But we can't allow violence to override the peacemaking process.
Governments should acknowledge and support women's peace initiatives and integrate women into all levels of the peacemaking process.
Yet the greatest cause of cleavage and counter-cleavage is disillusionment with the failed peacemaking process with Palestinians and the violence that has accompanied it.
Early in his tenure, Barak cut out of the peacemaking process most of the Labor leadership — men like Burg and Peres, who had negotiated the original Oslo Accord.
Within each world, there were critics who said that the peacemaking process was superficial or unjust or out of touch with reality.
He agreed to additional Israeli pullbacks from the West Bank, and there were hopes that he would have the authority to reconcile most of the disaffected right-wing Israelis to the peacemaking process with the Palestinians.
But Obama should make it clear that America will not lend its auspices to a peacemaking process in which the actions of either side wilfully undermine the chances of an agreement America is trying to broker.
If not, Hammond said, they should be excluded from the peacemaking process.
One such approach is restorative justice, a peacemaking process that puts reparations at the victim's discretion, not the system's.
Women, War & Peace illustrates the power of women to challenge the male-dominated structure of the peacemaking process, formulating their own version of pushback.
