1000 Peace Women Across the Globe.

1000 Peace Women Across the Globe published by 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe Scalo/2208 pp./$45.00 (hb).

1000 Peace Women Across the Globe (2005) is the internationally coordinated work of hundreds of writers, photographers, editors, and translators. Contained within its 2,208 pages are inspiring, terrible, and informative sketches about the lives and work of 1,000 women from over 150 countries, each pursuing a courageous and often creative path to peace that would rouse even the most apathetic to action. One organizes a boat that travels to countries where women are dying from illegal, unsafe abortions, the only kind to which they have access. They are provided with safer alternatives once they reach international waters. Another risks her life daily to educate forgotten children, while still another mobilizes young men to peacefully disarm militias terrorizing their villages. The women's brief biographies are accompanied by photographs and provide an excellent starting resource for research, a directory of sorts for international peace activism.

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The book was born from an idea to nominate 1,000 women from around the world for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, one hundred years after the first woman received this honor. The book's existence is testament not only to what is possible through collaboration but also to the Internet's power to link people. As one of the tools that helped make this work possible, the Internet is also used by the book's creators as an interactive virtual platform--a meeting place for people who understand that peace is not just the absence of war. For more information see www.1000peacewomen.org.

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