Peace & Freedom

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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. 

Malcolm X

Peace & Religion

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Peace involves a profound crisis of identity. The boundaries of self and other, friend and foe, must be redrawn. … If faith is enlisted in the cause of war, there must be an equal and opposite counter-voice in the name of peace. If religion is not part of solution, it will certainly be part of the problem.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Words

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Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabras. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.


What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Antonio Porchia, trans., W. S. Merwin, Voices

Culture of Peace

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" . . . in the conflicts in the past 15 years, only 7.5% have ended with a military victory by one party over the other. the negotiation route, though long and difficult, is the one that prevails in 92% of the cases. The challenge is thus not being a skilful warrior but a skilful negotiator."

2008 Peace Process Yearbook, School for a Culture of Peace, Autonomous University of Barcelona.