Simple Ideas to Create World Peace (ambitious!)
World peace. We all want it. And it’s heart-breaking that in the 21st century, we still have politicians who believe killing each other, is the way to create it. Or that the way to make money is to sell weapons that kill innocent people. Also learn how to help animals in war zones
One of the best ways we can help to create world peace is to not buy into the bias and not-very-effective media, which rarely reports the full story, and does not hold war-starters to account. Get real facts at Byline Times (no ads or bias).
Why after Hitler – are media journalists still standing around watching people in grand rooms shake hands and pose for cameras, when they have so much blood on their hands?
Where are the proper journalists doing their jobs? One yell from Trump that it’s ‘fake news’, and everyone just goes silent.
Why Do the Same Countries Go to War?
If you look at those who research the answer, it’s quite interesting as the answers are pretty simple. It’s nearly always countries with oil (UK, USA, Russia, Middle East).
Often the countries have biased media (Fox News) or state media (Russia, Iran). Our own news gives soundbites – do you know why Russia invaded Ukraine or why the Middle East is always at war? Not many of us really do.
Remember the Girl Burned by Napalm?
We’ve all seen the infamous photo of Phan Thị Kim Phúc (who ran from the scene in Vietnam after being burned from a napalm attack). She spent 14 months in hospital and her brother (to her left in the photo) lost an eye).
Nick Ut (who had just watched a baby die in its grandmother’s arms) put down his camera after taking the photographer and took her to hospital. He remained friends with both siblings, she now runs The KIM Foundation, to help other child victims of war.
Is There a Solution to the Israel/Gaza War?
You would think not, but actually this war (which dates back 2000 years and got worse after a war in 1967 which left Israel with the West Bank and Gaza Strip) has seen conflict grow.
But instead of western politicians sorting things out, why don’t they listen to experts who may have one? Political writer Daniel Levin (whose father had his arm blown off in the last days of the 1948 war) says a different vision of a two-state solution could work.
It would retain aspects of one-state (freedom of employment, movement and residency with security controls). So people could live, work and study anywhere. But only vote in their own state.
Israelis living in occupied Palestine could move back if wished to Israel (with relocation papers) or remain in Palestine and follow their laws. Visit A Land for All for more information.
Seeds of Peace is a US summer camp, where they take opposing sides to have them work and play together, to become the future leaders of tomorrow (say Israeli and Palestinian teenagers). They arrive wanting to kill each other, and leave as friends.
Finding Hope in the Midst of War
The Forgiveness Project is a website set up by an Italian journalist, which interviews those who have chosen to forgive. This is big stuff: mothers who have forgiven those who have murdered their sons, adults who have forgiven parents for years of abuse and sons who have forgiven terrorist fathers.
But also it focuses on those who forgiven others in war. Recently, the founder interviewed two fathers (one from Palestine and one from Israel) who both had young daughters murdered (by an Israeli solider and two Palestinian suicide bombers respectively).
But rather continue the cycle of violence, both now work for peace organisations, to prevent such things happening again.
Treating Women Well Creates World Peace
Most countries that go to war, have issues with women. Most men are peaceful, but it’s true that (aside from Margaret Thatcher), most countries that don’t go to war are led by women (until recently that would be New Zealand, and many Scandinavian countries).
It’s not that men are more ‘violent’, but that sometimes the egos come out (think Johnson, Trump and Putin).
Malala Yousafzai was born to a Pakistani education activist (and humanitarian father). The world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate was shot in the head (along with two friends who recovered) for writing a blog on what life was like, living under the Taliban.
She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics and now campaigns for world peace and education for girls.
