Barbe Chambliss, formerly a trauma therapist, is a mediator, grows organic apples, and is the author of the book, Women Peacemakers: What We Have To Learn From Them. The book tells the stories of fifteen ordinary women doing extraordinary acts of peacemaking that Barbe interviewed as she zigzagged the globe.

Her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Contemporary Women Peacemakers: The Hidden Side of Peacemaking, ignited three decades of interviews with over 60 women across the world exploring the nuts and bolts of how peace is actually made.