Building a culture of peace...

In Ourselves

In Our Homes

In Our Schools

In Our Neighborhoods

In Our Communities

In Our Nation


United Nations
Declaration for a
Culture of Peace and
Nonviolence

  1. Nonviolence Education
  2. Sustainable Development
  3. Respect for Human Rights
  4. Gender Equality
  5. Participatory Democracy
  6. Tolerance
  7. Open Communication
  8. International Security
 

NEWS

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THE ART OF PEACE, on American Public Media’s Speaking of Faith, July 8, 2010 with Christa Tippett,  features John Paul Lederach, the founding director of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding with it’s innovative Conflict Transformation Program.   He has also been a faculty member since 2001 at Notre Dame University’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on all levels—person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations.
He explores why "conflict transformation” is more appropriate than "conflict resolution" or "management."

THE VALUE of PEACE
 You are invited to visit the website of the Global Peace Index, which measures the relative peacefulness of countries around the world. The 2010 Global Peace Index has just been released. You will find a wealth of maps, data and vital information about global peace efforts.

Gene Sharp, "Godfather of Nonviolent Resistance," appears on WBUR's Here and Now.

EVENTS

Little Town of Bethlehem (2010) film showing
Wednesday, September 29, 7:00 PM
Clark University, Dana Commons, 2nd floor

Little-Town-of-Beth
A new documentary about the struggle of peace movements in Israel and Palestine.
Sami, Ahmad, Yonatan come from radically different backgrounds in a land of unending war. Yet, against all odds, including some within their Israeli and Palestinian communities, they are able to find common ground. They walk a path of non-violent struggle in lockstep with Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. For them courage is found not in taking up arms, but setting them down once and for all and extending a hand in peace.
Co-sponsored by Center for Non-Violent Solutions and Difficult Dialogues, Clark University

Agape Community’s Annual St. Francis Day
Women and War: Finding Our Voices, Reclaiming Our Legacy 
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Agape, Community, Hardwick, MA  (Directions on website)
Saturday, Oct. 9, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
For more information: Agape  413-967-9369  www.agapecommunity.org   peace@agapecommunity.org

 



"The wars we haven’t had saved many lives."
~William Stafford
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
~Mohandas Gandhi
"Our choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
~Benjamin Franklin
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict."
~Dorothy Thompson
"I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
~Helen Keller
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
~Indira Gandhi
"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
~William E Gladstone
"Imagine all the people living life in peace..."
~John Lennon
"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
~Moshe Dayan
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
~Ronald Reagan
 
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