{"id":108034,"date":"2018-04-09T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=108034"},"modified":"2018-03-27T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:27:01","slug":"peace-everywhere-lets-show-we-dare-how-a-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/peace-everywhere-lets-show-we-dare-how-a-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"PEACE Everywhere: Let\u2019s Show We Dare. How? A Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>An important check list to help make us believe that peace is possible and a human right for all people. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PEACE&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>at home ?\u00a0 Sustaining\u00a0\u00a0 family harmony<br \/>\nat school ? Composing an educational symphony<br \/>\nat work\u00a0 ? Learning to negotiate dignifyingly<br \/>\nat worship place ? Engaging in deepest meditation<br \/>\nin diplomacy ?\u00a0 Applying constructive mediation<br \/>\nin security ?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Adding Nonviolence\/Nonkilling approaches<br \/>\nIn international relations ?\u00a0\u00a0 Probing intercultural understanding<br \/>\nIn science centers\/programs ?\u00a0 Multiplying LIFE-supporting projects<br \/>\nIn technology ?\u00a0 Developing\u00a0 life-enhancing inventions<br \/>\nIn arts ?\u00a0 Inspiring\u00a0 imaginative\u00a0 serenity projects<br \/>\nIn environment\u00a0 ?\u00a0 Celebrating\u00a0 the dignity of Nature<br \/>\nIn communication ? Elevating communicative dignity<br \/>\nIn politics ?\u00a0 Requiring integrity of all political agents<br \/>\nIn health services ?\u00a0 Inspiring cooperation among intranational health<br \/>\nagencies<br \/>\nIn world\u00a0 history ? Documenting contributions of\u00a0 Peacebuilding Influencers<br \/>\nIn longevity ?\u00a0 Fostering intergenerational interdependence<br \/>\nIn human rights ? Educating all children for Peace as as Human Right<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[The poet implores readers to challenge themselves to add to the above list. Implicit in each item : How?]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>________________________________________________<\/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>An important check list to help make us believe that peace is possible and a human right for all people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":84401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108034","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\/108034","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=108034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108034\/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=108034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}