Think It's Time To Hear What Women Have To Say About Peace?
As a fine artist and graphic designer, I have had the privilege of working with some of the most gifted, conscious and productive women in the world. All of these warm souls I have worked with have either started their own non-profits and/or are totally committed to some type of charity or foundation. All of them want World Peace and all of them are well aware of the fact that war is nothing more than an over the top, male testosterone fueled form of politically sanctioned and federally funded group madness. In other words, War is joint cooperative poltical insanity.
Women also know that they are not the authors of war but are nevertheless sucked up into the madness of war and conflict along with the children because mankind feels it's their patriotic duty to tolerate the madness of war as unavoidable and a necessary condition in order to bring peace and freedom. Only men can somehow deduce that they must make war, usurp kingdoms, kill and destroy each other in order to alledgedly free another culture, establish democracy and preserve that cultures life.
I have learned that women can't believe that mankind has the ability to convince himself that war, death and murder is totally acceptable to God as long as we are fighting for freedom, equality, land, diamonds, gold, oil or any other convenient cause or trumped up charges. It's all OK as long as it's against another leader in order to control that leader's politics or it's resources.
Whether it's on the streets of Baghdad, the streets of Compton or on the streets of Watts, any excuse will do for man to do battle with another man. Apparently men just love the thrill of the fight and perpetual conflict as a way of expressing his validity, his courage or his masculine potency. I guess the Super Bowl, the World Series and the NBA Playoffs are not deadly enough to satisfy our thirst for conflict and total devastation. I guess the sports and entertainment world is stepping up to the plate with some fresh new commercial violence in the form of "Extreme No Holds Barred Fighting". Boxing and wrestling alone were just not bloody enough to suit the publics taste as the war in the middle east continues to rage on years beyond 911.
Couldn't we keep a lot more people alive if we just started to listen to what our women have to say about avoiding war, avoiding deadly conflict and building real peace? It would be a heck of a lot cheaper to finance real peace initiatives than to continue financing an ill-advised war that’s already cost the US a half a trillion dollars, 3,600 US lives, a staggering 70,000 Middle East civilian lives with numbers and death tolls still climbing.
The sad part is that there is no real exit strategy in sight from the Democratic nor the Republican perspective. Granted, the Democratics are much more focused on getting out with some great "Exit Theories". However, no sure fire plan that can guarantee a seamless return home of our brave young troops in the near foreseeable future is a possibility right now because we are in too deep.
Seven years ago UN Security Council Resolution 1325 was passed unanimously on October 31st, 2000. Resolution (S/RES/1325) was the first and only resolution ever passed by the Security Council that specifically addresses the impact of war on women, and women's contributions to conflict resolution and sustainable peace.
When the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 was passed back in 2000, it was designed to take a much more committed approach to comprehensively involving Women in the "World Peace Building Process". It was created as a much more powerful vehicle to actively position Women into real stations of power and authority on behalf of dealing with a real "World Peace Process". October 31st, 2007 will be the seventh anniversary. What happened? Where's the beef? Where's the real net results of UN Resolution 1325 in terms of statistical relevance?
There was a lot of media hype and big fanfare surrounding UN Resolution 1325 as if mankind somehow finally realized that Women do not really endorse wars at all, they do not sustain wars nor do they support the net results of a war that causes the senseless deaths and loss of their biological sons and daughters. Women have sadly known for ages that all Wars, Killing, Death, Bombing and Destruction have always been the work of man 99.9% of the time. They just wish men would grow up and stop playing "King of the Hill" or international "Schoolyard Bully" and just kiss and make up.
The fact is, Women know how to avoid wars and Men don't. You would have thought that UN Resolution 1325 was the dawning of a whole age of Peace, Love & Unity but somehow just became a symbol more so than an actual reality.
So whatever really happened to the great UN Resolution 1325? Was it just a placebo resolution designed to pacify organizations like NOW, the Jane Fonda's and other outspoken female anti-war leaders? Was it just a big publicity campaign with no real bite designed to create the illusion of a real peace initiative? Was it just a noble and fancy "Paper Tiger" with no real claws? Maybe it just came along at the wrong time before 911 and had to be somewhat back-burnered after 911.
Whatever happened, it's time for mankind the world over to wake up and finally accept the fact that women are much more adept at the "Art of Peace" than men. On the flip side men are still much more adept and still pride themselves at being the masters of the "Art of War" but who needs it?
Are women just simply better at getting along with other life forms in general? Are women more respectful of life because they actually are the "Life Bearers" of the human family? Do women actually hold the key to world peace but man is just too stubborn, egotistical and arrogant to compromise his position of power, domination and control?
Clearly most Women have somehow mastered the ability to coexist without having to kill or mortally wound their neighbors to prove some ridiculous point inspired by anger, greed, fear, envy or lust. Could the men learn a thing or two from the women about real world anger management?
Is anybody more imaginative for conceiving a reason to fight or declare war than man? Let's not forget that just about every Warlord's universal favorite cause for war usually involves some gross misinterpretation of some aspect of just about all of the great world religions and spiritual doctrines. Nobody abstracts and profanes Holy Scriptures and sacred doctrines more than mankind does when he tries to justify or validate his reasoning to declare war. Man historically promotes an uncompromising commitment to win a war at all cost even if he knows he can't win and will loose thousands of lives in the process.
Do you think from the beginning of civilization that man has had it all wrong all along and women just may be the ones who have it all right all along when it comes to cohabiting in peace?
Is it time to simply listen to the women of the world and follow their lead? Especially since they are much better at this World Peace thing than men are. What do you really think? What does your higher consciousness tell you at this very moment? What is that part of your higher nature which is directly connected to God who provides our life force really telling you at this very moment?
Does Peace, Love & Unity ring a bell? I hope so because if they don't, then perhaps the end is near, but not if we can help it.
I have been working for several years on "Non-Political" Peace related projects and would love to hear from anybody else who is also trying to help build Peace. Let me know your personal thoughts and views about women's roles in the "World Peace Building" process in particular.
Also please visit our www.WomensWorldPeace.com website. Make any suggestions or comments you may have regarding our Mission and the topic of World Peace right here in this Web Blog below. If you would like to support our peace efforts, feel free to make a secure on-line donation at our Women's World Peace Charities donation page c/o the National Heritage Foundation HERE.
Thank You for your valuable time and consideration.
Stay In The Light & Help Make World Peace Marketable!
"Don"
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The Urban Guardians Movement and Women's World Peace Charities were founded by Don Thornton. Visit http://www.urbanguardians.org/ and http://www.womensworldpeace.com/ for News & Events.
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