Speeches and Quotes

We are pleased to share the words of our Founder, Staff, Advisory Council, and honored colleagues in the field who have spoken and written about the work of building sustainable, substantive peace.

Speeches

Patricia Smith Melton, Founder and Board Chair, Peace X Peace:

• "New Voices at the Table" Excerpts by Patricia Smith Melton, Embassy of Kuwait, March 2006
• "Rising to your Full Self," Celebrate Peace Program Launch, Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic Headquarters, September 16, 2005
• Abstract of presentation on "Gender, Displacement, Memory and Agency," International Women's Conference sponsored by Ministry of Women's Affairs, Al-Quds University and York University, March 5-7, 2005, Ramallah, Palestine.
• "Women: Love, Fear and Multitasking in the Age of Weapons of Mass Destruction," Gather the Women Conference, October 14, 2004 in Irving, Texas, USA.

Selected articles from our Peace Times, the Peace X Peace e-newsletter

Patricia Smith Melton, Board Chair and Founder, Peace X Peace

• Your Power as a Third Party, April 4, 2007
• Courage: From the Universal to the Specific, April 18, 2007
• Power: Women in Groups, May 2, 2007
• Words, Walls, Attitude - or Radical Simplicity? July 27, 2007
• Five Years Later, September 11, 2006
• The Garden of Eden: Can Paradise Be Regained? June 2006
• Redefining Peace: An Interview, March 8, 2004

More Articles

• The Daily Power of Women in Peace Building: A statement, an invitation, and resource guideDaily Power of Women In Peace Building, Patricia Smith Melton, The Globalist, July 27, 2007
• The Daily Power of Women in Peace Building: A statement, an invitation, and resource guide
• Israeli and Palestinian Women: The Rising Force for Peace. Common Ground News Service, May 31, 2007.

Performance Poems

You. Patricia Smith Melton, International Museum of Women in the Arts, March 8, 2007

Quotes from our Peace Times, e-newsletter

We're both human, mothers, teachers, agony, she has hers and I have mine. There are commonalities. -Naba Hamid, Edition 41

Women speaking to women is not enough. We need women to be in places where men are making the decisions. -Maha Khatib, Edition 41

V-World is what it smells like when they let you go, when your not waiting to be hit...when you perspire from the sun instead of worry. -Eve Ensler, Edition 40

I've seen miracles in post-war situations, in famines, in places of horrendous brutal subjugation and oppression, when women step forward and play their rightful role in co-equal partnership with men. -Lynne Twist, Edition 26

Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line defining productivity and creativity where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational, and productive.-Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ed.25

My hope is for us to come together not only embracing shared beliefs and values, but acknowledging our differences in ways that promote respect and appreciation. -Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, Edition 25

I happen to believe all business is female business. All issues-and there are several that are just women's business. There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, Edition 22

If people have moral courage to stand up to the smallest injustice-their own and otherst-it's kind of like practice for when the big ones come around. -Colleen Kelly, Edition 20

Patricia Smith Melton at Celebrate Peace

Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts-tobreak cycles of violence and forge new pathways. -Noeleen Heyzer, Edition 19

Selected Quotes from the Peace X Peace Original Dialogue

I am trying to build a new world, and I believe I have an impact on that-I believe every individual has an impact on that- Susan Collin Marks

Peace requires everyone to be in the circle-wholeness, inclusion. - Isabel Allende

The minute we become an integrated whole, we look through the same eyes and we see a whole different world together. -Azizah Al-Hibri

If you talk to the women in Afghanistan, you will see their expectations are not much different from the expectations I have seen in the West. You will see women are so similar no matter where they live. -Fatima Gailani

We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill-E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy. -Barbara Marx Hubbard
 

Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, member, Advisory Council

Noeleen Heyzer, member, Advisory Council