Articles tagged with: United States
Connection Point, Featured »
Barbara Federman
Editor’s note: Earlier this year, Barbara Federman contacted us with the idea for a letter writing exchange between women in the United States and Arab and Muslim women around the world. If you are interested in becoming a part of this project, please contact Connection Point Manager Yasmina Mrabet: yasmina@peacexpeace.org
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A Letter to Arab and Muslim Women Around the World
Dear Arab and Muslim women around the world:
My name is Barbara Federman and I am a member of a group of women named Peace and Letter Society (P.A.L.S.). Our goal is …
Connection Point, Voices from the Frontlines »
Peace X Peace Forums: Women and the Arab Spring
Welcome to the first Peace X Peace Forum! These forums, which we hope to host regularly, will take on pressing issues in the world of peacebuilding and gender. This time, we have gathered women from around the Middle East – from Egypt to Tunisia and beyond – to discuss how women have influenced the Arab Spring, and the impact it has had on them. We hope you enjoy this discussion and add your own thoughts in the comments!
To Bring Women Forward, We …
Voices from the Frontlines »
Matt Southworth
United States
“War doesn’t just rob the occupied of their humanity; it robs the occupier of theirs too. And this is why humankind cannot continue to wage senseless wars that accomplish nothing but death and destruction.”
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Matt Southworth, an Iraq war veteran and lobbyist at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (the Quaker Lobby in the Public Interest), reflects on why last week’s events in Afghanistan mean that the war effort there is failing. Originally posted on the FCNL staff blog, 2C.
As is increasingly evidenced by developments in Afghanistan, from gloomy …
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By Patricia Smith
Founder, Peace X Peace
Editor, Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Israeli and Palestinian Women
“I am almost daily stunned by the gap between what is in our media and, thus, in some of our attitudes, and the truth.”
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Newt Gingrich is a phenomenon that baffles and stuns me. I was willing to let it slide and trust the American people to see and reject his hypocrisy, financial and ethical wrongdoing, megalomania, and opportunistic deception. Last week, however, he overstepped my patience when he referred to Palestinians as an “invented people” …
