If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

Change happens at the level of the individual

More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.