This poem was submitted to the Peace and Conflict Monitor by a reader, and calls for what the author, Gihad Ali, sees as justice. Without justice, the poem argues, there can be no peace.

Do you Remember? Author: Jennifer Francesca Acio Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 04/23/2009   Do you remember When we used to sit Around the smouldering faggots With anxious eyes Glued to mama’s aromatic cauldron? Awe-struck by the glistening stars That seemed to hold our future?   How

Be the Change? Author: Susan Carew Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 01/29/2009     I am going to change the world, I whisper, I am changing the world, I feel, I am the change, I see, I am the world, Actually, And what I see, Frees me,

Arms and the Boy Author: Wilfred Owen Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 06/17/2009   Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash; And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend