This month marks the 97 th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States of America. Although long considered the framework model for much of Western democracy, the US only granted the vote to its female citizens in 1920, ratifying a women’s suffrage amendment to the Constitution on August 18 th of that year. And it was hardly a right justly recognized and bestowed upon women out of a progressive sense of democratic constitutional correctness. It was, rather, a hard-fought right won through the tenacity and sacrifice of a handful of women leaders who little by little convinced a huge following to back their demands for what should have been rightfully theirs from the outset: the right to an equal voice in choosing those who would govern and make the country’s laws. It would take eight decades of struggle for American women to win the right to vote. And the means by which they pursued that civil right provides an exemplary case study of peaceful protest and non-violent c
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Author Roberto Vivo comments on wars past and present, on the world’s great peacemakers and on the pathway to global peace. His basic philosophy: In a world where 9 out of every 10 victims of armed conflict are civilians, war is no longer a viable political alternative. Indeed, it is the ultimate crime against humanity. If rising generations are to have a future, the key will lie in world peace. War is the pathway to oblivion.