2020-09-29 08:32
Nemat, who has muscular dystrophy, and whose family members were all Covid-19 infected, read a poem he wrote, entitled “Love In The Time Of Covid-19”.
Love in Time of COVID… Read More
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#Enough! GEN is a multi-generational movement of ordinary people who say #Enough! to the interconnected global crises of global warming, socioeconomic
2020-06-20 02:19
Join the online Human Family Circles at www.bit.ly/HumanFamilyCircles
or by emailing your name and country to [email protected]
By Dr
Hakim Young
20th
June 2020
Dear
f… Read More
2020-06-10 03:20
By Dr Hakim Young
10 June 2020
Basit is a 15-year-old Afghan street food vendor who attends the Borderfree Street Kids School.
Me: What do you worry about?
Basit: My family&rsq&hellip…Read More
2020-06-04 03:06
By Dr Hakim Young
4th June 2020
Dear friends,
Covid-19 is clarifying a significant source of global anger
and angst: inequality
At the start of the Covid-19 crisis, Afghanistan
h… Read More
2020-05-02 15:58
“I Wish
Everyone Everywhere Well’
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Many thanks to people who’ve sent me their video clips saying to the #humanfamily, “I Wish Every… Read More
2020-05-02 15:58
“I Wish
Everyone Everywhere Well’
[email protected]
“I Wish
Everyone Everywhere Well’
[email protected]
Dear all,
I searched for m… Read More
2020-04-25 14:34
By Dr Hakim Young
25th April 2020
Marzia, extreme right facing camera,
at a program for female Afghan Peace Volunteers before the lockdown
Dear
friends,
“Fear? Onl… Read More
2020-04-03 10:12
Letters
on Relationships of Healing in Afghanistan
This Afghan
spring is alarmingly unique.
Afghans have
yet another crisis added to their dirges.
But this
time, the viral source… Read More
2020-03-12 06:51
A Call From Afghanistan for Greta Thunberg…
…to highlight our interconnected need for renewable energy, a fairer
economic system and the abolition of war.
Excerpts adapt… Read More
2019-12-31 07:41
The
Afghan Peace Volunteers wanted to protest in the streets of Kabul after the “The Afghanistan Papers” were published by the Washington
Post on the 9th of December 2019. But, t… Read More
2019-12-18 11:51
Zekerullah is the main story teIler: In the face of
these three global crises, the Afghan Peace Volunteers was established…
Global Warming
Inequality
War
I learned three… Read More
2019-12-10 14:10
Ivan, a university graduate from St Petersburg, Russia,
Cameron, a final year university undergraduate in California, U.S. and Maryam,
a second-year university undergraduate from Afghanist… Read More
2019-10-01 05:32
Ihsaan: Many
of my relatives have been killed in war. I feel sad that many people noticed
Afghanistan only after Trump claimed he could wipe Afghanistan off the face of
the earth and kill… Read More
2019-09-30 07:38
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan
Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringing the Sun Home to Prevent Mom’s
Death
Love Letter 3: Embracing Our Equal Pla… Read More
2019-07-05 08:29
5th July 2019
Dear fellow human beings,
Some of us have wondered, “Are people today too disconnected and frantic to calm down, in order to solve global challenges together? A… Read More
2019-03-20 05:27
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan
Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringing the Sun Home to Prevent Mom’s
Death
Love Letter 3: Embracing Our Equal Pla… Read More
2019-03-18 12:53
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan
Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringing the Sun Home to Prevent Mom’s
Death
Love Letter 3: Embracing our equal pla… Read More
2019-03-15 09:03
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan
Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringing the Sun Home to Prevent Mom’s
Death
Love Letter 3: Embracing Our Equal Pla… Read More
2019-03-12 04:00
Are Unemployed Afghans Interested in Work? https://youtu.be/Jugum9Dr6NE
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan
Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringin… Read More
2019-03-09 10:20
By Dr Hakim
8th March 2019
Dear friends,
Even here among the Afghan Peace Volunteers, 14-year-old
Afghan street kid Inaam confided in me, “I sometimes feel that everyone looks… Read More
2019-03-05 08:45
Coping with the world’s economic war in Afghanistan : https://youtu.be/0EzZOAIocv0
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Brin… Read More
2019-03-03 11:51
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringing the Sun Home to Prevent Mom’s Death
Love Letter 3: Embracing Our Equal Place and… Read More
2019-02-25 04:20
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringing the Sun Home to Prevent Mom’s Death
Love Letter 3: Working with Mother Earth Rat… Read More
2019-02-15 11:26
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringing the Sun Home to Prevent Mother’s Death
Love Letter 3: Working with Mother Earth… Read More
2019-02-15 11:11
Love Letter 1: Having Communal Fun in the Afghan Mountains so as to Stay Strong
Love Letter 2: Bringing the Sun Home to Prevent Mother’s Death
Love Letter 3: Working with Mother Earth… Read More
2018-10-17 08:55
17th October 2018
By Dr Hakim
Iqbal Khyber and Badshah Khan bring a breath of fresh air
Grade 12th Afghan student Jamila Omary asked, “Do you have any plans to arm yourselves, b… Read More
2018-10-03 12:55
By Dr Hakim
3rd October 2018
A video will be posted here soon.
