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Ethics of care prevents sectarian violence
United Nations Women, the UN body for women, pointed out that from 1992 to 2011 only 9 percent of women were involved in negotiating peace-building efforts.
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Standing for the rights: Activists hold a peaceful rally to celebrate the International Women's Day in front of the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on March 8. (JP/Aditya Bhagas)
In her film Where Do We Go Now?, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki explores the role of women as agents of peace in times of conflict.
In her movie, released in 2011, a society of Muslims and Christians who coexist in an isolated village is torn apart when a trivial misunderstanding triggers a conflict that escalates to violence. Weapons are prepared for battle; one person is killed.
Yet as the men continue to engage in violence, fomenting hate toward each other, the spouses and mothers of the two groups decide, instead, to consolidate and strategize on ways to end the war.
The women include marijuana in their cooking so that all the men fall unconscious, allowing the women to collect the weapons and bury them in secret.
