...Hebdo and 12 others murdered in Paris office”, “ISIS burns Jordanian pilot alive”. These were the screaming headlines in leading newspapers around the world recently. Such acts of violence seem a regular occurrence nowadays. Will there ever be peace on earth? Why is the world we live in such a violent place? In 15 years’ time, I will no longer be young. One change I would like to see taking place is for the world to be more peaceful. Other changes I would be eager to see is a greener environment with more sustainable practices as well as the eradication of poverty. Is World peace an illusion? Or can it be achieved one fine day? There seems to be conflict everywhere. Everybody is fighting over something and everything. Iraq invaded Kuwait for their oil in 1990. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. All these large-scale conflicts have a high death toll and the impact is disastrous. Hopefully, in 15 years’ time, countries can settle the disputes between them peacefully, without any need for aggression. Can we ever stop this attitude of getting “an eye for an eye”? If this practice goes on, we run the risk of the making the whole world blind, because fighting will only bring harm upon many around us. I feel that if people or countries are so competitive and calculative, going to war over just a small conflict, it will make our world miserable. In wars where soldiers and civilians die, there can be no victor. Even if a country wins a war, it can only do so with the lives of its...
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...World Peace Day The International Day of Peace also known as Peace Day is celebrated on September 21 each year to recognize the efforts of those who have worked hard to end conflict and promote peace. On Peace Day, people around the world take part in various activities and organize events centered on the theme “peace”. Events vary from private gatherings to public concerts and forums involving large audiences. Peace, as we all know, is very a important matter in our daily lives and it is essential to our overall well-being. However, this is something that has, regrettably been avoided for many years. It has been hindered by war, conflicts and disagreements throughout human history, which has left our world in a disgraceful emotional and physical state. This should not be the case. Peace has many benefits if we give it a chance, and it is a far more favorable option than conflicts. Imagine all the positive developments we could make if we were to have lasting peace throughout the ages! It might be hard, but we must all learn to do it. It is our responsibility as educators to promote peace within our school. There are many ways to promote peace in the classroom that aren’t too abstract. Although it is important to touch on this subject, peace education does not have to just include the prevention of war. It can start in the classroom, by simple acts of kindness, or care of the environment and others around us. The word “peace” means something different to everyone, there...
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...LUCELE D. PASINAG, MAED-EM INTEGRATING PEACE EDUCATION IN THE PRESENT CURRICULUM “Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education is not to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace. * J. Krishnamurti Facets of Peace Education I. Knowledge * Conflict * Students should study a variety of contemporary conflict situations from the personal to the global and attempts made to resolve them. * Peace * Students should study different concepts of peace, both as a state of being and as an active process, on scales from the personal to the global. * War * Students should explore some of the key issues and ethical dilemmas to do with conventional war. * Nuclear Issues * Students should learn about a wide range of nuclear issues and be aware of the key viewpoints on defence and disarmament. * Justice * Students should study a wide range of situations illustrating injustice. * Power * Students should study issues to do with power in the world today. * Gender * Students should study issues on discrimination based on gender. * Race * Students should study issues to do with discrimination based on race. * Environment * Students should have a concern for the environment welfare...
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...BUILDING CIVILIAN CAPACITY BY ARMED FORCES OF BANGLADESH FOR PEACE BUILDING MISSIONS IN UNITED NATIONS 1. Bangladesh stepped into the family of 'Blue-Helmet' through participation in UNIIMOG (Iraq-Iran) in 1988 with 15 Military Observers from Bangladesh Army. Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force joined UNPKO in 1993 while Bangladesh Police joined in 1989. Till now Bangladesh has contributed in 54 UN peacekeeping missions in 39 countries, where 1,13,169 Bangladeshi peacekeepers have participated of which 1,02,794 are from the Armed Forces. At present with strength of 9,111 peacekeepers (7,197 from the Armed Forces), Bangladesh is the highest peacekeepers contributing country in the world. Being the largest troops and police contributing country for UN peace keeping missions, Bangladesh holds a large UN experienced work force. The experience of such a large work force can be utilized effectively in peace building role even after they retire from the government service. 2. Peace building in countries emerging from conflict is a huge, complex undertaking as it happens in an insecure, politically fragile and therefore challenging environment. There is always a challenge to match the crucial response time with the availability of experienced civilian workforce to be deployed for peace building missions. In this respect UN has rightly focused on building civilian capacity in members states. Creating a national database as a tool of human resource system is surely a need of...
