MORE
BRIDGES:
Creating
Human Security in Asia, Africa, Middle East
13 August 2013
"There are
some things only governments can do,
such as
negotiating binding agreements.
But there are some things that only citizens
outside government can do,
such as changing
human relationships."
~ Dr. Harold Saunders
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State,
and
Negotiator of the Camp David Accords
Disappearing -- person-by-person -- are citizens' old-fashioned dependencies
on "experts" and governments alone to heal humankind's relationships
and invent our new life together.
The evidence is everywhere that heart-to-heart,
cross-border, inter-cultural civic communication are the new power on the road
to life beyond war, beyond rankism.
Garden-variety citizens' are becoming today's
powerful diplomats and bridge-builders.
Sustained Dialogue is providing the new Human
Security -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_security
This is the new "action" of peacebuilding.
Why
triplomacy is the new diplomacy
Deborah Winslow Nutter
Special to CNN World - 08
August 2013
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/08/why-triplomacy-is-the-new-diplomacy/
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BUILDING BRIDGES
in Myanmar (Burma)
One citizen in Myanmar is Hla Myo Naing.
He calls himself an edu-learner
-- always learning, always uniting and educating the new, young artisans of
communication.
Naing facilitates PEACE
-- Practicing English And Civic Engagement.
He receives e-mail at
nosea.plu.mdy@googlemail.com
SEE Naing's Myanmar
youth and adults he successfully brings together to master language and
community-building -- http://traubman.igc.org/myanmardialogue.pdf
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BUILDING BRIDGES
in Cote d'Ivoire (West Africa)
Offuh James Offuh
is one one, deeply-motivated citizen in West Africa.
This 2013 summer he and a small team from Abidjan
travelled 400 kilometers to heal tribal conflicts in ways government, the
U.N., and other institutions didn't imagine.
His step-by-step learning and real-life public
peace process is illustrated at http://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeriaivorycoast.htm
Offuh receives e-mail at
UFPACI@gmail.com
VIEW ONLINE his roughly-edited 64-minute,
how-to documentary film:
Dozos-Guerre
Tribal Reconciliation in Cote d'Ivoire (June 2013)
64-mn documentary video
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BUILDING BRIDGES
in Korea
During July 2013 was the 5th International Conference on History and Peace
Civil Society's Contribution to Promoting a Peaceful East Asian Community.
The women, men, and youth demonstrated how to correct
old, one-sided, partial views of history and heal historic wounds.
The pan-Asian conference was a shining model to
humankind of citizen diplomacy, human security, and building regional
community.
Extensive TV news coverage emphasized the Seoul, Korea
model that defined citizen-to-citizen engagement as the foundation of any
viable government agreements.
Statement after statement from Seoul defined the
requirement of citizens to cross borders and build relationships.
This may be the clearest, most powerful news
declaration of the supreme important of people-to-people civic engagement and
human security in these 2000s --The Citizens' Century.
WATCH that news report and more described in
the story of a successful, pre-conference, cross-border youth encounter:
Korean-Japanese
Skype-Facilitated Youth Reconciliation Dialogue
Seoul, Korea -- 22 July 2013
http://traubman.igc.org/korea-japan.pdf
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BUILDING BRIDGES & LISTENING
in Palestine and Israel
Some Palestinian and Israeli citizens communicate with excellence and grow
closer, even if their family members have been killed.
This is true in the exemplary community of Parents
Circle ~ Families Forum -- http://theparentscircle.com/
Their communication skills and perpetual
relationships are evidence that "an enemy is one whose story we have not
heard."
They listen to one another, understanding that everyone
has a story the longs to be heard and dignified.
Two
sided Story
2012 video trailer -- 5 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzJkBxQC4Tg
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These and hundreds of other success stories are preserved at http://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm