Posts Tagged ‘Peace’
On Conflict, Gender and Rethinking the Battlefield
Conflict. While I do not think that letting select issues just “fly under the radar” will solve any problems I get a feeling that fighting across well-worn battlefields will only obscure the ultimate goals of reducing the need for conflict at all. I am responding creatively here to a previous post about the predominance and apparently endless ascendency of Man and masculinity at the cost of Woman. I agree that there is a certain undeniable centrality and power that has been assumed by the male in relation to the female in culture, history, media, politics and so on. However – I feel that the battle is being fought over ground so wretched with despair and the intellectual corpses of so many great thinkers that it has come to resemble a kind of Somme battlefield of muddy and endless carnage and destruction. I frame this as a separate discussion than that of the analysis and uncovering of the many ways in which men do exploit, dominate and abuse women – the argument as demonstrated here is about what may be underlying issues to this gender imbalance.
Stepping beyond borders
It is important to step beyond borders to understand our limits and stretch the boundaries of our imagination and knowledge. A step outside circle of region, religion, faith and belief can make us tolerant. We may have left peace and love beyond borders and caged a beast instead within. When issues and solutions both transcend borders, whats the point in raking sentiments and making new fences? Come lets climb those beautiful mountains and navigate difficult terrain which lie beyond our borders and explore global issues which connect all of us…
Borders, What a Curse!
Long ago, when we discussed how this blog must take shape, we knew that borders are written, rewritten and unwritten by humans and it shall continue to happen so. World peace can occur in a pastoral world where there are no boundaries. As that may never happen, we shall continue to see issues within and beyond borders. Visit us; share your opinions on this unique ability (curse?) of humans to draw borders. Of course, we don’t care about borders, so mustn’t you, for issues have no borders, and that is what we plan to discuss! Issues concerning the two-legged varieties beyond any borders that humans have ever written!
