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If We Want Peace, We're Going to Have to Learn to Say No

Mairead Maguire speaks in Jerusalem earlier this year. 'The world is so dangerous now' she told The Sun's Daphne Bramham, 'that ... we have to start to disarm our own minds and look at the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.'
(Photo/Agence France-Presse)

We live in a world where young men and women are trained as soldiers to kill, whether they're Canadian, American, Israeli, Palestinian or Taliban.

Killing goes against everything we're taught from childhood about love and compassion. It goes against every religious doctrine and moral code.

It's small wonder, says Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire, that so many come back from war "sick at heart."