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The Elusive Quest for Peace
Sharleen Estiandan
April 25, 2007
As we continue to resolve conflict whether international or interpersonal through confrontation, peace will continue to elude mankind. It is a wrong view that lasting peace and harmony can be achieved through confrontation.
It is universal truancy that the organization is the extension of the leader's personality. In the family the couple who are health workers generally will have descendants who are health professionals (e.g., doctors, nurses, therapists, pathologists, etc.) in government a corrupt president will have corrupt cabinet officials, violent religious leaders will have terrorist followers.
Quest for peace among humankind
Mankind continues for centuries to seek for peace by wresting power from opposing tribe, city or nation. For this reason, the League of Nations came about as an external solution for world peace as colonizing nations battle for new colonies only to e divided into two opposing forces; The Axis (Germany and Japan) and Allied Forces (America, England and Allied European nations). As the League of Nations failed in its mission in keeping world peace, the United Nations was organized for the same task and more. Then the Cold War broke out dividing nations into two ideological groups the democratic or free countries and the communistic countries. Today we are headed into a more dangerous and emotionally charged religious conflict dividing the world into terrorist and anti-terrorist groups. The conflict has taken an urban setting battle fronts where attacks has taken thousands of casualties and destroyed properties worth billions.
Human violence extends to nature
Mankind has not spared Mother Nature from violence destroying the ecological balance that is supposed to sustain his offspring for aeons. We indiscriminately cut down forest trees for more grazing lands for cattle rising resulting in the depletion of the ozone layer which give rise to extreme weather changes like hurricanes or typhoons not in season. We dam rivers, mined charcoals, plug volcanoes to harness power to produce electricity and various mining for different purposes changing the earth's existing pressures and soil integrity causing landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, large scale flooding , tornadoes and forest fires.
It is a universal truth that if the individual is changed, society and the nation as a whole will change. Change begins internally followed by external changes.
May we postulate that we find natural born leaders and educate these individuals in compassion and service to humanity as their core development to counteract label consciousness, greed, and craving which are traits counterproductive to cultivating peace, harmony and unity?
By: Sharleen Estiandan