Mothers Uniting for Peace
an article by Rose Lord

Global Coalition for Peace has initiated a project, called Mother-to-Mother for Peace and Nonviolence, that could help to transform our world. It’s about mothers all over the world forming an alliance that states, “We will not contribute the lives of our children to the perpetuation of hatred, isolationism, indifference and war.”

You may have heard the saying, “The hand that rocks the cradle is that hand that rules the nation,” and you may think that this concept is obsolete in a world of superpowers and their high-tech weapons. But what if there was nobody who was willing to make those weapons, nobody who was willing to go to war and kill his fellowman? What if we were able to raise a generation of citizens who knew how to resolve disagreements with compassionate negotiation rather than armed conflict?

We, the mothers of the world, can do this. We can still exert the greatest influence on the attitudes and behaviorisms of our children, IF WE CHOOSE TO DO SO. Mother-to-Mother for Peace and Nonviolence is a program that puts mothers from different cultures and different parts of the world into partnerships with one another for the purpose of making an agreement to raise their children in a framework of nonviolence and to support each other in that decision.

Global Coalition for Peace is currently looking for Muslim-American mothers to partner with a non-Muslim American mothers to help to increase understanding between these two groups of people. But we are looking for mothers from anywhere and everywhere to join the program. Please visit our website at www.globalcoalitionforpeace.net and contact: Rose Lord rose@globalcoalitionforpeace.net or 412-655-3063.

Our motto is “I will not raise my child to kill your child”

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Although I am a male, I share several traits which are often considered feminine such as empathy.  I have a great poster on the wall in my cubicle at work of four faceless women with prominent hands - indicating active engagements.  The first is holding a bird, the second a fish, the third a plant, and the fourth an infant.

The name of the poster is "Guardians" and the saying underneath it is what I love the most:  "I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace."  The "architect of peace" and the woman holding the infant is right in line with this topic.

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