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International Day of Peace

21/9/2016

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A peaceful world

Imagine that we did not have wars, that we always lived in a peaceful world without any unsolved armed conflicts. What would that world look like?


Well first of all, quoting the French geographer Yves Lacoste « La géographie, ça sert, d’abord à faire la guerre » which could be translated by « geography, is first of all, useful to make war », I guess it means that we would have to rethink the concept of countries separated by political boarders because wars made the shape of our current territories.

Great projects have been done in the name of Peace, but what is peace if not compare to war? For example, without WWII would European Union exists? Would we be able to do an European project like our EVS in Greece? Maybe some other form of Europe would have been created instead…

But one thing is certain: the common language in our flat would not be English, at least not the English that we know, the one that have been changed and modified by Saxons, Romans and Vikings invasions.

And what about the rights of European women for example? Did you know that French women did earn the right to vote after their participation in the “Resistance” or that it is not before 1945 that United Nations declared equality between men and women…

Wars have shown the worst of what humanity is capable of but they also made us who we are or maybe be we made them because of what we are…

So its really up to us to grow into being more peaceful human beings and to reward people who stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms like Edward Snowden or the Greek Islanders who have been on the frontline of the refugee crisis, with the Nobel Peace Prize would be an excellent start…

written by Pauline Coiffard


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Cultiver la paix

23/9/2015

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La paix… un bien grand mot.

Wikipédia la définit en tant qu’ « état de calme ou de tranquillité, comme une absence de perturbation, d’agitation ou de conflit. Elle correspond aussi à un idéal social et politique. »

Mais si l’on s’aventure dans les rues du monde entier, on s’aperçoit que pour l’enfant syrien la paix est ce qu’il recherche en fuyant les persécutions de son pays, que pour monsieur le Président la paix est la recherche d’un pouvoir équilibré avec les Etats voisins, que pour le petit agriculteur du Burkina Faso la paix définit sa façon d’être avec la nature, ou encore que pour le sans-abris au coin de ma rue la paix est une fausse réalité de notre pays.

Un terme qui fait rêver certains et qui pour d’autres fait partie du quotidien. Difficile d’y voir clair.

Le chercheur Paul Smoker m’a aidé à comprendre l’évolution du concept « d’une culture de la paix » dans sa publication « The Evolution of Peace Research » (Peace and Conflict Studies, 1994).

Il fait émerger six concepts de la pensée de la paix qui virent le jour un à un à travers les époques : 
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Run to reach peace

22/9/2015

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Today, Europe facing one of the most important migration crisis of her contemporary history.
Here, I would like to deal especially with the refugees situation. The fact to suffer of a constant threat in a country in war forced them to flee their own home, in order to reach peace.

I would like to begin with an extract from an article which, I think, introduce very well the problem. It's extracted from peace and sport watch, and was written by Joël Bouzou :
« Our government have known the reality of a growing refugee crisis for years, and Europe could have been better prepared for it. Migration flows have been part of human evolution and are part of our everyday life, not just our history. For some, traveling from one country to another is mere business or leisure, for others it is a question of life and death. Every day, all around the world, people have to take the most difficult decision of their lives; to leave their homes in search of a better life.
Regardless of how they arrive in a country and for what purpose, migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers have rights as a human being and are technically protected under international law:
– The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 14), states that everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum from persecution in other countries.
– The 1951 UN Refugee Convention protects refugees from being returned to countries where they risk persecution.  »

Migrants will be consider as refugees when they suffered human rights abuses or when they were persecuted because of who they are or what they believe in (religion, homosexuality...). However, even if international laws protect them, the everyday reality is not so welcoming : risky border crossings, detention centers, death, exploitation,... . From January to April 2015, approximately 1700 refugees and migrants died trying to cross the Mediterranean sea. These exemples makes the crisis very complex and urgent, and this situation push european states to find a solution in a very short time.

Hopefully, even if several european states are still against the fact to host refugees, other states answered to this problem very actively, as the Germany. Moreover, there're more and more of them begining to take action, in order to host additional refugees or to regulate these flows in more legal ways. Of course there is still a lot of work to do in nations they entering, in order to ensure they are treated humanely, with dignity and respect, but this is a start to improve the situation, even if we're still very far from having solved this crisis.

Mathilde Rouch



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World peace begins with inner peace

21/9/2015

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#PeaceDay

On 21st September, the world celebrates International Day of Peace. Some of us take peace for granted while some cannot imagine what peace is like. Others struggle to find peace within them.

What can we do to find inner peace and to bring peace into our daily life and our community? Many people say that the solution was meditation.
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Short story on the will of a lasting peace

21/9/2015

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The idea to create an organisation for preserve peace between nations was born after the first world war trauma. In 1919 the league of nation was create.

More informations about the league:

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/league-of-nations/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/league_nations_01.shtml

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After the second world war UN was create more informations about the story of UN :     
http://www.un.org/fr/aboutun/history/1941-1950.shtml

 

Who celebrate the day of peace close to you ? Check it !

http://en.unesco.org/aspnet/globalcitizens/act/actions/peace-actions-greece

And take a look on web peace tv !

http://www.peacetv.tv/


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