Articles by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
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USA, Ukraine/Russia, Palestine/Israel: Peace Is Possible!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – When Martin Luther King spoke so passionately and eloquently in his speech, ‘I have a dream,’ he touched the hearts of millions of people.
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Message at Launching of the ‘Law of the Innocents’ in Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – Mairead addresses, among other things, the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, the Rohingya ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and the Russia-Ukraine proxy war.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Day – Sat 21 Sep 2024
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
I would like to thank the Youth of the world for all they do to reject violence, militarism and war. I have been inspired wherever I have travelled by the imagination, courage and resistance of so many young people. They give me great hope for the future of humanity.
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A Mother’s Plea for Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – To all the people of Gaza I send you my deepest love and sympathy on the death of your beloved family and friends who have been murdered by the Israeli military in its ongoing war on Gaza.
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Open Letter to the Irish Government to Invoke the Genocide Convention
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
To Protect Gazans from Genocide – We, the undersigned, watch with horror the death toll and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and believe there is an urgent need for action under the Genocide Convention. A public statement has highlighted the overwhelming evidence that the government of Israel has carried out acts of genocide against civilians in Gaza.
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Mairead Maguire on Ending the Current Wars
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
13 Nov 2023 – Making peace instead of wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
→ read full articleThe Irish Government Must Invoke Genocide Convention
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
4 Nov 2023 – Nobel Peace Laureate called on the Irish government to trigger the Genocide Convention as a way to help halt the Israeli genocidal attack on Palestinians, in front of the American embassy in Belfast today.
→ read full articleGaza in the Interest of Humanity: “Stop This Insanity!”
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The Israeli government is committing war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. They are breaking international law, which prohibits the collective punishment of civilian populations. For peace, an immediate ceasefire, dialogue and negotiations in Gaza!
→ read full articleRIP Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
31 Aug 2022 – I am sad to learn of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev on Tue, 30 Aug 2022. I had the honour of meeting him on several occasions at Nobel Peace Summits. May we all be inspired by his spirit, courage, integrity and vision of Nuclear Disarmament and Peace for Russia, the West and the World.
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(Italiano) La NATO e l’Ucraina
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
12 Luglio 2022 – La NATO è la macchina da guerra globale che gli Stati Uniti dominano; la cui politica è la “Full Spectrum Dominance”. Contrariamente alle sue affermazioni, la NATO non è un’organizzazione difensiva. Il suo scopo è stato quello di agire come strumento per il dominio mondiale degli Stati Uniti e di prevenire tutte le sfide all’egemonia statunitense. Avrebbe dovuto essere sciolta nel 1991, dopo lo scioglimento del Patto di Varsavia, ma invece si è espansa in quindici nuovi Paesi.
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NATO and Ukraine
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
NATO is the US dominated global war machine whose policy is ‘Full Spectrum Dominance.’ Contrary to its claims, NATO is not a defensive organization but an instrument for US world domination to prevent all challenges to its hegemony. It should have been disbanded in 1991 after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact but instead expanded into fifteen new countries.
→ read full articleMilitarism Is Never the Answer
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The West has always demonized Russia and ignored its border security. The US has successfully stoked another war because NATO always needs an enemy–Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria—and they have now turned their sights back to Russia. It will be the Europeans who reap the fall out of another US/NATO folly.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Presidents Biden and Putin
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – Please, Mr. Presidents, be a light in a dark and dangerous world. Give the people hope. Please meet each other in friendship and in respect for each other, and the sake of the great peoples of your countries, USA and Russia.
→ read full articleDestitute and Desperate Asylum Seekers and Migrants
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
25 Nov 2021 – It was with deep sadness that on 23 Nov the world watched in horror the news that 27 people had drowned in the English Channel when their flimsy dinghy overturned attempting to cross from Calais to Dover. I am sorry and I ask the forgiveness of migrants and refugees who have been forced to flee their lands. I send my condolences to the families at the loss of their beloved ones in a cold watery tragedy far away from their homes.
