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Why now? Why us? 

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Well, if there’s a season for all things, the season for peace could make a bit more noise. And we think women are peace’s best ambassadors.



Here at The Manhattan Project we don’t think it’s enough just raising money to help women and children affected by war. How can we treat the symptom without treating the cause?

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We stand at a unique time in history. We can come together and share our experiences, laughter and passions on a global scale more quickly, easily and democratically than ever before. There’s also plenty of room for us to make a bold statement about how we want the world to be.



We know the reasons for war are always complicated and alternatives are not simple. But there can be no alternatives without a conversation and we risk being drowned out unless we say ‘enough.’ It would be a terrible thing to look back and realise we had the opportunity to change the conversation of the world and we didn’t.

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‘The Manhattan Project’?

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Towards the end of World War II, a collection of the world’s best scientific minds developed the first atomic weapons.
Against enormous odds, they turned an abstract theory into reality with the help of more than 100,000 technicians and workers. Scientifically and logistically it was an audacious and remarkable feat, but they also created the ultimate symbol of war.
Notwithstanding the horrific consequences for the Japanese cities the first two atomic weapons were used against, it heralded in the last hurdle to humanity’s self-annihilation through conflict.
The project to build the bombs was code named ‘Manhattan’ but became more famously known as ‘The Manhattan Project.’


What better way to begin dismantling the culture of war than by using the same name for a women’s movement for peace?
 

Manhattan is also the home of the United Nations, the global organisation set up after World War II to maintain international peace.

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Manhattan also has great shoes.

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We also know that if you want to be heard you better make it loud!                                                                           

‘War is not women’s history.’  - Virginia Woolf

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