I hope you will join me in making origami Peace Cranes for the Third International Women’s Peace Conference. You can find directions at http://www.sadako.com/fold/folding.html. These directions are the best because they allow the cranes to fly. We want to have a crane for every woman who comes to the Conference and we're hoping to have five thousand women from all over the world.
Please e-mail me for my postal address and send the folded cranes to me. Or better yet, attend the Conference and bring them in person. An origami Peace Crane is a small thing, but it carries a sweet message to remind us all that we must create peace in our world.
MORE AT www.womenspeaceconference.org
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Peacemakers Inc.’s
3rd International
Women’s Peace Conference
July 10-15, 2007
Adams Mark Hotel and Conference Center
Dallas, Texas, USA
“Our mission is to provide a safe haven for women from countries all over the world to meet, confer and formulate an action plan for world peace,” said Carol Crabtree Donovan, Peacemakers president and conference chairwoman. “The purpose of the conference is to empower peacemakers by teaching peace skills, such as mediation, negotiation and communication.”
Conference Format
- Plenary sessions will include keynote speakers.
- Interactive Workshops will be conducted by professional facilitators with expert panelists from around the world.
- Resource experts will present lectures.
- Experienced peacemakers will present seminars on peace skills and approaches to peace in their respective countries.
- Participants will share opinions, ideas and strategies in facilitated discussion groups.
Peacemakers, Incorporated is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt corporation founded in Dallas, Texas by journalist, author and peacemaker, Vivian Castleberry.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
1901-1978
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Confirmed Speakers
Jody Williams
(United States)
Nobel Peace Laureate, 1997. Awarded for her work in achieving an international treaty banning landmines as Founding Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Social Work and Global Justice in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston.
Betty Williams
(Northern Ireland)
Nobel Peace Laureate, 1976. Awarded for her work in bringing peace in her native Northern Ireland; Founder of the Global Children's Studies Center; Founder of the World Centers of Compassion for Children.
Sharon D. Welch
(United States)
Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Missouri--Columbia.
Ruth- Gaby Vermot Mangold
(Switzerland)
Co-President of Peace Women Across the Globe, an international network of women working in different fields of human security, joining forces to bring the knowledge and leadership of peacewomen to official decision making arenas.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
(Guatemala)
Nobel Peace Laureate, 1992. Awarded for her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples in her native Guatemala . Established a foundation to promote the rights of indigenous people around the world.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
(South Africa)
Professor, University of Cape Town; award winning author of A Human Being Died That Night; former committee member of The Truth and Rconcilliation Commission.
Noeleen Heyzer
(Singapore)
Executive Director of UNIFEM, the leading operational agency within the US promoting women's empowerment and gender equality.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
(United States)
Millionth Circle Initiative, 5WWC; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center; prolific author, latest book: Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World.
Merve Kavakci
(Turkey)
Elected to Turkish Parliment, noted international lecturer and scholar recognized for her efforts in the advancement of human rights and Muslim women's empowerment.
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3rd International Women’s Peace Conference