→ read full articleThe Afghan War –> 200l-2021
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
17 Aug 2021 – This week, USA/NATO withdrew their troops from Afghanistan. The war cost hundreds of thousands of lives with the USA spending US $2 trillion, little of which went to improve the lives of Afghan people, many of whom are hungry, homeless and living in poverty. Our love, prayers and thoughts go out to the people of Afghanistan who have suffered so much.
→ read full articleGaza: IDF Kills Palestinians, Countless Children, by Air Bombardments
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
15 May 2021 – Such State violence must not be accepted by the peoples of the world. We cannot stand by allowing such Israeli inhumanity against Palestinians. Our silence will be shameful in the face of their illegal and brutal murder of Gaza’s children.
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Open Letter to Two World Leaders: ‘I Have No Enemies and I Don’t Want War’
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
26 April 2021 – Dear Presidents Biden and Putin, having visited Russia and the USA and having met your peoples, I believe they are not, nor they wish to be, enemies. Please, put away rhetoric of insult and abuse and start a dialogue of respect for each other and your countries. Make peace-not war, start to disarm, give the world some hope.
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Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
… to Address the Following Requests: 1) Free Julian Assange; 2) Save the Children of Yemen.
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Nomination of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace People | Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“My reasons for nominating them together are simple. Individually each has given countless examples of courage exposing governments’ illegal actions that caused millions of deaths, putting their own freedom and lives on the line. Collectively, their lives of self-sacrifice and selflessness constitute remarkable demonstrations of the magnificence of the human spirit. They are indeed breathtaking testimonies to the goodness inherent in the human heart.”
→ read full articleMessage to Pax Christi’s ‘Peacemaker of the Year’ Award
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
2020 Pax Christi Peacemaker of the Year Award Presented to Malachy Kilbride – Thank you, Malachy, for your courage in challenging the military industrial complex and speaking up for truth that weapons and war are not acceptable as they kill humans and destroy the environment. US wars displaced 37 million people in the past 19 years according to a new study by Brown.
→ read full articleStatement for International Day of Peace, 21 Sep 2020
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Today’s philosophy driving our politics is threefold: unjust economics, the military industrial complex, and the competition leading to war. We need to change our thinking and put people and their needs top of Policy agendas. Now, we need a world free of all weapons, and for us all to work on human security and peacebuilding.
→ read full articleGeorge Floyd, RIP
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Like millions of others, both in United States and around the World, I was deeply shocked by the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer on 25 May 2020. As a tribute and in respect to his memory we join our black American brothers and sisters and commit to the search for justice, equality and peace amongst the human family.
→ read full articleDo Not Be Afraid…. All Will Be Well….
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
If this virus has done anything, it has reminded us that we are only human and very vulnerable; we need each other to survive and thrive. If anything, this virus hopefully will cement the opinion that we are All One, brothers and sisters; what affects one affects all. Hopefully, it will create a greater sense of community and solidarity within the human race in addition to respect for each other, for nature and the universe. We will become more aware that we are interconnected, interdependent, cooperation and solidarity being key to human and environmental survival.
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Remembering My Friend Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams (RIP)
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate (22 May 1943 – 18 Mar 2020), Co-Founder of Peace People (1976). Today, a final farewell to Betty Williams took place at Roselawn Cemetery, Belfast.
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A Word to TMS Readers and Supporters
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
“It is with great pleasure that I write in praise and support of TMS. I look forward to it each week and enjoy reading the articles by Prof. Johan Galtung, peace educationalist, activists, and others from around the world. My thanks and admiration go to editor Antonio C. S. Rosa for the great efforts that he puts into the weekly production of Transcend Media Service. The publication keeps me in touch with the many people working in various fields and countries–both educating and inspiring me. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO KEEP THIS RELEVANT SERVICE ALIVE. It needs all the help we can give, i.e., writing, FINANCING, solidarity actions. I am also very grateful for the publications of my works on nonkilling, nonviolence, and a world without violence and war. I get encouragement knowing that so many people around the world are working for a world of peace and nonviolence.”
— Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Stop the Extradition of Julian Assange-Defend Freedom of the Press
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
Australian journalist Julian Assange, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, tried to uphold the right for the public to be informed and tell us the truth, and for so doing he has been persecuted, demonized, suffered character assassination, and hounded like a criminal, by the UK government and media.
→ read full articleTrump’s Ordered Assassinations: Cruel and Inhumane Breach of International Law
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
‘There are those who benefit from war, the militarists, the arms dealers, the corporate media/military industrial complex, but those who really pay for militarism and wars are the people and the tax of the poor. The propaganda and lies of of war are being spread and this time the target is Iran, just like US/UK/NATO carried out wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. Let us, the people, learn lessons from the past and unite and mobilize calling for no war against Iran. USA troops out of Shannon and out of Iraq! Yes to nonviolence, peace and dialogue! Let the people unite together to stop war, remembering that there is power in truth and love is stronger than hate.’
→ read full articlePathways to Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
I am very hopeful for the future as I believe if we can reject militarism in its entirety as the aberration/dysfunction it is in human history, and all of us who no matter what area of change we work in, can unite and agree we want to see a demilitarized unarmed world. We can do this together. Let us remember in human history, people abolished slavery, piracy, we can abolish militarism and war, and relegate these barbaric ways into the dustbin of history.
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Peace People Founder Ciaran McKeown Dead at 76
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
It is with deep sadness that I heard of the death of my dear friend and co-peace worker Ciaran McKeown on 1 Sep 2019. When the Peace People started in Aug l976 at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland, it was Ciaran, a political journalist, who courageously took the peace leadership–giving up his job and becoming a volunteer in spite of the fact that his fifth child was soon due–and joined myself and Betty Williams in co-founding the Peace People. RIP
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Don’t Play Politics with Our Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
It is with deep concern and regret that I witness Northern Ireland has been without a Parliament for almost two years. We have a fundamental right to government; all our futures are in your hands. Please don’t play politics with our peace. SIGN THE PETITION
→ read full articleAbolish Militarism and War
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Presented at the International Conference against US/NATO Military Bases, 16-18 Nov 2018, Dublin, Ireland – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-NATO, which should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, continue to carry out wars and proxy wars in many countries pushing towards the borders of Russia and resurrecting a cold war between the East and West. I believe that NATO should be disbanded and should be made accountable and make restitutions to the millions of people in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and many others it has illegally attacked, invaded, destroyed.
→ read full articleA Mother‘s Plea to Save Her Son… Held 8 Years without Charges by UK Government
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
On Nov 3, Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange, made a deeply moving video with a public appeal to save the life of her son. She says Julian is in immediate critical danger, all alone, sick, and cut off from all contacts including computer, phone, and mail. He deserves all our admiration and gratitude for his courage and bravery in truth telling. He is an inspiration to us all.
→ read full articleNorthern Ireland: Squandering a Future
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
I want to challenge everyone to look at their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and question: how big is their division? Gone are the days of fear and threat. So where does the problem lie? I believe the problem lies in the older generations who have suffered terribly on all sides through violence and fear. My generation has a responsibility not to restrain the youth by our bigotry and division.
→ read full articleDemonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions: still the most dangerous of games. In examining the future, we must look to the past.
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My Reflections on Pope Francis’ Visit to Ireland…
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
… and His Plea for Forgiveness of Victims for Church Clerical Sexual Abuse
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Declaration of Solidarity with Rohingya and Call for Myanmar Government to Be Investigated by the ICC
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
One young woman, Fatima (20), told us how Myanmar soldiers entered their village and came into her home. They shot her husband, made her carry her six month- old baby girl down to the lake where they threw the child into the pond and drowned her. They took Fatima back to her home; several soldiers held her down and constantly raped her until she became unconscious. They carried her outside to the field where they left her for dead. She was saved by an elderly Rohingya woman who helped her get across the border into Bangladesh. – Rohingya Genocide Day 25 Aug 2018
→ read full articleFree Julian Assange!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
We owe Julian Assange our deepest thanks for his courage and being prepared to tell the truth even at risk of his own liberty and life. We can all, especially the media, and governments, refuse to be silent in face of such injustice and persecution of a man whose only crime was telling the truth to stop the wars and save lives.
