WICO-"WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL COALITION"

( NGO)

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WICO ENGLAND

 
Predisents of 
 W.I.C.O
Let this last day open up a new to-morrow full of love and peace.
 Wishing you all a very happy New Year.
May it be filled with Self-love and Peace. We deserve transparence not just for ourselves but for the whole world. We are the Co-Creaters of Love. We are what we think and also what we feel. We can empower other women when we start to empower us. Let us now find the switch of light, so that we can shine the light throughout the corners of darkness. Many littler efforts makes the river streaming. Let us share this very last day and night of 2008 in Peace and I shall ask God to transend this Peace Globally and on behalf of myself and all at WICO. I would like to commend the W.I.C.O Army of Angels for all that you are doing for the sake of peace but more importantly for making a difference to the people who are less fortunate than ourselves. I thank my Leader (Dalia) for being the back bone to this cause.

Pastor Breda Collins North UK- President



 
To all Presidents
 of
 WICO
 
Breda Collins President / Pastor North Region United Kingdom
I would be very grateful if you would support me please as I will be leading prayer to-morrow 2nd January 2009 for Peace throughout the world. I will begin prayers by lighting a candle in the City of Manchester England  at 11.30am United Kingdom time and finish at 1.30pm. May I take this opportunity to thank you all in advance for supporting this cause. God bless each and everyone of you.


For all Presidents of WICO & H/Q
and for Facebook publication
Dalia I write this peace prayer with great sorrow. I hope that these words will touch the hearts of all those who are involved in the instigation of this conflict.
 
 
As an ambassador for peace I appeal to world and all who live in it.
PLEASE IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY ''STOP THIS WAR NOW''
Lord, I come before you to-day and I ask for your blessings, first for Israel, that you deliver her from all her troubles according to your word and for all nations and families that you will bring the Peace of the Lord that passes all understandings into our hearts and minds. I also ask that we can learn more about you and your great promises within your word, that you made for our own good plans that you have to prosper us and not to harm us in any way. Lord, I ask for your help at this crucial time of need that all nations will come through this so called credit crunch and that your hand will turn the whole situation round for good in name of Jesus Christ. Peace is a spring of water. It leaves us full of divine love. It prepares us to live a life of Goodness. Father God, I am asking you for divine intervention so that your word will prevent any further loss of lives. I am now seeing innocent children dying in bloodshed. These acts are beyond belief and against the understanding of humanitarianism.  As I look around the World (the world that you alone created) my heart aches and I think to myself (Why?) Father God, it is only you who knows ''Why'' therefore, I ask of you right now to touch the heart of those in power to bring an end to these barbaric acts of brutality. I ask you to put love and mercy into their hearts. I feel that the perpetrators have forgotten who you are and the Holiness of God given life. At this moment the sheer love that lives within us is crying out for Peace. Lord, I relinquish this battle to you right now as you are the only one that has the power to terminate these battles. I ask that very soon you will perform a miracle and stop the anguish and the pain that our brother and sister are experiencing throughout this was I feel is becoming a very ugly world. These unnecessary atrocities and hostilities must be transformed into Peace, Love and Oneness, I therefore ask you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth King of the Jews to transcends you peace among your people. Protect them with your precious blood and let your light shine upon all those who are suffering. Heavenly Father, I ask that you create immediate peace and give instant healing to all those who are suffering. Lord, you also told us that we must forgive, Father God, I also speak for the perpetrators that very soon they will wake up and realise that and get a sense of awareness and understanding that you are Lord, and these acts are not of you. I know from my own personal experiences that your word is greater than man. (Greater is he that is in us than he who is of this world)  I trust and firmly believe in you and therefore it is my wish to-day that Peace will be restored. Lord in the mighty name Jesus, I ask for healing and a better understanding for to-morrow. Let there be Peace shared among us, let there be love in hearts so that we can unite together in Oneness and continue to pray for this cause and for all those who are suffering. Peace is the gift from Heaven to mankind, it softly unfolds our fears. Those who go against Peace will endure suffering for we know that PEACE is God given. Where there is Peace there will be ''Godness'' and out of Godness comes goodness. We must never forget that in order to create Peace we have to forgive. The Word of God says, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
May I take this opportunity to send Love, Peace, Light, understanding & Oneness to all my Brothers & Sisters, throughout this world.
Lord in your mercy, I beg you from the bottom of my heart to hear my prayers and I trust that you will soon respond and take action. Amen
 
Breda Collins
President / Pastor
United Kingdom
North Region 
 
 
 
 
 
 
From our WICO's President in Pakistan, Ms. Shahzi Samad Khan.
 
