Paying Homage to Women's Roles in Peace and Disarmament

Our world is hovering at the edge of an abyss, driven there by man's unreason. One crisis is cresting on top of another... The sinister developments in the advance towards the brink of disaster all interact, worsened by the calamitous threat - namely the arms race and militarization. These essentially ethical problems of wars, weapons, and tools of violence have existed since time immemorial, but in the present era they have been deeply aggravated and will continue to be aggravated if a halt is not called for. - Nobel Peace Laureate Alva Myrdal