The visual at left shows photos of people of peace, or visual
expressions of peace which they created. These photos provide just a small capsule of the tens of millions
of people around the world being visible, speaking up and speaking out for peace. Please - join in!
Afghanistan: over 3,487 Coalition soldiers dead, with the civilian death count unknown. Iraq: more than 650,000 civilians
and over 4,808 Coalition soldiers - dead from war. Darfur: over 400,000 people, dead. Israel and Palestine: over 6,200 people since 2000.
The Congo: 3,000,000 since 1998. Mumbai.Chechnya. New York. Sri Lanka. Lebanon.Madrid. The list goes on.
Our Sons and Daughters. Husbands and Wives. Sisters and Brothers. Parents and Friends. It's enough already. All you "leaders" out there, listen. We - the people - want peace, please. Make it happen!
FEATURED VIDEO
"The End of War"
Click the arrow on the video-you will see a "Loading" message.
Please wait a bit - it will start to play.
The song and video above, by Eric Colville, "imagines war in the past tense, after
humanity realizes the folly of it all." In the realm of the song, in trying
to explain after the fact why peace broke out, basically it just seemed
so...obvious. The song inspires a great sense of calmness, however
momentary, when you imagine how it might feel to live in a world of
peace. For the sake of the world's children, for the sake of humanity,
please - let's make it happen.
Five Questions on the Yemen Peace Process Council on Foreign Relations (blog) Women should be part of peace-building because they have the potential to create change. And when I talk about peace-building, I don't just mean negotiations, because peace-building is more than that. Of course, women should be part of negotiations—at ...
What would it take for peace in Syria? Futurity: Research News This month the United States launched a massive military precision strike in Syria, a country that has experienced brutal violence by President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The US was responding to a chemical weapons attack on civilians in Douma, Syria a ...
How Elections Can Lead to Peace Foreign Affairs In my recent book, Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation, I show that under certain circumstances, post-conflict elections can greatly enhance the durability of peace agreements. Specifically, agreements that enable both rebel ...
ASU choir will help open Concert for Peace & Justice Montgomery Advertiser Good will prevail. That's the lesson Kristofer Sanchack, director of choral activities at Alabama State University, hopes his students come away with after Friday. The ASU choir has been asked to perform on the Riverwalk Amphitheater stage during the ...
'Preventive diplomacy' key to sustaining world peace: Polish FM thenews.pl Czaputowicz told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that most UN activities at the local and regional levels were “about building and sustaining peace.” “Poland attaches particular importance to preventive diplomacy and the role of the United Nations ...