→ read full articleUshering in a New Era of Peace and Feminist Future
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Seoul International Women‘s Peace Symposium, South Korea National Assembly
→ read full articleAfter 70 Years of Ethnic Cleansing and Global Complicity – Are We Racist?
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
16 May 2018 – Since the beginning of the Palestinian Grand Return March on land Day 30th April, the world has looked on in horror as Israel has killed at least 109 Palestinians and injured thousands of unarmed protestors. I extend to the Palestinian people my deepest sympathy on the killing of their sons and daughters and the continuing occupation and seizing of their land by Israel. I thank them for their courage and sacrifice to challenge injustice and the latest inhumanity perpetrated upon them by Israeli/USA policies.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Prime Minister Theresa May from Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – We have in our generation seen the madness of military action upon Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan, Chechnya – the list is endless. Are we now to add Syria to yet another bombed out country? Millions dead, millions displaced, little children left without parents and living in poverty? Surely we can all do better than this? Appeal to P.M. May and U.K. Government to choose Peace and not war against Syria.
→ read full articleProspects for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
Presentation to the International Symposium on Nuclear Weapons at the Vatican, Rome, 10-11 Nov 2017: The Peace Process in Northern Ireland
→ read full articleAppeal for Political Leaders to Make Executive and Assembly Work for the People of Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – The vast majority of people in Northern Ireland, whose main desire is to live in peace together, earn a living and raise their families, are currently living in a no-man’s land. We are living now in a political vacuum, which leaves our community vulnerable to paramilitarism. But it does not have to be like this.
→ read full articleIn Support of LBGT’s Same-Sex Marriage Campaign
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
Life is a mystery and love is the greatest mystery of all and should be celebrated and freedom to choose whom to love and whom to marry is one of our basic human rights. Equality is a key priority for a genuine solution to our problems in N. Ireland and none less so for the LGBT community that for years has faced harassment and discrimination.
→ read full articleNobel Women‘s Initiative Conference: 14-16 May 2017 – Monchengladbech, Germany
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
A global feminist resistance – its evolution and revolution – adapting to thrive!
→ read full articleRest in Peace Prof. Glenn Paige (1929 – 2017): Pioneer of Nonkilling and Peace Researcher
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
I am very sorry to hear of the death of my good friend Prof. Glenn Paige, who passed away on Sunday 22 January, 2017. Glenn was 87 years of age and he died at the end of a struggling illness during which he was nursed by his wonderful partner, and co peacemaker, Glenda Paige.
→ read full articleRohingya in Burma/Myanmar: Nobel Laureates Urge Action over ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Submitted by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Dear President and Members of the UNSC,
As you are aware, a human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar.
International Women’s Boat to Gaza
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
I was a participant onboard the Zaytouna-Oliva boat | 29 Sep-5 Oct 2016. To the Palestinian people of Gaza, please keep your hopes high and believe that freedom and peace will come. Thank you for your perseverance and ongoing inspiration to us all.
→ read full articleInternational Meeting ‘Thirst for Peace‘
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Assisi, 18-20 Sep 2016 – The Future of Europe: Capacity to Integrate, Dialogue, and Generate
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International Peace Day in Assisi
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
Update about Pope Francis’s Message
→ read full articleThe Chilcot Inquiry Report into the Invasion of Iraq
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
The foreign policy of the US/UK governments were for regime change and about Iraqi oil, and the method used were genocidal sanctions, wars and invasion of Iraq. The ‘shock and awe’ bombings of unarmed civilians by US/UK/allied forces was not about bringing democracy and human rights to Iraq, it was about regime change, oil, imperial power, arms and total destruction of infrastructure and starvation into submission of Iraq women and children.
