"ahotsak" Women's Voices for Peace, issued its statement to contribute to the Basque peace process. To read it in its entirety click on the "full text". If you want to join, send us your comments (add your name, your name and ID number: DNI, CNI, EHNA) by clicking on "comments" link. If you are not registered with Blogger, you can choose the identity "other" or "anonymous" to access and publish your comment.
We agree that
this document, are women of ideologies, traditions and sensitivities, which, personally, want to try a new approach to peace and reconciliation on the basis of what unites us rather than what separates us.
We do not pretend with this document, replace anyone or anything. Our only desire is to contribute, according to the place that each of us ocuppe, to change the current situation in trying to help find solutions. We are convinced that dialogue, without prejudice and without conditions, is an appropriate starting point, as well as the rights of all people.
The fact of working for a present and a future of hope requires us to put forward, beyond our own militancy, a communist activist in favor of peace in the face of so many spoilers that peace is still face in any conflict where a ray of peace is essential.
We are convinced that we women have to be active agents for peace by participating in the new process of hope that should open in our country.
As of today, the social model in force is what it is, men's participation and women is not the same in the political life of our country. However, insofar as we suffer the consequences of a conflict that we do is not a strange, we wish to claim the participation and role of women in the context of finding solutions.
In this perspective, we want to open a new stage in the three following basic premises: 1 .-
Achieving peace is a collective demand and a political priority, a task for all and all. It is not only and solely from the absence of any form of violence of any kind either. In this regard, the concept of peace is not from our point of view, a hollow concept, meaningless, quite the contrary. For us, peace is akin to democracy, social justice, a process of change that allows citizens with regard to historical conflicts be resolved and, in terms of rights and freedoms, to turn a page.
2 .- All the political projects can and should be defended. None can be imposed. It should find a democratic framework which enables and guarantees the development of all projects on the same footing, in ways political and democratic.
3 .- If the Basque society, the citizens of the Basque Country or Euskal Herria, want to transform, change or maintain the legal and political framework that they have today, we should commit ourselves to respect and to establish democratic safeguards necessary policies and procedures accorded to that decisions taken by the Basque society are respected and if necessary reflected and embodied in legal institutions.
In this sense, we believe that the aspects that determine a different participation of women and men in society must also be addressed, so that equal rights and opportunities exist today, is guaranteed. This implies the recognition of our rights, those women who may not be possible through a sincere commitment of all actors involved in the process. We agree that
this document believe that a solution is possible and that to achieve this we must all recognize us as such and distinguished from the other truth that holds. The dialogue is the preliminary step for us to mutual understanding, a step that helps to strengthen democracy, not weaken it.
We seek neither
electoral success, or to defend our own policy options. We are not trying to be applauded by anyone and the criticism does not intimidate us. What encourages us is to think that because things are not static, it is worthwhile to work to make it more credible in a way not previously qualified by those who oppose any solution form. We
women who endorse this agreement, as has been done by other women in other peace processes, so will work to strengthen and avoid trampling on site and lead in failure. It's the same in our desire that women be fully stakeholders in a process vis-à-vis where we claim our role and our protagonist, both in its accomplishment, in its solution. We will work ultimately for the establishment of democratic safeguards that allow the participation of all and every citizen (do) s and strengthening the process and its solution.
Here is the subject of this contribution. Based on the assumptions defined above, we are open to any exchange of views at any dialogue, any approximation, in any negotiation are willing to do whatever is within our power to help build peace.
Donostia / San Sebastian, April 8, 2006.
We do not pretend with this document, replace anyone or anything. Our only desire is to contribute, according to the place that each of us ocuppe, to change the current situation in trying to help find solutions. We are convinced that dialogue, without prejudice and without conditions, is an appropriate starting point, as well as the rights of all people.
The fact of working for a present and a future of hope requires us to put forward, beyond our own militancy, a communist activist in favor of peace in the face of so many spoilers that peace is still face in any conflict where a ray of peace is essential.
We are convinced that we women have to be active agents for peace by participating in the new process of hope that should open in our country.
As of today, the social model in force is what it is, men's participation and women is not the same in the political life of our country. However, insofar as we suffer the consequences of a conflict that we do is not a strange, we wish to claim the participation and role of women in the context of finding solutions.
In this perspective, we want to open a new stage in the three following basic premises: 1 .-
Achieving peace is a collective demand and a political priority, a task for all and all. It is not only and solely from the absence of any form of violence of any kind either. In this regard, the concept of peace is not from our point of view, a hollow concept, meaningless, quite the contrary. For us, peace is akin to democracy, social justice, a process of change that allows citizens with regard to historical conflicts be resolved and, in terms of rights and freedoms, to turn a page.
2 .- All the political projects can and should be defended. None can be imposed. It should find a democratic framework which enables and guarantees the development of all projects on the same footing, in ways political and democratic.
3 .- If the Basque society, the citizens of the Basque Country or Euskal Herria, want to transform, change or maintain the legal and political framework that they have today, we should commit ourselves to respect and to establish democratic safeguards necessary policies and procedures accorded to that decisions taken by the Basque society are respected and if necessary reflected and embodied in legal institutions.
In this sense, we believe that the aspects that determine a different participation of women and men in society must also be addressed, so that equal rights and opportunities exist today, is guaranteed. This implies the recognition of our rights, those women who may not be possible through a sincere commitment of all actors involved in the process. We agree that
this document believe that a solution is possible and that to achieve this we must all recognize us as such and distinguished from the other truth that holds. The dialogue is the preliminary step for us to mutual understanding, a step that helps to strengthen democracy, not weaken it.
We seek neither
electoral success, or to defend our own policy options. We are not trying to be applauded by anyone and the criticism does not intimidate us. What encourages us is to think that because things are not static, it is worthwhile to work to make it more credible in a way not previously qualified by those who oppose any solution form. We
women who endorse this agreement, as has been done by other women in other peace processes, so will work to strengthen and avoid trampling on site and lead in failure. It's the same in our desire that women be fully stakeholders in a process vis-à-vis where we claim our role and our protagonist, both in its accomplishment, in its solution. We will work ultimately for the establishment of democratic safeguards that allow the participation of all and every citizen (do) s and strengthening the process and its solution.
Here is the subject of this contribution. Based on the assumptions defined above, we are open to any exchange of views at any dialogue, any approximation, in any negotiation are willing to do whatever is within our power to help build peace.
Donostia / San Sebastian, April 8, 2006.
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