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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nDr. Ada Aharoni, the founder of IFLAC <\/a> considers that through poetry, people from both sides of conflicts, might come to understand each other better, and that this understanding can lead to the promotion of peace, as she explains below:<\/p>\n THE POWER OF THE POEM AND PEACE THROUGH POETRY<\/a><\/p>\n “The real profound difference between human beings is their Culture: mainly, their Cultural Heritage, Literature, Poetry, Language, Values, Norms, Traditions and their History. In the case of people in long conflicts – like the Israelis and Palestinians – feelings of fear, mistrust and lack of understanding have been piling up in their hearts and minds over the years, on both sides.<\/p>\n Only a suitable vehicle that can reach and profoundly penetrate through those layers of mistrust, suspicion and fear, can overcome those separating boundaries and build bridges of trust and respect for each other’s humanity. The best vehicle for this delicate operation is the magic and healing of the Poem, with its words of comprehension, feelings, care and tenderness. The poem has the marvellous ability to create bridges of trust and love.<\/p>\n Peace Poetry can also impart the important and crucial message that we all belong to one family, the family of humanity, and that violence and terror only lead to chaos, destruction, sorrow and deep pain and misery on all sides.<\/p>\n In every conflict there are two stories. The Poem of Peace, because of its wonderful ability to present both sides in all its reality, pain, hope and yearning for peace – can lead to mutual recognition and reconciliation, and to the building of confidence, trust, respect and love.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n World Movement of Poetry: for the Culture of Peace<\/a><\/p>\n From Madagascar: Identity specificity and civilization of the universal<\/a><\/p>\n IFLAC World Peace Festival : First edition in Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n Hall\u2019s poetry about more than \u2018black history<\/a><\/p>\n Gwangju, Korea: The 1st Asian Literature Festival<\/a><\/p>\n \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 Links for the following articles do not work because they were made by a version of PERL programming that is no longer supported. With three easy steps, you can find the article by its number. First, click on it before returning to this page. Your browser will say that the article is not available but in the address listed you can see that it was located at ViewArticle=xxxx where xxxx is the number of the article. Returning to this page, then click here<\/a> for the listing of all years. Then click on the year that contains the number for the article you seek. It will send you to the page where you can easily search for the article by its title. \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 – <\/p>\n Une jeune malienne de 15 ans gagne le concours des \u00ab Chemins de la culture de la paix \u00bb <\/a><\/p>\n Young Malian aged 15 wins \u201cPathways to a Culture of Peace\u201d> contest <\/a><\/p>\n Poets for Peace<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Ada Aharoni, the founder of IFLAC considers that through poetry, people from both sides of conflicts, might come to understand each other better, and that this understanding can lead to the promotion of peace, as she explains below: THE POWER OF THE POEM AND PEACE THROUGH POETRY “The real profound difference between human beings … Continue reading How can poetry promote a culture of peace?<\/span>