Category: Events

Address by Mairead Maguire at the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. ‘STAND IN SOLIDARITY FOR PEACE TIME TO ACT’. REPLACING VIOLENCE, ARMED REBELLIONS, MILITARISM AND WAR WITH NONVIOLENCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Dear Friends, I believe the next stage of our evolution as the human family is to embrace nonviolence. This will mean rejecting violence in all its forms and solving our problems together through nonviolence, human rights and international law. Replacing ‘armed’ rebellions, militarism and war, with international law, is not an impossible task and will happen when we humans reach the critical mass of people who know that each life is sacred, and say ‘no’ to killing, force and the threat of force, which is currently used by most governments and extremist groups around the world. We…

The Nobel Women's Initiative event held at the Culloden Hotel, Co Down will explore ways of increasing global security by ending war and militarism. The conference is being hosted by Mairead Maguire, NI's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work with Peace People. The organisation was set up to help end the conflict in the region. Ms Maguire is being joined in Belfast for the three day event by fellow Laureates Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Iran's Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchu Tum of Guatemala and America's Jody Williams. It was launched on Monday afternoon with a special event at Belfast City Hall attended by 400 invited guests. We have a great record of peace making; the rejection of the bomb and bullet and…

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