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The INVITATION ... an emperience in the Peace Dome |
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The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates you meet in The INVITATION One day in August, 1976 in a working class neighborhood of Belfast, Northern Ireland, a getaway car driven by a member of the Irish Republican Army went out of control and crashed into an iron railing, killing three young children and seriously injuring their mother. One of the witnesses to the tragedy was a 33 year-old office worker named Betty Williams. Horrified, she set about to restore peace to her troubled city. Betty and Mairead Corrigan, the sister of the injured woman, founded Peace People, an organization dedicated to ending the millennium-long violence in Northern Ireland. For this they shared the peace prize that year. |
Betty Williams We as Peace People go much further: we believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force. We all know that a simple handshake, a simple embrace, can break down enmity between two people. Multiply such acts of friendship all over the world... ©1976 The Nobel Foundation, reprinted with permission |
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