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Inner Power examines the crucial role that women have played or are playing in
restoring political and economic stability in post-war societies, and in other countries
where such war is still underway.
Conflict and related violence remain pervasive, impacting on communities both in the
short term and across the longer term. Understanding factors that help to reduce conflict
and violence at a local, regional, and international level has become an important global
policy priority. This book documents diverse experiences of peacebuilding and asks why some people choose alternatives to violence. Rather than accepting that violence is
inevitable, Amb. Hanna Dijok illustrates that conflict can be prevented.
This book examines the contributions of women to peace-building with an attempt at
analyzing how women have taken a keen interest in efforts to restore peace and how
their collective voice came to bear in the peace-building and reconstruction processes
that followed after the war, developing your enterprise.
This book is appropriate for general readers especially women, those in positions of
power and politics, peacekeepers, students and men who have interest in building a
more inclusive and peaceful world.
"The women usually sat in circles with their children straddled to their chests and sang songs they had sung on their journeys here. They sang of land they had once belonged to, an identity they had been identified with, people they knew too well. Yet the things they sang of were things they had lost. They yearned for a belonging—a place they would call home, set up huts, and rear their cattle again. They casually chorused: we don't belong here, but does it matter where we belong?"