Women and culture of peace in the perspective of gender education and gender equality

Abstract

The contribution addresses the relationship between women and peace, representing it as one of the forms of contrast to violence and inequality of power between men and women. Gender equality as a right, which is one of the most urgent challenges of our time, can have a better chance of being achieved if we aim to strengthen the contribution that women can make to society and to promote a gender culture that is based on building a culture of peace in terms of skills and attitudes capable of acting on the causes that produce the different forms of violence, removing the thought patterns that created them. A systematic review of the literature on how women contribute to building a culture of peace started with the need to deepen the relationship between women and peace. It used a rigorous methodological approach to collect, evaluate, and synthesize a body of available evidence that testifies that the role assumed by women in peace processes is closely linked to a gender culture where education seems to appear to be the main factor affecting the promotion of behaviors and attitudes capable of nurturing gender equality as a founding datum of the activation of peace processes.