Building Real Peace
Date: September 21, 2013
Press Clip Source: Huffington Post
Written By: Robert C Koehler
Date: September 19, 2013
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“Imagine if we sent 5,000 well-trained nonviolent peacekeepers from throughout the world to protect civilians and work with local civil society in building the peace.”
Indeed, imagine if we knew that doing this was an option.
Mel Duncan, cofounder of an organization called Nonviolent Peaceforce, was talking about Syria, the country we almost bombed and maybe still will. In lieu of tossing godlike lightning bolts at Bashar al-Assad, “The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration,” the Washington Post reported last week.
You can protect civilians who are living in or fleeing violent conflict. Your contribution will transform the world's response to conflict.