Promoting Peace, a Hope at a Time
In an astonishing moment of clarity, the Nobel Peace Prize was given this year, not to the current excuse for Henry Kissinger, but to a man who understands the very basis and structure of peace.
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
-MarkTwain (1835-1910)
In an astonishing moment of clarity, the Nobel Peace Prize was given this year, not to the current excuse for Henry Kissinger, but to a man who understands the very basis and structure of peace. Muhammed Yunus had an idea some thirty years ago and reached into his pocket to prove his thesis.
Yunus told The Associated Press in 2004 that his eureka moment came while chatting to a shy Bangladeshi woman weaving bamboo stools with calloused fingers.
Sufia Begum was a 21-year-old mother of three when he met her in 1974 and asked how much she earned. She replied that she borrowed about five taka, the equivalent of nine cents, from a middleman for the bamboo for each stool. All but two cents of that went back to …