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

- Scilla Elworthy

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

- Scilla Elworthy

To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

- Scilla Elworthy

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

- Scilla Elworthy

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different languag…

- Scilla Elworthy

More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those wh…

- Scilla Elworthy

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

- Scilla Elworthy

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

- Scilla Elworthy

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 …

- Scilla Elworthy