7th March, 2025
Press release
RE-ARMAMENT OF EUROPE IS NOT THE WAY – PEACE IS THE WAY
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace laureate, today appealed for peace, not arms and war.
Mairead said;
‘To solve problems we all know when you bring a gun (much less the threat of nuclear weapons!) into a room, fear rises and people flee. As we the people of Northern Ireland have learned after decades of violent ethnic/political conflict, the only way to solve conflict is by dialogue and peacebuilding.
I therefore passionately appeal to the Political Leaders of Europe and most importantly to the Peoples of Europe, (particularly the youth) to let go of the politics of fear and start disarming and building fraternity of the people and between all nations of Europe and the world – after all that’s why Europe was set up!
For the past 80 years (since the dropping of the nuclear bombs) humanity has used arms, militarism, and wars, to kill billions of fellow humans (there are over 55 wars going on in the world to-day). Surely as civilized humans we can do better than this! Time to abolish nuclear weapons and wars and build Perpetual Peace, through a reformed United Nations, around a table and not around millions of graves of beautiful young men and women. Let us offer our wonderful youth around the world, a vision of peace built, not on enmity, hate, weapons and war, but on joy, a celebration of every human life as precious and unique and taking care of our planet and only home.
The science of peace is known to many, but it has just been drowned out by the noise of war, and ‘old’ concepts of dealing with problems and conflicts. However, at this historic point in humanity’s history, we are all challenged to let go of fear and reject violence, militarism and war forever by the transforming power of love and forgiveness.
With hope and all my love.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace laureate. www.peacepeople.com
A Peacemaker.
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