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April 21, 2006

The Peacefostering Principle

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There is nothing permanent except change ----Heraclitus. Fragment

In its first decades of the UN, we all had much hope that it would foster peace. It has failed to do this, miserably and by its own admission. It failed mainly because of its membership of all the world's thug regimes. They could never accept the idea of freedom, which is at the basis of peacefostering. I intend to show here how and why freedom is so important for peace.

We can make peace. And we can try to keep it. But to foster peace is our primary goal. As illustrated in Figure 29.1, this means treating not a specific conflict and its resolution, but the ecology of peace: the general causes and conditions that produce and aggravate conflict and inhibit peace, peacekeeping, and peacemaking. Peacefostering means nurturing a healthy environment within which a happy, pervasive, and durable peace can evolve and flourish. It is encouraging the conflict helix. The principle is this (if the figure is unclear or does not show, click here).