Rebecca Sable
United States

Editor’s Note: You might ask yourself – what is a recipe doing on Peace X Peace?  We are excited about the new blog Eating Our Way through Conflict because it explores how food can create connections and understanding.  We hope you’ll enjoy this piece on humility and check out the blog itself!
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Humility is a word we say often, but do we always put it into action? As we all need our egos fed, we can find ourselves stepping on others to raise ourselves. I often wonder why it …

Ilonka Wloch
United States
Editor’s note: How do you worship?  How do you relieve stress? Ilonka Wloch found an outlet for both in a weekly gathering of older women with one goal in mind: to dance.
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One day, my friend Eleanor asked me if I’d like to go dancing with her on Wednesday. I love to dance, so I said yes. She explained that it’s a handful of women who get together regularly at a small church converted into a dance hall. Hmm.
The following week, we carpooled from our little coastal town to …

Michelle Pomeroy
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
“As women, there are many shared experiences that make lifestyle differences seem less dividing to our shared humanness. Our gathering created such a moment.”
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“I am very tired of the idea that any woman who is covered is somehow oppressed and forced to do so. There is always a choice, even if the amount and source of pressure is different,” Khulood, a local Emirati, said. “You may have noticed tourists from Saudi Arabia often wear secular, Western clothing when they’re on vacation in Dubai or Abu …

An Anonymous woman from South Asia and Beverly Hill
“Imagine an affluent and well educated professional woman. This woman cherished her two daughters and loved them dearly, yet her friends and family always expressed pity or sympathy that she had only daughters.”
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The United Nations Population Fund estimates that 117 million women are “missing” in the world due to selective abortion, infanticide, gross neglect, and (for older women) lack of access to food and shelter.  (See announcement. http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/news/pid/8542)  All these atrocities constitute gendercide, or femicide.  Each year we lose almost 2 million …