→ read full articleContributing to the Catholic Church’s Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
Presentation to the International Conference on Nonviolence and Just Peace – Rome, April 11-13 2016 – I would like to see Pope Francis and the Catholic Church call for the total abolition of militarism (an aberration/dysfunction in human history.) Also For Pope Francis and the Church to renounce war and develop a ‘Theology of Nonkilling and Nonviolence’ rejecting the ‘Just War’ theology, which continues to lead people to an acceptance of militarism and war as alleged legitimate ways of solving conflict.
→ read full articleRemembering Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
I believe in the Irish people, in people everywhere, that we have a great future when we work together as the human family teaching our children not violence but the nonkilling/nonviolence of our great spiritual traditions and offering them the models of peacemakers such as St. Patrick who in his writings said that ‘killing cannot be with Christ,’ thereby rejecting ‘armed struggles’ militarism and war.
→ read full articleUrging UK to End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia and Saudis to End Their Bombing Campaign in Yemen
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, today called for Britain to stop breaking national and international law by selling arms o Saudi Arabia. The British government has sold £2.8 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since it began bombing Yemen last year and continues to remain silent on the UN reports of Saudi war crimes against the civilian population of Yemen.
→ read full articleRome Conference on NATO – January 2016
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
I believe we, the human family, have no less a task before us, than transforming our thinking and mind-sets of violence and war, and moving to a demilitarized Europe and World. We have imagination and genius and with confidence and trust in ourselves and each other, we can move away from nationalism and war, towards Regional solutions built on demilitarized societies of peaceful co-existence.
→ read full articleSyria – A Light to the World
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
In November 2015 I visited Syria together with an International Peace delegation. This was my third visit to Syria in the last three years. There is hope and Syria is a light to the world as there are many people working for peace and reconciliation, dialogue and negotiations, and this is where the hope lies and what we can all support by rejecting violence and war in Syria, the Middle East and our World.
→ read full articleNo to War! Call for Peaceful Nonviolent Resistance to United Kingdom’s Air Strikes against Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
On 2nd December, 2015 the United Kingdom Parliament voted to bomb Syria and the world watched as British planes, equipped with the latest bombs aptly named ‘Brimstone’ were dropped on Syrian targets.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Delegation to Syria 24-30 Nov. 2015
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
These are the findings of our delegation, consisting of eleven peace and human rights advocates from six countries. Over the course of five days, we met with internally displaced persons, refugees, affected communities, religious leaders, combatants, government representatives and many others in Syria.
→ read full articleEnding the Era of Wars
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – Barcelona, 13-15 November 2015
→ read full articleReclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity: Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Justice and Sustainability
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Ideological extremism and fundamentalism, whether religious/political, or of any other kind, cannot be bombed out of existence and there are no military or paramilitary solutions to many of the violent conflicts we are now living through.
→ read full articleAn Appeal for Shimon Perez and the Israeli Government to Do the Right Thing and Free Vanunu
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
After 31 years of punishment, Mordechai should be allowed to leave Israel, he is no threat to Israeli security, and it is wrong of the Israeli government to continue to punish him in this way.
→ read full articleAppeal to UK to Talk with Syrian Government and Islamic Militants to Help Solve Middle East Refugee Crisis
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire calls upon the UK government to move from military proposals, such as bombing Syria, to humanitarian solutions in tackling the refugee crisis, one of the greatest tragedies and human suffering facing Europe since the WWII.
→ read full articleWelcoming the Iran Nuclear Deal and Calling on Israel to Dismantle Its Nuclear Arsenal for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This Agreement is indeed to be welcomed, and it is a triumph for dialogue and diplomacy and proves that problems can be solved at the negotiating table instead of using the unethical, immoral and counter-productive method of military threats and attacks.
→ read full article2015 International Women Walk for Peace and Reunification of Korea
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Delegation Visits North/South Korea May 19–25, 2015 – On 24 May 2015, International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, thirty women peacemakers from 15 countries, made a historic crossing of the two mile wide de-militarized zone DMZ from North to South Korea.
→ read full articleNobel Women Initiative’s Conference – Building Global Support for Women Human Rights Defenders
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Breaking the silence on Israel’s human rights abuse of Palestinians is the best way to help Palestinian women human rights defenders and peacemakers.
