Security comes before peace

Jerusalem Post;  May 10, 1996 ;   Shlomo Riskin;   787 words ......alludes to a formula for peace, which we've defined as compromise...compromises necessary for peace. I would be remiss if I didn't mention one more definition of peace. "I will give peace in the...asked: about what kind of peace are we speaking when the...Bible is emphasizing a ...

The peace of God is a gift to protect, share and live.(Culture, Et...

The Washington Times;  August 23, 1999 ;     651 words ......an adversary called the devil. He looks to devour the peace in our life, and it is a kind of spiritual warfare we must engage in. The third enemy of peace is our words. Proverbs 12:18 says, Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword. Often peace is robbed by words we hear, or by what we say to ...

From doughnuts to toffee apples: A new model of war and peace

RUSI Journal;  February 1, 2000 ;   Tweed, Chris;   787 words ......cessation of war. A treaty of peace between states etc. at war...achievement of the second. The definition is therefore quite restricted...contribute to the state of peace or result in its ruination...be considered to threaten peace. It is unlikely that many...its cessation, as times of ...

Definition of peace

Michigan Chronicle;  March 25, 2003 ;   Glenn, Aaron C.;   172 words ......Aaron C. Michigan Chronicle 03-25-2003 Peace, how can I define it? Tell me how I can get everyone that God loves to try it. Peace, how can I explain it? Show me how I can get every man, woman and child to claim it. Peace, will there ever be any? You would think...

Peace, a timely message.(Opinion & Editorial)

Manila Bulletin;  May 15, 2004 ;     619 words ......of the Lord in this 5th Easter Sundays gospel is peace. Peace be with you, He said when he appeared to His disciples on the evening of Easter Sunday (Lk 24:36). Peace is a timely message after our national and local elections...It ought to be a time for healing. * * * Let there be peace on earth. ...

Gift of peace.(Reflections Today)

Manila Bulletin;  May 8, 2007 ;     373 words ......commanded Me. The WORD In the gospel reading Jesus says: My peace I give to you. Notice the emphasis on my peace. This is already a warning that Jesus' peace is something different from other forms of peace. Then he specifies negatively: Not as the world gives do I give it to you. He offers no ...

Pinwheels for Peace a community project

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  August 29, 2005 ;     216 words ......being my sister. The project is called "Pinwheels for Peace." This is not political. Peace doesn't necessarily have to be associated with the conflict...related to violence/ intolerance in our daily lives, to peace of mind. To each of us, peace can take on a different meaning, but, in the end, it ...

Children's books search for meaning of peace

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  January 22, 2005 ;   Capital-Journal;   520 words ......extraordinary book, "The Peace Book" (Little, Brown...different kinds of peace all around us. A litany of simple yet profound definitions of peace is accompanied by Parr...book opens with the definition, "Peace is making new friends...

Jesus' offering of peace

Call & Post;  December 21, 2006 ;   Stanley, Charles;   313 words ......walking by, "What gives you peace?" The ans-wers you receive...common: the average person's definition of peace is dependent upon circumstances...sickness strikes the body? Peace that's rooted in good situations isn't really peace at all. It's a brittle...

Levertov's Making Peace.(Denise Levertov)

The Explicator;  March 22, 2005 ;   Beebe, Ann;   787 words ......war. She believed that we have never truly experienced peace, but we do have these glimpses of it, and we have them...poets to craft poems that teach readers how to imagine peace, not only / the absence of war (4-5). The thirty open-verse lines of Levertov's Making Peace provide a description of the ...

"Israel and Palestine: Toward a just peace--exploring the U.S. role"

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  January 1, 2002 ;   Assaf, Roxane; Levitt, Cindy;   774 words ......11 was aptly named "Israel and Palestine: Toward a Just Peace--Exploring the U.S. Role." Not In My Name, a Jewish peace group seeking an end to the Israeli occupation of the...surrounding the conflict. If our goal is to create a just peace in the region, then the role of the U.S. needs to be ...

War, Peace, and the Social Order.(Review)

Social Forces;  September 1, 2001 ;   ENDER, MORTEN G.;   710 words ......so-called post-Cold War era where lines between war and peace have become increasingly blurred. War, Peace, and Social Order begins to fill the gap. WPSO contains...begins by making the sociological link between war and peace with emphasis on how war and peace are created. Chapter 2 provides depth ...

Crying 'peace, peace,' when there is no peace

Jerusalem Post;  August 30, 2002 ;   MIDGE DECTER;   787 words ......Versailles to Chamberlain's peace in our time to the Paris peace accords of 1973 that allegedly settled the war in Vietnam, all the way to Yitzhak Rabin's Give peace a chance (and did Rabin know when he intoned this mantra...suppose that expressions the old 20th-century demand for peace will, or ...

Serious academic approach to the study of peace.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)

The Christian Science Monitor;  April 22, 2003 ;     787 words ......students to focus their study on the problems of creating peace and justice, and there are five areas we see fitting under...government. Based on that range of topics, how do you define peace? I think, in common parlance, peace means the absence of war. And the first thing that students learn in ...

TACOMA, Wash.: Students Celebrate "Whirled" Day of Peace

Targeted News Service;  September 13, 2007 ;     656 words ......of life. It is our hope that through the Pinwheels for Peace project, we can help the students make a public visual statement about their feelings about war/ peace/ tolerance/ cooperation/ harmony/ unity and, in some way...the next generation is thinking. This is not political. Peace does not necessarily ...