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This Journal is a collection of items drafted, written or gathered since 2017 when a tree in Woodbridge UK was named as the Suffolk town’s 'Tree for Peace'.
Since then Peace has continued to fall globally in the face of widespread and increasingly degenerate endeavours to resolve conflicting ambitions by force.
The items are mainly short and intended to provoke thought.
The architect of the world's biggest Peace Monument ( it's as tall as 4 kilometers at full stretch ) suggested that improving Peace may be as simple as more of us thinking and talking about peace more often.
So, if you can, please share all of this in conversation with a friend.
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The items are numbered logically ( J 000, J 001, J 002, etc.) but can be read, thought and talked about, commented on or questioned in any order.
As a story the Journal’s items record how that 2017 Tree’s public representation of Peace took hold, how it re-emerged from the disruptive 2020 Covid pandemic and how the Tree became the foundation of the present Woodbridge Monument for Peace.
Journal items also lay out the main facts, ideas and considerations that led to naming the Tree as a symbol and that have steered the Monument’s development towards its local and globally resonant social and educational purposes.
Facts on this site’s opening page point to a need for more action to promote peace – more action than is possible for the inspiring but sorely-stretched United Nations Organisation (UNO or UN ) and other major international institutions.
Ideas from a century of research are bringing relief and the seeds of peace to some of the world's most sorely afflicted places. That is happening in those places where the UN or others have the resources to turn peace-making, peace-keeping ad peace-building ideas into practice. As onlookers though we can see, as they do, that a lot of dire need is unmet.
Considerations that inspired this Monument included the real possibility that Education about Peace could help us all to do things that will ease the burden on those organisations.
More knowledge and a fuller understanding of peace will, for example, make us more alert to the emergence of problems in our own or other communities, and more able to advocate for help there before troubles become intractably embedded.
Those same steps in learning about Peace would make us more penetrating in our attention to the highly-condensed media reporting on violent conflict, and more powerful in our scrutiny of governments’ and leaders' responses to historic, latent, emergent or escalating conflicts.
As with our own favourite fields of knowledge, there is personal confidence and pleasurable comfort to be found in sharing a fuller understanding of Peace, even when it's disturbingly affected by fast changing circumstances.
And, as it turns out, simply turning our back when there are troubles invites them to keep coming and to come closer.
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World Peace is beyond our own easy reach.
Even an every-day personal Peace is not always firmly in our grasp.
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But Together it's different.
Together we’ll invoke greater serenity.
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Read more about that, here soon.
Meanwhile, see the facts mentioned above - just 'click' on the 'Trees' Logo above or below.