Youth on the Road to Peace Conference 2018
Rethinking their presumptions about the world
While much of th… Read More
2018-08-24 03:42
By Dr Hakim
24th Aug 2018
I record this at a time when Afghans, Yemenis, Syrians, Iraqis, Palestinians, South Sudanese, Somalians, Rohingyas, Mexicans and many human beings are experiencing… Read More
2018-08-20 10:54
By Dr Hakim
20th Aug 2018
It’s frustrating that whereas all human beings wish to live meaningful lives, we seem helpless in the face of a few individuals waging wars and exploiting our… Read More
2018-08-02 13:31
Kahar and the people of Helmand, Afghanistan, want an end to war
By Dr Hakim
2nd August 2018
Can Afghans convince us that the method of war isn’t effective?
Consider their thirst to e… Read More
2018-06-20 10:57
As an Afghan asylum seeker, the most difficult thing for me was…
By Dr Hakim
On 20th June 2018, World Refugee Day
Amir before he left Afghanistan to seek asylum in Turkey
I rememb… Read More
2018-05-09 04:09
Afghan Peace Volunteers Fly Kites, Not Drones
By Dr Hakim
9th May 2018
On 22nd of March 2018, the Afghan Peace Volunteers affirmed life: they had their annual combined birthday celebration… Read More
2018-05-05 10:05
By Dr Hakim
5th May 2018
The Afghan Peace Volunteers are grateful to Voices for Creative Nonviolence and the many people who have supported the winter duvet project. This work of love over… Read More
2018-04-19 05:58
By Dr Hakim
19th April 2018
The following thoughts are written in the voice of a typical young Afghan who joins the Afghan Peace Volunteers and begins engaging with universal human values in… Read More
2018-04-14 07:50
14th April 2018
By Dr Hakim
We wish these Afghan street kids a lifelong education of peace
Political and business leaders have refined the art and science of lying about the economy… Read More
2018-04-12 04:30
12/4/2018
By Dr Hakim
From the 10th of February 2018 to the 3rd of March 2018, Australian permaculture expert Rosemary Morrow brought 31 Afghans through the second 18 –day Permaculture… Read More
2018-04-01 10:00
Pursuing Peace Despite Everything : https://youtu.be/DEb4mJll3t4
Essays of Light I: Pursuing Peace Despite Everything
To be posted soon….
Essays of Light II: Repairing our decaying s… Read More
2018-04-01 09:29
By Dr Hakim
1/4/2018
Mahdi ( extreme right ) helping out with the Afghan Peace Volunteers in their Winter Duvet Project
No work. Poverty. The drudgery of didactic, outdated, test-based scho… Read More
2017-12-20 07:54
By Dr Hakim
5th December 2017, International Volunteer Day
Students from the Borderfree Street Kids School in the clean-up campaign.
An overflowing trash bin is seen in the background.
&nb&hell…Read More
2017-12-02 07:16
On the 25th of September 2017, Zarghuna, Coordinator of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, and Dr Hakim Young, addressed participants of an International Permaculture Conference in Hyderabad, Indi… Read More
2017-11-25 09:54
Afghan, Mexican and Spanish youth say, “We’re the future human family!”
https://youtu.be/qaW3op6xmOA
Background
This Relational Learning Circle took place on the 12th of N… Read More
2017-11-14 06:28
By Dr Hakim Young
14th November 2017
Surkh Gul with her daughter. Photo by Dr Hakim
“My family’s water well has dried up,” 18-year-old Surkh Gul said.
