Note for Editing - Ideally to be a Post and re-titled as Learning for Peace . .
Twentieth century social sciences and thought have revealed how peace is lost and how it can be recaptured and made strong.
That knowledge is helping to make peace in some of the world's worst afflicted places.
There are though many more such places than UN and other peace-makers can help; and each year others descend through conflict into violence.
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Many universities worldwide conduct Peace research and teach courses such as Peace and Conflict.
There is though too little education about Peace in schools to introduce young people to its opportunities and to establish a place for it in what our communities value as 'general knowledge'.
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It is the purpose of the Woodbridge Trees and Monument for Peace and this website to promote learning activities that will spread more of that valuable knowledge into communities.
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Learning about Peace from here will NOT qualify anyone for UN peace-work, nor for entry to any other course.
However, in ways explained on these pages Learning started here will bring both personal enjoyment and additional pleasures from bringing its benefit to our communities.
It will, for example, provide deeper insights and practical opportunities to respond to concerns arising from distant conflicts.
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More generally, at times when there is public concern we can find personal Peace and comfort as informed and active commentators rather than worried, frustrated and perhaps angry bystanders.
Instead there can be satisfaction in questioning the actions or inactions of those better placed to promote Peace.
And where our vigilance and commentary leads to early interventions – they will both limit local misery and deflect some of the burden from United Nations and other front-line peace-makers.
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In those ways there are possibilities for each of us to add Peace to the world and, together with others, to bear down on the globally damaging impact of uncontrolled conflict.