Global Peacemakers in the News

US just doesn't get it about motivation for suicide attacks. The Irish Times. January 13, 2010

By Lara Marlowe. IN AMERICA, 2010 has been dominated so far by the aftermath of the failed Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 . . Read the article.

 
The Jew from Kuwait, Aish.com, December 2009  

By Mark Halawa. Kuwaiti Mark Halawa, who grew up in a Muslim household, was shocked to discover as a young man that his grandmother on his maternal side was Jewish. This meant that according to Jewish law, he is Jewish. His courageous and ongoing voyage of navigating his dual identity is inspiration for everyone seeking to bridge the divides in the Abrahamic Family. Read the article.

 
Fayyad’s two-year plan, The Jordan Times, August 27, 2009  

By Daoud Kuttab. Palestinian foreign minister Salam Fayyad has launched a bold strategic plan to build the organs of a Palestinian state. “We have decided to be proactive, to expedite the end of the occupation by working very hard to build positive facts on the ground, consistent with having our state emerge as a fact that cannot be ignored. This is our agenda, and we want to pursue it doggedly,” declared Fayyad. Read the article.

 
Tutu to Haaretz: Arabs paying the price of the Holocaust, Haaretz, August 28, 2009  

By Akiva Elder. Commenting on the situation in Israel/Palestine, Nobel Prize laureate Desmond Tutu notes that sanctions and international pressure helped bring about an end to Apartheid in South Africa. Read the article.

 
Why Religion is Part of the Solution to the Arab-Israeli Conflict,
Common Ground News Service, May 21, 2009  

By Dr. Ben Mollov. Both Jews and Arabs are on the path of a reawakening of former glory steeped in religious and historical symbolism. These themes need to be incorporated into the quest for peace, says the author. Read the article.

 
London Celebrations Dedicated to Peace, Irish Times, March 16, 2009  

OneVoice Executive Director Darya Shaikh discusses the results of a recent poll that highlights both opportunities for agreement and areas of disagreement. The poll shows that the two-state solution is the only framework acceptable to a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians. Read the article.
Read the full poll results here for detailed analysis.

 
London Celebrations Dedicated to Peace, Irish Times, March 16, 2009

By Isabel Conway. Following a pair of violent attacks by two Irish splinter groups, a massive St. Patrick’s Day outpouring of support for peace and reconciliation swept the UK and mainland Europe. Read the article.

 


American revolutionary.Wall Street Journal, Sept 13, 2008.

By Philip Shishkin. Gene Sharp, an 80-year old scholar working out of his home in East Boston, is well known both to despotic governments who ban his books and to resistance activists who study his writings on nonviolent resistance. Read the article.

Holocaust heroine's survival tale. BBC News, March 3, 2005.

By Adam Easton. She is a Polish Catholic woman who risked her life to save over 2,500 Jews during the Holocaust. Read the article. (Learn more about this amazing woman and the lives she touched.)

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