All Blog Posts Tagged 'peace' (9)

"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso 1937 On our travels between the climate change talks in Barcelona and those in Copenhagen, we visited the town of Gernika and their Peace Museum. The script that leads you through the museum was a Beyond War script, born not of theory, but of very personal and challenging experiences as well as a determination to lea… Continue

- An Article published in the "Main Line Suburban Life Newspaper", Ardmore, PA June 10, 2009 Change is a challenging business. Recently, in major speeches at the Notre Dame graduation ceremony and in Cairo, President Obama tackled significant and seemingly irreconciliable conflicts. In each case, he turned to finding common ground and recommended focusing on the way we approach the problem and each other. In that re-framing, he is proposing significant and far reaching change. How change happ… Continue

Commencement Address to the Class of 2009 University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009 Paul Hawken When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” Boy… Continue

I believe that world peace is possible. I believe that a constructive approach to transcend the divisions among people is by uniting all people in a common cause to better our world. I believe the Beyond War Guiding Principles are a perfect set of basic principles to accomplish that goal. If a majority of people would commit to these principles, we could be united in a common cause and could work further to eliminate disputes and exploitation. I also embrace these three ideas as core values to… Continue

OpEdNews January 19, 2009 By robert dodge On this Martin Luther King Day and inauguration eve of President Obama there is a hope across this land and around the world. A renewed hope for our future and the possibilities it holds. We are a country at war and face many challenges but none as dangerous as the threat of nuclear war. In our nuclear armed world, we fail to recognize that all war has the potential to evolve into a nuclear conflict. Martin Luther King recognized this when he said:… Continue

I have not reviewed this material yet, but it does look interesting for high school students: With creative, thought-provoking, and innovative lesson plans, this comprehensive teaching guide introduces students to the concept of transitional justice through: Lessons on the root causes and costs of war and conflict Overview of human rights and different transitional justice mechanisms Mock war crimes tribunal and mock truth commission role plays In-depth country case studies Individual c… Continue

On December 12-14 in Chicago, I attended the 4th National Assembly of the United for Peace and Justice coalition. Beyond War is not a member of this organization, which includes thousands of peace groups around the country. However, we do have friendly relations with many of these groups. Much like the Peace & Security Initiative semiannual gathering that I attended in DC… Continue

Last week I represented Beyond War at the semiannual meeting of the Peace and Security Initiative, a leading coalition of advocacy… Continue

Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue at sixteen Remembering our roots in Koinonia Southern Africa by Libby and Len Traubman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At our 200th meeting on the San Francisco Peninsula, we remembered our birth. We realized that not only our DNA, but more recent roots in applied social intelligence, came out of Africa. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PREA… Continue