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AFWW Newsletter #41 - Nov 2015 - Good News on Peace vs. Tragedy in Paris

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"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war."
Martin Luther King, Jr
 
 
A Good Book
 

The book introducing the Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai, "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban." 
Whether Malala knows it or not, her advocacy of education for girls is a major weapon in the struggle to end war, because the empowerment of women is a necessary condition for winning and maintaining such a future.  
 
  

 
A Good Movie
  
 "Suffragette", starring Meryl Streep in a cameo of Emmeline Pankhurst and Carey Mulligan as a British woman who is awakened to the need for women to have a vote in order to have a say. The harsh lives of women of that era are powerfully depicted, and serve as a gripping reminder to the young women of now just what kind of lives they might have been living if the women who went before them had not been wiling to suffer beatings and jail and even risk-of-life to make change happen.  
  
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
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These three quick links are to Dr. Hand's core articles on paradigm shift:


To Abolish War


Shaping the Future


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Much of the world grieves for ParisThe City of Lights, and the families and friends of those killed and maimed. A Future Without War shares that sorrow.

This explosion of ISIS evil and others like it from this death cult could send us into utter despair for the future. It could cause us to feel, with broken hearts and spirits, that there is no hope that we will ever be free from war. This depressing event will be front and center for thousands of hours in every kind of media for days and weeks to come.
 
Despair could cause us to yield to fear and give up the good fight for a global peace. But what is regrettably rarely reported for our consideration is that a movement to end war continues to gather steam! As the song says, "War is Over. If You Want It"

To counter despair this newsletter highlights the One Earth Future Forum 2015, a most impressive example of one of these efforts. 

The goal of the gathering is to discuss the empirical evidence for what needs to be done to advance the cause of enduring peace, and then to identify practical points of entry to advance that vision. You can read about this meeting of notable minds on the forum's website.  

These are the 22 attendees (short bios can be found on this web page):
 
Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, co-founder of the International Civil Society Action Network

Juan Andr�s Cano, founder of Business and Human Rights, Semilla, Value4chain and PeaceStartup

Sister Joan Chittister, co-chair of Global Peace Initiative for Women

Tom Crick, associate director of the Conflict Resolution Program at the Carter Center

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans, chancellor of the Australian National University

Professor Galia Golan, chair of the Program on Diplomacy and Conflict Studies at the School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya

Professor Joshua S. Goldstein, professor emeritus, School of International Service, American University

Dr. Hrach Gregorian, president of the Institute of World Affairs

Dr. David Harland, executive director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Ambassador Swanee Hunt, chair of the Institute for Inclusive Security

Professor Andrew Mack, founder of the Human Security Report Project

Rita Manchanda research director, South Asia Forum for Human Rights

Patrice Martin, co-lead and creative director of IDEO.org

Rohinton P. Medhora, president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Dr. Stewart Patrick, director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations

Sandra Pepera, director of Gender, Women, and Democracy at the National Democratic Institute

Dr. Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor at Harvard University's Department of Psychology

Dr. Gary Slutkin, Founder of Cure Violence

Major General (USAF, Ret.) Charles Tucker, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the World Engagement Institute ("WEInstitute")

Dr. William Ury, co-founder of Harvard University's Program on Negotiation

Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Nobel Women's Initiative founder

Graeme Wood, Contributing Editor to Atlantic Magazine and Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University
 
Here is how they describe the gathering's objectives:
 
"The OEF Forum is an annual discussion among global thinkers on the growing body of empirical literature demonstrating that the world is moving towards peace, and on the actions that can be taken to illuminate these trends. The agenda will be based on how we chart a course to continued peace. This year's event will build upon the ideas generated at OEF's 2014 forum with a focus on three tracks:
 
  • *    Extending and Expanding Human Security Systems:  the world has made great strides in reducing poverty and supporting human livelihoods, with a resulting decline in war and violence.
  • *    Women's engagement in economic and political life internationally:  data shows that when women are more engaged in decision making in these spheres, peace is more likely.
  • *    Combating violence- supporting beliefs:  the world must directly confront beliefs and norms that legitimize violence as a tool of conflict resolution.
 
This effort is only one of many occurring with increasing frequency at higher and higher levels of influence in locations all over the globe. Ending war can be done by creating a global peace system (click the link to see an inspiring video that describes what amazing progress the world community has already made). This really is "an idea whose time has come."
 
Check out the OEF Forum website, where you can read the bios of these varied, and notable, participants. Then pass the word (and the link) to your friends and colleagues to remind them that these grotesque acts of ISIS are not what the world's people desire. And that if the peace-seekers of the world remain steadfast in their work, ISIS will ultimately be on the wrong side of human destiny. The sooner, the better.


About A Future Without War

We want to provide newsletter readers with a reminder about our extensive website,  www.afww.org. The materials can be a reference for personal use, something to share with friends or colleagues who doubt that it would ever be possible to abolish war, and as thought pieces to stimulate discussions, for example, by your students, a book group, or peace activist organizations. You will find on the site:

  • A Mission Statement
  • An Action Plan
  • Keynote Speech - �bo University, Vaasa, Finland 2014 - "War is Not Inevitable"
  • Capstone Essay: "To Abolish War"
  • "Overview" Essays - 7 essays explaining the core rationale for why it is reasonable to believe we could abolish war if we make it a priority.
  • "Cornerstone" Essays - 9 essays explaining each of the broad categories of "good works" that we need to attend to simultaneously in any campaign to abolish war and maintain that state into the future.
  • "The Books" - a Table of Contents, reviews, and FREE download of Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace, links to purchase that book and also A Future Without War: the Strategy of a Warfare Transition"
  • A Link to the AFWW Blog
  • A Map of Nonviolent Cultures
  • A Video of Dr. Hand
  • Several Movie and Book Reviews
  • Archives of AFWW Newsletters
  • Links to over 150 Organizations involved in some aspect of the campaign to abolish war
  • Miscellaneous AFWW Essays

These are titles of and links to current Miscellaneous AFWW Essays 


A Future Without War
Believe in it. Envision it. Work for it.
And we will achieve it.
 





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