In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.
Women can build stability. We can make peace.
I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.