Human
Engagement Ends War:
Beyond data and endless analyses
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
"Who has not
found the Heaven—below—
Will fail it above—
For Angels rent
the House next ours,
Wherever we remove—"
--Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
"Eighty
percent of success is showing up."
--Woody Allen
Moving
Beyond Facts
Beyond Leaders
To Relationships
THE RIGHT INFORMATION AND DATA with logical arguments will persuade
citizens and government "leaders" to enact treaties and respectful
solutions that transform conflicts and dignify
everyone.
Not so.
Facts are not enough to treat mass psychoses,
clarifies crisis prevention and management specialist, Ian Mitroff
-- http://mitroff.net
MASS PSYCHOSIS and emotions rule us right now.
Fear and exaggerated self-importance paralyze the adult
brain and arrest creativity.
We are again primitives who rationalize cruel acts and
old thinking.
Global leaders -- elected and self-proclaimed --
are losing popular support.
Sadder and deeper, they reflect and follow us
citizens with our own out-of-proportion fears and illusions of individual
survival -- psychoses.
We are all abdicating moral authority, quickly
throwing war at most serious problems.
War is so last-century and obsolete.
And the age of heroes is over.
Only with face-to-face, heart-to-heart contact can
fear change into trust and goodwill.
Psychoses can then heal, because we citizen-leaders --
including "enemies" -- are one another's best doctors.
If we decide, we citizens can engage and succeed like
adults.
"Out beyond
ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field.
I'll meet you
there."
Jelaluddin
Rumi (1207-1273)
Israeli social scientist and senior lecturer, Julia Chaitin
( JChaitin@urim.org.il ) is crystal-clear in yesterday's Jerusalem Post:
Seeking
a responsible adult
by Julia Chaitin
The Jerusalem Post -- 29
March 2011
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=214338
"I am looking for the parent-leader who understands that punishment only
leads to despair, sadness, fear, anger and a learned helplessness.
"I search for the responsible adult who
understands that enough is enough, and who is clever enough to understand that
if the endless cycle of attacks and responses has not succeeded in solving the
problem, we need to engage in different types of behavior."
For example, Julia supports Gazan
Palestinian and southern Israeli adult citizens seeking to humanize one another
by listening to the "other voice" -- http://www.othervoice.org/welcome-eng.htm
Citizen engagement across old boundaries is growing
around Earth.
You can replicate these examples where you live.
Golden Rule Day
April 5th, 2011
Worldwide
THE GOLDEN RULE is the principle of reciprocity -- the foundation of 13
of the world's great religions.
Without exception, it insists, each human being is to
be treated with dignity....especially when we are tempted to rationalize
"reasons" to avenge humiliate, violate, punish, and destroy.
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 -- International GOLDEN
RULE DAY -- will be honored at the United Nations.
ANIMATING THE GOLDEN RULE -- http://www.thegoldenrulemovie.com/
-- is a new film by Canadian Tina Petrova (
Visionary_Mediainc@yahoo.ca )
The video affirms the universal power of compassion,
with self-reflection through rap, art and drama skits of high school students
who embody living by the Golden Rule.
Screening:
ANIMATING
THE GOLDEN RULE
Golden Rule Day
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 --
1:15 sharp-2:45 pm
866 United Nations Plaza
Offices of the Bahai (1st
floor)
New York, NY
Limited seating
RSVP required to
ProjectJarmony@yahoo.com or (212) 726 1617
In our globalized world, we have rapidly become neighbors forever.
The Golden Rule -- treat others as you want to be
treated -- is no longer an aspiration but urgent human necessity.
Interfaith Adults
in New York
May 15, 2011 in New York City citizens of many traditions will not wait
for governments to connect and explore:
Community Trauma &
Healing
Transforming & Resolving
Conflict
Stereotypes
Concepts of the Stranger and
Other in our texts and cultures
Take heart in the dazzling array of co-sponsors powering forward their
exemplary growing, authentic, sustained community building -- beyond fear,
toward familiarity.
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Arab
American Association of New York, Bay Ridge Jewish Center, Brooklyn For Peace,
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, CAIR New
York, Community Church, Congregation Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives, CONNECTFaith,
Grace Church, The Interfaith Center of New York, Muslim Consultative Network,
Park 51 Community Center, Park Slope Jewish Center, Pax
Christi Metro New York, Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, Progressive Muslims
Meet Up New York, Union Theological Seminary-Interfaith Caucus, The Zen Center
of New York City, The House of Peace
The Dialogue Project -- http://thedialogueproject.org/
-- sponsors this day, while year-long initiating successful encounters among
new immigrants, between long time residents of diverse faiths and ethnicities,
and with Palestinian, Israeli, Jewish and Muslim New Yorkers.
Modeling how to end war and dignify each other, all
year they create face-to-face engagement to explore difficult subjects and
their personal narratives, while learning how to listen-to-learn and
acknowledge the supreme value of each others' story.
The
Dialogue Project's
9th
Annual New York City-Wide Interfaith Teach-In
Building Trust, Relationships,
and Partnerships face to face, one encounter at a time.
May 15, 2011 -- 1:30-4:00 pm
Contact
KYLE@thedialogueproject.org or 718-768-2175
Facebook announcement
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155585581169305
Google announcement
My Best Friend
Is Muslim
My Best Friend Is Muslim -- http://www.mybestfriendismuslim.com/
-- is a brand new blog.
Recognizing the hazards of ignorance and the power
of story during a March 2011 online chat with her friend, Lindsay, led Ateqah Khaki -- mybestfriendismuslim@gmail.com -- to help
citizens tell their personal stories of successful relationships.
Ateqah put out the
call:
"More than 3 million
Muslims live in the United States today.
The American Muslim community
is diverse in every conceivable way.
American Muslims are doctors
and teachers; artists and engineers.
Siblings and grandparents;
neighbors and best friends.
Do you have a friend who is
Muslim?
Help set the record straight
about Muslims in America.
Share your story or
photo."
SHARE YOUR STORY, as we did:
My
Dialogue Partner Is A Muslim
http://www.mybestfriendismuslim.com/post/4045927031/my-dialogue-partner-is-a-muslim
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These and hundreds of other success stories are preserved at http://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm