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*In this issue... **Creating the book “Strategies for Peace”*
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*Creating
the book “Strategies for Peace”*
*by Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D.*
Last month I was privileged to publish a trade book entitled
Strategies for Peace (see www.strategiesforpeace.com). I joined Maria
Cristina Azcona as co-editor and the book emerged as a collection of
new ideas about peacebuilding.
At the time I had no knowledge of the Bonobo Monkey colony in D.R.
Congo. Since then I learned on the CBS Program 60 Minutes that Bonobo
Monkeys have a brain one-third the size of humans, but they don’t kill
each other. One has to wonder where we, with much larger brains, have
gone wrong. Further, female monkeys there are seen to squelch
conflict without major injuries. Which makes these monkeys superior to
humans in terms of important ways. If I had known that, I might have
consulted these primates instead!
As it happened, I started the book as an essay on leadership, thinking
that too little attention has been given to rogue leaders who are
fighting against world peace. I wrote a chapter and expected it to
keep growing until I had a book-length publication. After all, I was
one of the first to suggest that the world situation is caused by a
leadership problem and to suggest that social media and journalists
could help solve it.
After writing this, I pondered the situation as a member of several
peacemaking groups: Worldwide Peace Organization, World International
Educators for World Peace, Global Harmony Association, World Mediation
organization, etc. In light of these discussions, it was clear to me
that my “new look” at peacemaking was not comprehensive. In fact, many
approaches to peace were already known and deserved further
exploration.
So I decided to collect these ideas and present them in the best possible light.
For example, religion. Clearly, anyone studying world conflict must be
appalled to see that so many people feel that it’s all caused by
religion. How illogical is that? In my mind, religion is of utmost
importance in life, but it’s unfair to restrict it to one particular
dogma. For traditional people it was God on the mountain. For today’s
cultures it is still a product of location. If born in China, the
chances are you aren’t going to be a Christian. But it would be so
unfair to use your geographical origin to judge the validity and
vitality of your belief. So I turned to Kurt Johnson of the
interspirituality movement and he and Phillip Hellmich wrote an
impressive original essay on this - Sacred and Secular Activists are
Now Joining their Strategies for Peacebuilding.
So, that had to be included, along with my essay.
And, further, anyone studying the situation will be startled to notice
that women have usually been denied any active role in leadership.
(Remember, that could also be something to learn from Bonobo Monkeys!)
In my article I had addressed this anomaly:
… to a large extent today’s problem may well be attributed to the lack
of women in high leadership positions. Had women been included – for
example, on a 50-50 basis as in the population – the world might not
be suffering the disaster we now face. But no, with few exceptions,
across the ages men have failed to respect women and include them in
major decisions. Now we are left to suffer the outcome.
With my co-editor’s help, I approached Prof. Ada Aharoni of The
International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC) of
Israel and she wrote an exceptional piece entitled Women Building a
World beyond War .
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Now it was clear that the book would be an anthology of articles on
peace. So I scanned my sources to see what was left.
For example, world citizenship seemed important. After all, a
competitive country-by-country or region by region view of peacemaking
seems futile and doomed to failure. If any nation becomes a world
leader in peacemaking, the country will undoubtedly be despised by
other countries wanting this distinction. This kind of thing just
seems to be wired into our brains. The alternative is to consider
everyone part of one-world citizenship. And the current scholar in
that field is Glen T. Martin of Radford University, who had given me a
copy of his new publication, One World Renaissance . He supplied a
helpful article on the subject.
Then it was necessary to consider more personal, psychological
approaches, such as the article “How to Achieve Peace through Family
Relations” by co-editor Maria Cristina Azcona, who has since written
Vivamos en Paz (Living in Peace). After all, problems in attaining
world harmony have certain roots in personal relationships, parenting,
and other psychological problems.
Also, in view of terrorist initiatives to indoctrinate youth in warped
political education, one could never ignore the role of education. So
I turned to Nina Meyerhof of Children of the Earth, who penned an
original essay on education entitled “Authentic Education – Inner and
Outer Peace.”
Also, I was reminded by cover art provider Celia Altschuler that the
arts have a major role in peacebuilding, I was pleased to include her
poem “Peace on Earth” and two articles by her, plus original thoughts
on art in peacebuilding by Lida Sherefatmand.
Dr. Ernesto Kahan of Israel provided his original essay on medical
actions in building trust among nations. That opened the door to the
traditional, now university-based approaches called peace and conflict
studies. For this I was privileged to present an original essay on
therapy strategy in African conflict resolution. The article was based
on actual conflict resolution experience of Rais Boneza, who I had
published in my booklist’s first poetry book, Nomad , in 2003 while he
and his family were still living as refugees from D.R. Congo in
Uganda.
The cast was set. Never again would I presume to write my own
definitive solution to world peace. Further, I am freshly renewed in
my suspicion of any single peace theory which claims to completely
solve the problems.
However, I must also recognize that a definitive solution might
someday emerge. And, based upon my experience, it would likely emerge
from a primate colony in D.R. Congo – and be written by a female
Bonobo Monkey!
Bruce L. Cook and Maria Cristina Azcona (eds.), Strategies for Peace
(Elgin, IL: Cook Communication, 2016).
See
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bonobos-what-we-can-learn-from-our-primate-cousin/
Kurt Johnson and Phillip Hellmich, “Sacred and Secular Activists are
Now Joining their Strategies for Peacebuilding,” Strategies for Peace
(Elgin, IL: Cook Communication, 2016), pp. 27-41.
Ada Aharoni, “Women Building a World beyond War,” Strategies for
Peace (Elgin, IL: Cook Communication, 2016), pp. 97-110.
Glen T. Martin, One World Renaissance (Appomattox, VA: Institute for
Economic Democracy, 2015).
Maria Cristina Azcona, Vivamos en Paz (Elgin, IL: Cook Communication, 2016)
Nina Meyerhof, “Authentic Education – Inner and Outer Peace,”
(Elgin, IL: Cook Communication, 2016), pp. 113-123.
Rais Neza Boneza, Nomad: A Refugee Poet (Elgin, IL: Cook
Communication, 2003).
Rais Neza Boneza, “The Plight of a Refugee Poet,” see
http://www.author-me.com/nonfiction/plightofarefugeepoet.htm
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