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“I am because you are. I do not live in isolation” [Ubuntu].
Christine Atieno: Fellow Peace Researchers, I take this opportunity to thank you for entrusting me with the enormous task of being your leader. I am extremely humbled by this gesture. Wisdom from our forefathers and mothers beholds that leadership is about service to humankind and not vice versa.
Peace research is infinite. Sustainability of peace may be threatened at any given time. Our current world faces myriad of disheartening vices that are threatening peace. As peace researchers we are called upon to continuously advocate for dialogue through peaceful means. It is our global duty to seek redress towards innovative pragmatic solutions to address and resolve conflicts within all spheres of the global order. “Foremost to attain peace, one’s own introspection is needed. You must interrogate and investigate who you truly are” [Acharya Swamishree Maharaj] Read More...
IPRA Quotes
“We who started IPRA were from the Northwestern part of the world; however, IPRA has, like the world, moved East and South, with a Turkish Delight and a Sierra Leone Diamond as secretaries, with a Prognosis: we will move on to Islam and China–India still needs time to grow with our Guiding Spirit: Gandhi. Then back to a more modest Northwest, circling on, as we should”, Professor Johann Galtung at the 2014 IPRA in Istanbul.