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...is that these two groups (Palestinian’s and Israeli’s) have a very sensitive past. Communicating back and forth using virtual-humans is fascinating, because we want to see the difference between traditional Face-to-Face and digital contact (mimicry technology) from a distance. After a series of tests, what the reporters have found, was that using mimicry technology (technology that mimics behavior) increased the levels of empathy one showed toward each other rather than the traditional method of Face-To-Face method. This is a profound discovery because this can really influence world peace treaties worldwide and also use technology to develop third world countries simply by the new increase in demand for upgrading systems and networks globally to run the newer technology. The reason this is important to upgrade technology all over the world, is if this science truly works, we can produce more peace and less destruction over time leaving more money for construction rather than destruction. The end result was that mimicry technology works with hostile groups when it comes to communicating amongst each other more peacefully. This...
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...DEFINING THE STRATEGIC CULTURE: BANGLADESH PERSPECTIVE Intro 1. A nation exists to lead the way of better living. Strategic Culture (SC) of a nation generates strength that shows the path of prosperity. It is the attitude of a nation in conduct with the others. A nation, big or small, offers many positive attitudes and conducts which are admired, nurtured and cherished by others. It is good for any nation to have the SC articulated, even more imp is to prac and fol them appr. 2. In search of prosperity and accomplishment, nations maintain rich SC. The good, the bad and the odds of the society usually come out from it. If the internal environment of a country is good and if there is maturity in politics, the SC becomes sustainable. While if the internal environment of the country ebbs and flows, the SC shows up accordingly. Born in 1971, BD is yet to define its SC. It has something to offer and many things to be derived from the others. From that perspective, this paper will first define the subj, then disc the SC of a small nation. Then the paper will try to accumulate the SC that BD demo so far and suggest some cultures to be articulated. Aim 3. The aim of this paper is to articulate the SC for Bangladesh. Definition of SC 4. SC has been defined in different ways. Colin S. Gray defined it as “… consists of the socially constructed and transmitted assumptions, habits of mind, traditions and preferred methods of operation—that is behavior—that are more or less specific...
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...Maria Wright Module 1 Assign 2 Peace According to the Webster’s dictionary, peace means "freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility." The definition that I can relate to most and appears to be most appealing is, “the occurrence of harmony characterized by the lack of violence." This definition explains best what we as individuals might mean when we say, all we want is peace, or an occurrence of harmony in our lives. Before this assignment, I always thought of peace in terms of war around the world and the lack of peace amongst countries fighting each other. I thought of it as the absence of fighting at home. I never knew how big the Peace Movement was. I did not realize it was a "movement", I just thought that people came to accept that we did not live in a world that could come to consensus as to what peace looks like. I recall a time where I called a co-worker oriental because it was what I was taught to call people of Asian descent. She got very insulted and called me all sorts of names. For me it was a common terminology used by everyone I knew, but on the contrary it was a stereotypical name and offensive to my Korean friend who stops speaking to me for months, as I did not feel I had to apologize because I did not know. One word caused high tensions in an office where we worked in every close quarter. One word caused such a huge disturbance of the peace we once knew. In his speech at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's 7th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture...
