{"id":69445,"date":"2016-02-29T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69445"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:37:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:37:11","slug":"diplomatic-relations-a-nonkilling-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/diplomatic-relations-a-nonkilling-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic Relations: A Nonkilling Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When between two countries diplomatic relations are broken<br \/>\nwhat peace-building-reuniting language could be spoken?<\/p>\n<p>The language of conciliation and mutual understanding<br \/>\nwhich would help each nation in dignity to keep standing<\/p>\n<p>In such diplomatic dignilogue, a nonviolent\/nonkilling approach would be prioritized<br \/>\nand the sustainable goal of global peace by the two countries would be recognized<\/p>\n<p>Let\u00b4s pray for countries breaking diplomatic relations to reconcile and thus jointly to grow<\/p>\n<p>When that happens, an inspiring example will be given to the international<br \/>\ncommunity, a lesson in nonkilling diplomacy that posterity will know<br \/>\n________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><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, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (<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>When between two countries diplomatic relations are broken<br \/>\nwhat peace-building-reuniting language could be spoken?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69445","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=69445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}