This thesisis of 3 objectives: 1) to study the history and background of Bannog Community, Bannok sub-district, Panare district, Pattani province according to the area context, 2) to study the problem from the impact of violence and the adaptation of Buddhist women in southern-border provinces, and 3) to take lesson learned on Buddhist women’s participation in enhancing peaceful community in southern-border provinces of Bannok community, Bannok sub-district, Panare district. It is a field-work qualitative research by the tools of documentary study, in-depth interview and focus group discussion, from 27 key informants divided into 5 groups.
From the research, it is found the followings:
1) Bannok community, having a long-time history of more than 124 years, is a Buddhist community that avails to peacefully live together with surrounding fellowships of different religions. At the time of violent incident as from 2004, the community has got the impact of losing men who were leaders of families; thiscauses women in the community to carry all family burdens; relationship with Muslim friends has also been changed to distrust and distance.
2) The problems and consequences are in 3 aspects: (1) Physical and mental health, i.e. deformation, sorrows, fear and distrust, (2) Economics, i.e. the not enough income for expenses, the lacking of occupations and the adding up debts, and (3) Society, i.e.living difficulties as of the change of social structure, women have to become family leaders, separation from society, fear of expressions, lacks of confidenceand social interactions resulting from fear in danger and distrust to meet religiously different friends.
3) Buddhist women of Bannok community have participated in enhancing it a peaceful community, for instances:(1) joining for restoring and remedying the women who have effects from violent incidents, (2) cooperating in creating confidence in peaceful means, (3) being united to improve lives by practicing Dhammasas good Upãsikãs in Buddhism, (4) creatively gathering for forcing community activities, (5) cooperating to solve problems, powerfully transforming different opinions byAparihãniyadhamma, (6)being united to preserve tradition, culture and Buddhism, and (7) mutually harmonizing by peaceful way of communications.
The new knowledge from the lesson learned: Buddhist Lady Power 4 Peace ’s Model comprising L-G-W-S:L= Live together with love: happily living together with good feelings towards one another, having strong unity without separation between Buddhist and Muslims, G = Good economic community:living with the fulfilment of hunger;woman leaders should find channels for occupations to make more incomes from out sources into the community, W = Worldwide for peace: having peacefully broad minds; woman leaders should find variously informative knowledge for outside community’s situations for using to communicate with community people in that they have wisdom upon the changes in thepresent modern world, S = Self-sufficient:self-dependency; woman leaders should perceive that the community be able and strong enough to survive independently in the future, and it is utmost essential that community people develop their lives’ qualities without discrimination between Buddhists and Muslims.
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