Women went out onto the battlefield armed with just grass skirts to try and stop fighting during the Bougainville crisis in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s and 1990s.
By carrying grass skirts - a sign of peace - onto the battlefield women persuaded their men to put down arms.
Women's groups also worked for peace by organising marches and petitions. And they raised awareness internationally about the crisis through contacts in Zealand and Australia.
United Church in Papua New Guinea minister Rev Babani Morea said: "It was women's prayers and aims that brought the Bougainville crisis to an end."
Mothers used to pray against attacks by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA). The BRA often planned to burn villages, particularly targeting schools.
Betty Garia, married to a trainee minister for the United Church in Bougainville, said: "Their plans were just demolished. As it says in the word of God, the human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established. The answer to the mothers' prayers was that God protected many villages against the BRA network."
The conflict between separatist rebels and the Papua New Guinea government in Bougainville ran from 1988 to 1998.