When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.
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What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
Defending peace is the duty of all.
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.
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