Non-Governmental Organization working for lasting Cease Fire and Peace Process in the Middle East through the Non-Violent Approach
From the very beginning of Peace Lines, our first Campaign for Peace, the Mostar, Zenica, Kiseljak Call for the Sake of Peace in ex-Yugoslavia, published in the French daily Le Monde, on May 20, 1995, our pledge was for books across the front-lines.
"In twenty months, we have transported some thirty people as witnesses and voluntary copilots, with some fourteen tons of relief and translated texts (Descartes, La Boétie, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Giono, Saint-Exupéry, Plato, Plutarch, Ibn Arabi, Saadia Gaon, Nhat Hanh...).
Why books ? 'We are fed up being considered as digestive tubes' (Mr Kreseljakovic, mayor of Sarajevo until 1994).
We believe in schools and radios, independent media, more than in bags of rice."