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Raise a roar
By Dr. Kathie Malley-Morrison
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I Made You Look: An Anti-War Poem
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Raise a roar, abhor war.
The Engaging Peace blog has featured some powerful anti-war poetry -- "Dulce et Decorum Est" by the great WWI poet Wilfred Owen, several compelling poems by the Vietnam War poet David Connolly, and most recently "My soul isn't at peace" by 16 year-old San'aa Sultan.
Pro-and anti-war poems have a long history and hundreds of...
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Beliefs that perpetuate war
By guest author Dr. Dean Hammer
In 1989, Roger Walsh (a professor of psychiatry at University of California Irvine) wrote a seminal paper entitled, Toward a Psychology of Human Survival: Psychological Approaches to Contemporary Global Threats.
Walsh identified several global threats that continue to plague us today including: malnutrition, resource depletion, the ecological blight, and nuclear weapons. These threats to human survival and wellbeing "are actually symptoms of..." Read more...
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Children and youth peace corner
By guest author San'aa Sultan
Sameer Ahmed Rah was killed by Indian Occupational Forces in the valley of Kashmir on the 2nd of August.
At the tender age of nine his life met a violent end and he became for me a symbol of the world we live in. He became more than a story and a nameless face. Sameer became the little boy in whose name I would devote my activism.
There are many things that young people can do to encourage peace and ensure that stories like Sameer's are not common. The first step is to stretch out our hands towards those less fortunate than ourselves, in our own neighborhoods if not abroad, and with love or a smile or even with money.
Our small acts of kindness bring hope to those we reach out to and tell them they are not alone. For those who are suffering, these are the best gifts we can offer--love, hope and solidarity.
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