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From the Editor
Reflecting on a Violent World
Middle Passage Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, South Carolina Armenian Genocide
Gilroy Garlic Festival, California Sante Fe, Texas Holodomor Famine-Genocide Holocaust
Too long do I live among those who hate peace. Psalm :
Christchurch, New Zealand, Mosques Guatemalan/Mayan Genocide
Pulse Night Club, Orlando, Florida El Paso, Texas Bangladesh Genocide Cambodian Genocide
Thus says the Lord: We hear a cry of fear: terror, not peace. Jeremiah :
San Bernardino, California, Inland Regional Center East Timor Genocide Virginia Beach, Virginia Kurdish Genocide Native American Genocide
Colombo, Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday v
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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalm :
Rwandan Genocide Dayton, Ohio Capitol Gazette, Annapolis, Maryland Bosnia-Herzegovina Genocide Dafur Genocide Chabad Center, Poway, California
When I speak of peace, they are for war. Psalm :
Nuba Mountains, Sudan Genocide
Syrian Genocide Northern Iraq Genocide Aurora, Illinois Central African Republic Harvest Music Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada
Let us then pursue what leads to peace and to building up one another. Romans :
Charlottesville, Virginia
Thousand Oaks, California Democratic Republic of the Congo Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tree of Life Synagogue Zimbabwe Genocide Every day, people are shot in the United States; every year ,.
Observe the person of integrity and mark the upright; because there is a future for a man of peace. Psalm :
Rohingya Genocide
Every day, children and teens (–) are shot in the United States; every year ,.
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Uighur Persecutions First Nations/Aboriginal Genocides Worldwide mass shootings in the USA in (as of October ). Tiananmen Square Massacre
The work of justice will be peace; the effect of justice, calm and security forever. Isaiah :
And that is why I swore never to be silent.… When human lives are endan- gered, when human dignity is in jeopardy … Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe. —Elie Wiesel
ELENA PROCARIO-FOLEY
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Sources
“Brady: Key Gun Violence Statistics,” https://www.bradyunited.org/key-statistics. “Gun Violence: Archive ,” https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/. New American Bible, Revised Edition. “The Promise: Modern Genocides,” https://thepromisetoact.org/modern-geno- cides/. “SOPTV: Nobel Peace Prize: The Nobel Acceptance Speech Delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December , ,” https://www.pbs.org/eliewiesel/ nobel/. “US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide,” https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/simon-skjodt- center.
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