World Summit Of Nobel Peace Laureates In Warsaw, Poland Oct 21st – 23rd 2013
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…