April 2020 marks the 45th anniversary of the Lebanese civil war, one of the longest and most devastating wars of the twentieth century. A war that gravely scarred the Lebanese physically and emotionally, given its brutality and absurdity. Amidst the terrible war, women emerged as heroines, forced to assume new roles within the family, the community, and the public sphere. They were persistently mending and re-stitching the fragile social fabric left tattered and torn by massacres, rapes, snipers, car-bombs, shelling, and displacement. While the men were gone – off fighting, detained, displaced, disappeared, or dead – women became the heads of households, the carrers, the nurses, the supply distributors, the negotiators, and the peace initiators, to mention a few. This paper will highlight the untold stories of these women and explore the role they played as peace activists, in protesting the atrocities of the war by participating in non-violent peace movements, humanitarian work, reconciliation efforts, and documenting the chaos by writing about and exposing it. It will also shed light on the absence of women from the negotiation tables where despite all their efforts and even though women represented a majority of peace movement activists, and their participation in unions and political parties increased during the war, they were marginalized from participating in post-war peace negotiations and reconstruction efforts. Patriarchal structures are often recalled whenever «order» is restored and in the Lebanese case the invisibility of women and their relegation to the private sphere is indicative of that. This paper, in acknowledging women’s role in post-conflict settings and reconciliation is paying homage to these champions of peace who fought endlessly to stop the bloodshed and whose undocumented efforts helped save Lebanon. Learning from past mistakes is essential for activists to strategize and not fall into the trap of invisibility while participating in the current Lebanese uprising.