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Iceland Rated World’s Most Peaceful Country Yet Again
Once again Iceland has topped the Global Peace Index for 2020, a position it has held since 2011. The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) declared Iceland the world’s most peaceful country in it’s latest report. In the last thirteen years it…
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Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Holds Peace Symposium In Reykjavik
The Ahmadyya Muslim community of Iceland held the 3rd National Peace Symposium in downtown Reykjavík yesterday evening. The event was mainly intended to be a forum of discussion on peace and leadership. At a moment where rampant Islamophobia and xenophobia continues seeping…
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Höfði Reykjavík Peace Center Opens
As a society, we are driven toward balance. Take the axioms “first as tragedy, then as farce” or “illness is the doorway to health” for example. Chinese philosophy calls it yin and yang. Here in Reykjavík we are witness to one of…
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Iceland Again World’s Most Peaceful Country
Iceland is once again at the top of the Global Peace Index, as the world overall during the past 10 years has become more violent. According to the findings of the Institute for Economics and Peace, Iceland is the most peaceful country…
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A Strange Message From Blooming Berlin
Is it 2015 or is it 1935? When I moved to Berlin seventeen years ago, I was 25 years old and I couldn’t understand why older Germans were still talking about World War II. It felt as if it had happened such…
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Schoolkids Offer Message Of Peace For The Holidays – VIDEO
Instead of going to church, primary school kids from Langholtsskóli formed a giant human peace symbol to celebrate the holiday season. Last month, the principal of Langholtsskóli primary school issued an announcement that the school would not be taking its students on…
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Iceland Votes Against Nuclear Weapons Ban
Despite memes touting Iceland’s famed demilitarised and peace-loving ways, representatives at the United Nations voted against negotiations towards a nuclear weapons ban treaty, reports RÚV. The pledge to disarm, submitted as a resolution this week in the UNGA First Committee by 43…
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Iceland Most Peaceful Country Yet Again
Iceland is once again the most peaceful country in the world, according to the results of the latest Global Peace Index (GPI). According to the report, released by the Institute for Economics and Peace, Iceland tops the world’s nations as the most…
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This Feels Relevant Now
Hi. Happy New Year. Right now, at this very moment, you could certainly argue that shit is fucked up and bullshit. For all sorts of reasons. But, it feels sort of important that we don’t. That we retain hope. That we strive…
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Record Numbers Turn Up For Imagine Peace Tower
Roughly 2.100 people turned up to watch Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower turn on in Viðey last night, the largest turnout ever, reports RÚV. The island was packed as the tower was switched on and 4 whaling boats were hired by Yoko…
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Peace Tower To Be Relit For Children Of Gaza And Israel
Yoko Ono has announced on her Facebook page that she intends to light the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland on August 7 in remembrance of the victims who have perished in Israel and Palestine. Yoko writes: As all of us are devastated by…
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Iceland World’s Most Peaceful Country (Again)
Iceland has once again come out on top as the world’s most peaceful country. According to the latest results of the Global Peace Index (GPI), Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world out of a possible 162 other countries. Syria,…