“Ours to… Read More
2017-11-04 05:42
Dr Hakim Young
3/11/2017
On the 28th of June, I spoke at a small event organized by my friends from Amber Air, named “Peace of Heart – imagining a world beyond war”… Read More
2017-10-02 09:39
By Dr Hakim
1st November 2017
Sultan, Ali’s brother, was killed in August 2016.
Hussein, Bismillah’s uncle, was killed in April 2017.
I don’t want Rahman, Inaam’s br… Read More
2017-09-27 03:17
The video and article below is reproduced from the Afghan UNDP website:
http://www.af.undp.org/content/afghanistan/en/home/ourwork/crisispreventionandrecovery/successstories/peace–the… Read More
2017-09-24 19:50
Afghan Youth on the Road to Nonviolent Peace
Tired of today’s war-driven peace, youth from 24 out of 34 Afghan provinces began their pursuit of nonviolent peace at the ‘Youth on… Read More
2017-09-06 08:42
By Dr Hakim Young
6th September 2017
Bees, in the Kabul University permaculture demonstration plot of the Afghan Peace Volunteers
Perhaps, like ‘bees’ threatened with ext… Read More
2017-08-26 07:07
By Dr Hakim
26th August 2017
Today, we not only have systematically destroyed our relationships with fellow human beings, we have little or no relationship with Mother Earth and Nature.
We a… Read More
2017-08-22 19:53
By Dr Hakim
22nd August 2017
I used to think that, to help children suffering in war zones, governments should combine their military might to rid that zone of ‘the bad guys’ or… Read More
2017-08-08 09:15
By Dr Hakim
8th Aug 2017
“We need to admit that society usually sees the doctor as being more successful as the farmer,” Latif suggested. There were agreeable nods around the roo… Read More
2017-08-05 06:20
By Dr Hakim
5th August 2017
Ghulam ( second from left ) working on our community’s greenhouse, together with Zek, Khamad and Ali
Ali, Zekerullah, Khamad and I miss Ghulam and h… Read More
2017-07-31 18:23
By Dr Hakim
31st July 2017
Before this year’s fasting month of Ramadan in Kabul, Kathy Kelly wrote to ask if I would consider a trip to Yemen, to give witness to what the United Nati… Read More
2017-07-09 03:25
You can view a one minute video clip of a conversation between Afghan street kids and Indian 5th graders above: From Afghanistan, children and youth learn through relationships
9th July 20… Read More
2017-07-07 06:02
I wish to emulate Mariella’s Colombian Peace Community
https://youtu.be/-IRU1zQvo_Y
I hope you’ll enjoy the photo-essay below! I also put the photos together in a video clip wit… Read More
2017-06-20 17:03
Watch 10-year-old Mubasir tell his story in this short video:
Afghan Street Kid Mubasir smiles despite his difficulties
https://youtu.be/1TC5_MzYOqI
The Afghan Peace Volunteers run the Bord… Read More
2017-06-07 06:26
7/6/2017
By Dr Hakim
The ‘faceless’ war image of the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ exploding in Afghanistan
Background Situation
On 13th April, the U.S. governm… Read More
2017-05-14 19:31
From Afghanistan, #Mother!
https://youtu.be/H3e4OeB97RY
14th May 2017
By Dr Hakim
The Afghan Peace Volunteers are sewing this table top piece for mothers
Dear mom and fellow members of t… Read More
2017-04-28 19:10
Mother Climate, We marched for You in Afghanistan!
https://youtu.be/7JTwxzFJHHA
Only Mothers notice us, children and youth from different Afghan ethnic groups
Photo by Dr Hakim
 &helli…Read More
2017-04-09 11:00
Dr Hakim
9th April 2017
Mahdi doesn’t know his date of birth, but he thinks he’s 16 years old, which means that in the year he was formed and born, the U.S./NATO coalition bombed… Read More
2017-04-04 13:56
Asking trees questions we don’t ask one another
On the 1st and 2nd of April 2017, the Afghan Peace Volunteers planted 90 evergreen trees and 180 poplar trees in two government… Read More
2017-04-04 13:46
On the 31st of April 2017, about 65 Afghan Peace Volunteers and street kids went to a hill in Kabul to fly kites. The program, called ‘Fly Kites Not Drones’, was organized in so… Read More
2017-03-24 05:46
24/3/2017
By Dr Hakim
I’m so often caught up in the daily concerns of work and the wars raging across Afghanistan and many parts of the world that I forget how remarkable it is that a… Read More
2017-02-28 18:56
Often, when I travel along the streets of Kabul in Afghanistan, ordinary scenes provoke questions about the disparities of life in today’s global human society. Some vistas arrest my a… Read More
2017-01-26 18:48
The wars within and without had spun me into a hurry,
a hurry to do what, to accomplish what?
