“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide”–Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
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Maung Zarni interviews Mairead Maguire | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service
Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel’s history, from its founding in May 1948:
“Israel cannot build peace on genocide. We have got to find more humane ways to solve our problems.”
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of Peace People, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book, The Vision of Peace, (edited by John Dear with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from www.wipfandstock.com. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: www.peacepeople.com.
A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center – Cambodia. Zarni is the co-founder of FORSEA, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, Essays on Myanmar Genocide.
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Tags: Conflict Transformation, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Women's Initiative, Palestine, Peace, Peacebuilding, West Bank
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The conversation between Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Maung Zarni was so full of wisdom and truth. It is sad that many leaders of the world cannot hear this truth that leads to peace, because it is of no profit to their governments.
Some day such wisdom will be recognized and practiced – or else there will be no humanity left.