{"id":261516,"date":"2024-05-06T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261516"},"modified":"2024-05-02T06:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T05:31:27","slug":"education-and-dialogue-vs-militarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/education-and-dialogue-vs-militarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Education and Dialogue vs Militarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 May 2024 <\/em>– ‘Education and dialogue’ has been taught since the late and great Johan Galtung invented ‘Peace Studies.’ In the 70’s we used to have ardent discussions, he insisting that “education and dialogue” will end in a world at peace and me telling him, until he could take it no longer, that e&d is what politicians practice, and this is why we have so many wars.<\/p>\n

In the most civilized, educated, polite manner, politicians concoct, plan and negotiate all the wars the world endures.\u00a0 They can get away with all their proxy murders because the world accepts militarism.<\/p>\n

Nothing will change until the peace lobby understands that politicians are not <\/strong>magicians. And they are not idiots either.<\/p>\n

People accept the armed forces, thousands of men and women we train in the art of fighting, killing and destruction of families, societies, buildings, crops and nature. People accept we design and produce machine gums, grenades, bombs, cruise and guided missiles, rocket launchers and interceptors, bombing drones and helicopters, torpedoes, air-fighters and warships.<\/p>\n

It is sheer human stupidity to believe that the war industry and armed forces are capable of creating a peaceful planet.<\/p>\n

The days we achieve the Universal Abolition of Militarism<\/em>, (the war industry and its only users, the armed forces), there will be peace in the world. Of course, societies will always have violent individuals, but for those we have the police, the court and prison.<\/p>\n

Militarism is legal murder. We even reward the best murderers with medals and career promotion. And if they were unlucky enough to dies in battle, we call the ‘heroes’.<\/p>\n

This madness must stop. For humanity to survive, militarism must die.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Alberto Portugheis is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. By profession a <\/em>concert pianist and pedagogue<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0he\u00a0is an\u00a0active peace campaigner, whose anti-military stance earned him\u00a0a nomination\u00a0for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0As a result,\u00a0Portugheis wrote\u00a0<\/em>Dear Ahed\u2026..The Game of War and a Path to Peace\u00a0\u2013 a book that has received <\/em>critical acclaim<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Another successful book followed: <\/em>$$$$$s In Their Hearts. In 2015 he founded the Movement <\/em>HUFUD-Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation<\/em><\/a>, which has many followers worldwide.\u00a0 In 2018 HUFUD Latin America was born, based in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia and in 2020 HUFUD Africa was launched, based in Uganda.\u00a0 In Portugheis\u2019 writings, speeches, thoughts, ideas\u00a0and reflections transpire his desire \u201cto make people think\u201d and not take for granted what they read or hear, \u201cno matter where.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 May 2024 – ‘ Education and dialogue’ has been taught since the late and great Johan Galtung invented ‘Peace Studies.’ Nothing will change until the peace lobby understands that politicians are not magicians. People accept the armed forces, thousands of men and women we train in the art of fighting, killing and destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":249372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1817,809,826,1042,109],"class_list":["post-261516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-anti-militarism","tag-johan-galtung","tag-peace-studies","tag-political-science","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261516","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=261516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261517,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261516\/revisions\/261517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}