{"id":125397,"date":"2019-01-14T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=125397"},"modified":"2019-01-04T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:24:18","slug":"on-transforming-humanity-a-checklist-for-reflection-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/01\/on-transforming-humanity-a-checklist-for-reflection-research\/","title":{"rendered":"On Transforming Humanity: A Checklist for Reflection\/Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We want Humanity politically to transform<br \/>\nbut current political systems how to reform ?<\/p>\n<p>We want Humanity economically to modify<br \/>\nbut current economic systems how to dignify ?<\/p>\n<p>We want Humanity educationally to\u00a0enhance<br \/>\nbut current education systems how to advance ?<\/p>\n<p>We want Humanity peacefully to humanize<br \/>\nbut current forms of peacebuilding how to harmonize ?<\/p>\n<p>We want\u00a0forms\/ways\u00a0of violence\/killing to prevent<br \/>\nbut current forms of nonviolence\/nonkilling how to augment ?<\/p>\n<p>We want Humanity kindly\/respectfully to interact<br \/>\nbut current forms of interaction how to perfect ?<\/p>\n<p>We want Humanity spiritually to elevate<br \/>\nbut current forms of spirituality how to conciliate?<br \/>\n<em>______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><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><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>We want Humanity politically to transform<br \/>\nbut current political systems how to reform ?<\/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-125397","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\/125397","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=125397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125397\/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=125397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}