Women trafficking
Saturday, November 22, 2008

By our correspondent

PESHAWAR: A civil society organisation has prepared a bill to help save women from the trafficking and discussed the proposed document with the policy-makers, lawyers and members of the Non-Governmental Organisations to get their suggestions and recommendations to make it more viable.

The consultative working group meeting on woman trafficking bill was arranged by Noor Education Trust here on Friday to discuss the provisions of the bill with the participants who gave their suggestions for improvement.

After the introduction of the participants and the organisation, the participants were told that trafficking was recruitment, transfer, transport, harbouring or receipt, with or without, consent, fake marriages, false adoptions and kidnappings with a view to exploit women and children in bonded and illegal labour, domestic work, begging, sex-tourism, entertainment and prostitution for the benefit of traffickers and crime-syndicates.

The discussants were told that there were no accurate statistics available, but it was estimated that in the last 30 years, trafficking in women and children in Asia for sexual exploitation alone had touched the 30 million mark.

Both civil society members and the victims of trafficking have confirmed the increasing trend of marrying off girls from NWFP to men from other provinces, the participants were informed. They were told about the findings of the study conducted by the organisation in collaboration with the district partners.

Some of the main points of the study that were highlighted include district-based responses from the civil society members, awareness about bride price, kinds of people involved in the crime, ethnic origin of the clients, identification of traffickers and transaction modes.

Other information discussed was about the use of bride price money, written or verbal Nikah, parent’s presence at Nikah, purpose of marriage, victims age at time of marriage, marriage with consent, ethnicity of trafficked girls, reasons for trafficking and current residence of the victims.

The participants suggested that the word woman should be changed or replaced with female because according to a study, mostly minor girls were trafficked, so it would not be applicable to them if the bill came into force. The discussants proposed that punishment for trafficking should be life imprisonment and the crime must be cognisable.
 
 
 
 
Keynote Address by
Joan Holmes, President of The Hunger Project
Introduction

The treatment of women and girls is the greatest violation of human rights in our world today.

Ninety-three million women and girls are “missing” from the world population because of sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, malnutrition, abuse and neglect of girl children. This is roughly equivalent to all the deaths in all the wars of the 20th century – the most violent century in human history. This is a holocaust many times over.

So why don’t we as citizens of the world hear of this tragedy?

What kind of world are we living in where 93 million lives can be extinguished just because they’re girls? Where’s our shame? Where’s our moral outrage?

Gender discrimination is the greatest moral challenge of our age. And, we will be judged by history on how we respond to this challenge.
Basic issues

The developing world faces problems that affect the entire global community: hunger, poverty, HIV/AIDS and population growth. The developing world also has the most severe discrimination of women and girls.

These facts are not unrelated. This severe discrimination of women and girls is a primary cause of the persistence of these problems.

Let’s look at the facts.

* The vast majority of the world’s poor are women and girls.
* Women and girls are 80% of the world’s refugees.
* Two-thirds of the world’s illiterates are female.
* And, of the millions of children kept out of school - 2/3 are girls.

India has the 12th largest economy in the world. Sixty million tons of grain in storage. And it has one of the highest rates of childhood malnutrition. When this inexplicable phenomenon was studied by UNICEF, it was found that “the exceptionally high rates of malnutrition in India are rooted deep in the soil of inequality between men and women.”

Africa has the highest rates of HIV/AIDS transmission in the world. This is a pandemic and there are two reasons for it: men have unsafe sex with multiple partners, and women lack the power to negotiate if or how sex takes place.

And, while it is well known that women and girls are the most affected by society’s problems, what is less well known is that the empowerment of girls and women has the greatest overall positive effect on the entire society.

