Speech at National Institute of Research, Athens, Greece

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Presentation by Mairead Corrigan Maguire INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY 2l/9/20l4 – PEACE THROUGH DISARMAMENT Dear Friends, It is a great pleasure to be with you all and celebrate International Peace Day.  I would like to thank Panos Trigazis, President of PADOP (Observatory of International organization and Globalization), and the National Institute of Research, for their kind invitation.   I believe peace is possible and it is the greatest gift a person and a country can have.  To believe peace is possible, to have a passion for peace, to work for peace, is indeed a great purpose in life.  Life is a wonderful gift which we are all given, and no one has a right to take our life.   In the words of the Nobel Peace Laureates Charter for a World without…
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Keynote address by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, at Sarajevo Peace Event Sarajevo.

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(6th June, 2014)   PEACE MOVEMENT’S COMMON VISION – THE ABOLITION OF MILITARISM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear friends,   We are all aware that this is the 100th anniversary of the assassination of  Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo which led to the start of the First World War in l9l4. What started here in Sarajevo was a century of two global wars, a Cold War, a century of immense, rapid explosion of death and destruction technology, all extremely costly, and extremely risky.   A huge step in the history of war, but also a decisive turning point in the history of peace.  The peace movement has never been as strong politically as in the last three decades before the break-out of WWl.  It was a factor in political life, literature, organization, and planning,…
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PRESENTATION BY MAIREAD MAGUIRE AT THE FONDAZIONE PATRIZIO PAOLETTI AND COMMUNE OF ASSISI

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23RD NOVEMBER, 2014 PEACE AND A WORLD WITHOUT VIOLENCE, MILITARISM AND WAR IS POSSIBLE Dear Friends, I would like to thank the Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti and the Commune of Assisi for their kind invitation to be with you all. It is a particular joy for my husband Jackie and myself, to be here in Assisi in the home of St. Francis and St. Clare, two great spirits, whose lives have inspired us, and millions of people around the world.    St. Francis, a man of peace, and St. Clare, a woman of prayer, whose message of Love, compassion, care  for humans, animals, and  the environment, comes down through history to speak to us in a very relevant and inspirational way. As we the human family today in the 2lst century, face…
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Moving Beyond Militarism: Nobel Women’s Initiative Releases 2013 Belfast Report

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Over 100 individuals from more than twenty countries gathered in Belfast, Northern Ireland in May 2013 to hold a dialogue about women’s role in moving beyond militarism. The Nobel Women’s Initiative is pleased to announce the publication of our report from that conference, Moving Beyond Militarism: Women-Driven Solutions for a Nonviolent World. Six Nobel Peace Laureates were joined by more than 80 influential activists, academics and decision-makers from across the globe whose work focuses on ending militarism and war with nonviolent strategies for peace. Military budgets have increased over the past 20 years. Armed battles killed over 37 000 people worldwide which is more than four deaths every hour. This also means investments in health, education, environmental protection and other areas are neglected. Hyper-militarization has consequences on peace processes all…
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