Peace Stories
Radiant Without, Radiant Within
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“Inspirational Stories: Biographies Which Inspire” by Patricia Rife
“Non-Violent Communication: A Nigeria Story” by Marshall Rosenberg
“The Power of Affirmation” by John Strickland
“A 2,300 Acre International Peace Garden: Beauty between the
Border of Canada and the USA” in memory of Dr. Henry Moore
“Peace is Happy When Visitors Come” by Folke Tegetthoff
“Portable Libraries, Hot Dogs and Sharing in Vietnam: The Global Village Foundation” by Le Ly Hayslip
“From Preparation to Leave the Earth as an Astronaut to Stewardship of a Peaceful Planet” by Brian O’Leary
“Children of Abraham: Muslim and Jewish Youth Dialogue on Peace” by Ari Alexander, Gul Rukh Rahman and Dania Rari Pratiwi
“A GI’s Transition to Activism” by Bruce Gagnon
“The Olympics Come to Athens: A Letter from a Visitor to the Era of Light and Life” by Costas Diamantopoulos
“Kingdom Peace” by Janee Hawks
“Remembering Tiananmen Square: A Chinese Eye-Witness Account” by an anonymous student
“Everything for Everyone: The Flowery Wars of Peace led by the Indigenous People of Mexico” by Subcoyote Alberto Ruz
“Practicing Compassionate Listening: A Trip to Israel and Palestine” by Lung Ogle
“Making Peace Work an Integral Part of One’s Lifetime” by Charles Mercieca
“Heaven, Earth and the Phang Nga Province in Thailand” by LeLy Hayslip
“Why Do Men Make War? The Art of Peacemaking: A Human Necessity” by Michael Whitty and Dan Butts
“A South African University Becomes Real: A Vision of Success” by Gayatri Erlandson and Louisa Dyer
“From the Berlin Wall to Pharaoh’s Hall: Crossing Borders for Peace” by Patricia Rife
“The Green Cross: Why Climate Sustainability, Gorbechev and Peace Are Related”
“Jesus, Prince of Peace: Healing Miracles in My Lifetime” by Nora Eppelin
“Creating a Peace Studies Degree Program in the Georgia State University System” by Thomas Pynn and Tom Hedeen
“Stalking Inter-Personal Peace” by Cynthia Moe and Mark Feinknopf
“My Life in Iraq: Before and After” by Hanaah Al-Kaabi
“Praying Peace: A Dialogue between a Mystic and Physicist” by James Twyman
“Creating a Persian Festival in Bicentennial Park, Sydney, Australia” by Kurosh Parsi
“Remembering Norman Cousins: An Activist for World Peace” by Bill Wickersham
“Co-Creating a New Future: Vision from Siberia” by Nina Goncharova
“The Role of Civil Societies in Times of Crises and Conflict” by Mohammed Attah
“Buddhism and a Flood of Bridges: Varieties of Peace in Inter-Religious Dialogue” by Jeffrey Wattles
“Ceremony for the Special Citation of the U.N.-Habitat Scroll of Honor Award” In memory of President Harari, Lebanon
“Empires of the Future” by Loretta Scott
“Bosnia and the Art Reach Foundation” reprinted from the Bosnia Daily News
“Writing Gandhi’s Story: The Myth and Mystique of the Mahatma” by Uma Majmudar
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About the Book
An anthology of 26 diverse stories of peace - achieving peace inwardly, through social activism or through inter-personal dialogue, enjoy the inspirational stories of peace makers such as Gandhi, and international peace spokespeople from around the world. Authors include a former astronaut, an Iraq war survivor, peace educators from universities worldwide, South African, Mexico and Central American peace negotiators, Peace Gardens creators and many more whose inspirational stories will set your heart aflame! Seeking peace is a universal quest.
About the Author
Dr. Patricia Rife develops courses on topics ranging from “Sources of Conflict: An Ethical Approach” to “Biographies of Peace Leaders” and her latest “Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Skills for Managers”. She is a skilled instructional designer for the University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management & Technology in the Washington DC. area.
She was a Professor in the Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii system for 5 years. Dr. Rife has conducted historical research at the Max-Planck-Institute in Berlin; the Nobel Prize archives in Stockholm; the University of California-Berkeley History of Science program; Princeton and Harvard University archives. She has delivered public lectures on peace and the Nuclear Age at the Carter Center, Atlanta; Goethe Institute, San Francisco; Technion University, Israel; Boston University’s Physics Department and the American University of Cairo. As a global catalyst for peace, Dr. Rife’s lifelong focus has been empowering groups to create constructive social change and creative modes of effective social action.
Loretta Scott, M.A. in Education, is a certified Life Coach (specializing in business and career advancement coaching) and an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor. As a spiritual healer, Loretta has trained groups in consciousness-raising concerning the paradigm shifts from military to environmental peace. Worldwide, fromBrazil (Earth Summit Eco'92) to China (UN Fourth World Women's Conference '95), she has worked to raised the status of women and children.
Her life has been devoted to fostering ideas and elevating everyday language by empowering others. She has worked at grassroots levels to bring about self-empowerment and civic participation. Her background includes building peace coalitions. She has worked with Robert Muller (former Secretary General of the UN and current President of the Peace University in Costa Rica) and Barbara Marx Hubbard's groups. She excels in working with language used in everyday communication to foster peace.
Loretta enjoys peace in Greeley, Colorado and as a poet, finds poetry in Nature.