Women for Peace

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Women for Peace – under this name, women’s groups in West and East operate as part of the international peace movement that emerged in the 1970s from the use of Irish women against the Northern Ireland conflict and is spreading very quickly internationally.

According to their own statements, the various groups of the FfF are committed to a peaceful world. Peace is to be achieved primarily through the fulfilment of the basic needs of all people and justice between people. Emerging conflicts should be resolved without violence, through mediation and negotiations. Important principles are also the equality of women and men worldwide and the inclusion of the perspective and life experiences of women and men in all areas of life (see gender mainstreaming).

Germany West and East
In West Berlin and Germany, almost a hundred new women’s peace groups emerged between the Congress of the Courage 1979 against nuclear and militarism, the appeal of the incitement of women for peace of 27. February 1980 and the Environmental Women’s Conference in Copenhagen in June 1980 are encouraged by the appeal of Scandinavian women for disarmament between the superpowers, which as autonomous women’s peace groups initiate a multitude of actions and campaigns, especially against the nuclear arms race in East and West. These nonviolent actions also became a model for women behind the Iron Curtain, which was broken a little by the concert of Joan Baez with Bettina Wegner Pfingsten in 1982, as by the balloon action on the wall in 1987 by Hannah Kotowski, Eva Epple and Eva Quistorp. The initiators of the incitement of Women for Peace and Women for Peace in Germany were the feminists Eva Epple, Eva Quistorp, Detel Aurandt, Heidemarie Langer and Hanne-Margret Birckenbach. A total of around 40,000 signatures were collected and handed over for the UN Women’s Conference in Copenhagen in June 1980.

From 1 to 8. In March 1981, after an appeal by Ricarda Steinbrecher and Eva Quistorp, West German women’s groups organized a nationwide week of action in hundreds of cities of the Federal Republic on the subject of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, peace education and environmental education, images of violence in the media, violence against women, disarmament, etc. Together with the Scandinavian women for peace, initiated by Eva Nordland from Oslo and Hilka Pietaala from Helsinki, Eva Quistorp organize with other women, among others. Doris Elbers the participation of many women from Berlin and the Federal Republic at the Peace March 1981 from Copenhagen to Paris, which concluded with a wonderful rally there with Julie Christie and the Greenham COMmon marching band, where also the 24th May was proclaimed as the International Day of Action of Women for Peace and Disarmament at the suggestion of Lynne Jones of the END and Eva Quistorp.

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