This may sound strange to the readership of this Substack, but I wonder if it would be possible to tie into the resources of Rotary International. As an organization it can achieve great things in partnership with others (cf the “End Polio Now” campaign with the WHO and the Gates Foundation), and Peace has been one of its areas of focus throughout the 40 years I have been a member. If you see any merit in the idea, I could work with you to prepare an approach to the Rotary Foundation, which can mobilize both money and people if it can be convinced of viability.
Jonathan, There is a lot in this. Too much, in fact, to comment on briefly. Would love to put you in touch with folks in the UK who are actively working on the issues you raise and with the Institute for Economics and Peace whose GPI you draw on. In the meantime, check out their pillars of positive peace and the evidence in their positive peace index. Cheers
Thank you, Jonathan, for attempting to make peace sexy again.
There is a notion in psychotherapy called 'hostile dependency,' characterized by one or both members of a relationship being dependent. This dependency can lead to profound feelings of being trapped, resulting in frustration and anger that manifests as hostility. This dynamic can create a toxic and dysfunctional relationship characterized by a cycle of neediness and antagonism, not too dissimilar from what we are witnessing on the world stage.
Shifting this relationship dynamic is very difficult unless one or both members grow from dependency to independence and eventually to interdependence. This transformation requires cultivating a healthy, reliable way to negotiate differences. It involves leaning into conflict and having the means to move through it, ultimately landing in a new place both within ourselves and with each other, rather than getting stuck in an impasse.
I encourage us to explore how we relate to one another in our personal lives, where some degree of trust is hopefully already established. Without being able to negotiate well in our personal relationships, what hope do we have to enact it on a global scale?
I love this article. It has a great combination of mind-widening cogitation and links for further research. An excellent doorway through which to enter the topic of peace, on whose threshold I am currently lingering. Thanks!
This is going to sound frivolous given there comments, but I'm exploring the metaphysics of love, considered as the third attractor. John Vervaeke alludes to other work is articulating the logic of reciprocal opening (I think the phrase is) in relation to the concept of love, and again with references of love as the discovery of the reality of an other (to paraphrase rudely). There's much in both these directions that could be useful to working out the details of the flip into formation, that's consonant I feel with the interestingness of lived peace at grass roots level.
Although a kind of old way interface, consider communicating with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, peacebuilding office, specifically Ursala Knudsen-Latta, Legislative Director for Peacebuilding, uknudsen-latta@fcnl.org.
Nobel Committee Considers Other Types Of Primates For This Year's Peace Prize:
"OSLO, NORWAY –– Disappointed with the selection of human candidates, judges on the Nobel Committee have started looking at a variety of apes as potential recipients of the 2024 Peace Prize."
Nobel Committee Considers Other Types Of Primates For This Year's Peace Prize:
"OSLO, NORWAY –– Disappointed with the selection of human candidates, judges on the Nobel Committee have started looking at a variety of apes as potential recipients of the 2024 Peace Prize."
"The system determines behaviour," to paraphrase Donella Meadows. Accordingly, the (globalized) class-based society/ies we find ourselves in cannot support structural peace. I expand a little on this here:
Here is my latest effort to draw upon the moral imagination in pursuit of a new understanding of peace—“right relations”—and their inner workings:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/03/reimagining-nationalism-and-democracy-with-the-view-from-the-shore/
This may sound strange to the readership of this Substack, but I wonder if it would be possible to tie into the resources of Rotary International. As an organization it can achieve great things in partnership with others (cf the “End Polio Now” campaign with the WHO and the Gates Foundation), and Peace has been one of its areas of focus throughout the 40 years I have been a member. If you see any merit in the idea, I could work with you to prepare an approach to the Rotary Foundation, which can mobilize both money and people if it can be convinced of viability.
You might be interested in my “Course” which includes my theory and prescription.
Jonathan, There is a lot in this. Too much, in fact, to comment on briefly. Would love to put you in touch with folks in the UK who are actively working on the issues you raise and with the Institute for Economics and Peace whose GPI you draw on. In the meantime, check out their pillars of positive peace and the evidence in their positive peace index. Cheers
Thank you, Jonathan, for attempting to make peace sexy again.
There is a notion in psychotherapy called 'hostile dependency,' characterized by one or both members of a relationship being dependent. This dependency can lead to profound feelings of being trapped, resulting in frustration and anger that manifests as hostility. This dynamic can create a toxic and dysfunctional relationship characterized by a cycle of neediness and antagonism, not too dissimilar from what we are witnessing on the world stage.
Shifting this relationship dynamic is very difficult unless one or both members grow from dependency to independence and eventually to interdependence. This transformation requires cultivating a healthy, reliable way to negotiate differences. It involves leaning into conflict and having the means to move through it, ultimately landing in a new place both within ourselves and with each other, rather than getting stuck in an impasse.
I encourage us to explore how we relate to one another in our personal lives, where some degree of trust is hopefully already established. Without being able to negotiate well in our personal relationships, what hope do we have to enact it on a global scale?
I love this article. It has a great combination of mind-widening cogitation and links for further research. An excellent doorway through which to enter the topic of peace, on whose threshold I am currently lingering. Thanks!
This is going to sound frivolous given there comments, but I'm exploring the metaphysics of love, considered as the third attractor. John Vervaeke alludes to other work is articulating the logic of reciprocal opening (I think the phrase is) in relation to the concept of love, and again with references of love as the discovery of the reality of an other (to paraphrase rudely). There's much in both these directions that could be useful to working out the details of the flip into formation, that's consonant I feel with the interestingness of lived peace at grass roots level.
Although a kind of old way interface, consider communicating with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, peacebuilding office, specifically Ursala Knudsen-Latta, Legislative Director for Peacebuilding, uknudsen-latta@fcnl.org.
Nobel Committee Considers Other Types Of Primates For This Year's Peace Prize:
"OSLO, NORWAY –– Disappointed with the selection of human candidates, judges on the Nobel Committee have started looking at a variety of apes as potential recipients of the 2024 Peace Prize."
https://www.newworldhumor.com/p/primates-considered-for-nobel-peace-prize
Nobel Committee Considers Other Types Of Primates For This Year's Peace Prize:
"OSLO, NORWAY –– Disappointed with the selection of human candidates, judges on the Nobel Committee have started looking at a variety of apes as potential recipients of the 2024 Peace Prize."
https://www.newworldhumor.com/p/primates-considered-for-nobel-peace-prize
"The system determines behaviour," to paraphrase Donella Meadows. Accordingly, the (globalized) class-based society/ies we find ourselves in cannot support structural peace. I expand a little on this here:
https://substack.com/@michaelhaupt/note/c-59551200