by Susan | Aug 29, 2016 | Monuments
Or, as they say in Kiswahili, Amani, Upendo And Umoja. This fountain is in the 76-acre Uhuhru (Freedom) Park in central Nairobi, which was established by Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya. It was here that a crowd of more than 40,000 gathered to watch the...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1976 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, of the United Kingdom, founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People.) In her Nobel lecture Betty Williams said, “Compassion is more...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
August 28, 1828 Leo Tolstoy “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” August 29, 1862 Maurice Maeterlinck “At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 28, 1957 Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) began a 24 hour and 18 minute filibuster against a civil rights bill. Thurmond read, verbatim, the voting laws of each one of the 48 states. He read the U.S. criminal code. He read a Supreme Court decision, followed by...
by Susan | Aug 27, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, of the Soviet Union, for his struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations. Sakharov, a physicist, was the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. The leaders of...
