Unfortunately the violence is not confined to armed combatants. New forms of violence target vulnerable civilians, specifically women and children. War against civilians, bombing urban areas, ethnic cleansing, genocide, forced migration, rape as a military policy, and other acts against non-combatants are wrong and immoral and must be condemned by all nations. G.2 Women as teachers of peace While everyone has a duty to promote peace, women have a special task to create a climate of peace. Every human person is carried in a woman's womb and brought forth through a woman's pain and labor.
Women are, therefore, in a special position to know the value of each and every human life.
The family is the first and fundamental school of social living and the first and fundamental school of peace. Within the family, the human person is entrusted in a special way to women. Mothers, as first teachers of children, are in a position to instill in their children the virtues required to promote peaceful resolution, including respect for the value of human life, honor, responsibility, the ability to discern right from wrong, the courage to do what is right, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice. Intolerance, bigotry and hatred if tolerated in the home are tolerated in the community and nations. Selfishness, the holding of grudges and ancient hatreds, nursed over the centuries, sow the seeds of war in the hearts of men.