equal contribution of men and women from the planning to the implementation of peacebuilding programmes is a precondition for enhancing the impact of local and international interventions and making the consolidation of peace increasingly just and sustainable chapters and commitments to gender equality are thus an essential requirement for peacebuilding activities however while one or two programmes dedicated to the inclusion of women or women s organizations may show symbolic goodwill they do not substitute for a truly participatory process that capitalizes on the contributions of women peacemakers and responds to and advances women s specific needs and experiences chapters and individual requirements of specific groups must be analysed understood and considered particularly of those groups which are marginalized in peacebuilding processes and thus prevented from fully determining their own fate and making positive contributions to their society s future being one of these groups women have been marginalized and are now in need of proactive inclusion