06Feb 2025 by clive

To Build a Better Tomorrow

Northern Ireland
Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Matt Meyer, February 2025 We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to build that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning. Community of Peace People, Northern Ireland, 1976i In our founding declaration, Nihon Hidankyo expressed our determination to ‘save humanity from its crisis through the lessons learned from our experiences, while at the same time saving ourselves.’ Terumi Tanaka, Nihon Hidankyo Nobel Peace Laureate, Japan, 2024ii We do not seek to deny our violent past but rather work with it, process it, and turn it from a site of conflict into a basis for joint, constructive action. What does liberation look like and how do we begin…
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02Jan 2025 by clive

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE PROFESSOR MAZIN QUMSIYEH, BETHLEHEM, PALESTINE

Palestine
Press release  Embargo – 1st  January, 2025  NOBEL PEACE PRIZE PROFESSOR MAZIN QUMSIYEH, BETHLEHEM, PALESTINE.  Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, to-day nominated Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh for the Nobel peace prize.   Maguire said ‘I have great pleasure in nominating Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh for the 2025 Nobel peace prize.  I have met professor Mazin and have followed his inspiring peace work for many decades.    Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh is a life scientist, teacher and activist for peace, nonviolence and the sustainability of human and natural communities over the past 50 years.  Qumsiyeh was born in Beit Sahour, the Shepherds’ field on the outskirts of Bethlehem.  He got his formal education in Jordan and the USA in areas of biology and medical genetics.  Yet the pressures of the Israel occupation on his people…
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05Nov 2024 by clive

America, Ukraine, Israel, PEACE IS POSSIBLE!!

Syria
Press Release: AMERICA,UKRAINE/RUSSIA, ISRAEL/PALESTINE, PEACE IS POSSIBLE! BY MAIREAD CORRIGAN MAGUIRE, NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE                    5th November 2024 When Martin Luther King spoke so passionately and eloquently in his speech, ‘I have a   dream’ he touched the hearts of millions of people.   When he spoke these words, I believe he had passed beyond the narrow confines of Politics/Religions/ Ethnic divisions/Economic Injustices/Racial inequality – he had transcended these limiting concepts into absolute love of God and neighbor.  In his speech when he said ‘free at last, thank God I am free at last’ he had had a spiritual breakthrough into inner peace, joy and freedom.  It was a spiritual transformation – a realization that LOVE is the way, it is the only way, the way that makes all else possible.   King realized…
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21Oct 2024 by clive

Lebanon/Gaza need for ceasefire

Israel/Palestine
21st October 2024 Urgent Peace Measures Needed for Israel-Lebanon-Hezbollah Conflict The assasination of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on 27 September 2024 has added a new element to the current conflicts in the Middle East: Gaza, the West Bank, and the Israel-Lebanon frontier area.  Hassan Nasrallah had led Hezbollah for some three decades, building Hezbollah into a powerful Shiite political party with a network of social services and a heavily armed militia.  Nasrallah's death will weaken but not eliminate the Hezbollah movement, already weakened by the 17 and 18 September attack on Hezbollah members by boby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies. Antonio Guterres, the U.N. Secretary-General had made a cry of alarm in his opening address to the U.N. General Assembly on 24 September saying "Gaza is a non-stop nightmare that threatens …
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