{"id":103950,"date":"2017-12-25T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=103950"},"modified":"2017-12-25T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T10:31:52","slug":"on-optimism-a-peace-linguists-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/12\/on-optimism-a-peace-linguists-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"On OPTIMISM: A Peace Linguist\u2019s Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optimism is a powerful\u00a0 \u00a0sea on which to sail<br \/>\nIt challenges all ships to make PEACE prevail<\/p>\n<p>Optimism\u00a0in faith and hope is embedded<br \/>\nto global peaceland it is always\u00a0 headed<\/p>\n<p>Global Seeds of\u00a0Optimism let\u00b4s\u00a0keep sowing<br \/>\nOur peacebuilding identity will\u00a0 \u00a0keep\u00a0growing<\/p>\n<p>The best possible\u00a0Peace let`s always expect<br \/>\nand to that wise goal all diplomacy let`s direct<\/p>\n<p>Optimistic let\u00b4s\u00a0always be<br \/>\nA peaceful world we will see<\/p>\n<p>Optimistically let`s always (inter)act<br \/>\nDiscourse dignity will become a fact<\/p>\n<p>By optimistically educating Humanity\u00a0the Earth to share<br \/>\nfor a wise\u00a0 global citizenship we`ll also show how to care<br \/>\n_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, ABA Global Education (<a href=\"www.abaweb.org\">www.abaweb.org<\/a>). <\/em><em>He can be reached at <a href=\"fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com\">fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimism is a powerful   sea on which to sail<br \/>\nIt challenges all ships to make PEACE prevail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":84401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}