→ read full articleWhy Are We Planning to Walk Across the Demilitarized Zone That Separates North and South Korea?
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Seventy years ago, as the Cold War was being waged, the USA unilaterally drew the line across the 38th parallel—later with the former USSR’s agreement—dividing an ancient country that had just suffered 35 years of Japanese colonial occupation. Now the conflict on the Korean peninsula threatens peace in the Asia Pacific and throughout our world.
→ read full articleLetter to Palestinian Women
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
We have dulled our consciences and lost our moral compass. Humanity, for all its new found knowledge, was never more lost for a united purpose and vision than perhaps any generation before us. Without wisdom, moral values and principles, such knowledge could lead to our very destruction.
→ read full articlePresentation to Nobel Summit – Rome, Italy
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Appeal to His Holiness Pope Francis to Replace Just War Theory with Theology of Peace, Nonkilling, and Nonviolence
→ read full articleInternational Peace Day 21/9/2014 – Peace through Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism, which is an aberration and a system of dysfunction which must urgently be abolished and replaced by Law.
→ read full articleThe Peace Movement’s Vision – A Universal Call for Peace through the Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism but rather offer an alternative. Militarism should be outdated and go like hanging and flogging!
→ read full articlePeace Movements’ Common Vision: The Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
If our common dream is a world without weapons and militarism, why don’t we say so? Why be silent about it? It would make a world of difference if we refused to be ambivalent about the violence of militarism. We should no longer be scattered attempts to modify the military, each one of us would do our thing as part of a global effort. Across all divisions of national borders, religions, races. We must be an alternative, insisting on an end to militarism and violence.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Pilgrimage to Syria via Iran
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Ann Patterson and I were honoured to participate in the International Peace Pilgrimage to Syria via Iran, 5-14 April, 2014. During an international delegation to Syria last year, we had both promised to return to Syria, and we also fulfilled a long-held intention to visit Iran.
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Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
We all know the Jewish Narrative, particularly the story of the holocaust, but our sadness for this one of humanity’s greatest acts of inhumanity, should not stop us from speaking out on Israel’s current policy of a ‘silent genocide’ of the Palestinian people, and currently today of the people in Gaza.
→ read full articleDealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
I personally hope we do not choose to have a truth commission, and hope that we can move on as a people and society to a better future. Perhaps in its place we could deploy the resources into training and job creation to give people opportunities for work.
→ read full articleA Visit with Julian Assange—And Some Proposals
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The British and Swedish governments should move to unblock the present impasse on humanitarian grounds so that Julian can be questioned in reference to the Swedish case. And both governments should, regarding the US administration, protect Julian by blocking any retaliation against him thus guaranteeing his human rights.
→ read full articleI Believe There Will Not Be a United Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Our peace process will be only as strong and safe as long as we all, particularly our political leaders, refuse to play politics with our volatile emotions, and use rhetoric that can move others to kill, and as long as we together continue to build a nonviolent truly democratic Northern Irish society for every one of us and our children.
→ read full articleSyria: Open Letter to the American People
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
I visited Syria in May 2013. Despite the ongoing violence, I found it to be a land of hope. I met tribal and religious leaders, political dissidents and grieving parents and widows. In Syria there are millions of ordinary folk risking their lives for a peaceful, reconciled and united Syria they can all love.
→ read full articlePeace in Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
XIII World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Warsaw, Poland Oct 21-23, 2013 – We pay tribute to the great work of so many of the religious leaders, both Muslim and Christian, and to many in the Syrian civil society who in spite of so much suffering have continued to bravely work for an end to violence and engage in dialogue with everyone.
→ read full articleReplacing Violence, Armed Rebellions, Militarism, and War with Nonviolence and International Law
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Address to the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Warsaw, Poland, October 21-23, 2013 – Stand in Solidarity for Peace: Time to Act
→ read full articleCall On President Putin and Russians to Grant Asylum to Edward Snowden
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Edward Snowden, by revealing the existence and extent of the surveillance by the US government and exposing their spying programme that violates national and international laws, has done a great service to humanity. We can all be grateful to this courageous man of conscience for his personal sacrifice in revealing the secret NSA spying programmes. 55 percent of US citizens support his action.
