Peace Please

Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian doctor who helped Israeli couples as a fertility expert working in Israel. He lost three daughters in an Israeli incursion in 2009, and has written I Shall Not Hate as a testament to them, and a call for peace. Ingrid Betancourt returned to Colombia after study in Europe to make a difference, she hoped, as a politician. She was taken hostage by FARC and held hostage in the Colombian jungle for over six years: Even Silence Has an End records her harrowing experience, but perhaps more importantly lays out her internal struggle to understand humanity, for all its faults. Hana Schofield and Atka Reid describe the multitude of ways in which their young lives were ripped apart by the 1990s Bosnian war in Goodbye Sarajevo. All four writers have written inspiring stories of “courage under fire”, and – inevitably – aim to influence readers by describing their first-hand experience of violence and conflict.

They talk with Robert Sullivan, author of Cassino: City of Martyrs.

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