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Building Peace: Understanding First, So We Can Act

The September 11 attacks have forced many people around the world into deep questioning about the world we live in, our own, individual place in it, and what our actions can or cannot lead to. We want to move beyond blame casting and denunciation of inept leadership. It is our individual, and collective, responsibility to take the time to understand, so we can act now for lasting change.

A working forum has been proposed for the construction of peace under the banner "To understand, so we can act." Understand, first, each other and ourselves. Understand, too, how all the aspects of the life we live are or can be related to building a culture of peace.

Discussion is organized in a spirit of open dialogue around four main themes: Humanity and the Biosphere; Society and Economy in Solidarity; Governance; Education, Art, Culture, and Values.

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Pax Forum (December 2001 - June 2002)

Building Peace: The Need to Understand, So We Can Act An International Internet-based Debate on Peace Building The September 11 attacks in 2001 forced many people around the world into deep questioning about the world we live in, our own, individual place in it, and what our actions can or cannot lead to. We wished to move beyond casting blame and denouncing inept leadership. We felt it was our individual and collective responsibility to take the time to understand, so we ould act now for lasting change and lasting peace. For many of the participants in this debate, its conclusions led (...)

Birth and Development of the Forum for Peace - Marina Urquidi -
Summary of the Pax Forum Debates - Arnaud Blin -
Useful Links on the Internet - Marina Urquidi -
A Few Statistics - Marina Urquidi -
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Terrorism? Let’s Call Things by their Names
:: Armand Veilleux :: February 2007 ::

Instead of" terrorism ", it would be often wiser to speak of violence. Indeed the means used to fight terrorism are sometimes just as destructive and reprehensible. Why would not the civil victims of these military actions have any right to consider themselves victims of terrorist attacks? The actions that can be considered as "terrorists" are numerous, but lets call things by their names. What we are confronted with here is violence, whatever can be its motive and by whomever it may be produced. These last years, the word "terrorism" is used unreasonably in a broad and sometimes too (...)

Experience Reports :: February 2007 ::

Elsa BLAIR (CCFD : Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement) - 09 June 1993 1492-1992: 500 years of Indian resistance.Sébastien LE RAY (CEDAL FRANCE : Centre d'Etude du Développement en Amérique Latine) - 01 July 1997This card is still not available in English, but you can read it in other languages. 1992: The ambiguousness of one commemoration.Sébastien LE RAY (CEDAL FRANCE : Centre d'Etude du Développement en Amérique Latine) - 15 March 2005Text not available in English, you can read it in other languages. An experiment to impose the will of women for peace on men who want (...)

Educating for a Peaceful World
:: Morton Deutsch :: June 2002 ::

This article outlines a program of what schools can do to encourage the values, attitudes, and knowledge that foster constructive rather than destructive relations, which pre- pare children to live in a peaceful world. It describes four key components of such programs: cooperative learning, conflict resolution training, the constructive use of controversy in leaching subject matters, and the creation of dispute resolution centers in schools. On cooperative learning: Although cooperative learning has many ancestors and can be traced back for at least 2,000 years, it is only in the (...)

Action for peace: change your life!
:: Christophe Ranque :: June 2002 ::

Here is a testimony about how my wife and myself endeavor to *build Peace in our daily life*. We first of all endeavored *to conquer the hidden truths*, cross-checking informations and with confronting the experiences of people met and our own experiences. Here is a testimony about how my wife and myself endeavor to *build Peace in our daily life*. We first of all endeavored *to conquer the hidden truths*, cross-checking informations and with confronting the experiences of people met and our own experiences. At the level of energy consumption, we advance step-by-step toward better (...)

From the Conversion of the Arms Industries to the Search for Security
:: Richard Pétris :: November 2001 ::

This document presents a set of proposals developed by all the parties concerned, from the workers in the arms industries, to the persons in charge of the armed forces, and also political leaders, representatives of organizations working for peace, researchers, specialized organizations, etc. The conversion of the arms industries deals today with the questioning, not only of one industrial activity, but especially of a the organization of the life of men and societies, in the center of which stands an essential concern, which is that of their safety. The repercussions of the (...)

Developing non-violent campaigns
:: Joanne Seehan :: April 1999 ::

Promoting non-violent forms of action, an increasingly urgent need in the present world context, involves reconsidering in-depth all the features and modes of our behavior and actions in the public arena. To fully explore the potential for social transformation that nonviolence holds, we need to consider all the components of nonviolent campaigns. Gandhi and King developed nonviolent campaigns to accomplish their goals. A nonviolent campaign is a process through which the most number of people come together with a common vision, setting common goals, creative strategies and employing (...)

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