for women to
come out of the shadows at the platform of peace. It goes without saying, men
tend to dominate the formal roles in the current peace-building process. Power
is unequally distributed between men and women and the majority of women do not
have a voice in any local or national decision-making processes. Such
inequalities cause formal peacebuilding activities and policies to suffer from
insufficient understanding of the diverse communities in which they are
representing.
Few years ago, a girl named Malala Yousufzai who brutally attacked by
terrorists, now she is promoting peace throughout the world and became peace
agent. But this is not at all, many women who were affected by men are now peace
builders. Women’s roles in peace building across conflict areas, in the last
decade, highlight the importance of moving women beyond the “humanitarian front
of the story.” Women have and can continue to influence peace building processes
so that they go beyond defining peace as the absence of violent conflict and
focuses on the good governance and justice. Women need to be present to discuss
issues such as genocide, impunity and security if a just and enduring peace is
to be built.Women’s involvement in peacebuilding is as old as their experience
of violence. Women are not “naturally” peaceful. Women have played a variety of
roles throughout history that support war and other forms of violence, from
warriors to supportive wives and mothers calling men to the battlefield.
So that’s all that I want to say that women are always remain as an agent of
peace throughout the history and in current situation throughout the world.