{"id":2099,"date":"2018-03-09T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:02:28","slug":"the-problem-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/the-problem-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless human and societal initiatives dedicated to addressing the problem of war and conflicts. To my knowledge there aren&#8217;t any dedicated to addressing the problem of peace.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you take Peace as a state of \u266aharmony\u2615 \u2661 in which human beings tend to all see things the same way and whenever they don&#8217;t, it doesn&#8217;t matter because \u2665 <span style=\"color: #cc99c9\"><em>respect<\/em>&nbsp;<\/span> \u26f8 \u2698\u2740 rules, which means everyone cares more about preserving other people&#8217;s slightly diverging views than they care about their own views&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; then have humans ever fought for peace? Maybe they&#8217;ve just been fighting for war.&nbsp; However lovely the name we call it by, maybe a state of blandness and deep abnegation is really not a desirable one.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe war and peace are not actual problems. Maybe the problem is that we&#8217;ve already got solutions to both those problems. Maybe the real problem we have is that we don&#8217;t like our problems.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2113\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/PeaceAndWarCycle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/PeaceAndWarCycle.png 960w, https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/PeaceAndWarCycle-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/PeaceAndWarCycle-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, it&#8217;s worth mentioning that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2116\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/wehaveoptions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/wehaveoptions.png 960w, https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/wehaveoptions-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/wehaveoptions-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To avoid having war be the ideal solution to the problem of peace and vis versa, there are things we can do.<\/p>\n<p>We can appreciate human appetites.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%\">\n<div style=\"float: right;margin-left: 0px;width: 50%\">If we&#8217;ve learnt anything from war it&#8217;s that humans like to do things together.<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%\">\n<div style=\"float: left;width: 80%\">And the fuss they constantly make about peace goes to show that they also are somewhat thirsty for consistency among their views.<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%\">\n<div style=\"float: right;margin-left: 0px;width: 50%\">Yet clearly, humans keep being invigorated by the distinctions they manage to make between themselves.<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So how about finding something<strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">&nbsp;to do<\/span><\/strong> together?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">something else than war that still is&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>motivated by<\/strong><\/span> our differences of perspectives<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2159\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/birds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/birds.png 441w, https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/incaseofpeace\/files\/2018\/07\/birds-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 85vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">something that <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>uses<\/strong> <\/span>our differences of perspectives,<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;to make or minds momentarily meet&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It so happens to be that that thing too already exists since the dawn of human time. We call it &#8220;<em>science<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless human and societal initiatives dedicated to addressing the problem of war and conflicts. 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