Sunday, January 31, 2010

Abby Disney: Peace Is Loud



When Peace talks loud, war listens and with both ears. Peace is Loud. Pray The Devil Back to Hell is an amazing, informative and one of its kind documentary of the role women in bringing peace to Liberia. This movie tells a story that had never been told. A story of bravery, dedication, and determination to make changes  in their and the lives of future generation. That muslims and christians can live together by putting aside our differences and embrassing our similarities as humans and also learn to tolerate each other.These women have showned to world that peace is speakable and loud, that is about time the world re-defined the role of women in society.

Interestingly, the women involved in bringing such a change to a country were almost all regular people, market women or better still women who knew no academic knowledge. But the beauty of their actions was to tell African women especially that, they could use their natural, loving and nurturing nature to peacefully end war. After all when the men causes the war , it is women who are left as widows with a family to take care off when they are away hidding or even dead.
Techonlogical advances has help us in most ways document event and time for future records and reference. Without the help of technology there would have been no way that this brutal but again historical moments would have been recorded . As terrible as the situation was , technology provided means of capturing the moments in time.

The Success Story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7PbhCmBoFY&feature=PlayList&p=E6AB47AB29411369&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=39
As much as this country has experience hell on earth, the people are determined to bring back its country from the ditch back to normal. This process began with a democratic election which for the first time in the history of Africa, there is a female head of state. This a see as an appropriate measure to help them put together the pieces.
The media is helping in educatiing people on the need to forgive and reconcile with each other especially to accept former child soldiers who were influenced and used as tools to commit such atrocities. The child soldiers are also undergoing counselling and education to bring their lives back to normal and to help them forgive themselves and let go their past. This is a wake up call for all countries at war and to women to bring peace to where there is war.

1 comment:

Shimon and Lindemann said...

The women were regular but extraordinary in their determination. You make good points about the long process of mending that must go on