{"id":23592,"date":"2012-12-03T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=23592"},"modified":"2019-10-12T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:30:08","slug":"2-million-friends-of-afghan-people-for-peace-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/12\/2-million-friends-of-afghan-people-for-peace-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20182 Million Friends of Afghan People for Peace in Afghanistan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will be visiting Kabul on 10<sup>th<\/sup> December 2012, international day of human rights, on behalf of the Peace People, Northern Ireland.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have been invited by Afghan peace volunteers to join them in their \u20182 million friends\u2019 and \u2018ceasefire\u2019 campaign and we will join the voices for creative nonviolence delegation USA, to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Peace Volunteers are a grassroots group of Afghans who seek a life of nonviolence, equality, self reliance and unity across ethnic and national lines.\u00a0\u00a0 They have no religious or governmental affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They believe that a non-military nonviolent solution leading to peace in their country is the way forward and they say \u2018a ceasefire in Afghanistan is an urgent\u00a0 necessity of conscience\u00a0 in the face of an ongoing preventable humanitarian emergency\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>On 10<sup>th<\/sup> December, the Afghan peace volunteers will visit the UN in Kabul to urge the Secretary General of the United Nations to broker a multilateral UN negotiated ceasefire between all parties currently warring in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the Afghan peace volunteers we invite you to visit the websites \u2018ceasefire\u2019 and the\u20192 million friends\u2019 and enter your name in support of this important initiative for peace in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peacepeople.com\/\" >www.peacepeople.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.2millionfriends.org\/\" >http:\/\/www.2millionfriends.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/vcnv.org\/\" >http:\/\/vcnv.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Mairead Corrigan Maguire is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book <\/em>The Vision of Peace<em> (edited by John Dear, with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wipfandstock.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.wipfandstock.com<\/a>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacepeople.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.peacepeople.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u20182 million friends\u2019 and \u2018ceasefire\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","category-central-asia-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23592","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=23592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}