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This issue began with a question from John Siebert at Project Ploughshares: where are all the peace activists? He challenged us to make an issue to stir a new generation for peace.

• Regulars
• Editorial: Positive peace
  Melanie Dennis Unrau 8
• Letters 10
• Sinner’s Corner: Nothing to confess
  Margot Starbuck 14
• Fun with guns [comic]
  Justin Petkau 15
• The Pastor’s Wife: Peace starts with the socks
  Carrie S. Martin 16
• Guest column: An inconvenient commandment
  Margot Starbuck 17
• Poetry
• Mind the war
  Annharte 39
• Peace, unlike
  Monique Woroniak 59
• Section 1: Refrain from further violence
• the cost of peace
  kathryn gray 25
• Do you see what I see?
  Shannon Blake 26
• Memorial for deserters
  Christian Skoorsmith 29
• Ten Reasons for hope
  John Siebert 30
• Pacifism is still possible
  Christie Skoorsmith 32
• Section 2: Detach from systems of oppression
• The tail lights fade
  Jake Olzen 36
• Woman in Black
  Juliet Eastland 37
• Shooting stars
  Jon Sears 40
• Looking at the wounded
  Jonathan Hiskes 42
• Terrorist
  Darlene McLeod 44
• How to love your neighbour
  Joey Royal 45
• Community is the heart of nonviolence
  Isaiah Boronka 46
• Moral jeopardy
  Maryanne Mutch 47
• Section 3: Foster positive peace
• Contemplation leads to peace
  Cherice Bock 50
• A disparate peace
  Carly Ciufo 52
• Gunshots in Las Pavas
  Hannah Redekop 53
• A conversation with John Dear
  Josiah Neufeld 54
• Costa Rica’s unarmed democracy
  Patrick Van Inwegen 60
• Economics of the sacred
  Ben Janzen 62
• Two?
  Kathy Moorhead Thiessen 64
• Hope keeps me breathing
  Rusty Poulette 65
• Seven sacred works for young activists
  Lydia Wylie-Kellermann 67
• Web Exclusive
• Lightning Peace
  Alex Jürgen Thumm
• Culturosities 18
• Judy Da Silva
• AK-47s into ploughshares
• Hate mail origami
• RoboGandhi
• Experiments 68
• Playing with peace
• Art bike
• DIY veggie stock
• Civil Disobedience 70
• School closure protests
• Moral politics
• Climate justice activist released
• News
• Feministry 74
• Conservative sexual ethics lead ?to passivity
• Tibetan nuns gain ground
• Christian Peacemaker Teams 75
• Land struggles in Columbia
• Lakota resist Keystone XL
• Israel clamps down at border
• Catholic Worker 76
• Bradley Manning vigil
• Parking-lot oasis
• LGBT* 77
• Catholic school board votes against intolerance
• Catholic school fires lesbian teacher
• Reviews 78
• My Bright Abyss
• The Kingdom and the Glory
• Beautiful Trouble
• All is Grace