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How do we create a transformation from violence to peace?
Peace Partnership International and the 35 Ministry and Department of PEACE INITIATIVES at their annual Global Summits have been working with PATRIR of Romania to understand the causes of violence and to generate ideas that will help us create a CULTURE OF PEACE both domestically and internationally. With the help of Johan Galtung's Iceberg model - we invite you to join the discussion.
Mike Abkin explains, "The concept is a triangle of violence (see diagram on next page), like an iceberg, where what you see, direct violence, is only the tip of the iceberg - the observable physical violence, the way people treat one another, war, shootings. But that's supported by and the result of what's underneath. The other two corners of the triangle below the surface are structural violence and cultural violence. Structural violence that's built into our social, economic, legal, and political systems and institutions that produce the economic disparities, political repressions, even being left out of the political system, discrimination, segregation. Violence is a function and result of the way the system is structured. Cultural violence is our values, our belief systems, our world view. We create the structures ourselves as humans. Our social systems and our economic systems are invented by us. There is nothing natural about them."
In a Triangle of Peace, structural peace and cultural peace support and create a culture of peace as their result. The Global Mastermind is a place for us to explore these concepts and to begin designing new structural systems and cultural norms that support the world we want to live in.
"How do we create and cultivate this transformation from the violence triangle to the peace triangle?"
Read more about PPI and the Global Summits.