by Peace | Mar 19, 2025 | Gaza, Israel, Vrede en oorlog
Yesterday morning I read on the NOS Dutch news website that Israel had violated the ceasefire and carried out a large-scale attack on Gaza. More than 300 people were killed, including many children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. I asked the family in Gaza...
by Peace | Mar 5, 2025 | Congo, Vrede en oorlog
The East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is plunged into an armed conflict that has lasted for decades, causing immeasurable human suffering, violations of human rights, massive displacement of populations, sexual violence, etc. and hindering the development...
by Peace | Feb 7, 2025 | United Nations, Vrede en oorlog
Most of us are familiar with the film about Robert Oppenheimer that tells how, in 1945, work was being done in the deepest secrecy to develop the atomic bomb, a weapon system that would profoundly change issues of war and peace. What many of us do not know is that...
by Peace | Jan 31, 2025 | Vrede en oorlog, Vrouwen
On Tuesday January 28th, Reem Hajajreh of the Palestinian Women of the Sun, Yael Braudo-Bahat of Women Wage Peace from Israel, and Hanna Assouline, president of des Guerrières de la Paix, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at the Vrije Universiteit in...
by Peace | Jan 21, 2025 | Israel, Palestine, Vrede en oorlog
On Wednesday 15 January, I received a happy message from Gaza from the family we are in touch with. ‘We don’t know if we are in a dream or reality…. The ceasefire will stop… We are crying with joy… Have my wife, children and I been spared from...
by Peace | Dec 17, 2024 | kernwapens, Russia, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
After more than a thousand days of internationally condemned Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine and more than a million casualties, the senseless war in Ukraine must end. Ukrainian Quakers proposed that a Christmas truce could be introduced to start peace talks...