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...How far was the U2 crisis a threat to world peace? The U2 crisis in 1960 significantly cause relations between the US and USSR to worsen. It led toi Khrushchev refusing to attend the Paris Summit Meeting in part because Eisenhower refused to publicly apologize for it. This meant that there were problems left unsolved, such as the division of Berlin, and halted the progress the Thaw had made. Khrushchev used it as an excuse to heighten tensions between the USSR and the USA even more, leading to a propaganda victory for him and the USSR. The USSR’s success posed a threat to the US, because of this the US placed its forces on alert, ready for retaliation from the Soviets. This mistrust was part of what caused then Cuban Missile crisis which almost destroyed world peace completely with the threat of a nuclear war. It was not only the USSR who believed the US could not be trusted as a result of this incident. The U2 crisis created mistrust between China and the US, threatening world peace even further. This also led to the accelerated development of the arms race. The US developed new methods and systems for espionage instead (despite Eisenhower’s promise not to) such as the Corona Satellite program and the Lockheed D-21 unmanned drone while the USSR was able to develop a far reaching missile which they tried to place in Cuba in 1962. On the other hand, neither of the superpowers wanted war and were not prepared to take the risks of a nuclear war. Both countries had lost many men...
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...Magna Dicta By Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra 1. Immunity from contagious ideas against the conviction for the fulfillment of principle, is strength of character. 2. Cohesive urge by which sperm and ovum adhere and evolve is libido the urge. 3. Fusional adherence that evolves into being with respective becoming, is life. 4. Neurotics are fanatically obstinatein passions, but weak in principle. 5. Where love concentrates, there the being dwells. 6. Greed for vanity is repellent to love and treacherous to gratefulness. 7. Love from flattered vain glory ends in enmity. 8. Love that dose not nurture life and growth is witchy in character. 9. Leave not your love to lust; know it for certain---that will dwindle you with a thrashing push into the grinning hell of despair. 10. Passionate insincerity supports irrational expectant jealous love. 11. Love imparts blooming blossom and lust makes a man gloomy. 12. Love is seldom mutual but it has a magnetic pull hence love makes the Love, love with love. 13. More alive the adherence to the Ideal, more is man unshocked and unshaken. 14. Love-shock is the shock that shakes the source of vital flow! 15. Grace and Gracious favour are the outcome of unexpectant serviceable love with a tenor of thyness. 16. Gratuitous love is the leaven of heaven whereas expectant love is a siren call that drags down to devil. 17. When demands growls without any service that nurtures and blooms...
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...to world peace. The main threat to world peace was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 but there were many other occurrences that made people truly believe that the Cold War could be the end of the world. 1949 is the year that the Soviets tested their first Atomic Bomb on August 29th. This shocked the US Government as they believed that the Soviet nuclear technology was much further behind than it actually was. Unbeknownst to them, the Soviets had spies in America who were giving information about the US’s nuclear technology back to the Soviet scientists. This sped up their Nuclear weapon program. The West were already suspicious of the Soviets; this suspicion played a huge part in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in April 1949. This was a step towards maintaining world peace. So although there were threats towards World Peace throughout 1949, the formation of NATO encouraged the general public that the Western governments were making sure that Communism wasn’t spreading and World Peace would be maintained. The development of delivery systems also unnerved both sides and threatened World Peace. When Sputnik was launched by the USSR in 1957, the US became nervous. If the Soviets could send a satellite into space, then they should be able to get a nuclear weapon to mainland America. The American public could turn on a radio and hear the beeping noise that Sputnik was transmitting. This scared them and was what they perceived as a threat to World Peace. What...
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...world’s population would have been at risk, as both sides had enough weapons to ensure that in the event of a war, there would be Mutually Assured Destruction. As the technology, and the weapons being developed with the technology, was getting more and more advanced, the potential for mass-scale destruction became very real. Bomb sizes, ranges and tactics were being improved at a vast rate, and this put a huge danger to the world. The volatility of these weapons can be exemplified by the USA’s Jupiter missiles, based in Turkey, which, more than once, were struck by lightning, initiating their launch sequence. The range of the missiles was one thing that changed drastically during the arms race. Originally missiles had to be fired from nearby countries or ships, thus the placement of the Jupiter missiles in Turkey, near the USSR, and also the Soviet placement of missiles in Cuba, near America, but with the development of first the inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) and then the Soviet achievement of Sputnik and space-capable rockets, the whole world was put in danger. These missiles could now reach any point on earth,...
