There’s a phrase originating with the peace activism of the American Quaker movement: "Speak Truth to Power." One can hardly speak more…
In early June, 2009, I was in the Shah Mansoor displaced persons camp in Pakistan, listening to one resident detail the carnage…
In Pakistan’s Swabi district, a bumpy road leads to Shah Mansoor, a small village surrounded by farmland. Just outside the village, uniform…
It’s one thing to study online articles describing the MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators. It’s quite another to identify these drones as…
People have asked me, since I returned from Gaza, how people manage? How do they keep going after being traumatized by bombing…
Arish, Egypt — Yesterday, en route to the Rafah border crossing that leads into Gaza, our driver pointed to a long line…
About six months ago, Dan Pearson, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, swiveled around in his office chair in our tiny “headquarters”…
Over the past two years, here in Amman, Jordan, I’ve regularly visited the family of Umm Hamdi, an Iraqi woman forced out…
Amman – The city of Amman, Jordan, is awash with numerous colorful signs that proclaim independence, "Istiklal." The word is found on…
Traveling with as light a load as possible is something I long for during long stretches away from home. I routinely discard…
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