Recent analysis by the World Bank and other institutions indicates that when women and girls are empowered, the overall health and well-being of a society is greatly improved:

* Decreased population growth
* Faster economic growth
* Less corruption in governance
* There is increased agricultural production
* More children go to school
* Health hazards are reduced
* And there is lower childhood malnutrition and lower child mortality

Today’s girls are tomorrow’s women. Girls cannot advance without the advancement of women. And no improvement in women’s lives will be sustained unless girls have education, good health and the opportunity to achieve their potential.
The Life of a Girl Child

As a human family, we are doing a really terrible job of taking care of our girl children.

While there are many countries where little girls are cherished, loved, and cared for, the vast majority of girls live in countries where this is not so. It is the condition of girls in these countries that is so critical to our future.

This is not to deny or diminish the desperate lives led by many of the world’s boys. Boys are conscripted as soldiers, trafficked in the sex trade and 40 million boys worldwide are without access to basic education. As appalling and unacceptable as these facts are, they in no way compare to the tragic conditions and mistreatment of our girls.

A little girl eats last and least and she is up to three times more likely than boys to suffer malnutrition.

She is often not taken to the doctor when she is sick and she is less likely to be immunized.

Girls are often kept out of school and put to work. Whether at home, in factories or in the field, little girls are at work. She starts work at a very young age, and works from dawn to dusk, proving the adage “A girl is never a child.”

If she does go to school, she’s still at risk. Rather than being a safe refuge and a source of empowerment, the school situation is often dangerous. A recent study showed that 32% of reported child rapes in South Africa were committed by school teachers.

This is the life of a girl in the developing world, if she is allowed to live at all. Each and every year, millions of sex-selective abortions are performed, virtually always on female fetuses.

If you go to one of the poorest states in India and take a car from the capital to the most remote village, you will not find health clinics, sanitation or clean water. What you will find is the latest technology to determine the sex of a fetus.

It is estimated that annually 1 million female fetuses are aborted in China and 5 million in India, even though laws have been passed to stop this despicable practice.

In addition to feticide, there is female infanticide – babies killed at birth – again, just because they are girls.

Infanticide occurs in 17 countries. In India alone, more than 10,000 girl babies are victims of infanticide each year. Many people feel that the actual number is much higher. This is nothing short of murder.

In China and India, there are growing disparities between the number of men and the number of women. In some areas, the disparity is as great as 710 women for every 1000 men.

If it doesn’t kill her by infancy, violence is an ever present danger throughout her girlhood and throughout the rest of her life.

If she is a girl in Africa, the Middle East or other parts of the world, she may be subjected to Female Genital Mutilation. Two million girls, usually between the ages of four and eight, fall victim to this practice each and every year.

Early in a girl’s life, she is often forced into sexual relations. 50% of all sexual assaults are committed against girls age 15 or younger.

She is married without her consent and becomes pregnant long before her body is ready. The leading cause of death for girls age 15-19 is complications from pregnancy.

Annually, two million girls between the ages of five and 15 are forced into the commercial sex market.

By the time she is 15, a girl is most likely malnourished, unhealthy, and has little or no education. She has worked the majority of her life. And she’s been mistreated, exploited and abused, probably by someone she knows.

And, with each new generation of girls who continue to be mistreated, those basic issues that face our human family continue to be perpetuated.
The time is now

It doesn’t need to be this way. And it can not continue to stay this way if we want a healthy, productive, just and peaceful world.

Kofi Annan has said: "There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls. No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower infant and maternal mortality, improve nutrition and promote health – including helping to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.”

USAID has stated, “We know that girls' education is perhaps the single most important investment a developing country can make."

And from the World Food Program we hear "If we want to change the world – and we all do – there is one way to do that: educate girls."

The constraints and the shackles that have been put on girls’ lives for centuries are beginning — just beginning—to be removed.

* China launched a “Caring for Girls” program to combat sex-selective abortion.
* Over the past 30 years, the number of teenage girls who marry young has declined both in South Asia and in Africa.
* In Bangladesh, over the past 10 years, a scholarship program has resulted in doubling the number of girls in high school.
* Nigeria now has a law requiring girls to remain in school to complete their education.
* In Ghana, the Ministry of Education initiated a Math and Science clinic specifically for girls.
* February 9, 2004 marked the first International Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation Day. And ten African countries have recently criminalized this practice.
* Kenya has raised the penalty for child rape to a mandatory life sentence. Previously, this crime was rarely, if ever, punished.
* And in 2004, for the very first time, Afghan women and girls competed in the Olympics Games.

