in many cultures women s domain is in the market in religious groups among other mothers and increasingly in the medical and counselling professions if information about peacebuilding programmes is circulated only through male social networks women will not have the knowledge required for active participation moreover the failure to include women s networks in peacebuilding programmes can restrict the ability of leaders to gain the consent and support needed to implement peace agreements the paradoxical logic of patriarchy condones or ignores private and structural forms of violence against women while prohibiting public violence against or repression of women