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Our vision
Grains of Peace promotes a positive and forward-moving vision of peace. Peace brings the freedom to enjoy life. A negative sense of being and the possible resulting violence deny that freedom. Peace brings a sense of well-being. A cynical attitude to peace cannot.
To arouse your interest, here are some definitions of peace and of violence.
Peace and violence – towards new definitions
Definitions of peace
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the opposite of war. To define peace as the absence of war is to reduce it to a passive conception, incomplete and remote. The field of peace is much vaster, because the field of violence is much vaster than that of war. Nor is peace the absence of violence; it is in fact the opposite of violence.
Key facts that motivate us
Civil society, school systems, local and international institutions are more and more actively engaged in contributing to a climate of peace.
Our own personal resources
We each have a portion of light and a portion of darkness inside us. These portions vary with the circumstances of life and with the growing awareness of these two portions within us. One feels definitely more energised when we allow our portion of light to affirm itself.