Peace Post

The big idea I got from the video was that there are more people who are wanting to make a change. Some people are fighting for their lives. Whilst others have many reasons to fight. A few weeks ago, I asked someone "Is it bad to kill someone if someone is about to kill you and your family?" It took them a while to reply but they said" Killing someone is a horrible thing. It's one thing to kill someone for no reason, but if you're killing someone so you can defend yourself and people you love, it's another thing." I thought about this. It had changed my way of looking at this. I used to think everyone was fighting because they were becoming provoked. Just like little kids, they were both to blame. "THEY STARTED IT" shrieks one side. "ONLY BECAUSE THEY STARTED IT" screams the other. Now I know that there is only one attack, and people defending themselves. I am glad that some there are people who really care about this world. It means a lot to some people that they aren't the only ones who are worried about what happens if the war will come their way. It's like a stone being dropped into the water. It's impossible to stop hope. Just like in Greek Mythology. As Pandora opened the box, everything horrible came out in the world, but when Pandora thought everything was lost, hope arose out of the box. I think this is like a symbol. After everything horrible in the world will be thrown out of no where, hope will arise.


Peace is very important. About a day ago, I went to the 24 Jam. There were many skits, but one of the skits really reminded me about war. It was called "Just A Little History Repeating Itself." It started out with many people lying down on the ground, some with there legs curled up to their chests, and they're faces were down. Slowly, 5 or 6 people came walking down the aisles. They gently came to the people who were wrapped themselves into tight hugs. At first, they were horrified at the touch of the people, but slowly they moved on to the people on the floor, lying in positions as if someone had killed them. Then they formed groups. The problem was, there were remaining people. Two people left their groups and came to the outsiders. "WALK!" the barked at the remaining outsiders "CRAWL" they repeated commands to the people over and over again. A girl tried to stand up for herself, but quickly was thrown out. She sat down again, and curled herself into a ball again. Meanwhile the other groups were marching, making themselves strong by linking themselves together. After 5 minutes of this, the two people who had been in command bellowed "ATTACK!" As if the outsiders had been in pain as they moved stiffly, they attacked. Breaking up the groups. At first, they had no success. The links were too strong, but soon everyone broke up and walked in pain. Sadly, they all threw themselves down as if the pain was too great. It wasn't supposed to be about peace. It was supposed to be what would happen if the everyone in the world died. But I saw it as a symbolism of war. This is why peace is so important. If we didn't have peace, we would be killing people, and eventually emotionally and physically killing ourselves with guilt, grief, diseases. There would be no hope in the world. Peace is hope.

Peace is linked with development. I can prove this by using my project on Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is a landlocked. It's a very small, poor country. It's surrounded with many large countries, making it an easy target to control. Or to take power. So, poor Burkina Faso has to worry about other countries taking over by force. They have many policemen, guards, and security. This is because there is no peace. Everybody is so worried about being taken over, or even being killed. They spend their money on guns, and weapons. They have many problems in Burkina Faso. AIDS/HIV is not the only problem. They have poverty and hunger. They don't have good infrastructure. This is why peace will lead to development. War tears places and people down. War takes the children away from their homes and uses them to fight, leading to a bad education, which leads us to a horrible new generation. With uneducated children, we have nothing left to bring us further in development.


The hidden costs of war. the first few obvious
1. Tearing families apart-when the Dads or Mothers die, children are left with nothing. They are left with no money or family
2. Killing of people- sometimes soldiers will steal people and threaten people
3. Dangerous for innocent- Mothers and Children are running, fleeing from their homes to be safe
4. Destroys land- the tanks will kill land, blood of people, hungry soldiers kill animals to survive
5. Cripples- some people are crippled physically by war wounds such as a gun shot

These are the Hidden Costs
1. Steals children's lives- As the kids in the document said, "their Childhood was stolen by war." They are taken to fight for something they might not even believe in
2. de-humanize - Corrupts people into thinking the worse about others
3. Kills many people who shouldn't have to die, fighting for or protecting what they believe in
4. Frightens- war will frighten many people into either being where they are, or worshiping how or what they may want.
5. Cripples- emotionally. Some people say they have seen things that they wish they had never seen.