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- by Patricia Smith Melton
Founder, Peace X Peace
Editor, Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Israeli and Palestinian Women
It is the middle of the night, my heart is bursting with rediscovery of self after struggles over nearly two years that have left me weary. And instead of yelling to the skies about human failings or duplicities or savageries or excuses, the thought comes that politics is the highest calling.
Even as I say this, I look at a painting I have of Joan of Arc, seeing her as I have not seen her these …
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Dalila Paulo
Portugal
“I became a pioneer, founder and president for 10 years of the Portuguese Delegation of Unipaz – International University for Peace. Over those years 3,000 people went there and many of them were transformed.”
I have always been on the path to being the best human possible, to achieving the ability for unconditional love. I am also a very practical and active person, so since I began to have deep inner peace, I wanted to organize ways for other people to have it too.
Eighteen years ago, as a psychotherapist I …
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June 30th marked the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 50th anniversary of independence from Belgium. Violence continues to torment the country as this historical milestone is celebrated.
Sylvie Maunga
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
“The epidemic of sexual violence in Congo is a humiliation to all humanity, to our dignity and our values. The world must speak up and act now to end mass atrocities.”
The Congolese conflict is considered the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and the deadliest since World War II. Since 1998, more than six million people have died as …
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Andrea Kay Smith
USA
“My vision is that one day everyone on the planet will have the basics of food & shelter. I’m willing to do my part to make that happen.”
One of the ceramic tiles I painted for the World Wall for Peace, for the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympics in Atlanta, said FREEDOM. Perhaps this theme became important to me when I was confined to braces, casts, crutches, and a wheel chair as a child. I identified with Forrest Gump in the movie, when he was released from his …
