Correspondence
Open letter – PLEASE EXTEND THE TRUCE, LET ALL CHILDREN PLAY IN YEMEN
Your Excellencies, Your Highnesses,
As citizens, our hearts cry for all the people in the world suffering from violence, starvation and illness due to war. This applies especially for the children and people of Yemen. The situation is tragic. According to David Gressly, the humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, the numbers of people in need are still staggering. Over 23 million people –almost three-quarters of Yemen’s population – now need assistance.
Nevertheless, the truce brings hope to the Yemeni people. According to OCHA Yemen, since the truce began civilian casualties decreased and humanitarian access was enhanced.
Open letter
Open Letter – Let All Children Play in Ukraine and the rest of the World, a call for Peace
Your Excellencies,
We are very shocked by the situation in Ukraine. Many lives have been lost. Refugees are seeking shelter…
We reiterate our call of January 21st this year and kindly ask you to:
- Respect life
- De-escalate the situation
- Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Peace SOS for Ukraine
Thank you for your presence at Dam Square, thank you for your support for the people in Ukraine.
Dam Square – Sunday 27 February / Peace for Ukraine event organised by several organisations. Thanks also to Gemeente Amsterdam.
Dam Square – Sunday 27 February / Peace for Ukraine event
Projects
Providing vegetables, fruits and clothes to displaced families in camps in Yemen
Ebrahim Saif of Peace SOS Yemen has been providing emergency aid to 120 displaced families in camps in Dobah Kharg, Al-Shamayatayn Directorate, Yemen. The health of the people in the camps is bad and deteriorating fast, as they do not have enough food and due to the...
Helping the children and staff of a juvenile home in Taiz, Yemen
For almost six years now, the ongoing fighting in Taiz and blockade of main roads in and out of the city has resulted in the evacuation of its juvenile home. There is hardly any support for the children and staff, despite their desperate need for it. The lack of food...
Food baskets for the people in Taiz, Yemen
To help vulnerable displaced families in different areas in Taiz Governorate, Yemen, Peace SOS donated food baskets to 270 people, including 98 children, 63 women, 70 men, 29 elderly, and 19 people with special needs. The distribution took place in late March 2022 so...
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Daily suffering and continuous siege in Taiz, Yemen
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The dream weaving through the hearts of all Yemenis to stop the war and the shooting, was at that time nothing but a dream that might come true. My heartfelt desire is for the Yemenis to achieve their wishes to follow their hearts without the ever-present buzzing of...
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INTERVIEW By: May-May Meijer In front of my online zoom screen, I’m looking at a youthful-looking lady from Myanmar – or Burma, as Aye Kari Soe (AS) prefers to call it. She is living in the Netherlands, but many of her family and friends are in Burma. I am very...
Daily suffering and continuous siege in Taiz, Yemen
The civilians in the city of Taiz, under siege from the Houthi group (Ansar Allah) have been suffering on a daily basis for the last six years. This siege is characterized by a complete restriction of movement between the center of the governorate and its countryside...
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A WORLD IN WHICH ALL CHILDREN CAN PLAY
During the war in Syria we had contact with the girls Noor and Alaa. At the time, from a besieged Eastern Ghouta, they made an appeal for help. Fortunately, they are now safe. Sadly, for many other children and adults, this is not the case; they are still living amid the violence of war or in refugee camps. By sharing calls like those of Noor and Alaa, we aim to amplify voices for peace. These kinds of powerful images also show that we as adults have a responsibility to ensure that we treat each other well, so that A world in which all children can play becomes reality.
Other sources of inspiration also underlie this aim. Such as Loesje’s poster, and an interview with someone on UNICEF Radio 1 who said that children were completely silent in the refugee camps. Our mission is broadly formulated: to promote peace via peaceful means, human rights and to end poverty. We also want to give a voice to other people and organizations that are committed to this. Especially if they come up with innovative solutions.
To everyone who can hear me we are in danger please help us before it's too late #EastGhouta#Syria #SaveGhouta pic.twitter.com/321YhYjWow
— Noor And Alaa (@Noor_and_Alaa) February 19, 2018
Public Peace Negotiations in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square (2017). Organized by Minds of Peace.
For more information on the work of Sapir Handelman of Minds of Peace, see this short documentary that aired on BBC:
Books
The Frontlines of Peace by Séverine Autesserre
I had the opportunity to hear professor Séverine Autesserre lecture about her new book The Frontlines of Peace. She stresses the need to put “local actors in the driver’s seat.” Séverine paraphrases Paul Lederach, who believes that the best solutions to any conflict come from the people experiencing it. Nevertheless, she believes that top-down building remains crucial, because it can help to reinforce the achievements of local inhabitants.
Here I Am by May-May Meijer
Here I Am, is my book about my experiences with psychosis, depression and forced hospitalization. You might wonder why this book is paid attention to on the website of Peace SOS? During my psychosis, God showed the world through his eyes. His love for everything that lives. The bushes that seemed to want to touch me, the soil in the ground and all the organisms living in it, the snails communicating with each other. That is why I often say that we need to respect and cherish life. Life on earth is all interconnected.
World Peace: And how we can achieve it by Alex Bellamy
In his book World Peace: And how we can achieve it, Professor Alex Bellamy states that he thinks of peace as the absence and prevention of war and the management of conflict through peaceful means, implying some form of legitimate civic order. By ‘world’ peace he means the extension of these ideas globally. World peace doesn’t come from institutional arrangements or economics alone, but must also live within the hearts and minds of people.
Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates by Supriya Vani
Supriya Vani interviewed many Nobel Peace laureates with the goal of inspiring people to work for peace. She wrote a preliminary article about her book for the website of Peace SOS, which can be found here.
The Women Nobel Peace Laureates are all beyond brave and inspiring and it is hard to mention only a couple of them. Bertha von Suttner wrote the book Die Waffen nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!).
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