ADVOCACY FOR PEACE 366 DAYS A YEAR
Annabelle Franco
Change Manager / Change Maker, Personal & Organisational Development, Scrum Master at xy
The International Day of Peace?
“The International Day of Peace was established by the United Nations General Assembly for?strengthening the standards of peace. The day is devoted to observing 24 hours of cease-fire and non-violence.”
(Source?: https://internationaldayofpeace.org)
What a statement! Doesn't this déclaration sound like a lesson in hypocrisy?
Peace cannot be created by supplying weapons or imposing sanctions on one's own population. Meanwhile, the governments concerned misuse taxpayers' money, create new debts, weaken the majority of the citizen socially, emotionally and economically, create divisions within the population instead of promoting unification, burden future generations instead of providing them with fertile ground for conscious and self-determined development.
An International Day of Peace, as an alibi for further abusive measures and the maintenance of sham institutions, contributes to conceal an so-called democracy, where conflicts are artificially fanned and fear is spread for deleterious purposes.
An International Day of Peace is just a fleeting appearance, fading away like an artificial star in a virtual world, thus missing its sustainable and perpetual essence. In the human heart, peace is intrinsic and is lived 366 days a year!
Let us be inspired by the conversation between Karel Janecek and Jagadish Vasudev, known as Sadhguru, during a conference in Prague in March 2022.