Toronto Reference Library Blog

PEACE

An evocative word. A word with so many meanings.

"Peace may sound simple — one beautiful word — but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal." — Yehudi Menuhin (1916 – 1999)

A word written:

“Peace is always beautiful.” — Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)

“Peace is the only battle worth waging.” — Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)

"Five enemies of peace inhabit us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." — Francesco Petrarch (1304 – 1374)

A word said:

“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” — attributed to many, including Archbishop Tutu, Moshe Dayan and Nelson Mandela.

A word sung:

 - Credited to John Lennon (1940-1980) and Paul McCartney (1942-   )

Ernie Regehr, O.C., has been writing, speaking and possibly singing about peace for many years. He is one of Canada's foremost peace activists and pre-eminent thinker on conflict issues. Co-founder of Project Ploughshares, one of Canada's premier peace and security NGOs, Ernie has served as an NGO representative and expert advisor on numerous official Government of Canada delegations to disarmament forums.

He is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre For Peace Advancement, Conrad Grebel University College, the University of Waterloo. And he is the author and editor of many books, articles and blogs.

Regehr's new book, Disarming Conflict: Why Peace Cannot be Won on the Battlefield, sets out approaches, initiatives and policies that steer away from the futility of fighting and promote non-military efforts towards "winning the peace".

Meet Ernie Regehr at the Toronto Reference Library.

Hinton Learning Theatre, 3rd floor

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Books will be available for sale.

Want more information? Check our catalogue for books, reports and magazines, archival images and more.

Try keywords like Disarmament, Peace, Peace-building, Security, War, Peace-keeping, International Cooperation, International Relations, etc. Come to the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, 2nd floor, or borrow from your local branch.