The idea of this blog was born months ago with a specific purpose: education for a culture of peace.
It wanted to be a virtual place where the wonderful people who believe and are committed in their daily lives to seeing a different world emerge could meet and discuss to find the best way to achieve common objectives. That's because educating other people to peace is an almost desperate goal but educating yourself to peace is only a matter of time and will.
This blog was intended to be a place where people who want to cultivate a culture of peace could find the necessary exchange of ideas to do so.
However I must admit that things have gone in a different way.
I must admit that the debate and exchange have turned into a monologue from myself to a captive and wonderful audience, a select group of people with fantastic principles and strong motivation but who not talk to each other, who hear my words perhaps with pleasure, perhaps with friendship, but do not talk to the others and perhaps even do not hear themselves.
From my point of view I have learned so much from this work, every day having to find, understand and put in the form of short articles the struggles that many are fighting throughout the world in search of justice. Newspapers report such events only marginally giving us only superficial information instead of debate on justice in the world, and without justice there is no peace.
But this is a project for myself that I would do even without this blog, so then I do wonder why a blog? To whom should I speak and in which way? In the same moment I admit that I have not reached my goal then I need to rethink how to get back to work on the culture of peace effectively. Where should I start from?
I need to think about it and maybe I need help in my reflection.
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6 comments:
a blog is good to keep people up to date about what u think and like to share.
a forum is great for commmunication with others.
please tell some small, maybe funny, maybe interesting, maybe informing bits of things that u come across when u browse the web or think aboutsomething.
thats more or less what the blog has been...
I like to read about the small things that others are doing for a culture of peace so I can think "I can do that too". If the problem looks too big it is too easy to leave it to the politicians and that is a mistake!
Give me some stories of hope, to keep hope alive, and mix the problems with some manageable solutions and suggestions.
Why don't you write about the peace camps, the stories that warm us as well as the problems that overwhelm us?
Dear Bruno,
Give us some of your thoughts, your dreams, your hopes, without applying them to bigger things.
Tell us what peace looks like to you.
I am beginning to think we should start by looking at peace, not at conflict, and working from there.
Write about the Global Peace Index, what do you think about that? Does it have value, or do you think it is a waste of time?
yeah its sad to sttop after all this work. maybe the good weather wil bring inspiration :)
Today I, a daughter of an Allied soldier, met with a friend, the daughter of a German soldier, to plan our peace work for next year, the 65th anniversary of the the end of the battle of Cassino.
We work with veteran soldiers and youth, to commemorate and reconcile, to remember and to educate. We bring together the soldiers and the civilians. It is a small thing, perhaps, but surely it is worth doing.
Our blog may seem a small thing, but surely it is worth doing too?
Many people read, but do not write. That is the way of the world. We don't know if we have planted a small seed somewhere, and will not be able to watch that seed grow. But we must have hope, and peace and hope are not empty words to me.
peace .....
start from our heart:)
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