Peaceful

Women's life and rights in Iran have encountered several challenges, and Iranian women have made considerable efforts to transform society and increase gender sensitivity in times of patriarchal rules and culture. This thesis sheds light on how Iranian women’s movement and women resisting models have sought to transform society. The research approaches the topic from the perspective of peace and conflict studies and through the studies that deal with slow peace, bottom-up peace building, and conflict transformation theories. The analysis of this research begins by discussing the forms of women’s activism through feminist discourses and observes how women’s movements have emerged locally and historically. It then turns to the models and strategies through which women have been resisting and transforming from one form of identity to another, at the same time, transforming society through their bottom-up activities. The data of this research comes from nine narrative interviews wit...