Video Responses to the Manifesto
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A Living Witness
Posted by Omar Bah on Jan 27, 2014 in Professor's Forum | 1 comment You were there when the were killing them You were there when they disappeared, It was not an easy thing to bear, I understand it hurts, I know it’s painful And I know this not because I heard, But I was there with you We shared the same pain. We went through the same torture, We suffered the same loss But it’s time to change and move on Because, we are a living witness I understand you hate...read more
The Manifesto… Breaking the Original Spell of Violence: The perspective of Family/Child Therapist.
Posted by Omar Bah on Jan 22, 2014 in Professor's Forum | 2 comments The Awakening Voice of the Manifesto: “No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children”. This is a statement that, Rabbi Irving Greenberg made while reflecting on the deaths of million and a half Jewish Children in the holocaust. Acts of genocide still occur in the world. It is an undeniable fact that as I am speaking to...read more
A Place for Stories
Posted by Omar Bah on Dec 23, 2013 in Professor's Forum | 0 comments When a child asks, “How can I find a place free of terrors?” and you hear terrors whisper, just behind her, it would be false to say, “There are no terrors here.” There is a girl, half a world away, who drew a bullet from her own head by reading stories. Before the bullet, by wanting to read stories. In a nearby room a child, perhaps your child, may be reading a story. That girl, half a...read more
Add Your Voice to Historic Manifesto
Posted by Omar Bah on Dec 23, 2013 in Professor's Forum | 13 comments The 20th century has been an age of extraordinary human violence and environmental destruction. Can human beings make a global shift towards peace and harmony or will we continue on an apocalyptic course? HPRT director and Harvard Professor Richard F. Mollica has drafted a manifesto, Healing a Violent World, to bring an end to world violence. In ongoing video broadcasts, Professor Mollica and...read more