Women for Peace Against Fundamentalisms is a five-year project initiated by Peace for Life whose purpose is to create international alliances among women of faith who are working to end all forms of religious violence, including hate crimes and terrorism fueled by religious extremism.

The project is local, national and transnational in scope. An international Steering Committee of influential women faith leaders—half of whom are Muslim and half of whom are Christian—has been formed to develop the framework for this project for the next five years. An initial four-day planning meeting of the Steering Committee will take place on February 1–4, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to be hosted by the Interfaith Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements at Simon Fraser University.

The Steering Committee will plan a 2013 conference, to be held in the Southern hemisphere, and develop a methodology for alliance-building that incorporates new media and social networks. A central project objective is to share best practices of peace-building and interfaith alliance-building that support religious pluralism. Both the process leading up to the conference and the conference itself will be geared towards the development of concrete local initiatives that will follow from the conference in the following years.

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