Decisions Without Hierarchy

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The Feminist Peace Group

The idea to start a feminist peace group resulted from a meeting of the women’s caucus of the area peace coalition. Women from the coalition talked with other women who had formed similar peace groups in other communities. There seemed to be enthusiasm for the concept; those interested signed a list and were later contacted to attend an organizational meeting. At that meeting it was decided that the group would be all-female, feminist in orientation, and would affiliate with a larger international organization that had much earlier formed around the goals of peace and justice. This organization had formed in 1919 following the second Women’s Peace Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, and by the 1980s had branches all ...