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A note from Kathie
"Give the military everything"
Women activists and International Women's Day
There was no turning back
A just war against Assad?
Choosing Peace for Good wins award!
Children and youth peace corner




Kathie Malley-Morrison


Greetings!

  

It's tax season in the U.S. and many citizens are wondering what happens to those tax dollars. Neta Crawford shares some of her research on the cost of war in Iraq, and Mike Corgan considers whether war with Syria would be a just war.

Despite billions of dollars being poured into warfare, activists continue to inspire us with their dedication.  This issue of the newsletter also features Dahlia Wasfi's continuing story, women Nobel Laureates, and the work of Clowns Without Borders.

 

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-- Kathie




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-- The effects of war on the environment
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The Newsletter of Engaging Peace                           March, 2012 

"Give the military everything they need and more" (Cost of war, Part 2)


By guest author Dr. Neta Crawford

Why now, is it so hard to give a firm Dollarsaccounting of the dollar cost at this juncture?  There are four basic reasons and it turns out they are related to the optimistic biases that preceded the war.

First, there is a tendency to focus on what has been appropriated by Congress specifically for the war, with the consequence that the larger costs of war in Iraq are either missed or downplayed.

Specifically, many tallies focus on... Read more...
Women activists and International Women's Day

By Dr. Kathie Malley-Morrison      

 

International Women's Day logoThursday March 8 was International Women's Day--a good day for us to be grateful to the women peace activists who contribute to this blog. Examples are San'aa Sultan, Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, Jean Gerard and Neta Crawford.
 

It was also a good day to celebrate the fact that late in 2011 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women peace activists: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen... Read more...

 


There was no turning back (Liberate THIS, Part 13)

By guest author Dr. Dahlia Wasfi

 

Finally, on Christmas Eve, I got a seat on a red-eye flight out of London and landed in Kuwait City on Christmas morning. Though I was tired, my excitement prevented me from getting any sleep.  Exhausted and jet-lagged, I struggled through airport customs and the Kuwait border emigration process to get to Kuwait's northern border.

 

It was raining, and my kind taxi driver waited so I could have shelter until the bus arrived to carry passengers across the several-kilometer no-man's land between Kuwait and Iraq... Read more...

 

A just war against Assad?
By guest author Dr. Mike Corgan
 
Almost daily, we learn of massacres, indiscriminate shelling, and rocket attacks against civilian areas in and around Homs. The situation in Syria seems to offer the occasion for a just war against Bashir Assad and his army if ever there were one.

Most members of the United Nations and the Arab League, as well as many others, support some kind of action. But does this near-universal consensus add up to a just war occasion?

 

In international law it well might. But just war theory usually requires a just peace--a condition only implicit, at most, in international law ... Read more... 

 

 

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Children and youth peace corner
by San'aa Sultan


Clowns without Borders

 

Clowns Without Borders restores laughter and happiness into the lives of children from some of the poorest, mistreated, and war-torn communities in the world.  

 

Clowns Without Borders has worked all over the world, from Guatemala to township schools in South Africa to communities in Croatia.  

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