Women Building Peace (English - Open Captions)
(2016, 69 minutes)

This is the story of remarkable women who, after surviving violence, war and genocide in Africa, are rebuilding their lives and societies, forgiving the killers of their families, adopting and raising orphans, breaking taboos, and redefining what it means to be a woman in their traditional cultures. Women Building Peace looks at some of the root causes behind the atrocities and how existing matriarchal societies, whose cultural framework and belief systems not only embrace the feminine but see god as female, provide a much-needed peaceful and gender-balanced alternative to the violent, discriminatory cultures that currently dominate most of the world.
The DVD is structured in play-through or chaptered options with four individual chapters:
Before Patriarchy
Women on the Frontlines of Violence
Healing, Forgiveness and Peace-Building; Matriarchies, Peaceful Societies
Moving Forward

Directors: Colleen Wagner and Geneviève Appleton
Producers: Colleen Wagner and Geneviève Appleton