Bob Luitweiler - Going to Prison Instead of WAR

This is an interview with Bob Luitweiler, the founder of SERVAS, an organization promoting world peace. In this interview I have tried to highlight some of Bob's concerns for SERVAS and the peace movement. Bob Luitweiler has been a peace activist since the 1930's and refused to serve in World War II based on his ideals. He spend 2 years in prison because of those ideals. After the war Bob began to travel again and started SERVAS as an experiment and a dialog to bring people together and think about ways to create a peaceful society. Bob recently died April 13th, 2008 at age 89. For more information on SERVAS, please go to www.servas.org

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• SERVAS
• Bob
• Luitweiler
• PEACE
• Social
• Justice

[AhCunegonde]

Bob Luitweiler always told me Servas was founded by himself AND a group of utopian danes, who went on creating new schools, and other ways to live in ways more focused on human needs.

[neilnachum1]

The most effective way to memorialize the work of Bob Luitweiler is to learn the language in which Servas in named in. Esperanto is a tool of peace. People accept English, French before it, German before it, for there military strengh. Esperanto spreads peacefully (with no army) and represents the correct message of Bob Luitweiler and the true message of Esperanto: Meet people half-way, extending your hand of friendship in the middle. I discuss Esperanto in English at EsperantoFriends.blogspot.

[phil0496881026]

Servas is an international, non-governmental, multicultural peace association run by volunteers in over 100 countries. Founded in 1949 by Bob Luitweiler as a peace movement, Servas International is a non-profit organization working to build understanding, tolerance and world peace.

Great vision of peace's seeds.

Phil

[bellinivernon]

Gracias !!! ;desde abuenos aires .