→ read full article‘2 Million Friends of Afghan People for Peace in Afghanistan’
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate and Ann Patterson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
We will be visiting Kabul on 10th December 2012, international day of human rights, on behalf of the Peace People. We have been invited by Afghan peace volunteers to join them in their ‘2 million friends’ and ‘ceasefire’ campaign and we will join the voices for creative nonviolence delegation USA, to Afghanistan. The Afghan peace volunteers have chosen to ask for two million friends around the world remembering that in the last 40 years over 2 million Afghan people have died from violence.
→ read full articleAppeal for the International Community to Act Urgently To End Burmese Government Repression against Rohingya Muslims
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2012
29 August 2012 – Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire said today that ‘the stateless Rohingyas of Burma have suffered from persecution and discrimination for decades and are now facing inter-communal violence that has evolved into large scale state-sponsored violence against them.’
→ read full articleCall for the Immediate Release of Marian Price on Health, Humanitarian and Justice Grounds
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
Open Letter to the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – The illegal detention of Marian Price for political offences committed nearly forty years ago, and for which she was pardoned, is a serious violation of her human rights, a blank disregard for due process, and a violation of our ‘Good Friday Agreement’.
→ read full articleJustice for Assange!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
I would add my voice to those of many people of conscience around the world to urge Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to grant him political asylum. Mr. Assange’s only crime is to care enough about people and their right to the truth. He had the courage and bravery to print many truths that embarrassed powerful governments.
→ read full articleNo to War in Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Many may believe that there is a fight going on in Syria for ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. We can be seduced into thinking there is a magic wand or instant formula to mix that will create a democratic country, but there are none.
→ read full articleVisit to Democratic Republic of Congo
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
On 8th May, 2012, Ann Patterson and I travelled to the Kinshasa, in DRC, to join Yee Htun, Coordinator of the Nobel Womens Initiative International Campaign to Stop Rape in Conflict, and help launch the international campaign, to ‘Stop Rape in Conflict’. This was being launched simultaneously in four countries: Colombia, Kenya, Burma and the DRC in May, 2012.
→ read full articleDavid Horowitz’s Distortion of Reality and Truth
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
This week the David Horowitz’s Freedom Center perpetrated the same (foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman’s) historical distortion in its NYT advertisement comparing college professors who advocate Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the state of Israel to the Nazi government’s persecution of Jews.
→ read full articleIn Support of Ongoing Nuclear Power Satyagraha Protest in Koodankulam-India
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2012
Although the world’s media have given it scant attention, it is important for all of us to follow the nonviolent mass resistance movement against the nuclear power plant construction in Koodankulam village, Tamil Nadu, India. It has built up steadily into a nonviolent mass action, with about 10,000 people resisting the imposition of the plant in their backyard. The leader of the movement faces 98 spurious charges including sedition, treason, terrorism and attempted murder.
→ read full articleNobel Laureate Not Attending World Summit of Peace Laureates in the US
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
I cannot, in good conscience, be part of a partnership with the US government and by association with NATO. I also believe that my participation in such an event would compromise my position and put in jeopardy my work in the Middle East and other countries.
→ read full articlePartnership for Change Conference 2012: Dignity and Empowerment
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2012
Ending rape and sexual violence is a huge challenge to us all, but it can be done if we join in partnership and cooperation, and use a multi-faceted approach to transforming a culture of rape and sexual violence into a culture of nonkilling, nonviolence and respect for life and human dignity.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Calls For Ceasefire and Nonviolent Solution to the Conflict in Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2012
“The only people who can solve Syrian problems are the Syrians themselves. The international community must insist that all international and human rights laws be upheld by the Syrian government and that they enter a dialogue with all opposition groups whose voices have a right to be heard and not ‘silenced’ by persecution, torture and/or killings.”
