The current issue of Advances In Nursing Science is a special one. The articles in this issue all are related to ‘peace’ and at a time when our country and our lives are faced with turmoil and violence, it is a welcome journal.

Here’s a look at some of the feature articles…

"No One Gets Through It OK": The Health Challenge of Coming Home from War
“I was in a firefight one week and home in the next. And it was like, as an 18-, 19-year-old kid...you can't turn the switch off, you know what I'm saying? It was difficult for me to go home and make an instant switch to be a civilian. I didn't know how to act right. My energy was up here, but it needed to be down here.”

Critical Cultural Competence for Culturally Diverse Workforces: Toward Equitable and Peaceful Health Care
“…attaining equity-and ultimately peace-in health care delivery necessitates that nursing and other health care professions more carefully attend to the sociocultural context in which health care is delivered.

Peace Through a Healing Transformation of Human Dignity: Possibilities and Dilemmas in Global Health and Peace
“Through personal experience in the region, I have witnessed the transformative power of Israeli-Palestinian relationship building through joint health initiatives. Yet, these experiences also reflect a reluctance of health care professionals working on such initiatives to explicitly address the conflict.”

The Language of Violence in Mental: Health Shifting the Paradigm to the Language of Peace
“…as language is a fluid medium that can be consciously reshaped just as a potter can reshape clay or an artist can rework a canvas, nurses can mold the language of nursing and health care to reflect the paradigm and the power of peace.”

I am happy to share this issue with you and I hope that it will inspire you to infuse more peace into your nursing practice and your life. Enjoy…and I wish you peace.