Talking Peace: The Women's International Peace Conference

Raymond A. Jones is a professor of history at Carleton University in
Ottawa.

Talking Peace is MacPhee’s account of the Women’s International
Peace Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1985 to mark the end
of the United Nations Decade of Women. The conference brought together
350 women from around the world to discuss women’s alternatives for
negotiating peace. MacPhee wanted to put more than the record of the
conference into print and devotes the first third of the book to the
planning and organization of the conference. The rest of the book
presents the conference proceedings, along with a running commentary by
MacPhee that effectively catches its mood of impassioned inspiration. As
with most activist literature, this book addresses an extremely wide
range of peace issues. The interested reader can get from its pages an
understanding of the special insights that women can bring to the peace
movement.