By Dr Hakim I’m so often caught up in the daily concerns of work and the wars raging across Afghanistan and many parts of the world that I forget how remarkable it is that atContinue reading
Category: Migration & Refugees
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Drones, Middle East, Migration & Refugees, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Prisons
World Beyond War: Politics Beyond Partisianship
World Beyond War, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and DePaul University Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Dept. invite you to a panel discussion with Kathy Kelly, Mary Dean, Brian Terrell, and Metasabia Rigby, international antiwar activists,Continue reading
Reality and the U.S.-Made Famine in Yemen
March 20, 2017 This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours,Continue reading
ALL SORTS OF AFGHAN WINTER FEELINGS: “I WAS FRIGHTENED. I CRIED.”
“I was frightened. I cried,” she seemed like both a statue and a radio, numb and alive, not shy about the horrors she had survived. “There were bombs dropping from the heavens, and firing fromContinue reading
Voices for Creative Non-Violence UK February 2017 Newsletter
This update includes articles by Ellis Brooks and Maya Evans who have just returned from Kabul. During their trip they worked with 100 street kids, delivered conflict resolution workshops to the Afghan Peace Volunteers, collectedContinue reading
Najaf, Iraq
January 3, 2017 Najaf, Iraq “ ISIS is not just with guns, but with ideas inside our minds” I almost feel as if this trip has been a set up. Set up to give meContinue reading
Christmas in Karbala
Dec. 25, 2016 Karbala, Iraq–It is Christmas day, and I am in Karbala with dear friends. We awoke to a second day of rain, and pictures of flooding, especially in Baghdad, are being shown onContinue reading
Syrian mother interviewed by Sallie Latch
Photo of a Syrian mother refugee hugging her crying baby after arriving on a raft on the Greek island of Lesbos, October 27, 2015. Photo Credit: Giorgos Moutafis / Reuters
Human Rights Day, A Call to Care
December 10, 2016 December 10th marks the U.N. Human Rights Day, celebrating and upholding the indispensable and crucial declaration of universal human rights.On the eve of this event, I visited a refugee camp housing 700 families inContinue reading
Tags and Numbers
“Do you remember in history when we would tag and number people?” asked Brother Johannes. Yellow band, number 67. When a refugee and migrant register, they receive a different color bracelet and on it isContinue reading