Treating People as Fully Human: Giving Up Enemy Making
- January 15th, 2010
Disaster Opens the World’s Heart
As I write, the world is pouring out its heart to the survivors of the Haiti earthquake. I watch, stunned at the magnitude of the devastation and awed by the magnitude of the generosity this tragedy has elicited. Something about natural disasters brings out the best in people. Perhaps this is because we would want others to treat us with compassion were we the ones in desperate need.
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On our shrinking globe, there is a pervasive belief in the inevitability of war/armed violence. It is accompanied by a sense of hopelessness and despair that things will ever be different. Peace is seen as those brief periods between outbreaks of armed violence. This blog will introduce a radically different approach which begins with the fact that violence and war are language-based phenomena. Change the language and thinking and you change the behavior. We humans can choose the kind of world we want to live in, if we want it badly enough. If we chose to create a world that worked for everyone, no force on earth could stop us. We have the capacity to create, at this point in history, the kind of future we want for ourselves, our children and future generations. This is Peace by Design.
Here are some of the questions we will address:
How Did We Get Here?








