Peace X Peace Explained

Peace X Peace
Size:	250px
Status:	Nonprofit
Purpose:	Building peace through online communications
Location:	Online
Region Served:	World
Membership:	18,000
Leader Title:	Founder
Leader Name:	Patricia Smith Melton
Leader Title2:	Past Executive Directors
Leader Name2:	Dr. Sarah McCue, Dr. Pat Morris
Leader Title3:	CEO
Leader Name3:	Kim Weichel
Num Staff:	6

Peace X Peace (pronounced “peace by peace”) is a nonprofit women's organization founded in 2002 that promotes building peace through online communications.

History

Peace X Peace was founded in 2002 by Patricia Smith Melton, who gathered experts in peace and women's rights from around the world (including Isabel Allende, the Chilean novelist; Susan Collin Marks, the Australian-born co-founder of Search for Common Ground; and Fatima Gailani, the Afghan head of the Red Crescent) to elaborate a women's response to the September 11 attacks.

Dr. Sarah McCue served as the first President, Dr. Pat Morris served as executive director of Peace X Peace, and in 2010 Kim Weichel was named CEO.

Awards

• In 2002 the Isabel Allende Foundation honored Peace X Peace with the Espiritu Award for the Pursuit of Peace^[1]
• The documentary Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines won the Golden Eagle Cine Award in 2004 and the Best Documentary Aurora Award in 2006
• In 2005, Religious Science International, a nonprofit based in Seattle, recognized Peace X Peace with its Golden Works Award for activities that exemplify the RSI mission, "awakening humanity to its spiritual magnificence"^[2]
• In 2006, Working Mother named it one of the 25 Best Places for Women to Work^[3]
• In 2007, Peace X Peace won the ePhilanthropy Foundation's Best Community Building/Activism Award
• In November 2008, Peace X Peace won the Technology Innovation Award from NPower Greater DC and Accenture
• In December 2008, Peace X Peace Founder Patricia Smith Melton was selected as one of OneWorld's People of 2008^[4] and received The Rumi Peace and Dialogue Award

Further reading

• Book: The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It. - includes chapter on Peace X Peace
• Web site: World Peace Emerging – Daring to Save the World. April 16, 2009. Patricia Smith. Melton.
• News: Voice of America (newsVOAcom). Jan 9, 2009. Palestinian and Israeli Women, in New Book, Seek Peace.
• News: The Wall Street Journal Online. Dec 12, 2008. Shelly. Banjo. Women as Practical Peace Activists.
• News: The Jerusalem Post, Online Edition. Nov 20, 2008. Barbara. Sofer. The Human Spirit: One in 60.
• News: WE Magazine for Women. July 3, 2008. Patricia Smith Melton Interview.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Isabel Allende Foundation.
2. Web site: Golden Works Award . 2011-06-21 . 2011-09-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929035859/http://www.rsintl.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117:golden-works-award&catid=54:announcements&Itemid=117 . dead .
3. Web site: Mar-2006: National Magazine Names Beacon as Best Small Company . www.beacontechnologies.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080607120110/http://www.beacontechnologies.com/news/2006/working-mother-beacon-best-small-company.aspx . 2008-06-07.
4. Web site: OneWorld. Founder chosen as Finalist for Person of the Year.