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Fighting with non-violence
August 10th, 2012 | 
Author: By Scilla Elworthy
From April 2012
I’m very pleased to have TFF Associate Scilla Elworthy speak to you here. She’s been a dear friend and colleague since 1987 and doesn’t need any introduction except perhaps: Here comes wise, soft-spoken Scilla in a formidably powerful way: Attack the problem to be solved, never attack the people. Scilla’s way of doing it is in the true spirit of Gandhi’s advise: Be the change you want to see!
The power of non-violence is concrete, visible, it is there to be employed.
And so, there is hope!
– Jan Oberg
A conversation about trust and nuclear weapons
By Scilla Elworthy who speaks with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
A TalkWorks Films Special www.talkworks.info
Two peace prize laureates in conversation for TalkWorks about the question of nuclear weapons, disarmament and peace.
St John’s College, Oxford, Saturday May 9 2010
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‘Peace writ large’
By Scilla Elworthy
Time for a strategy for the transformation of conflict worldwide?
Globally, in the 21st century, two unprecedented factors are affecting war: violent conflict is being prevented with the skills of fast-growing localised peace building initiatives, and more wars are ending through negotiation rather than military victory.
Yet military expenditure has increased 45% over 10 years, and only minute amounts are spent on the prevention of conflict. Does this extraordinary situation call for a global strategy to change the way the world deals with war? Read the rest of this entry »