Enuga Reddy

silent lotus — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:39:38 -0400

Dear Daphne

Thank you for your posting.

Would you please be kind enough to include the name of Enuga Reddy
in the listing of "Peace Heroes"

http://www.geocities.com/enugareddy/

http://www.liberation.org.za/reddy

email: enuga.reddy @ gmail.com

a warm smile
silent lotus

" May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears." ..... silent lotus
www.silentlotus.net

Thanks, Susan! And Good Luck!

daphne_in_maine — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:07:21 -0400

Thank you for sharing your Peace Hero and good luck getting on the team!

Update on my hero: Alix just finished day 2 of Peacescooter 2008. She is in Ashville, NC tonight and heading toward Atlanta, GA by Monday to see Alice Walker speak.

In Peace, Daphne

My Peace Hero

Susan Livingston — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:20:49 -0400

My peace hero is Miki Kashtan, co-founder (with her sister Inbal) of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication and my mentor for the past three years. I'll quote your peace hero and apply it to Miki: We bring peace when we define it, become it, and live it. Like many peace activists, Miki came to peace through reaction to violence. As an Israeli youth serving her required term in an army that was fighting terrorism with terrorism, she dedicated herself to living her dreams of peace.

I don't know a whole lot about her early days in this country, but I celebrate the day she met Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, author and founder of the global Center for Nonviolent Communication which is now headquartered in Albuquerque. She found that his teachings were in harmony with her values and offered her an effective way to walk her talk. She doesn't want to "do" NVC - she wants to "be" NVC. NVC is a non-drug-dependent altered state of consciousness that returns us from the habits that were taught to us by our domination culture to our fundamental compassionate nature.

I met Miki on a teleconference sponsored by The Peace Alliance in early summer of '05, and I decided on the spot that I wanted to study with her and do what she does. Her vision is a world where everyone's needs matter and where people have the skills they need to resolve their conflicts nonviolently.

Last year, Miki facilitated the series of meetings at which the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace wrote its charter and self-organized into a global NGO. She has a passion for facilitating the study and practice of NVC in "underserved areas." Right now, she's on tour teaching restorative justice in Brazil and connecting across differences in Ghana - this in spite of her resolution to travel less so that she can write a book!

I'm glad she's still traveling, though, because she's coming to my side of the Mississippi the first week of August. I've got my registration and my application for financial aid turned in along with, for the first time, an application to be on her support team. Wish me luck!

And please post a Reply to Daphne's original post and tell us about your Peace Hero!

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Enuga Reddy

Thanks, Susan! And Good Luck!

My Peace Hero