We’re at a moment in history when finally a girl’s value to society can be recognized and supported, enabled and empowered.
The Hunger Project

The Hunger Project has made the empowerment of women its highest priority. Through our commitment to women and the success of our work, the lives of girls are being transformed. Here’s how:

In Africa, in The Hunger Project’s HIV/AIDS and Gender Inequality Workshop, adolescent girls and women learn to protect themselves from unsafe sex.

In our African Woman Food Farmer credit program, in order for a woman to receive a loan, her daughters must be in school.

In India, the women trained in our Women’s Leadership Workshop now stand up to their families to protect their daughters from being forced into early marriage.

Five years ago in Bangladesh, The Hunger Project created National Girl Child Day. Each year, even in the most remote corners of the country, hundreds of thousands of girls march and speak out. They are lauded in the media. The girl child is celebrated for who she is and what she means for the future of Bangladesh.

And in Latin America, at the Fourth Continental Meeting of Indigenous Women in Peru, women from 20 countries declared their commitment to train girls as tomorrow’s leaders.

We are making this issue known worldwide. I speak at international conferences, I have testified before the US Congress, and I am a member of the Hunger Task Force of the United Nations Millennium Project.
What needs to be done?

And it is clear to me that it is time for a new kind of action. It is time to change the way we do business.

Even if every country in the developing world increases its education budget, there is no assurance that girls will be educated.

If every country increases its health budget, there is no assurance that little girls will be healthier.

Unless a government takes specific actions on behalf of women and girls, increased funding will only perpetuate and widen the gender gap. And the world’s basic problems will persist.

And so I recommend the following actions to governments:

* I would mandate farm extension agents to actually show up and work with the women farmers to increase their incomes and reduce their drudgery, since it is the daughters who inevitably share and inherit their mother’s workload.
* I would expand the mandate of the health workers and midwives to teach mothers to breastfeed their girl babies as long as their boy babies. And ensure that their daughters are as well fed as their sons.
* I recommend that governments provide scholarships for girls through secondary school, and provide incentives to parents to keep their girls in schools.
* I would expand the mandate of school teachers to create equal opportunities for girls to learn and to become leaders. And there would be zero tolerance for violence against girls in school.
* It is essential for governments to provide farm extension agents, health workers and teachers with adequate supplies and sufficient training.
* It is also essential for governments to increase – and increase significantly the number of women in these professions.
* The developed world can express its partnership by increasing the amount of aid, and making all development aid conditional on countries improving the lives of women and girls.

Conclusion

We know what the world looks like with half of its population devalued – with half of its population treated as inferior and insignificant.

We truly don’t have a clue what the world would look like if girls and women could express themselves and be “everything they can be.”

At a minimum, we would live in a more peaceful and humane world: a world with greater social justice, economic progress, lower population growth and better health.

One thing is clear, and it is unequivocally clear – the world would be a lot better place than the one in which we are living today.

 

 

 

 

In Pursuit of a Peace Culture 

Dr. Dalia Steiner, WICO'S Founder and Int. President

April 2008 

 

"I am convinced that if we all were to spend a few minutes every day trying to develop a sense of inner peace, eventually it will become part of our lives and then everything we do will contribute to peace in the world".

 (HH Dalai Lama)

Violence has become an every day component of life, whether we are subjected to it directly or observe it from a distance. If we are to have any chance of replacing violence with a "culture of peace", it is essential to find ways of extending our sense of belonging, beyond family, race and nation to include our identification as a member of the one humanity. How can we say that there is peace in the world whilst 80% of the human race is living in poverty, whilst we are polluting the planet beyond its capacity to regenerate and whilst we continue to spend disproportionate sums of money on weapons that bring pain and even total annihilation? If humankind is brought to the point where a large enough number of persons are able to sense and acknowledge an overriding identity with humanity, however, we will no longer be prepared to turn a blind eye to the suffering of our fellow human beings and the earth on which we live.

