This is a compilation of writings on the divine state of peace. I missed International Women’s Day by two days! In honor of women waging peace. Introduction When I first experienced peace as a divine quality, I was beyond surprised. My experience of it was that it was absolutely solid and stable, like granite. […]
Women Wage Peace: The Mothers Call, Mass Event, Jerusalem, Oct. 4, 2023
The Mothers’ Call, 2023 Women Wage Peace, September 14, 2023 (https://www.womenwagepeace.org.il/en/the-mothers-call-2023/) Thousands of women from the Israeli movement “Women Wage Peace” and the Palestinian movement “Women of the Sun” will hold a mass event with this message: “We, Palestinian and Israeli mothers, are determined to stop the vicious cycle of bloodshed and to change the […]
Politicizing Abuse Aided Ascent of the Taliban
POLITICIZING ABUSE AIDED ASCENT OF THE TALIBAN Boys born into poverty bought and sold among Afghan elite, Peter McKnight says. Peter McKnight, Vancouver Sun, Oct. 7, 2022 (https://epaper.theprovince.com/article/281728388413141) Perhaps the most visible evidence of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan is something you can’t see: women and girls. Since the withdrawal of U.S. troops […]
Iranian Schoolgirls Refuse Hijab in Anti-Regime Protests
By Jaime Leon, La Prensa Latina Bilingual Media, October 5, 2022 (https://www.laprensalatina.com/iranian-schoolgirls-take-off-hijab-in-anti-regime-protests/) Tehran, Oct 5 (EFE).- From widespread rallies stifled by violence, to high school and university students removing their headscarves in defiance of the Iranian regime, violent unrest has persisted throughout the Islamic republic over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. […]
50 Years Later, ‘Napalm Girl’ has a Message for Children of War
50 years later, ‘Napalm Girl’ has a message for children in Ukraine Kim Phuc Phan Thi, now living in Ajax, Ont., was 9 when she was burned by napalm in Vietnam War Sylvia Thomson, CBC News, Jun 11, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/50-napalm-girl-kim-phuc-ukraine-1.6484977 Kim Phuc Phan Thi, now 59, was nine years old when she was photographed in […]
Israeli & Palestinian Mothers: Women Wage Peace
With great thanks to Diane.
Women Wage Peace: International Day of Peace
The International Day of Peace 2021 Women Wage Peace cordially invite you to meet our Palestinian partners Women of the Sun to officially launch our joint project “4 million Mothers Make Peace!” During the meeting we will hear the personal stories of Palestinian women, and what led them to choose the path of peace. We […]
Women Wage Peace Against the Absurdity of War and Violence – WWP are Partners for Reconciliation
By womenwagepeace, May 15, 2021 https://womenwagepeace.org.il/en/partners-for-reconcilliation/ Women Wage Peace was born seven years ago after Operation Protective Edge, when women from all over the country, Jewish and Arab, religious and secular, felt it was impossible to carry on without a political agreement with the Palestinians. Seven years later, in the midst of laying the groundwork […]