Women Religious Leaders as Peacemakers

This workshop will draw on first-hand experiences of religious women peace practitioners in Liberia and Somalia to illustrate how women religious leaders have managed to take the role of peacemakers, what lessons can be learned from these cases and weather it is feasible to multiply these successes and avoid pitfalls facing women religious leaders elsewhere in conflict situations. This Madang will not only offer to the participants a chance to reflect their past experiences from peace building by women of faith, but aims at providing concrete recommendations for action on how Churches and other faith groups can succeed in empowering and supporting a positive peacemaker role of women religious leaders in their contexts, as well as how to utilize global alliances and partnerships for greater impact