“How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.” During the ceremony to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, Shirin Ebadi did a simple thing… Read more »
Category: Asia
TERESITA “GING” QUINTOS-DELES
“It was the task of the citizens’ peace movement to pick up the pieces and continue and steer the peace process.” As I worked with Asian-Pacific leaders to plan a conference on conflict resolution, Filipino members of our planning team insisted that we call on “Ging,” the popular nickname for Teresita Quintos-Deles. We invited her… Read more »
ZARGANA
“The soldiers have guns. The people have only mouths” I’d been teaching about nonviolent symbolic actions in Burma using stories from the Bible. At the break one woman told me about a man walking around the city with a fancy silk shirt over a tattered and dirty longyi, the long skirt-like garment Burmese men and… Read more »
GASTON GRANDJEAN DAYANAND
Gaston Grandjean is one of the most humble heroes imaginable. He work has been so inspiring that the main character in Dominique Lapierre’s novel City of Joy was based on him, but Grandjean did not want to be visible. But the success of City of Joy and the subsequent movie by that name have brought… Read more »
CHARLES FREER ANDREWS (1871-1940)
Christ’s Faithful Apostle: That was the name given to this Christian priest by the Hindu Indian independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi, playing off the initials of Charles Freer Andrews. Andrews was one of Gandhi’s closest associates and friends. Together they struggled for justice and freedom over many years and in many settings. Andrews grew up in… Read more »