Photo by Camiel Verberne
On 21 September, the International Day for Peace, we held a peace demonstration at the monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam. Over a hundred people from various peace organisation, including Doctors for Peace, Pais, Peace SOS Women’s Federation for World Peace, Universal Peace Foundation. Our peace event was joined by the flashmob of the group of George van Houts, Jona Walk and Martijntje Smits.
We stood together in silence for:
– A global ceasefire
– Humanitarian aid for people in need
– A nuclear weapons ban
For world peace. A World Where All Children Can Play.đď¸â¤ď¸đđ˝
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Think of the Palestinians and hostages in Gaza and start negotiating
At Peace SOS, we are in contact with a family in Gaza who provided vegetables to local vulnerable people in Gaza before war broke out there. They have two small children and have been evacuated nine times, each time looking for a place where they might be safe. The...
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Projects
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...
Planting trees to empower women and restore the environment
Manica Youth Assembly (MAYA) weâre proud to have many women joining young people in dedicated to reforestation Dangamvura mountain with the supported from Peace SOS. Plant a tree, care for creation. Celebrating the love of creation by planting trees with women in...
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 SĂŠverine Autesserre
I had the opportunity to hear professor SĂŠverine Autesserre lecture about her new book The Frontlines of Peace. She stresses the need to put âlocal actors in the driverâs seat.â SĂŠverine 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 âworldâ peace he means the extension of these ideas globally. World peace doesnât come from institutional arrangements or economics alone, but must also live within the hearts and minds of people.
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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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