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...can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace within ourselves.” The sole focus of an individual is dynamic fulfillment that derives from ones inner sphere signifying outer peace. Peace within one’s self is gained through sacred meaning, and the diminishing of inner turmoil that restricts inner peace in which individuals require in order to achieve external peace within the world .Internal strife and peace will lead the restoration of peace in the outer world. In both Christianity and Islam, sacred texts are vital sources of information on all aspects of peace. They demonstrate principal teachings about peace, and teachings on inner peace as well as supporting the ultimate aim of world peace. Although man is unable to avoid conflict, they can teach themselves to respond in ways that avoid negative outcomes. The scriptural text, the New Testament is used as a sacred text among Christians as it is the key principal and foundational element of teaching. Peace is an underlying value that has been conveyed through the form of a message conveyed to Christian believers. Peace is at the heart of Jesus’ life and ministry. The New Testament expresses peace as virtue as it a key element of the reign of God. Jesus himself is known as the “prince of peace”. Peace being a common notion throughout Christian scriptural literature emphasize’ the importance of peace, combating conflict in which derives away from peace. The New Testament encounters inner peace as it an imperative...
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...TOPROMOTE PEACE” |Peace Education | http://missmakanani.blogspot.com/2007/07/50-ways-to-promote-peace.html 1. Make friends with someone of another race, ethnicity, age, ability, or sexual orientation. Appreciating and embracing diversity helps to promote peace. 2. Get to know your neighbors. It’s hard to reclaim peace without a sense of community. 3. Take an adventure to neighborhoods of your town or country that are ethnically focused to appreciate diverse cultures. Cross-cultural understanding is key to building peace. 4. Travel to learn. Get first-hand experience in how things happen in other places and bring home questions about how you do things at home. 5. Drive with patience and tolerance. Keep the peace on our streets and highways. 6. Listen more. Really listen, without giving unsolicited advice. The validation of being heard is often more important than solving the problem. 7. Spend time with a youngster. This can often remind us of the meaning of a peaceful world. 8. Practice the art of patience. Be careful not to rush to judgment or action. 9. Start peace conversations...
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...regarding peace? Christianity and Islam both have had a distinct response to peace. Peace is the central teaching among both religions and the teaching of inner peace and world peace can be conveyed through sacred texts, principal teachings and organisations. In Christianity, teachings of peace derives from Christ in the New Testament. Peace is at the heart of Jesus’ life and ministry and accordingly it is a foundational element of the the Christian communities that seek to follow him. The New Testament extols peace as a virtue and identifies it as a key element of the reign of God. Jesus himself is known as the “prince of peace” and is regarded as the source of peace, meaning that by adherents living in a close relationship with him, they are allowing themselves to experience the peace in which he brings. The New Testament proclaims “Guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:79), which emphasises that following in the footsteps of Jesus, is the way to achieving inner peace. Peace is understood as more than merely an absence of violence and conflict. It refers more fully to an overall sense of wellbeing. Ultimately peace is found in union with God. Christians are taught to live at peace with others, both within their own communities and in the wider human family.Throughout the first three centuries of the common era Christians adopted a pacifist position and refused to engage in military service or warfare, leaving a distinctive response to the achievement of world peace. This...
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...SAMPLE HIGH RANGE RESPONSE – RELIGION AND PEACE Below is an example of a high-range response for Religion and Peace. Note how the student has supported and clarified all assertions made with discerning use of evidence from a range of sources. As such, they have used her information to explicitly address the question at hand. When talking about inner peace, the student refers to the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus which has restored the covenantal relationship between God and humanity, sins have been forgiven, and this is what brings inner peace. The student also explicitly explored the idea that the teachings on peace are highly significant in the lives of adherents and she gives sound reasons why. The response shows, for example, that Christians are required to promote non-violence responses to conflict. She goes on to show how this call to peace has a significant impact on the decisions they are asked to make in order to adhere to that directive in their lives. Question: Evaluate the influence of Christianity in the lives of adherents in relation to their understanding and attainment of inner peace and contribution to world peace. The influence of Christianity in the lives of adherents is extensive and profound due to the religion’s emphasis on attaining peace through following the role model of Jesus Christ. Such a mandate permeates the entirety of a Christian adherent’s existence, entailing maintenance of right relationships with God and all people. Christians...
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