{"id":274441,"date":"2024-10-21T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=274441"},"modified":"2024-09-21T04:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:53:51","slug":"israel-cannot-build-peace-on-genocide-mairead-maguire-nobel-peace-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/israel-cannot-build-peace-on-genocide-mairead-maguire-nobel-peace-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide&#8221;&#8211;Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel\u2019s history, from its founding in May 1948: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">\u201cIsrael cannot build peace on genocide. We have got to find more humane ways to solve our problems.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide&quot; Mairead Maguire\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JIl1_FQFnIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of Peace People, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book, The Vision of Peace, (edited by John Dear with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wipfandstock.com\/\" ><em>www.wipfandstock.com<\/em><\/a><em>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peacepeople.com\/\" ><em>www.peacepeople.com<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni is the co-founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forsea.co\/\" >FORSEA<\/a><em>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition,<em> and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism<em>, Cambridge<strong>. <\/strong>Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the &#8220;Cultivation of Harmony&#8221; award from the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian <em>and<\/em> the Times<em>. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas<em> (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide<em>, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims<em> (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel\u2019s history, from its founding in May 1948.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[442,87,865,88,1777,1074,1776,427,119,2433,1025],"class_list":["post-274441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-conflict-transformation","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-mairead-maguire","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-nobel-womens-initiative","tag-palestine","tag-peace","tag-peacebuilding","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274441","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=274441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274452,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274441\/revisions\/274452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}