Introduction Gender inequality is an epidemic that continues to disadvantage women and girls from all over the globe. Although, the last century saw significant advances towards gender equality, gender inequality is still prevalent in many countries due to defined roles assigned to men and women. These roles are structurally and culturally defined in ways which perpetuate male domination and superiority and female subordination. As a result, violence remains a factor of relations between men and women a continuing feature of cultural violence that underlines gendered structural violence. This report argues that tradition, culture and religion have articulated men and women relationship (this could have been better worded- it is little unclear what is meant by articulated men and women relationship, just a grammar issue though, not major, and have embedded male domination into the structure of social organization and institution at all levels of governance. Accordingly, many patriarchal societies validate the marginalization of women in education, economy, land rights and crimes such as female infanticide. a strong intro Cecilia “a clear positioning of the topic within the groups broader theme in the exec summary and a nice outline of what will be argued." 2.1.1 Female Infanticide Female infanticide is the intentional killing of infant girls based on their gender. This phenomenon is widespread in patriarchal societies in which the position of women is low and a preference for male children is constructed into the cultural ideology. According to (George 1997:124), female infanticide is often carried out by all socioeconomic classes, demonstrating prejudice against females throughout the social hierarchy. For examples, India is a patriarchal society in which a traditional prejudice against women has resulted in numerous cases of female infanticide, predominantly in disadvantaged and rural areas. In Tamil Nadu, a study showed that the amount of female infants who died shortly after birth was three times greater than the total number of male infants (George 1997:124.). In Dharmapuri, nearly 3000 female infant died immediately after birth between 1994 and 1997 (Aravamudan, 1999). A similar case is prevalent in China. Despite the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) laws allowing for equal rights for male and female, Since the CCP's family planning policy begun in 1989 Female infanticide has increased intensely (Porras, 1996 p.2) According to (George 1997:126), the preference for male infants streams from multiple reason including, the low status of women, marginalization of women in agriculture, traditional practice of dowry, the green revolution and a shift to cash cropping. The discussion is a good one and the inclusion of the topic is useful to highlight the arguments the report is making, however what does this mean for the potential for a culture of peace? It would be useful to put some peac