{"id":205480,"date":"2022-02-21T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=205480"},"modified":"2022-02-19T06:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T06:08:13","slug":"open-letter-to-presidents-biden-and-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/open-letter-to-presidents-biden-and-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Presidents Biden and Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

18 Feb 2022 – The world does not need war or threats of war \u2013 it needs peace.<\/em><\/p>\n

People of the world are traumatised by a tsunami of pain and suffering.\u00a0\u00a0 As world leaders you know this to be true.\u00a0 People of the world are afraid and many depressed.\u00a0 They need hope.\u00a0 They need to believe in themselves and others.\u00a0 They need a \u2018light\u00a0of peace\u2019.\u00a0 People need to see there are people of love and courage who take risks for \u2018humanity\u2019 and follow their conscience to do the right thing.<\/p>\n

Please, Mr. Presidents, be such a light in a dark and dangerous world.\u00a0 Give the people hope.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0Such a meeting of fraternity amongst the leaders of your nations would give hope to millions \u2013 especially young people who inherit a world so much in need of peace and reconciliation and based on love and respect.<\/p>\n

In hope,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of <\/em>Peace People, is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book, <\/em>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<\/a>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: www.peacepeople.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

18 Feb 2022 – Please, Mr. Presidents, be a light in a dark and dangerous world.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":118576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[2197,253,278,70],"class_list":["post-205480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-biden","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}