The project's aim was to empower Cypriot and Irish women to be active agents of peace and gender equality. This was achieved through a series of non-formal educational workshops, on national and transnational level, which targeted women of the ethnic/religious communities of Cyprus and Ireland, and of different age groups and backgrounds. In this context, peace education met gender education, women's history, individual empowerment, and intergenerational dialogue.
The experience of the applicant organisation in implementing women's history workshops had brought up the idea to use women's history as an interesting and powerful tool for transformation not only in terms of questioning patriarchal norms, gender stereotypes and women's invisibility in historical narratives, but also for questioning overall dominant and stereotypical views of the cultural "Other". This could cultivate a culture of peace, paired with bringing together women of 'opposite' sides united by their interest in making women's history visible. In this context, considering the history of conflict and division, still inherent in the Cypriot and the Irish society, along with the history of women’s marginalisation in regard to decision-making, we decided to design and facilitate a number of women's history and peace education workshops to address the need to empower the women of these countries towards an active participation in the peace-building process, and in enhancing gender equality.