(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
“No one won the last war, no one will win the next,” said Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations immediately after World War II. Now we must do everything to win peace.
But what is a culture of peace – in short?
A culture of peace is the opposite of today's war culture, war logic and war rhetoric.
A culture of peace is a security policy alternative
A culture of peace is saying loud and clear: If we want fred, we must prepare for peace (not for war) and believe in dialogue, communication and diplomacy.
A culture of peace is believing that peace is possible – that it is within our reach – that the human genome does not condemn humanity to violence.
A culture of peace is to accept neither direct nor structural violence – neither war nor injustice, hunger and poverty.
A culture of peace is not accepting enemy imagethat are primarily created by it military industrial complex, who is fully aware that if people are not afraid, they will not accept the crazy arms race we are in.
A culture of peace is giving peace a budget.
A culture of peace is a conceptual framework for discussions of what is needed to manage disagreement and conflicts without the use of undue force, violence and weapons – and which provides a holistic understanding of how we create peace.
A culture of peace is giving peace a budget. Today is the world's annual military budget at over 2400 trillion dollars and growing rapidly – about 600 times larger than the UN regular budget. Barely eight days that the world's military budget would provide twelve years of free quality education for all the world's children. That would be an investment in development and culture of peaceCan we turn it all around and give the military eight days of what the world spends on education?
The Culture of Peace concept, vision and program were created by UNESCO towards the end of the last Cold War – it is urgent to bring it back now, because people want welfare, not war – for the survival of humanity and the planet.
We are celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize, so let's say Bertha von Suttner, she who inspired Alfred Nobel to institute a separate prize for peace: We must build an active abhorrence for warAnd we must disarm, get rid of our foreign bases, sign the UN nuclear weapons ban before next year's 80th anniversary of when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We need nonviolent conflict resolution and , oath teaching into our entire school system and establish a separate , a ministry of oath culture that can keep our defense and war ministries in check.
A similar text was given as a lecture by Breines at the Storting recently.
