War & Peace Quote by Eddie Bernice Johnson

The sentence moves like someone building a coalition in real time: a checklist cadence that’s almost deliberately unglamorous. Eddie Bernice Johnson isn’t selling an abstract dream of peace; she’s describing the scaffolding. “First phase” signals process over performance, the kind of language you use when you want skeptics to hear planning, not posturing. It’s bureaucratic on purpose, a quiet rebuttal to the idea that “peace” is merely a slogan for speeches and ceremonies.

The choice to begin with “inviting all the women Ambassadors” is doing double duty. On the surface, it’s outreach. Underneath, it’s an argument about who gets to be seen as a legitimate agent of diplomacy. Johnson frames women not as symbolic presences but as nodes in an international network, people who can convene, translate, and pressure institutions. That’s a subtle challenge to a foreign-policy culture that often treats hard power as male-coded and “peace work” as soft, secondary, or sentimental.

Then she pivots from global to local: “peace centers around the country.” The subtext is decentralization. Peace isn’t only brokered in capitals; it’s organized through civil society, community groups, and the infrastructure of activism. The phrase “increasing the volume and activity toward peace” borrows from media and campaigning: volume suggests attention, momentum, a measurable signal that can be amplified. Johnson’s intent is to make peace legible as a movement with bandwidth, not a mood.