Category: Video


For this post, I will continue a bit on the topic of Gender.

No peace without women – Zainab Salbi speaks in two videos about the role of women in war conflicts and why and how to include them in the peace processes.

One shorter clip in which she tells a bit about her experiences in war time and the experiences of other women can be seen below. She focuses less on women being victims and more on their strength maintaining society, culture, humanity during violent conflicts:

She brings together experiences from women all over the world, having experienced war in this clip.

“War,” a friend of mine said, “is not about sound at all. It is actually about silence, the silence of humanity.”

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Heli just thankfully nudged me, that it may be helpful for your no-more-war parts in the workcamps, if I published the questions again. So here a short explanation and the questions to answer as part of the no-more-war effort!

For your workcamps, we would like to give you some inspiration on how to talk about peace and share your insights, questions, dreams and ideas. For that reason we created some questions for you and encourage you to find answers to some of these together with the other volunteers and communities you live with. You can find a bit more on some of the questions in the toolkit(which here are slightly altered to make them more personal, added some people to question seven). In case you want to make video clips about some of these questions, have a look at this article and feel free to share the videos with us :)

1. What are your own contributions to war?

2. Invisible wars in your vicinity that you know about?

3. Specific people / experiences as examples for contributing to war

4. Small everyday solutions to disconnect from the war machine

5. Who did you discriminate against today?

6. Whom did you empower today and how? View full article »

Remember the last post, talking about cultural violence? The current President of the US in North-America, when he received the Nobel Prize for Peace, gave a speech, which you can read here (and I would encourage you to do so, it is very interesting and quite well written :) ). That speech has some very good (bad) examples of how cultural violence works and looks…

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/obama-lecture_en.html

Or watch a video recording of the lecture:

http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1221

Lets take a look at some of his speech:

“Now these questions are not new. War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease – the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences.”

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Nonviolence at home and in politics – a very interesting speech – good to listen to.

Nonviolence as Defense by Gene Sharp, a researcher and vocal advocate of nonviolence.

He is more the pragmatist, focusing on how to do things instead of how to first change minds ;) Still, a lot of useful and interesting things, he says…

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one of my favourite training part.

Here is Home – a movie, I can only heartily recommend to all of you and which could probably be used during the workcamps as well if you are in the mood for it – the pictures are stunningly beautiful – all was shot out of a balloon to be as environmentally friendly as possible :D

The trailer:

You can find the full movie here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU