Thinking Peace in the Wednesday before Christmas

My sister asked me what I want for Christmas this year?

You know what I really would like?  The realisation that in the the 21st Century there have got to be better methods to solve issues than blowing people up, shooting at them or murdering them

I have lived in 3 war zones. I can tell you that war is not a strength for a society or an economy. In two of those zones, the war has not solved anything and the conflict remains.

I have seen too many kids injured, women hurt, men destroyed to find war to be a good answer.

How can we act as peacemakers in 2011? I want to make a step.