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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Press Release

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MAIREAD CORRIGAN MAGUIRE CALLS UPON BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND mainstream western media, to end bias against Palestinians and their lack of impartiality against Palestinians and in their reporting of Middle East conflicts. She called on the BBC, and world media to give factual, fair and balanced reporting in order that people can be informed and not continue to be subjected to Israeli propaganda. Maguire also called for an immediate ceasefire and dialogue as the only way forward. Maguire said: ‘Last week, under the false pretence of self-defence, Israel launched yet another deadly massive military attack on Gaza. (No Israeli people have been killed by rockets from Gaza, which I believe should stop). Israeli attacks have killed 160 people of which at least 26 have been children and another l, 000…
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