A peace culture is impossible to envisage without reviewing humanity's relationship to the environment, which in modern times has been characterized by high levels of violence and domination. Education and the media must here also play a key role in promoting changes in attitudes and behavior patterns worldwide to reflect a more responsible and ethical value system. Human beings must resume their role as 'guardians' of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; rather than seeing themselves as 'masters' of the earth and its resources. In the realm of human-nature relations, our identification needs to go beyond the human race towards identification with Life itself. Together with government policies, formal/informal education and media coverage, therefore, the revival of celebrations and rituals to mark important times of the earth calendar could help to rekindle our sense of connectivity with the planet.

In the opening years of the twenty-first century, international society has been convulsed by the emergence of new threats and by divisive debate over how best to respond to them. Since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States, there has been an ongoing incidence of indiscriminate violence, which has devastated the lives of large numbers of ordinary citizens around the world. At the same time, there is growing anxiety over the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and other weapons of mass destruction.

The international community cannot and must not turn a blind eye to these new threats. Although it must demonstrate a firm resolve, recent events make it evident that an exclusive reliance on military force will not bring about a fundamental solution.

No efforts will gain the wholehearted support of people or succeed in bringing about lasting stability and peace without a spirit of self-mastery based on an acute awareness of the humanity of others.

The spirit of the world today is in retreat and regression, almost a kind of meltdown. And this is why the global questions of peace must be rethought from the perspective of the immediate reality of our lives. At the very least, any attempt to deal with these large problems that does not take such immediate realities into full consideration will not constitute a fundamental response. I therefore believe strongly in the value of each of us initiating action, taking that first step, from where we are standing right now.

 

 

Bibliography

Vicky Rossi    M.A

Problems of Humanity course, Lucis Trust, http://www.lucistrust.org

European Peace University, Stadtschlaining, Austria, March-May 2004.

The Essential Jung, C. G. Jung, Fontana Press, 1998, London, England.

Footnotes

1: Understanding Fear - In Ourselves and Others, Bonaro W. Overstreet, Harper Bros, New York, 1951.

2: A Glossary of Peace and Conflict Terminology, Christopher A. Miller, University for Peace, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland (internet).

3: http://www.elookingglass.com

4: Prof Emerita, Elise Boulding, interview with Peace Work, January 1996, Cambridge, USA[1].



 

"The alternative -  Developing Culture of Peace"

Dr. Dalia Steiner, WICO'S –"Women's International Coalition"

                                                  Founder and International President

 

 

 

“If there is no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to one another.”  (Mother Teresa)

 

                                                                             

The culture of peace concept has been developing for 10 years at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and the United Nations (UN) since it was first described at Yamoussoukro in 1989. It calls for a transformation and development of alternatives to the values, attitudes, and behaviors that are necessary and sufficient for the preparation and elaboration of the culture of war and violence: the concept of power as force; the image of an enemy that does not have the same rights as you; authoritarian social structure, secrecy, and armaments. The UN, in its recent Declaration and Program of Action on a Culture of Peace, has called for a global movement for a culture of peace.

Here it is, it’s very simple...The most important thing:

YOU can do to manifest World Peace. … BELIEVE PEACE. Once we have a vision of peace, we are able to move to the next step of actually BELIEVING PEACE.

Culture deals with people's way of life, which is influenced by their philosophy, historical background, traditional beliefs, and vision of the future. Such a culture may lead to peace or to war among us or with others. The choice is in our hands since we are given the option to choose actions that may lead to peace or to war. In creating a culture of peace we are setting the stage for a future generation to choose harmony over dissent and to embrace peace over war.

