What we do
Promote Peace
We advocate for nonviolent solutions through diplomacy, dialogue, and humanitarian aid.
Support Local Peace-builders
We work with grassroots and diaspora partners who know their communities best.
Raise Awareness
We write, speak, and engage with media to amplify peaceful alternatives.
Empower Women & Children
We strengthen voices often silenced, especially in conflict zones.
Latest blogs
Salama’s family in Gaza happy with ceasefire
The first words Salama sent me this morning, 9 October, were: Good morning and happiness my friend May. Since yesterday I have been trying to congratulate you that the war will stop but the internet connection was very difficult. The ceasefire is expected to take...
We hope that the killing machine in Gaza will be stopped
The Salama family in Gaza, with whom we are in contact, has fled from Gaza City to another part of Gaza. On Sunday, 28 September, Salama wrote to me: Bombing and destruction are widespread in Gaza. More than 90 people lost their lives in 24 hours. Entire families were...
Yesterday felt like doomsday in Gaza
The Salama family, with whom we are in contact in Gaza – and who until recently distributed drinking and shower water to refugees in Gaza – are having a very tough time. They now have to flee to the south of Gaza. To a so-called “humanitarian zone” in Gaza, but as...

We hope that the killing machine in Gaza will be stopped
The Salama family in Gaza, with whom we are in contact, has fled from Gaza City to another part of Gaza. On Sunday, 28 September, Salama wrote to me: Bombing and destruction are widespread in Gaza. More than 90 people lost their lives in 24 hours. Entire families were...

Yesterday felt like doomsday in Gaza
The Salama family, with whom we are in contact in Gaza – and who until recently distributed drinking and shower water to refugees in Gaza – are having a very tough time. They now have to flee to the south of Gaza. To a so-called “humanitarian zone” in Gaza, but as...

The principle of nonviolence remains key even after this Russian attack
On Thursday morning, I read on the Dutch news website NOS that 15 people had been killed in a major air strike on Kyiv, including four children. An EU building had also been hit. My thoughts went out to Yurii Sheliazhenko, my pacifist Ukrainian peace activist friend...
Latest projects
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) we’re 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...
Installation of a waterpump in a brick making factory in Pakistan
We are very grateful to sister May May and Peace SOS that we have been able to install a water pump on one brick kiln factory area (brick-making factories). More than one and a half hundred people have been able to drink clean water there. We live in Pakistan. Our...
Video
Food distribution in Gaza 3rd June 2025
Organised by Peace SOS
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …










