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The sudden assertion of human criteria within a dehumanising framework of political manipulation can be like a flash of lightning illuminating a dark landscape

— Vaclav Havel

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Cora Weiss

Cora Weiss is president of the Hague Appeal for Peace and a long-time activist in the women’s peace and human rights movement based in New York, she has an essay in the new book The Iraq War and its Consequences, edited by Irwin Abrams and Wang Gungwu, (World Scientific Publishing).

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