[Pdf-women] Men Make War: Women Want Peace! - Photo of Child Orphaned in Conflict + Poem on Women & Peace

[Soloveni Vitoso]

MEN MAKE WAR: WOMEN WANT PEACE!

THE HORROR IN THE FACE OF THE GIRL CHILD IN WAR

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Chris Hondros of Getty Images was with an army unit in Tal Afar, when its soldiers killed the parents of this blood-spattered girl at a checkpoint.
Tal Afar  is a Kurdish<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_people> city in northwestern Iraq<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq> - Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images
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WOMEN -  UNTAPPED SOURCE OF PEACE
Untapped source of peace,
The only real hope
Is to draw upon the collective wisdom of women.
Those with direct experience of the cost of war:
The life of child, grandchild, sibling, spouse.
The loss of limb or mind of someone near and dear,
The loss of laughter, the pervasiveness of fear,
The loss of hope for the future.
Untapped souce of peace,
Those who have known domestic violence
Seen the effect of bullying on sons
Seen daughters become silent
Seen light go out in their eyes
The loss of innocence,
in an unsafe world.
the message delivered
that they don't matter.
Untapped source of peace,
Women with empathy
who live in a world apart:
are safe, loved, and fortunate.
yet can imagine
being helpless, beaten and raped
Then forced to bear a child
conceived in violence.
Women who know in their hearts
That what happens to any woman
anywhere
could happen to them.
Untapped source of peace
Women who see loved ones filled with vengeance and hate,
Hyper-vigilant, fear-ridden, or afraid to sleep
Because of the nightmares.
Husbands, brothers, sons and now daughters
Home from wars
Bearing little resemblance to who they could have been
In a peaceful world.
Untapped source of peace
Women in circles,
Women connecting,
Women together
Bringing the sacred feminine,
Maternal instinct, sister archetype
Woman power
Into the world.
By Jean Shinoda Bolen
Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World
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