GENEVA (AP) - American actresses Linda Evans and Lindsay Wagner gave their support Wednesday to a global movement of women for peace.
"I will go wherever any of these women would like me to go, any place in the world and stand side-by-side with them," said Evans as a three-day meeting of 500 women drew to a close at the United Nations' European headquarters in Geneva.
The women who gathered from 75 countries decided to form a "women's negotiation corps" to visit areas of conflict and start women-to-women negotiation.
They discussed finding ways to help Israeli and Palestinian women bridge hostilities and whether it would be effective to send a peace delegation to Iraq.
Attending were religious and corporate leaders and government officials as well as women who have been on the front line of conflict.
"We're still in conversation," said Wagner, who was television's Bionic Woman in the 1970s. "We're still talking about what feels like it could be effective."
The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, former head of the U.S. National Council of Churches of Christ who co-chaired the conference, said, "We have to find a way to end this violence. Violence always begets more violence."
"We're at point in the history of humanity where this is at least worth a try, and I think it might achieve great results," Campbell said. "Often the leaders of countries need to be pressed by the people in those countries, and women can play that role."
"Why women? Women talking to women is something we have not tried. Women often do not end up in the positions of power, but we know that there is power in the lives of those women for making changes in their societies."
The American delegates issued a statement at the end of the conference urging women from other countries to join an interfaith group in meeting with U.S. political leaders to urge them to pursue "all viable alternatives to war."
"The existence of weapons of mass destruction has changed for all time the nature of war," the statement said.
It said the U.S. women also would work with women in Iraq in the event of a U.S. war with that country.
“We will send a delegation to meet with Iraqi women, to address their immediate needs and provide sustainable ways to heal the community."
Evans, who played Krystle Carrington on the "Dynasty" TV show, she would be happy to do her part.
"If being a public figure helps me to raise awareness of their movement and we need to stand together, I will walk anywhere, cross any line, hold hands with them," Evans told reporters. "Their bravery just touches my heart.
"Women are very strong. I think the fact that they can give birth to children can show you what they are capable of handling. Women do not want their children to die."

Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer