Peace Demonstration Dam Square 2024

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.🕊️❤️🙏🏽

A message from Rafah, Gaza

A message from Rafah, Gaza

“Our dear friend May .. Greetings, and after perhaps this is our last message that you will receive, write it for you and my heart is torn apart by the tragic circumstances we are going through. Unfortunately, the crossing will be closed during the ground operation of...

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Projects

Help children and their family in Yemen

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...

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Peace SOS participated in the public peace negotiations organized by Minds of Peace in Israel, 2017

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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