by Susan | Sep 19, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 19, 1966 After 300 members of Grenada, Mississippi’s white community called for “an end to violence,” hundreds of Negro schoolchildren were allowed to integrate the local public schools. The leaders of the vicious organized attack on the kids the previous...
by Susan | Sep 18, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1997 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, based in Switzerland, and to Jody Williams, of the United States, for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines. In her Nobel lecture, Williams summarized the...
by Susan | Sep 18, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
September 18, 1954 Steven Pinker “All of the violence that doesn’t occur doesn’t get reported on the news.” September 20, 1968 Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones “The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the...
by Susan | Sep 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 18, 1874 The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society was formed to help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American...
by Susan | Sep 17, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta, both from Indonesia, for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor. In his Nobel lecture, Bishop Belo addressed youth: “Society is a...
