27 Quotes by Scilla Elworthy

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Change happens at the level of the individual

More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together