Peace and peacemakingThe 14th Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Kyi, as leaders in their struggle for freedom, faced enormous difficulties and 'oppression. Their situations are similar in that they and the movements they represent are oppressed by violent governments and they both choose to respond based on their Buddhist backgrounds. The Dalai Lama does not discuss the Tibetan situation at length in his book Ethics for a New Millennium, as it is a general book that gives some guidelines on how to live. Suu Kyi, at the other end of the spectrum, devotes much of her book to the Burmese National League for Democracy and its responses to the SLORC. The Dalai Lama, when dealing with the Chinese or the general public, emphasizes the loving nature of all people, that true freedom only comes from our struggle for inner peace, that our actions have consequences outside of ourselves and that to transform our suffering, we must focus on others. The Dalai Lama hypothesizes that humans are nonviolent by nature. “T...