I had forgotten the mountains of Afghanistan until,
going up her untamed slopes encroached by a… Read More
2017-01-15 18:54
“I was frightened. I cried,” she seemed like both a statue and a radio,
numb and alive, not shy about the horrors she had survived.
“There were bombs dropping from the hea… Read More
2017-01-01 06:32
The blurred background atmosphere behind Mansoor’s silhouette seemed to want to drive itself into our lungs.
The Afghan Ministry of Public H… Read More
2016-09-22 08:28
Visually impaired student, Sonia, read her article about peace:
“Everyone wishes for peace to come to all of Afghanistan.”
Last year, on the 21st of September, the Internationa… Read More
2016-09-16 19:41
Kabul River and Standing Rock Sioux
Zekerullah sometimes worries about the water crisis in his country
Government officials and business people today routinely negotiate,
&ld&helli…Read More
2016-09-14 19:47
This was not a typical festive ‘first world’ outing, as its need and idea arose not from leisure, but from trauma.
Recently, Hadisa was broken after an ‘endless’ nig… Read More
2016-09-12 08:18
Watch Shy Bismillah Finds Friends from 34 Afghan Provinces
From top left clockwise: Pashtun – Barath, Tajik – Malik, Uzbek – Habib,
Hazara – Nemat, Afghans … Read More
2016-08-30 19:03
‘Darul Aman’,
was supposed to mean ‘Abode of Peace’,
but it became a charred caricature
of Man’s repetitive use of bullets, rockets, tanks,
bombs and ancient f… Read More
2016-08-29 18:40
I took a chance in asking them to jump and shout
and wow! I was electrified.
Their arms, legs and faces released energy,
as if they were astronauts
breaking free from a difficult Ear… Read More
2016-08-27 18:41
#Enough! Let’s Be Friends
sharing food, water, shelter, greenery, healing, reconciliation, happiness and stories with one another
I am you. You are we.
Relate! Relate! Relate!
R… Read More
2016-08-09 17:41
Afghan Street Kid Habib says, “Food comes from the land.”
Habib ( left ) having a conversation with the Food Bank Coordinator, Ghulam Hussein,
while sitting on a wheelba… Read More
2016-08-01 08:38
Afghan friends: For a moment, I didn’t know what to wish for you
Mahdi drew what he wanted to become: a doctor – white coat, blue tie
In 2015, Mursal drew and wrote… Read More
2016-07-08 18:19
For Russians with love
Valentina ( on the right )
With a holiday smile, and a tease in her eyes,
Yalta School Twelve’s ex-principal, Valentina, persuaded us,
“Let us strengthe… Read More
2016-05-20 19:04
#Enough! GEN is a multi-generational movement of ordinary people who say #Enough! to the interconnected global crises of global warming, socioeconomic inequalities and violence with its nucl… Read More
2016-03-30 18:11
* A Different Afghan Winter Photo Essay Series
Green
Permaculture: Being Vulnerable with one another and with the Earth’s Feelings
Bamiyan Peace Park: Even the Stones will Speak
Equal… Read More
2016-03-30 17:44
* A Different Afghan Winter Photo Essay Series
Green
Permaculture: Being Vulnerable with one another and with the Earth’s Feelings
Bamiyan Peace Park: Even the Stones will Speak
Equal… Read More
2016-03-30 13:05
Ali and Zekerullah on Day 4 of the ‘Peace Vigil’ in Bamiyan Peace Park in 2009
* A Different Afghan Winter Photo Essay Series
Green
Permaculture: Being Vulnerable with one anoth… Read More
2016-03-23 18:22
* A Different Afghan Winter Photo Essay Series
Green
Permaculture: Being Vulnerable with one another and with the Earth’s Feelings
Equal
Genderless Bikes in Afghanistan
Afghan Street K… Read More
2016-03-22 06:29
* A Different Afghan Winter Photo Essay Series
Green
Permaculture: Being Vulnerable with one another and with the Earth’s Feelings
Equal
Genderless Bikes in Afghanistan
Afghan Street K… Read More
2016-03-21 15:19
* A Different Afghan Winter Photo Essay Series
Green
Permaculture: Being Vulnerable with one another and with the Earth’s Feelings
Equal
Genderless Bikes in Afghanistan
Afghan Street K… Read More
2016-03-20 18:38
* A Different Afghan Winter Photo Essay Series
Green
Permaculture: Being Vulnerable with one another and the Earth’s FeelingsEqual
Bicycles are Genderless
Afghan Street Kid Mehdi&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-02-17 07:01
By Dr Hakim
17th Feb 2016
How many global crises can a 15 year old Afghan boy take on?