→ read full articleCall for a Self-Determined Afghanistan
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2011
In a world where there is a new consciousness of our inter-dependence and inter-connectedness as a human family, NATO is a Cold War relic and an obstacle to real development and peace. NATO should be disbanded and its resources put into human security, i.e., removing poverty, the environment, human rights, international law, education, health care, nonviolent civilian security, and so on.
→ read full articleMay the Walls of Apartheid Come Tumbling Down
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine takes place in Cape Town, South Africa, 5-7 Nov 2011. The international jury consists of lawyers, writers, human rights activists. Archbishop Desmond Tutu opens the proceedings. During the two-day hearings, the jury receives many presentations, including ‘The Law and Practice of Apartheid in South Africa and Palestine’, and ‘The Palestinian Right to Self-determination’.
→ read full articleCriminality of Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Speech delivered in Berlin, 12th December, 2010. The International League of Human Rights (Germany) awards the Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal to Mordechai Vanunu and campaigns for his freedom to leave Israel and receive his prize in Berlin. My Dear Friends,
→ read full articleRole of Civil Society in Ending Nuclear Weapons and War
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
Presentation at a panel discussion on Japanese TV – 11th Nobel Peace Summit, Hiroshima, Japan, Nov 12-14, 2010
→ read full articleThe Legacy of Hiroshima
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
Presented at the 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Nov 12, 2010, Hiroshima, Japan. Criminality and Delegitimation of Nuclear Weapons
→ read full articleFree Abdallah Abu Rahmah!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2010
Nobel Peace laureate and TRANSCEND member, Mairead Maguire, calls upon the Israeli government to release human rights defender Abdallah Abu Rahmah and calls on the international community to take concrete steps to defend Abdallah Abu Rahmah and Palestinian human rights activists from Israeli repression and unlawful imprisonment.
→ read full articleChoose Peace—End the Siege on Gaza
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2010
It was reported on Monday [12 Jul 2010] that an Israeli military commission found “no failure” on the part of the commandos who took part in the attack. And while the UN Security Council and human rights groups called for an independent and “credible” inquiry into the matter, there are no such plans in the works. Israel has deemed such independent efforts as “anti-Israel” and a threat to the existence of the state. The result? The US and indeed the rest of the international community stand on the sidelines, doing nothing. On June 5, I was aboard the MV Rachel Corrie—a ship named for a young American activist who was bulldozed to death by the Israeli army in 2003—heading to Gaza. Just days earlier, we had heard via satellite phone that Israeli commandos had boarded six ships, including the Turkish MV Mavi Marmara, in international water, and had killed and injured many aboard.
→ read full articleOpen Letter of Appeal to the Jewish People
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
I write to ask for your help in gaining the freedom of a good man, a man of peace, and a man of conscience. In the Jewish scriptures there is great emphasis on justice and freedom and it is for such, for one man, that I write to seek your help. He will not be aware that I am writing this Appeal, but I do so in the hope that, with your help, it will produce his freedom, and not (and this I must risk) cause yet more punishment and cruelty to be inflicted upon him.
→ read full articleMaguire Calls for Israel’s Blockade of Gaza to Be Lifted Completely
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, who was a passenger on the MV Rachel Corrie ship that tried to break the siege and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, but whose boat was illegally confiscated by Israeli commandoes in international waters on 5th June 2010, has responded to the news that the Israeli government has eased blockade on Gaza. She stated:
→ read full articleChoose Peace – End the Siege of Gaza and the Occupation of Palestine
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
On Saturday 5th June, 2010, thirty five heavily armed Israeli navy seals commandeered our boat, MV Rachel Corrie, one of the Freedom Flotilla, in international waters (30 miles off the coast of Gaza). As they did so we, nineteen humanitarian activists and crew, were on the deck. We were quietly anxious, aware of the solitary figure in the wheelhouse with his hands held high against the window, in full view of the three Israeli warships, four approaching zodiacs and two commando carriers, whose guns were pointing in his direction. I personally wondered if the courageous Derek Graham would live to tell the tale, conscious of what happened on the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, earlier in the week.
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