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    An Invitation to Peace

    by Nejoud Al-Yagout Nov 19, 2023 3 minutes
    An Invitation to Peace, by Nejoud Al-Yagout. Photograph of protest by Clay Banks.
    Photograph by Clay Banks

    Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

    The divisiveness in the world, the conflicts, the wars, the hatred…stems from the ego; the solution is oneness — so simple and so elusive

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    We live in a world where war coverage is live, social media keyboard warriors are loud and fierce, and racism and “anti-thisism” and “anti-thatism” ring loudly in our ears. Every day, we are bombarded with negativity and violence and horrific images of war and racial slurs and vandalism. Every

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