UN Sets Date to Begin Intra-Syrian Peace Talks
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria has set 25 January 2016 as the target date to begin talks between the parties aimed at ending the five-year-old conflict, it was…
Islam Does Not Mean Peace: Anjem Choudary
A London-based Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary suggests that Islam does not mean peace; rather it means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, he says, Muslims do not believe…
“U.S. Cost of Violence Surpasses 15% of GDP”
On the eve of the International Day of Peace (Sept. 21), the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has released a report detailing how much of the U.S. economy is…
OneVoice Balloons for Arab Peace Initiative
From a village near Jenin that borders on the 1967 line, OneVoice Palestine youth activists and locals released into Israel hundreds of helium balloons carrying the text of the Arab…
Syria Accepts Kofi Annan’s Peace Plan
After a long dilly-dallying during the past few days, it’s said that the Syrian rulers have accepted the peace formula offered by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (pictured above).…
Bush Institute Launches Freedom Collection
The George W. Bush Institute this week unveiled the Freedom Collection, a first-of-its-kind living repository documenting the continued struggle for human freedom and liberty around the world. President and Mrs.…