Encounters on the

Search for Peace...

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Pledge to pray for peace for one minute every day...on your own...or with this inspiring, new music video as we move toward the observance of the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 and the International Day of Peace.

    www.amillionminutesforpeace.org/

Women:    

     Essential agents of sustainable peace

This article led to the Women Peace Makers 

   at the Institute for Peace and Justice at the

              University of San Diego

http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/

And Women Peace Writers -

http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/peace_writers/2010PeaceWriters.php

 

 

 

Walter Wink explains in "The Powers That Be" that only nonviolence will lead us to Peace.

 

Suzie Duncan and Bonnie Duncan say in their book of

affirmations that if you put love first, peace will come. 

Click to see 9 year old Suzie's drawings.

 

 

Jimmy Carter states in the book

 “Architects of Peace” by Michael Collopy:

"At the Carter Center, we maintain that peace also includes the ability to feed one's family, the right to be free from preventable disease, the right to live without human rights abuses, and the right to determine one's own future. These are the seeds of peace."

 

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The Children's Peace Fair -  November 21, 2010

See the photos

 

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"Nonviolence is our most powerful weapon. If they cannot accuse us of terrorism, they cannot stop us. The world will support us." Mohammed Khatib, secretary of the Bilin, West Bank, village council, referred to as “a modern-day Gandhi in a culture that enshrines the language of the gun.”

(Los Angeles Times and the Sojourner Daily Digest)

 

Update on Bilin Dec 11, 2009 Jewish Voice For Peace said in an email:   On Thursday at 2 AM, the Israeli military surrounded the Ramallah home of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a high school teacher and the Coordinator of Bil'in's Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, and arrested him. Abu Rahmah is among the leaders of the West Bank village of Bil'in's nearly five-year nonviolent struggle of protests, lawsuits and boycotts (1) aiming to save the village's land from Israel's wall and expanding settlements. Abdallah Abu Rahmah joins Mohammed Othman (2) from the village of Jayyous, Adeeb Abu Rahmah (3) from Bil'in and many other Palestinians who are currently jailed by Israel for working for justice.

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As I was walking along the road in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a group of children came by. Smiling and laughing, we walked together. I invited them to sing a Swahili song with me that children in Kenya sing. In this song, you invite guests to come to your country. The children sang along until the last line, which says,”our country, no problem.” When I asked why they stopped singing, one girl said,”How can we say we have no problem in Congo? We have war here!” Saddened, the group continued on in silence.

Rosemarie Milazzo, M.M., in the Maryknoll Magazine, Nov. 2009

 

               When two Iraq Vets found out that love conquers fear and hate, they began to spread it by journeying across the country… Read their blog:

www.contagiousloveexperiment.wordpress.com

 

 The cost of war is emphasized in a disturbing article about a young man called a peacemaker by his high school teacher:

Trauma in Iraq leads to drama in Oregon

By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian October 31, 2009

"We are convinced Bratcher was changed. He became what they wanted him to be," one juror said.

Eventually, the jury found the conclusions of Anne-Marie Smith, the state hospital expert, to be most believable: Bratcher was legally insane. The platoon sergeant's testimony also deeply moved jurors. He was called to the stand to challenge the defense but instead drove home how Bratcher was trained to automatically respond to threats and how decorated veterans still suffered.

Read the whole story at:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/post_25.html

 

 

    

 

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Last update: 11/10/2010