Concurrently we’d not forget victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And if those among the later generations go through that ‘constructed’ history and believe that in toto, in our opinion, that is not their individual fault. And there is a rule since the dawn of human history that the winner occupies the land, the properties, writes the rules of the treaties thereafter - and since the advent of writing - even decides the way history is drafted for posterity. Simple !īut when we look at the other side of the battle line, we’ll discover that they too suffered injuries, indignities, wounds, and died later on - sometimes in scores. And it's reason is that as Nazi doctors made unethical research on Jews, tortured them and then dissected them, now communities don’t trust doctors and other healthcare providers. Please join the grassroots movements of active nonviolence in pursuit of peace because the people of the world deserve so much more than violence and war has ever given us.The author writes in last line of her Letter that some communities distrust healthcare providers and also suggests its reason(1). I hope everyone will stop listening to the voices advocating violence and instead listen to the voices of nonviolence. When evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.” When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. “When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. “When evil men plot, good men must plan,” King continued. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.” “Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. “To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world,” Martin Luther King, Jr. We need to stop the warmakers on all sides who are intent on furthering the cycle of violence and war. This is achievable, but it requires that everyone get involved in building a global grassroots movement of nonviolence. We need to have the courage to stop the cycle of violence and use the methods of creative strategic nonviolence to end this madness and pursue a more nonviolent world. This sad truth is being played out every day now. “An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind,” Gandhi famously said. Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan’s groundbreaking book, Why Civil Resistance Works, proves through empirical data and strong scientific analysis that violence in response to violence only increases violence and that nonviolent conflict resolution can bring a more peaceful and just solutions. Unlike war and violence, strategic nonviolence brings lasting, peaceful results. We have definitive proof that active nonviolence works. It’s time we instead spent serious money on nonviolent conflict resolution instead. We have spent some seven trillion dollars on nuclear weapons since Hiroshima. To start paying for nonviolent solutions, we can close all our nuclear weapons plants, disarm our nuclear arsenal, and allocate those many billions of dollars to the many problems we face in the world. This money is available for war and should instead be made available for peace. Of course, America is going to have to spend billions of dollars on nonviolent options. Creative nonviolence should become our new foreign policy and the policy of every nation. We should cut off all funding to ISIS from all quarters, and fund nonviolent peacemakers throughout the Middle East. We should start a massive reparations program to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, and every land we have bombed, on a scale greater than the Marshall Plan. The United States should immediately halt all its bombing raids and drone attacks and pursue ceasefires everywhere. What is needed instead of continued military violence is a new global nonviolent response. The American government has killed hundreds of thousands, militarized much of the Middle East, funded the Palestinian occupation, and used drones to kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere. We want to stop the killing, make reparations, and start healing our world.Īl Qaeda and ISIS are the outcomes of far too many years of U.S. We don’t want to keep on inspiring millions of oppressed people to join ISIS or Al Qaeda.
Americans want a new nonviolent response to the violence in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen. Millions also want the senseless killing to stop and they realize we must begin with ending our own military’s killing sprees. war-making is breeding a new generation of terrorists around the world. Millions of Americans believe that war doesn’t work, that war cannot end terrorism because war is terrorism, and that U.S.
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