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What is Required to Establish a Global Peace and Maintain It
A Complex and Difficult but Not Impossible Challenge
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The Cornerstones
Upon the following nine cornerstones, listed in alphabetical order, we can construct an enduring peace system to build a more stable and less violent world we desire. In that future, young men follow their dreams to the stars and not to the bloody fields of war and young women create lives of beauty rather than struggle to repair lives ripped apart by killing. |
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The Figure
The figure is shaped by intertwining silver and gold trim around the view of humanity's shared home, the earth, taken from space by Apollo-17. The intertwined braid that forms the trim symbolizes the partnership of women (silver) and men (gold) that is essential for us to build a warless future. Neither sex alone can establish or preserve a warless future: men, because they cannot resist aggressive male bonding and an urge for dominance that can be used to create soldiers for armies; women, because they prefer social stability and will not eagerly overturn the social order, something that is necessary in any revolution, even a positive one. (1)
When men and women work together as equal partners, male inclinations for war will be restrained, female inclinations for negotiation will be unleashed, and we can leave to future generations a world in which war eventually becomes a grim memory from an earlier, and often dark, past.
The figure is shaped by intertwining silver and gold trim around the view of humanity's shared home, the earth, taken from space by Apollo-17. The intertwined braid that forms the trim symbolizes the partnership of women (silver) and men (gold) that is essential for us to build a warless future. Neither sex alone can establish or preserve a warless future: men, because they cannot resist aggressive male bonding and an urge for dominance that can be used to create soldiers for armies; women, because they prefer social stability and will not eagerly overturn the social order, something that is necessary in any revolution, even a positive one. (1)
When men and women work together as equal partners, male inclinations for war will be restrained, female inclinations for negotiation will be unleashed, and we can leave to future generations a world in which war eventually becomes a grim memory from an earlier, and often dark, past.
- Hand, Judith. 2018. War and Sex and Human Destiny . San Diego, CA: Questpath Publishing. The full text is available FREE on Dr. Hand's personal website.