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Muriel Duckworth Past president of VOW, multiple peace-awards recipient.

“War is the greatest destroyer of human life, the greatest polluter, the greatest creator of refugees, the greatest cause of starvation and illness.”

Ursula Franklin Professor Emerita, U. of Toronto. VOW founding member.

“Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the absence of fear. Peace is the presence of justice.”

“The notion of an ever-present enemy has led, over the decades, to a large backlog of unresolved problems… There are mortgages of missed opportunities particularly for women; missed openings in access to day care, to education, to training, to jobs. There are also unresolved problems of sustainable development, of a health environment….”

“Any modern theology of peace must take into account the worldwide drift toward “techno-fascism,” the anti-people, anti-justice form of global management and power sharing that is developing around the world.”

“Violence is most usefully defined as resourcelessness…Once we recognize violence as resourcelessness – by choice or by perceived necessity – the nature of nonviolence as resourcefulness comes into focus.”

“It is wrong to gain security by making others insecure.”

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