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
Correspondence
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
Projects
Solar lamps with mobile chargers for people in Burundi
Together with our partners Burundian Women for Peace and Development (BWPD) and World Solar Fund Peace SOS provides solar lamps with mobile chargers for people in Burundi. Burundi is a small country in East Africa and one of the poorest in the world. Nevertheless,...
Help the angels in Gaza provide food for vulnerable people in Gaza
During the war in May 2021 at least 222 people, including 63 children, were killed in Gaza and 12 people died in Israel as a result of the fighting. Over 90% of the water from the Gaza aquifer is undrinkable. Nevertheless, there is a point of light in the darkness....
Help children and their family in Yemen
Our partner Yemen Renaissance wants to help the poorest children and their families in Taiz, Yemen. Yemen is a country which suffers from war and shortage of humanitarian aid. The aim is to encourage the children to continue their education and to help them and their...
Latest blogs
Nahid foundation supports widows and their children in Kabul
In 2004, after the Taliban era, I had the opportunity to go to Kabul, Afghanistan with an Afghan refugee, to visit her family. Many children and their mothers (widows) roamed the streets, without a roof over their heads. The boys tried to do small chores so that they...
The impact of endemic wars and climate change in South Sudan
South Sudan is the youngest nation in the world. It gained its independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011 after twenty one (21) years of intense civil war. The war claimed 2.5 million lives and was brought to an end in January 2005 through a negotiated peace deal known...
Justdiggit’s mission of cooling down the planet: By empowering millions of African farmers to regreen their land
Did you know that by applying nature-based solutions we can mitigate global warming by 37%? That’s why Justdiggit is on a mission to regreen Africa in the next 10 years. By inspiring and empowering millions of subsistence farmers to restore their degraded lands, they...
Nahid foundation supports widows and their children in Kabul
In 2004, after the Taliban era, I had the opportunity to go to Kabul, Afghanistan with an Afghan refugee, to visit her family. Many children and their mothers (widows) roamed the streets, without a roof over their heads. The boys tried to do small chores so that they...
The impact of endemic wars and climate change in South Sudan
South Sudan is the youngest nation in the world. It gained its independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011 after twenty one (21) years of intense civil war. The war claimed 2.5 million lives and was brought to an end in January 2005 through a negotiated peace deal known...
Justdiggit’s mission of cooling down the planet: By empowering millions of African farmers to regreen their land
Did you know that by applying nature-based solutions we can mitigate global warming by 37%? That’s why Justdiggit is on a mission to regreen Africa in the next 10 years. By inspiring and empowering millions of subsistence farmers to restore their degraded lands, they...
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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