Voices for Peace
St. Francis of Assisi, Buddha, Albert Camus, Jesus Christ, Dalai Lama XIV, Albert Einstein, Riane Eisler, Benjamin Franklin, Mahatma Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Benita Juarez, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Muhammad...and many others who have spoken for peace throughout human history are highlighted in the Peace Building Curriculum, sponsored by PeaceTags.
Recent Blog Posts
- U.S. Service Members Who Died in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom - February 19 to March 4, 2010
- Partaw Naderi (Afghanistan)
- Prayer of the Children
- Experiencing Life and Death
- This is Why Life is Hell
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Not in Our Name
- Voices in Wartime Preview
- British Poet Laureate Writes Questions
- A Soldier's Poem For His Comrades
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Featured Story
 | Today, many know Dennis Brutus for the work he did for social justice and global peace. However, his story started in the 1950s. Though known as a poet who advocated for the poor of his country, Dennis assumed a pseudonym, A. de Bruin (meaning "a brown" in Afrikanns) and wrote a sports column that dealt with issues of race and sports. Consequently, he was banned from writing. While attempting to flee from police custody in 1963 he was shoot and almost lost his life. Dennis was imprisoned in the notorious Robben Island prison for eighteen months. He broke rocks next to Nelson Mandela for raising his voice and pen against the injustice of his country's racial policies.
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Poetry in Wartime"As near the beginning as one can ascertain war and poetry have been linked. There’s a lot of war and indeed war poetry in the Old Testament, Greek literature, Latin literature, and early Chinese literature. Just as the “Song of Solomon” contains poems about love, so in Exodus and other Old Testament books you get accounts of violent conflict. |
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