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Counterintuitive

admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:35:34 +0000

I’m just recommending consideration of Colman McCarthy’s argument in “A peacemaker’s case against the U.S. Institute of Peace.” It may not sit well in some ways, but it sure made me think about what a demeaning—even insulting—treatment of peace my government provides by it’s connection to the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Two years down

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:01:07 +0000

How many to go?

Happy birthday, Pacifist Posse! Not being much good at singing, I’ll just lend my breath to blowing out the candles.

The first post appeared on PP 30 December 2006, so as of today, PP has made it around old sol twice. Let’s hope that there are many more and, more importantly, that the site affects individuals’ and governments’ perspective on how to treat others.

The stats for PP show that there have been 68 posts (including this one), 5 pages, and 31 comments. We only get visited about once every 7 days. That’s modest….

On to the next year.

iPeace expanding

John Lloyd — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:17:27 +0000

The Ning-based site iPeace continues to grow. Thanks to Hannahla for alerting me to it. Have other members of the Posse joined?

Interestingly, it appears to be using Apple’s me.com as host: http://www.ipeace.me/ (the image’s hot, too).

Got my admiration

John Lloyd — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:39:05 +0000

Mubarak Awad, who established the Palestinian Centre for the Study of Nonviolence, is one of those folks whom I admire for their persistence in promoting non-violence in the face of daunting examples of disappointment. Mr. Awad advocates Gandhian solutions to conflicts in what has to be one of the most difficult regions of the world: The lands along the eastern end of the Mediterranean.

Wikipedia entry about Mr. Awad. Here’s a link to a news report about a presentation at a Modesto (CA, US) church, to a blog entry about one of Mr. Awad’s talks, and (of course) to Nonviolence International.

USPP

John Lloyd — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:00:10 +0000

There is a United States Pacifist Party (USPP)! Who knew? Bradford Lyttle was the 2004 candidate for president. It appears to be a bit of smallish operation, but it’s probably bigger than the PP.

There is an extensive list of links for organizations and such. Some of them may be out of date, as the page footer carries a December 2000 update date.