How Do We Peace Together The Global Tapestry?

Some ideas I just brainstormed many years ago.   Peace will happen when we choose peace together.

PEACE TOGETHER FRAMEWORK

Ideas and Musings

 Peace Together – Love

• What is love, unconditional/conditional
• Early life experiences
• Relationships – partners, friends, family, community
• Expression of love – poetry, music, giving, touching, security etc.

Peace Together – The Family

• Parenting – child psychology, community attitudes
• What is a family
• What is love in family relationships, how to communicate, resolve issues
• Marriage – freedom and love
• Sexuality – celebration
• Wisdom – elders, involvement of grandparents
• Balance of work and home:  part time work, sharing responsibilities, breaking down stereotypes
• Principles – awareness, honesty, responsibility
• Family violence – what is it and how can it be overcome

Peace Together – Principles

• Replace money as the source of happiness with love at the centre
• Principles to live by:  awareness, truth, responsibility, self respect and love
• Universal energy responses
• Life Patterns
• Creating your reality – thought, word and deed
• Other schools of thought or feeling:  outside of rigid doctrine

Peace Together – Health

• Natural foods, healthy eating, organic foods
• Stress free – responsibility and acceptance.
• Fear – false evidence appearing real
• Serving the community
• Exercise – out in nature
• Love – friends, family etc.

Peace Together – Education

• Problem solving at the centre
• Moving away from competition to cooperation
• Learning as fun
• Alternative education approaches – Montessori, Steiner

Peace Together – Occupations

• Be what you love
• Experience over profit
• Part-time work, better pay
• Parameters of work and life

Peace Together – Differences

• What are the differences
• What are the similarities
• How to over conflict – dispute resolution
• Satyagraha – Gandhian dispute resolution

Peace Together – Harmony

• How to create harmony
• What are needs and wants
• Is harmony compromise
• Is compromise peace
• What is peace
• Inner harmony
• Meditation and yoga
• What creates disharmony – individual, friends, family, community, nations etc.
• What is greed, poverty, superiority, exploitation, environmental degradation
• What is need, failure, disunity, insufficiency, requirement, judgement, condemnation, superiority, ignorace

Peace Together – Friendship

• Nurturing friendships
• What it is to be a friend
• Limits and extension
• Exchange

Peace Together – Media

• Nonviolence
• Entertainment vs accurate information in the public interest
• Balanced information

Peace Together – Politics

• What is democracy
• What is representation of the people
• Why adversarial style
• Alternatives to the political system e.g. service to the community
• Higher principles/morality

Peace Together – World Peace

• Empowerment and development
• Equalisation of nations e.g. percentage of GDP pooled, administered by global government
• Clean technology, import duties on obscelence
• Environmental taxes, credits etc.
• Sustainability and self sufficiency
• Movement from fear based militarization to cooperative based participation (inner security)
• Social change:  Nonviolence – Satyagraha and Ahimsa (truth and nonviolence/love)
• Nations – civil directed democracy
• Global Governance – equality between nations (one vote one value), collective security, total disarmament except for global police force, international criminal court (full power), environmental standards and enforcement
• International Institutions – human rights, environment, competition, global principles (away from profit as a sign of success to wellbeing)
• Building bridges to greater understanding and unity – through cooperative arrangements