Achieving peace Quote by Widad Akrawi

Extending social and economic development throughout the world and eliminating nuclear weapons from military arsenals are two fundamental prerequisites to replacing the culture of…

— Douglas Roche

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence…

— Kofi Annan

We have to consciously build the elements of a world based on a culture of peace and disarmament. This is a task for everyone.…

— Widad Akrawi

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of…

— Widad Akrawi

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

— Richard Louv

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

— Stewart Udall

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

— Eduardo Galeano

“This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon…

— Irwin Shaw

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just…

— Elise M. Boulding

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger…

— George Packer

War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from…

— Milan Kundera

“2nd step towards achieving peace is to support disarmament policies because arms fuel tensions and undermine peace and stability.”

— Widad Akrawi