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Barrett receives peace
award It is this philosophy, coupled with measurable, on-the-ground service work, that has propelled Barrett, a retired family physician, to win the YMCA Peace Medallion this year. The award will be handed out at a public ceremony Nov. 26 at 10 a.m. at the YMCA. Joyce is the co-chair of Kawartha Ploughshares, a local peace and disarmament group affiliated with the national group Project Ploughshares. The group is interested in encouraging nuclear disarmament, reducing arms trading, reducing militarism in the world and solving conflicts by peaceful means. Joyce served briefly as a board member for the YWCA and is a member of Physicians for Global Responsibility. "Peace is a dynamic process," she tells peacefulcommunities.ca after the announcement of the award winner was made. "Peace is not the absence of conflict but how you resolve conflict," adds Joyce. Joyce says for some people, peace seems to be a "fluffy, woolly, Koom-bay-ah thing." "Or, on the other side, there are those who support the bombing of Iraq or of Afghanistan or Yugolslavia in order to get peace. It’s as if they are saying ‘just as soon as we have enough war, we’ll have peace.’" For 18 months Joyce led a weekly, one-hour vigil protesting sanctions placed upon Iraq. She says she believes peace is "not Nirvana, or where the lions lay down with the lambs." "I’m not interested in that vision of peace because it is not real or credible," she says. The retired doctor says she truly believes that if the same money, energy, and resources went into peaceful solutions instead of war, everyone would benefit. |
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