Zuhair
On 31st Jan, I followed Zekerullah, an Afghan Peace Volunteer who coordinates the Borderf… Read More
2016-01-27 15:01
Seeing Flight as a Non-violent Option:
One Way to Change the Discourse about the World’s 60 Million Refugees
by politicalviolenceataglance on January 26, 2016
By Erica Chenoweth a… Read More
2016-01-19 05:22
Two Afghans making calls while awaiting their flights
out of Afghanistan from Kabul International Airport
By Dr Hakim
19th Jan 2016
As I put together this photo journal of an Iraqi father… Read More
2016-01-07 12:46
Bearing quilted bed covers, Afghans walk through the cemetery to their mountainside homes.
1st Jan 2016
By Carolyn Coe
They have descended from homes built on the mountainside. Women sit to… Read More
2015-12-08 13:22
Former MSF Kunduz Hospital pharmacist, Khalid Ahmad, recuperating at Emergency Hospital in Kabul
Kunduz MSF Hospital U.S. Bombing Survivor, “I want my story to be heard.”… Read More
2015-11-23 19:20
Dr Adele Kubein works at Oregon State University in Corvallis, USA and in the letters below over the past three years, she becomes vulnerable with the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, expre… Read More
2015-11-16 19:00
Boat chase on the seas of Okinawa
The blue seas of Okinawa
I picked some sea shells at Henoko in Okinawa. Henoko is where the U.S. is relocating their military base against the wishes of 7… Read More
2015-11-07 17:23
Ohata hurt by Okinawan police at people’s sit in protest
My paternal grandfather, a Chinese from Hainan of China, was killed in the Sook Ching ( meaning “purge through cleansing… Read More
2015-10-13 12:39
13th October 2015
By Dr Hakim
We live in a World at War, and as fellow human beings, what can we do for refugees like 45-year-old Abdul Fatah, who has been crying lately, who doesn’t… Read More
2015-10-11 07:17
11th October 2015
By Dr Hakim
I felt empty when I heard that to the north of where I work in Kabul, bombs were dropped on a ‘Doctors Without Borders’ Hospital in #Kunduz, for a… Read More
2015-10-08 03:53
#Enough! Afghan Street Kids want a good education!
7th October, 2015
By Dr Hakim
On the 2nd of October, 2015, about 60 Afghan street kids told their 12 Afghan Peace Volunteer teachers that… Read More
2015-10-06 07:54
“War can only be abolished, cannot be humanized.” Dr Gino Strada, co-founder of Emergency & winner of the Right Livelihood Award.
Dr Gino Strada of Emergency, Photo from Pi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Dear friends, On the 28th of March, 2014, at about 4 p.m., the Afghan Peace Volunteers heard a loud explosion nearby. For the rest of the evening and night, they anxiously waited for… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Fly Kites Not Drones in Afghanistan http://youtu.be/tWNXWgzpAls On the 23rd of March, 2014, the Afghan Peace Volunteers went to a hilltop overlooking Kabul City and celebrated the Afg… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
From the 22nd of February to the 5th of March 2014, two female Afghan Peace Volunteers, Zarghuna and Torpekai, will travel to India to learn about non-violence and how the people of India ar… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
From Sherif in Egypt My dear enemy, I kill you with love… As my mind was growing, by reading and opening my eyes, my enemy took different shapes. At first, I thought he was the guy wh… Read More
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