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Jody Williams’s Definition of Peace
Jody Williams’s Definition of Peace Jody Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to ban antipersonnel landmines. Jody Williams gave a moving speech in December 2010 which is posted on www.ted.com: “A Realistic Vision for World Peace”. TED is a nonprofit organization. In the speech, Jody Williams defines peace “What I consider to be peace is a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.” I agree with Jody Williams’s definition of peace because of two reasons: the importance of sustainable peace and the importance of access to enough resources to live dignified lives. The first reason I agree with Jody Williams’s definition is because peace has to be sustainable. In my opinion peace has to be able to maintained or kept going. For example, when I was in high school, my country ,Ethiopia, was preparing for its second election, and the governing party at the time and the opposing party were having disagreements on how the election campaign was going; as a result, riots started to break out in schools, in workplaces, and in marketplaces. Police started using lethal force to stop the riots and disturbances, so the numbers of casualties started to rise. This was the first time I felt no peace and wished for peace to come because riots could start at anytime and anywhere and I could become a victim. Even in my high school, there was a riot that led to students to become injured and arrested by the police. All in all, peace has

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