Common sense of conflict

Two items of common speech that have always been a bit of a miss for me are common sense and the use of the word conflict. First, the phrase common sense. Often people twist the phrase and say that sense is not common. Well for me, I have always believed that sense is common, yet it is has become nonsensical. For example. Societies have always known that mass transit is a better investment than individual transportation. However, in the past number of decades more money has gone into individual transportation than mass transit. To the point where railway tracks were torn up and now that is being seen as a mistake - common sense? Next there is the use of the word conflict. Most times the word is understood as an uneasy communication, fight, argument etc... In reality, conflict is two or more things coming into contact with eachother. For example, a kiss is conflict, shaking hands is conflict, thought needs conflict and so does giving birth. The act that precedes brith is also an exercise in conflict. However common sense would have me believe that conflict should be avoided. Good luck with that because if there is no conflict there is no way any of us could be born. So much for common sense of conflict because the common meaning of conflict is nonsensical.

Perception vs reality/ theatrics over integrity

While in the process of studying peace, turmoil exists at all times. A calm, peaceful path does not obliterate horrible violence because we live in a world that has insanity. Reality is that most people live in a relative state of peace where they can go about their day to day work/needs with average effort. Now beaware of the insanity.Basically, what is theatrics and what is reality? Understanding will provide strength. The popular word of the last few years has been resiliency. Building resiliency/building strength is the same coin different sides. Doom scrolling is a thing, it impacts us yet some allow that impact to alter them. A person begins the process to follow/change. Before internet and phones there were books and flyers that spread information. Moreover, the newspaper has always been a tool for ownership to spread their own opinions and influence. In each sentence above there exists perception, theatrics, reality and integrity. What each of us thinks of the words, allows impact. Now what is done with that impact is a choice. In building peace, the foundation of choice starts with understanding that person who lives a great life using average effort into their day to day needs/work. The other half of that energy should be used to give thanks to all that helps provide peace to your life. Then insanity scrolls up. Peace is a constant, every second of your being attention. Nothing less will work for peace to exist.

The bully in your face

Being peacefull needs understandig that courage is needed to hold back all desires to act violently while standing ground. Many people experinece such places where peace is further away than hell.Standing ground peacefully means walking into hell without a weapon - other than your own self. Your own self and peace. A single person can be at peace and when shared provides magical moments. A group of friends that share responsibility and values are a coalition of force the world needs. Such a step was attempted in 2000 with SHIRBRIG. That force is needed today with one change. Not a stop gap force but a force that manages and patrols demilitarized zones. Three such areas are Ukraine, Palestine and DRC. https://www.unwatch.com/shirbrig.shtml

The 200 year plan for peace

 Currently peace operations as well as war operations, economical operations and political operations focus on six months to five year end cycles. the worst of that list is the focus on peace operations. The time frame for peace has no end date. The best we can do is to improve on our  courage each day towards peace. We committed to an oath of peace after World War II. That oath of peace is being tested to its most extreme since 1945.

A great way through the current situation is to have a 200 year plan. Here it is.

From day one this is a peace mission which is to patrol a Demilitarized Zone. The complications of such is for another day. However, the focus will be to assess the construction of hospitals, schools, and ,of course infrastructure for exit/entry transition points. There will also have to be bases for the soldiers built. A great deal of work to do in step one, never mind the clean up that has to be done. 

Step two is the second 100 years, will know more when we get there.

International Peace obligation.

 International Peace.

Every thing needs a start date. Peace has 1947 as a year of great hope. The founding nations of the United Ntions agreed to the boundaries of Israel and Palestine. Those Founding Members which Ukraine and Russia are, gives clear evidence as to the politacal bloundaies for Russia and Ukraine - as well as Irsael and Palestine. That is reality.

Any peace deal must be based on truth and Ukraine has been an independant state for centuries so stop fighting truth.

All nations should patrol a Demilatariezd zone expanding from those 1947 borders, at least 100km wide swath. For the next 100 years this border shall be patroled by United Nation Department of Peace Operations.Forces. 

worth a shot.

I think Canada should commit 200 000 soldiers trained in peace operations every years to patrol that DMZ for at least one hundred years.

Spider web theories and six degrees of separation

 

Over the past number of years, there has been an increase of information that drives distrust in society. The information being provided starts with making connections of realities which are undeniable. For example, two people are seated side by side on an airplane and find out they are going to the same conference concerning some issue of global awareness. Once at the conference they meet again and are photographed together a number of times. There is no other connection or workplan in place other than that. A few months go by and the photos are placed all over making the accusation that these two people are controlling global events. Even though in truth there is nothing taking place, the connections can be made and events can be traced back to those meetings.

Such situations take place often in the current world of information sharing. This phenomenon is known as spider web connections and six degrees of separation. This is a very dangerous reality because it so happens that one event in thousands actually turns out to be true. Even though the failure rate is enormous, that one event is enough for people to post about it on social media and broadcast on other forms of media to amplify the importance of that one event.  Thus is born the distrust and cementing factually rare evidence as a commonality.

All this leads to the distressing truth, which is that most times things are more often happenstance rather than orchestrated, that peace is lost to fearmongering, hatred, distrust, anxiety, etc… All because some person hits on a relational fact that spans from one thread of a spider web to another connecting two points that in fact have nothing in common other than that thread providing evidence of the six degrees of separation.

The place of peace studies.

 

Everything that we do involves peace. To study is to seek understanding for a greater knowledge of what is taking place. This knowledge is a step towards peace. Every school and program of study that exists seeks understanding, which is a component of peace. In essence, every school is a study of peace. Which is why most peace programs are interdisciplinary.

The formal labelling of peace and conflict studies is noted to have been started by Johan Galtung. However, it is my view that peace is the foundation of very relationship and the main pursuit of knowledge. With that view, peace and conflict is the sole purpose/goal for any educational institution, society and person.  Also, it is important to understand that each of us are engaged in the task of peace each day. It has been that way from the beginning of time. That is why peace and conflict education has been part of everyday life from the very beginning of life.

To have a program of peace under any other discipline is putting the cart before the horse. Peace is not a component of philosophy or psychology or politics or law.  In fact, all of those are components of peace. Each of those are avenues that we use to obtain peace. Most of the time, all of them are utilized on a daily basis for peace to have even the slimmest of success.

Take economics for example. Peace has been understood as perfect balance, which is zero. To have peace in economics there can be no constant growth because that is out of balance. This does not mean that there is no wealth accumulated. It means that there is equal distribution of input and output. To have more on either side is out of balance. The same scenario plays out with all other components of peace.

This balance is the calm resolve needed to obtain peace. In order to have that balance, each of us must study their own personal balance.