International Network for Peace

the net of people deeply affected by political violence

About us

We are a global network of organizations comprised of people who lost loved ones to, or were directly affected by war, nuclear weapons, terrorism, genocide, organized crime, and political violence.
We work together to break the cycles of violence and revenge, and are committed to honoring the memories of the victims and to the dignity of the survivors.
Our task is to turn our grief and loss into action for peace.
 

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David Hartsough interviewed

Talk Nation Radio | 12-25-2012
Friday 4 January 2013
David Hartsough has been a peace activist since the 1950s, a conscientious objector, a civil disobedient, arrested over 100 times. In 2002 he cofounded the Nonviolent Peace Force (nonviolentpeaceforce.org). Hartsough is the executive director of Peace Workers (peaceworkersus.org). He discusses the current status of war and peace in our culture. Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson. Producer: David Swanson. Engineer: Christiane Brown. Music by Duke Ellington. Download or get embed code from Archive or AudioPort or LetsTryDemocracy. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. www.peaceworkersus.org Leer más


Tragedy strikes Newtown

Guns are only a part of the problem

Andrea LeBlanc
Sunday 16 December 2012
Yesterday’s tragedy strikes at our hearts and leaves us - again - shattered with pain for the shear needlessness of it. There are no words that will assuage the victims’ families grief. The wounds will remain. It will take a very long time to know how to hold the sadness and the rage and also, eventually, learn to go on living with the loss. We struggle to understand what happened out of our need for an explanation of what has violated all sense of rightness. We need to understand that the gunman and his family are victims too. Perhaps victims of the society we have responsibility for. This tragedy did not come out of nowhere. We need to frame our thoughts as we go forward around the the fact that guns are an expression of the violence we as a culture condone. We do not want (...) Leer más


The New York Times

Enough. Another Gaza flare-up is over — for now

Roger Cohen
Friday 30 November 2012
ANOTHER Gaza flare-up is over — for now. At least 150 Palestinians are dead. Five Israelis are dead. More bloodshed and scars have been inscribed in the 64-year-old conflict’s Book of Unforgiving. To what end? Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, drones on about past “invaders” who “were faced with defeat,” presumably a reference to the Crusaders. Get a life, Khaled, Israel is here to stay. He says, “Whoever attacks Palestine will be killed and buried.” Well, Palestinians have been losing since 1948 with that sort of talk. I would say at this point the trend is definitive. Israel, in the person of its U.S. ambassador, Michael Oren, defends the Gaza bombing as effective deterrence. “The tactic is deterrence. Our strategy is survival,” he writes of a nuclear-armed state, by far the most (...) Leer más


Open Letter

To Sec. Panetta regarding the trials in Guantanamo

September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Monday 26 November 2012
Dear Secretary Panetta, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows respectfully requests that you telecast the legal proceedings at GB around the world broadly and without restriction. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, along with four other Al-Qaeda men, currently stand accused of masterminding the murder of 2,973 civilians on September 11, 2001. We are family members and loved ones of those who died. The global scope of the defendants’ alleged crimes and the global impact of the United States’ response, in essence renders the military commission trial a global war crimes trial that should be open to all observers. People around the world witnessed the televised horror of 9-11. Persons around the world similarly deserve the opportunity to witness the judgment of men accused of initiating (...) Leer más


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Tragedy compounded: Killers’ parents become instant pariahs

JoNel Aleccia - Vitals on NBC News
Saturday 4 August 2012
As news crews swarmed outside the tile-roofed house of accused shooter James Eagan Holmes’ parents in an upscale suburb of San Diego, a stranger 1,300 miles away in Texas grieved for those inside. “I’ve been worried about the family,” said Lois Robison, 78. “I know what it’s like to find out your son has killed several people.” Last Friday, when Holmes allegedly opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., his parents, Robert and Arlene Holmes, were instantly thrust into a club that no one wants to join: family members of notorious killers. Like the parents of Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Columbine High School killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, they’re quickly becoming pariahs, publicly reviled for raising a monster. But a group organized (...) Leer más


The Huffington Post

Love Thy Enemy

David Miles
Friday 8 June 2012
[/David Miles, Managing editor, Global Politics Magazine/] Sir Anthony Berry was killed in the Irish Republican Army’s bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in 1984. His daughter Jo talks about her friendship with the man convicted of the attack and why she thinks empathy can make a difference. When confronted with the heart wrenching reality of conflict there are some individuals who, in their search for understanding, want more than the comforting truths provided by national, cultural or familial bonds. In Peter Beinart’s powerful new book, The Crisis of Zionism, the former New Republic editor describes being troubled after watching a video of a young Palestinian boy called Khaled Jaber crying out as his father was hauled away by Israeli forces for "stealing" water intended for (...) Leer más

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