Pioneering Effort Engages Business People in the Active Role of Peace Building

"We must counter the world's aggressions with a new process of peace fashioned and implemented by women," said New York public relations executive Anne Glauber in New York in August 2002. Her conviction struck a chord with like-minded business people who convened in October 2002 as part of the Global Peace Initiative of Women held at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva. Thus the Business Council for Peace (Bpeace) was founded by five people at that Geneva meeting including Anne Glauber, Bpeace's founding chairperson, and Toni Maloney, its current chairperson.

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