10 Years of gratitude for local peacebuilders
This holiday season, I am filled with enormous gratitude for my time with Peace Direct. I look ahead with great hope for the future of locally-led peacebuilding and this remarkable community.
Author: Bridget Moix
9/11: Twenty Years On
Lessons from Peacebuilding Twenty years ago, I walked into the offices opposite the UN Headquarters in Manhattan as the first plane struck the World Trade Center. Soon after, diplomats from every corner of the world streamed out of the UN building in a mass evacuation as news of the terrorist attacks shook the world. Later … Continued
Toward a Healed America
Peace Direct welcomes the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and urges all Americans to join together in the work of healing our broken nation.
Statement on the Violence at the U.S. Capitol
Peace will prevail
Message from Peace Direct’s US Executive Director for #GivingTuesday
It’s been a challenging and tumultuous year. The coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and contentious national elections have laid bare deep inequities, racism and division here in the U.S. We are called like never before to build peace in our own country, and to do it in solidarity with people around the world … Continued
Building peace takes time: 5 steps to build it in the US now
Updated Nov. 9: The results are in. The U.S. elections are over, and a new president and the first ever woman vice president have been elected. If the 2020 elections have shown us anything, though, it is that the U.S. is in dire need of peacebuilding. This is not news to anyone who has been living in politically … Continued
US elections crisis: An opportunity to build peace
As the Nov. 3 U.S. elections unfold, tensions are escalating. Political and social divisions are deepening. The Black Lives Matter movement continues to push for racial justice, even as reports of police violence against people of color continue. The coronavirus pandemic and related economic recession persist with no end in sight. Many Americans feel the very future of their country is at stake.
9/11, 16 years later: what should we learn about peace not war?
16 years on the legacy of 9/11 continues to affect the world. As the US announces further troop deployments to Afghanistan, what can we learn from the local people building peace on the ground about avoiding terrorism and violent conflict?
Inspired to action at the Women’s March in Washington
The Women’s March was a historic and resounding success in sending a strong message that communities around the US and the world will stand up and speak out against sexism, hate, racism and division.
Trump in the White House: a view from Washington
As we turn to organizing for whatever may come after Trump’s election to the White House, we should remember that the work of social change and peacebuilding is long-term, measured ultimately in decades and lifetimes, not campaigns and elections.