As the bombs fell in Baghdad at the very beginning of the Iraq war, an Iraqi doctor held a young girl whose body was bloody from missile fragments. He turned to an American Christian peacekeeper named Shane Claiborne and asked: "This violence is for a world that has lost its imagination. Has your country lost its imagination?"
On October 2, the United Nations observes the International Day of NonViolence on the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. The anniversary gives the world a chance to use our imagination and consider the power and promise of non-violent means to resolving conflicts in the world today -- especially in the Middle East.
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