The beginning
shreya jani
We are happy to share the first newsletter of STTEP (standing together to enable peace) with you. We hope you enjoy the spirit of the newsletter and more of you will join us on board this forum to enrich and engage with this initiative.
An exploration on the meaning of peace inevitably finds
itself trapped in definitions of violence. Peace then becomes the absence of
visible and invisible violence. It gets lost in the vocabulary of war,
exploitation, human hatred and missed opportunities. This newsletter wishes to
celebrate peace as acts of compassion, reflection on openness and the
courageous seeking of paradigms which emulates the spirit of non-violence,
generosity and sustainability.
Through this newsletter we hope to share every month dreams, ideas, actions and efforts which are selflessly and diligently working towards creating a society based on peaceful co-existence. The purpose of the monthly newsletter is to highlight articles, tools and expression of the community and hopefully open up spaces for meaningful discourse and action. It is our sincere wish that all of you who have joined the community will participate and contribute to the upcoming newsletters and actively engage with the content of these newsletters to see thought translate into action. We would like to thank all those who have contributed to this inaugural issue and to all those receiving it for their solidarity and support for this process that we have embarked upon. We look forward to hearing your opinion responses and new ideas in months to come.
In solidarity
THE STTEP TEAM