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.🕊️❤️🙏🏽
Let Israeli and Palestinian grassroots organisations participate in peace negotiations
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...
Let ceasefire in Gaza become lasting peace
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 this war.... Will...
Peace in Ukraine Needs Christmas Ceasefire and Nuclear Neutrality, Quakers Suggest
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...
Let Israeli and Palestinian grassroots organisations participate in peace negotiations
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...
Let ceasefire in Gaza become lasting peace
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 this war.... Will...
Peace in Ukraine Needs Christmas Ceasefire and Nuclear Neutrality, Quakers Suggest
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...
Projects
Water, food, beds and psychological help for the vulnerable people in Jaranwala, Pakistan
Pakistan is a country whose population follows multiple religions. The majority are Muslim – about 95 percent – and the remaining 5% are Christian, Hindu, Sikhs or Other. They all live in peace and harmony. But sometimes there are misunderstandings and conflicts among...
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...
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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