Peace & Justice Conversations: Paths to Peace with Iran

Decades of tension between the United States and Iran have recently erupted into full scale illegal war (including economic) initiated by the U.S. and Israel. While we attempt to de-escalate the immediate crisis, people such as Moji Agha have a larger vision for an Iran that allows freedom for its people and has normal relationships with other countries of the world. It will involve peace activists of multiple nationalities nonviolently forcing their governments onto a new path. There are realistic pathways to peace, and many people who would like to walk them. Brother Moji will tell us about some options he sees as attainable.

Brother Moji Agha (Mojtaba Aghamohammadi) is an Iranian-American reformist Muslim Sufi "monk" and a bilingual poet/writer. He seeks to connect Iranian peace and nonviolence advocates with their American counterparts, build connections and synergies to support one another in our work, and to prevent more warfare between our nations. An activist for 4 decades, brother Moji has had extensive academic, professional, and clinical backgrounds in psychology, cultural (and ecological) studies and conflict understanding and healing. His peace, justice, human rights, democracy, interfaith dialogue, and Mother Earth activism includes founding non-profit "decolonization" projects like: Native/American Truth and Reconciliation (NATR) Initiative, Mossadegh Legacy Institute, Chambers of Compassion (Circles Movement of Movements) Initiative, International Institute to Study Climate Change in the Islamic World, and National Peace and Democracy Coalition of Iran (NPDCI) -- A project of the Peace-seeking Iranian Veterans.