Peace X Peace

Nonprofit organization

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Online

Region served

World

Membership

18,000

Founder

Patricia Smith Melton

Past Executive Directors

Dr. Sarah McCue, Dr. Pat Morris

CEO

Kim Weichel

Staff

6Websitewww.peacexpeace.org

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

References

^ "Isabel Allende Foundation".^{[failed verification]}
^ "Golden Works Award". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
^ "Mar-2006: National Magazine Names Beacon as Best Small Company". www.beacontechnologies.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-07.
^ "Founder chosen as Finalist for Person of the Year". OneWorld.