{"id":84732,"date":"2016-12-26T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=84732"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T14:28:24","slug":"peace-is-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/12\/peace-is-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Is the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gandhi.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-77224 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gandhi.jpg_1718483346-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Gandhi said, <em>&#8220;There is no way to peace, peace is the way.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to establish peace once and for all, and to expect that it will remain that way. It requires a daily effort to reestablish it again and again. Similarly, it would be an illusion to think that once we have cleaned up a room, it will remain that way. We need to put things constantly into their correct place; otherwise we will soon have total chaos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dietrich-Fischer-e1477398742690.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-54505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dietrich-Fischer-e1477398742690.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> <em>in 1993<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" >Stories to Inspire You<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" > &#8211; TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is impossible to establish peace once and for all, and to expect that it will remain that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84732","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=84732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}