A woman who fatally stabbed her Cambodian neighbour 150 times because she refused to baby-sit has been freed from prison – and her victim’s son says he has forgiven her…”I have, because part of me and part of what I believe is you have to forgive. It’s sometimes hard, but as a Christian you want […]

“I am frustrated with people who say that there is nothing you can do about a particular issue and thus, do very little. I do not want to be like that” http://word.world-citizenship.org/index.php/wp-archive/1249

Media have often been used to incite violence, perhaps most infamously during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when radio station Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines played a major role in organizing Hutus to kill Tutsis. But in Kenya, where a disputed election this past winter resulted in much violence and chaos, radio and other […]

We live each day surrounded by images of the horrors of our world. Each week brings stories of a world weary with violence. How can we not feel powerless in this? How can we remain committed to a life of nonviolence when so many of the world’s ways seem to point in the other direction? […]

Tom Sine joined me on my morning radio programme on 98.5 Sonshine FM along with Jarrod McKenna from Peace Tree Community. While Tom’s book talks about the many ways that people are re-imagining church, Jarrod is part of a community that is living out faith in simple ways in the Perth suburb of Lockridge. http://eliacin.com/?p=702

Lawrence Hart is a Cheyenne peace chief who has wrestled with how to forgive the murder and massacre of his ancestors. Does forgiving mean forgetting? http://thirdway.com/peace/?Page=2029|When+I+Learned+What+It+Means+to+be+a+Peace+Chief

Recently Australia’s ‘father of Reconciliation’ Pat Dodson identified the secret of Nelson Mandela’s success in building the nation of South Africa from the ruins of the apartheid regime: love your enemy. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=6534

Check out www.lestweforget.org.nz for stories of heroic Kiwi peacemakers. This website provides information on people from Aotearoa / New Zealand who have made significant contributions to and suffered in the process of promoting peace. You can download a booklet that can be used in groups to reflect on the lives and actions of these peacemakers […]

Three Cups of Tea steeps the reader in nonconventional wisdom about the Islamic world. The book starts with the spiralling descent of an American climber. In 1993, Greg Mortenson scrubbed an attempt on K2, the world’s second-highest peak. He stumbled broken and haggard out of the Himalaya and into the isolated Pakistani village of Korphe. […]

In the West, “A mufti, a Christian and a rabbi …” is often how a good interfaith joke begins. But I live inside this reality. I am a rabbi and my Syrian colleague, Hind Kabawat, is a Christian Arab. We have worked for four years with the Grand Mufti of Syria, Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, in […]

As Kenya Erupted, Friends From Warring Tribes Faced Down Machetes to Restore Order – “I felt so ill and very bitter,” he said. “That is what forced me to come out and try to stop it, to try to make peace. Someone said ‘You will be killed,’ and I said ‘Then let me die.’ “… […]

To mark the 20th anniversary of his death this year, no more than a handful of Afghan intellectuals held a memorial service at the grave of Abdul Ghaffar Khan. But cultural associations in the region and in Europe are planning numerous ceremonies in the memory of the non-violent Pashtun leader. http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=22632&lan=en&sid=1&sp=0&isNew=1