Quick Facts for the Media

What is your vision statement?
Peace X Peace is creating a world where women play a significant role in building sustainable peace. Through balanced partnerships - both local and global - women and men together will transform fear and hostility into actions that build harmonious cultures.

What is your mission?
Our mission is to improve the status of women and build sustainable peace. Peace X Peace assists women in reaching their full potential as leaders and decision-makers alongside men by matching individuals and Circles across cultures on the basis of shared interests and providing an array of resources that support their partnership.

How do you pronounce Peace X Peace?
Just say "peace by peace." Many of our signature programs have similar spellings, including the interview series Voice X Voice (Voice by Voice), the online library Page X Page (Page by Page), and the blog Week X Week (Week by Week).

What are your programs?
In addition to maintaining the Global Network of connected Circles and individuals, Peace X Peace carries out an array of programs that empower women as peacebuilders and promote peace. These include developing an international system of women leaders around the world who:

• Invite women to join the Global Network and support them as members.
• Strengthen relationships across cultures, especially in areas of conflict
• Document the experiences and stories of Sister Circles and individual matches.
• Provide global distribution of our award-winning documentary PEACE by PEACE: Women on the Frontlines.

How did Peace X Peace begin?
In January 2002, Patricia Smith Melton, (who would later become the founder and first executive director of Peace X Peace), facilitated a three-day forum involving a Circle of six women experts in peace and women's rights issues. The group represented a mix of religious beliefs and cultures. Their discussions focused on the question, "What is peace, and how can women be empowered to bring it?"

The conclusions they reached came to define the vision and mission of Peace X Peace. Women's groups and their perspectives must be joined together into a powerful critical mass that over time can effect a conscious shift in societies around the world away from violence and war, and towards peaceful resolution. Peace X Peace was officially established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in October 2002.

Who sits on your Board?
Peace by Peace has a diverse volunteer Board of Directors. The women who took part in the Original Dialogue that created the principles of Peace X Peace are now members of the Peace X Peace Advisory Council, along with other experts in community building, women's rights, and social justice. The members of the Advisory Council provide ongoing guidance and connections as we grow and develop.

Peace X Peace is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit that spends 94 cents of every dollar on achieving its mission.