Harun Yahya

Author

A solution in Syria can be found through sound mediation by Turkey and Russia, both of which know the country best, which are trusted and have enjoyed bilateral relations with it for many years.

David L. Phillips

Director, Program on Peace-building and Rights, Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights

President Barack Obama and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a daunting agenda when they met at the White House last week. The Syria crisis was top of the list. The peace process between Turkey and the PKK was also a priority.

Jim Yong Kim and Ban Ki-moon

President, World Bank Group

Africa's Great Lakes region can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbors, educate millions of out-of-school children, empower women, and create economic opportunities that will help the countries forge a path to prosperity, good governance, and lasting stability.

Rebecca Solnit

Author, 'A Paradise Built in Hell'

The despairing of May 2003 were convinced of one true thing, that we had not stopped the invasion of Iraq, but they extrapolated from that a series of false assumptions about our failures and our powerlessness across time and space.

Brad Yates

EFT expert; co-author, "Freedom at Your Fingertips"

Life has its ups and downs, and it's not unusual that we should feel a need to be comforted when we are more aware of the downs. Because of past programming, though, too often our ways of comforting ourselves are less than ideal, especially in terms of our health.

Harvey Stein

Video journalist, filmmaker

It wasn't enough that Froman was longtime friends with Yasser Arafat. His most notorious outreach activities to Palestinians were with several leaders of Israel's most hated enemy, Hamas.

Rocky Dawuni

Musician, Social activist

I was thankful to witness this collective courage of a country to take a bold step from its past experiences. It filled me with a sense of hope that Africa's march to democracy has entered a new phase.

Suna Senman

Author of “Peace” (forthcoming)

You can have peace at any given moment, and you can make it reoccur, until the peace becomes constant: the new normal.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

Professor of Education, UCLA

How can we feel not just the pain of mothers who look like people we love, or who live in places that look like places we know, but the pain of all people everywhere -- including our presumed enemies?

Kate Gould

Lobbyist on Middle East Policy, Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)

The legislation would not only signal U.S. regime change policy to the Iranian government -- it would also signal to the Iranian people as a whole that the U.S. is determined to pursue regime change by making ordinary Iranians suffer.

Karen Berg

Spiritual Director, Kabbalah Centre International

If we can feel those around us and extend love instead of judgment, we can create unity among peoples, and our words and actions will reverberate around the world.

Pamela Dussault

Spiritual teacher, mentor, counselor, author, soul mate relationship specialist, founder of R.E.A.P. Healing Method

There are many different ways to attain inner peace, tranquility and serenity. Practicing meditation, affirmations and breath work are a few good ones. However, sometimes hidden blockages exist that may prevent you from attaining that inner calm you seek.

Jennifer Hamady

Voice coach, counselor specializing in self-expression; Author, 'The Art of Singing'

As Mother's Day approaches, I am humbled by these lessons of partnership, as well as those of parenthood -- the privilege of birthing your best teacher, seeing your clearest mirror, and walking beside your greatest reminder for a lifetime.

Alan Dershowitz

Criminal and civil liberties lawyer

The right-wing Jewish extremists who boo everyone who wants to make compromises for peace, are every bit as dangerous as Jewish extremists on the hard left who also demand a one state solution -- a binational state that will cease being the homeland of the Jewish people.

Matthew Albracht

Executive Vice President, The Peace Alliance

Too few Americans are aware that early advocates of Mother's Day in the United States originally envisioned it as a day of peace, to honor and support mothers who lost sons and husbands to the carnage of the Civil War.

Rabbi Marc Schneier

President, Foundation for Ethnic Understanding; Vice President, World Jewish Congress

If Netanyahu seizes the moment to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians, thanks to the initiative put forward by the Qataris and the Arab League, there is a chance that after generations of bitter conflict, Israelis will finally live in peace and security.