A culture of peace is not something that happens overnight. We have to work hard to create it and make it permanent. The patriarchal society in which we live has based its solution to problems it encounters on wars, already for a period of six thousand years. In fact, the strength of a nation has been always measured in terms of its military might and its ability to annihilate other nations with the speed of light. It has rarely been measured in terms of the strength of its people in character and personality, in terms of the outstanding virtues people demonstrate to have in alleviating millions of fellow brethren from so much misery and suffering. This is due to the culture of war that we have inherited. Soldiers are trained to kill other people mercilessly, to destroy the housing facilities, which serve as shelter to millions of people, and to wipe out our cultural heritage, which we inherited over several centuries and millennia. In their training in our culture of war, our young men and women learn to help each other and to sacrifice themselves for each other. But they never learn how to demonstrate mercy and love for their enemies and how to work closely with those they may dislike for a common end and benefit. In view of this, we need to rely on several civic, educational, and religious groups if we want really to develop and establish a culture of peace. One thing we know for sure is this. The future governments of every nation will be composed of the children of today for whose education we are responsible. The elderly members of our community have put at work everything that they learned at a younger age. The philosophy they developed as children was reflected in their words and actions as responsible members of the community later on. If we were to give a rapid glance at the books of history we will soon find out that they are all centered on wars. Everything   else becomes marginal, including the inventions and discoveries made that were so beneficial to the entire human race. All this will have to change if we really want to create a culture of peace that will enable our children to live at peace with one another in harmony and prosperity. The world has always been lucky to have people that worked silently and effectively in the areas just mentioned. We need to educate whole masses of the population from early childhood to be altruistic and to realize that the art of living is the art of giving. As Frank Sinatra said in one of his songs:

" Make someone happy and you will be happy too". Some 2,400 years ago, Confucius gave us the recipe of the culture of peace when he exhorted us saying:  "Do not do to others what you do not like others to do to you". Culture of peace is something from which everyone without exception is bound to benefit. It is a culture based on the universal welfare of all people without exception to the exclusion of no one.

Einstein said that, “you can’t solve a problem from the same level of thinking that created the problem.”

It is important right now to release any feelings of anger or pain, by shining the light of your PRESENCE into them. Darkness cannot exist in the presence of light. Hate cannot exist in the presence of love. War cannot exist in the Presence of Peace. And this starts in our OWN consciousness.

"I believe that the KEY to world peace is to “heal” our sense of separation from each other. If we have any energy of negativity or anger toward anyone, we are holding them separate from us, and thus contributing to the mass unconsciousness in which things like “war” and “violence” feed. Send every being love. Know the Truth of them, regardless of what they are demonstrating. Know the Truth of yourself as well."

The vision as a promise for universal peace appears in the Old Testament several  times .Among the paramount prophetic visionaries was Isaiah, 740 B.C., who was active during an extraordinarily lengthy period, extending from the reign of King Uzziah to that of King Hezekiah, who both ruled in Judah.

Isaiah was witness to one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Jerusalem, from both the religious and the political standpoint. Because of his social status he took an active and in some cases central part in the course of events. But his position did not prevent him from excoriating the corruption which had vitiated the ruling class and the aristocracy's obliviousness toward the downtrodden.

Isaiah is the most "political" of the prophets. In the face of the expansionist Assyrian empire he counseled a passive political and military response. He put his faith in divine salvation, which would certainly follow from a necessary change in the moral leadership and in the people's spiritual tenacity. Although he stood by King Hezekiah, Isaiah objected to his attempts to forge alliances with Egypt and with the envoys of the Babylonian king Merodach-baladan as a wedge against the Assyrians. Such efforts, the prophet said, demonstrated a lack of faith in God.

Dreams do come true. As a believer I do believe that we shall win peace, if we shall Believe, If we shall Hope, If we shall Act and if we shall keep In our hearts the prophets promise:

(Isaiah 02:04)

"And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore."

Isaías 2:4 Spanish: Modern
Él juzgará entre las naciones y arbitrará entre muchos pueblos. Y convertirán sus espadas en rejas de arado, y sus lanzas en podaderas. No alzará espada nación contra nación, ni se adiestrarán más para la guerra.

Jesaja 2:4 German: Elberfelder (1871)
und er wird richten zwischen den Nationen und Recht sprechen vielen Völkern. Und sie werden ihre Schwerter zu Pflugmessern schmieden, und ihre Speere zu Winzermessern; nicht wird Nation wider Nation das Schwert erheben, und sie werden den Krieg nicht mehr lernen.

Ésaïe 2:4 French: Darby
Et il jugera au milieu des nations, et prononcera le droit à beaucoup de peuples; et de leurs épées ils forgeront des socs, et de leurs lances, des serpes: une nation ne lèvera pas l'épée contre une autre nation, et on n'apprendra plus la guerre.

 

Bibliography:

Lisa Hepner  2003 Peaceful Earth

Cherles Mercieca Ph.D  - Creating a Culture of Peace As Absolute Necessity -IAEWP  2006                                                                               

Old Testament (Isaiah 2:4 )