The potential of life is based on interdependence.
Women have long endured suffering. The value of interdependence has not been acknowledged.
The question remains: Can we value interdependence and peace for ourselves and our relationships?
To create and voice a new consciousness of ourselves as women transforms our relationship with men. Men then can come into partnership with women and honor interdependence and co-creation, the only way through which peace is possible.
During CARE’s 2012, 101st International Women’s Day Conference, Donald Steinberg, Deputy Administrator Ambassador for the US Agency for International Development, viewed Abigail Disney’s documentary, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”. After watching this documentary, Deputy Administrator Ambassador Steinberg was asked, “Will a peace agreement work?”
His answer, “Unless it involves women, the answer is usually, no.”