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Women Peacemakers: What We Can Learn From Them
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. In her book, Chambliss shares the remarkable stories of this wildly diverse cadre of women change agents, from an Israeli soldier to an Irish nun, 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.
300 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 12, 2020
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February 27, 2022
“Women Peacemakers: What We Can Learn from Them,” is a very interesting, thought-provoking, and inspirational read for men and women alike. When I first received this book, I was not sure that it would be my kind of reading, but I am always eager to expand and venture into new avenues. I’m glad I did because I was very surprised to find out how wrong I actually was. Dr. Chambliss has interviewed and written about some truly amazing women who are so courageous in their goals of creating a better life for themselves and those around them. As a reader, you cannot help but be impressed and hopeful that you can strive to become even half of what they are.
Dr. Chambliss started the book with what seems to be one goal… further developing her understanding of peace and how it is created. In so doing, she has presented, I prefer to use the word conversations rather than interviews, with 15 women from incredibly varied backgrounds. The book includes a nun from Ireland, an orphan from Africa, and a soldier from Israel, and the list goes on. Each story is a moving and fitting tribute to the woman who tells it and gives the reader a reason to continue reading and be motivated by what they are learning to go out and, possibly, live a more peaceful and encouraging life as they move forward.
The book is extremely well-written and, rather than coming across as a boring and monotonous interview book telling others what to do and how to do it, the story comes across as a novel about incredible ladies that we would all like to attempt to be like. I was extremely impressed by the writing, the stories, and the overall feel of the book and would recommend it to anyone. I thank the ladies for sharing their stories and I thank Dr. Chambliss for putting it all together in a way what remained stimulating and interesting from the first page to the last.
Dr. Chambliss started the book with what seems to be one goal… further developing her understanding of peace and how it is created. In so doing, she has presented, I prefer to use the word conversations rather than interviews, with 15 women from incredibly varied backgrounds. The book includes a nun from Ireland, an orphan from Africa, and a soldier from Israel, and the list goes on. Each story is a moving and fitting tribute to the woman who tells it and gives the reader a reason to continue reading and be motivated by what they are learning to go out and, possibly, live a more peaceful and encouraging life as they move forward.
The book is extremely well-written and, rather than coming across as a boring and monotonous interview book telling others what to do and how to do it, the story comes across as a novel about incredible ladies that we would all like to attempt to be like. I was extremely impressed by the writing, the stories, and the overall feel of the book and would recommend it to anyone. I thank the ladies for sharing their stories and I thank Dr. Chambliss for putting it all together in a way what remained stimulating and interesting from the first page to the last.
October 14, 2020
A powerful book containing real life stories of extraordinary Women who chose selflessness over power. The Author tells the stories of each Woman by painting a textual picture and as I read each story I felt as if I was right there and truly understood who they were and why they did what they did. I believe this book should very seriously be considered as a must read for all students. As a man I so appreciated learning who these amazing Woman are and everything they had to overcome to accomplish what they did.
June 12, 2021
This book has many different stories that are true from around the world of women changing her situation and those around her for the better. You travel the world and get a close up account of what is really going on in different countries. This book made me look at my own life and how easy I have it, but then assessing what can I do to make other people's situations better. Very inspirational.
May 31, 2022
Before reading this book, I had no idea that I could find a way to help bring peace to the world. But this wonderful book showed me definitions of peace that I had not thought of before, and made me feel that I could make a difference. As Desmond Tutu said " Do a little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
September 12, 2023
inspiring and fantastic
Barbe Chambliss has written a must read book,thirty years in the making interviewing women from all over the world who are unsung champions of peace. Their stories will inspire you to do more than you ever thought was possible. Because against all odds, that’s what they did.
Barbe Chambliss has written a must read book,thirty years in the making interviewing women from all over the world who are unsung champions of peace. Their stories will inspire you to do more than you ever thought was possible. Because against all odds, that’s what they did.
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