“The levels of physical and verbal violence that we are witnessing are not just threatening the courageous peoples of Ukraine; they are threatening every one of us,” says actor Forest Whitaker, who is also a UN Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, and an honoree of this year's International Peace Honors “They signal that we are at risk of locking ourselves into a dangerous escalation, with mutual destruction in sight for the first time in decades. For this very reason, we need to have an immediate ceasefire. But we must also think of long term, sustainable peace – a peace that can only be based on dialogue.”
Read Forest's full blog piece on Ukraine Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative http://ow.ly/lkuM50IuvBG
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