Peace Group About To Accomplish Volumes...Literally

Peace Group About To Accomplish Volumes...Literally

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Story Published: Nov 8, 2005 at 8:33 AM PDT

Story Updated: Aug 31, 2006 at 2:07 AM PDT

By Brian Calvert

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SEATTLE - Can you promote peace by simply opening a book?

A local group is about to prove just that on the other side of the world.

It's not as big and as well-known as some peace-seeking groups, but it may be about to accomplish volumes...literally.

“Sometimes, just because of politics, the government can’t always go in and do what it wants to do,” says Harold Mann, volunteer with the Seattle-based group Global Citizen Journey.

He and other group members are living the lyric: "Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me."

“Global Citizen Journey will just go to the people, wherever the action will affect them,” Mann tells KOMO 1000 News.

“The idea is citizen involvement,” says fellow member Christine Lavra, who’s going on the group’s first mission to Nigeria next week. “They (Nigerian government) went to the village members and asked them what they needed. And they (villagers) asked for a library.”

A library as the bridge to peace? Maybe so; this library will actually be shared by two tribes who have been bitter enemies in the past.

“For the first time in five years, a member of one village entered the other village to help start this project,” Mann explains. “That could have very far-reaching effects.”

Global Citizen Journey is attempting to do what government cannot. While politics can stand in the way of government assistance, the average person can walk in and usually get right to work. The Seattle-based group is about to prove that the road to peace can be paved with thousands of pages.

“The average citizen can make a difference,” insists Mann. “And can make a difference that has far reaching effects in far reaching places.”

For More Information:

www.globalcitizenjourney.org.

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