Essays on Peace

“When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before” (Brad Meltzer). In the essay, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. uses personal experience, people of the past, and events from the…

Looking for an Answer: Settlements, Security and Violence in Israel What would you say if you were told to run half a mile in 15 seconds? Impossible, right? Now imagine that you have 15 seconds to run from wherever it is you are to the…

Religion: Peace Peace is a concept that is difficult to define and interpret. There have been many deviated opinions towards peace that have been gathered, throughout the history. A common concept of peace is the idea of freedom from disturbance resulting in tranquillity, which also…

War and Peace With the world more peaceful than ever, it is hard to look at times of war and think that they were handled properly and diligently. Looking at situations of war and peace, it is clear that humans tend to conflict with one…

Control, influence, and power have always been the topics of choice of important philosophers and thinkers. Machiavelli spoke of it, so did Aristotle and Foucault. The abuse of power, as well, has been a popular topic to debate; George Orwell (1949) depicted the deliberate misuse…