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"In Women Peacemakers, Barbe Chambliss has written a moving and inspirational work that will touch the hearts of all readers, women and men alike." - Andrew A. MA

Are You Ready To Take On An Act Of Peacemaking? 

In a world framed by digital screens and talking heads, fifteen women quietly invited Barbe Chambliss into their lives to share intimate conversations about how they make peace. Sparked by a curiosity about how peace is actually created, this mediator and psychotherapist from Colorado zigzagged the globe to interview a willing pool of peacemakers where they live.

Chambliss shares the remarkable stories of this wildly diverse cadre of women change agents, from an Israeli soldier to an Irish nun, a Clan Mother to an ex-princess, a paralyzed Olympic skier to a young Zimbabwean orphan who now directs the esteemed Future of Hope Foundation. 

We see individual tactics meld into a pool of common strategies for crafting genuine peace. Chambliss calls them "Lessons Learned from the Peacemakers," offering them as practices that anyone can integrate into daily life to foster individual and communal peace. She invites each reader to commit to doing one or more acts of peacemaking and then share their results with her, ultimately expanding these fifteen stories into multiples stories of peacemaking by neighbors, by refugees, by prisoners, by environmentalists and all manner of diverse sources. 

This book is both a deeply entertaining read and a guidebook, crafted by inspiration and calling to everyone on earth who is willing to be counted among the ranks of Conscious Peacemakers.

About the Author

Barbe Chambliss, is a psychotherapist, professional mediator, and organic farmer dedicated to discovering and bringing forth conscious acts of peace in a progressively chaotic world. She directed the volunteer Center for Conflict Resolution in Aspen, Colorado. She has taught mediation to over 500 children and adults in rural Colorado schools and facilitates Restorative Justice Circles in her community.
 
Chambliss's PhD dissertation, entitled Contemporary Women Peacemakers: The Hidden Side of Peacemaking, ignited two decades of interviews with over fifty women across the world, exploring the nuts and bolts of how peace is actually made. Midway in this journey, she volunteered as a counselor in a Croatian camp providing safe haven for eighty children who had recently survived the Bosnian War. Shortly after the terrorist attacks in New York City, she compiled and distributed a "Working Compendium of Non-violent Responses to 9/11," and later served as a therapist on a U.S. military base to better understand the human dynamics of making war.
 
Her work is an ongoing exploration into the practice of peacemaking, which she defines simply as people treating each other with equal respect. Her goal is to wake up the conscious peacemaker in as many people as possible during her life.