Creating a World Peace Force
Creating a World Peace Force
NAME OF FACILITATOR:
James Park
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
PARKx032@UMN.EDU
PHONE:
612-871-7275
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Even a movement requiring 100 years for completion
must begin with year one.
How many of the 7 billion people living on the Earth
would favor giving up their national armed forces
if there were a World Peace Force
to maintain world law-and-order?
Today probably less than 5% would agree to disarm.
But if each year this percentage
could be increased by 1 percentage point,
then about 100 years from now,
the World Peace Force would be fully operational.
Local police forces would still be required
to enforce all local, state, and national laws.
But the World Peace Force would prevent genocide
and keep all conflicts between nations non-violent.
This seminar will take place by means of a Facebook Page
of the same name: CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE.
On the Discussion Board of this Facebook Page,
we will present and discuss one theme per month.
Here are the scheduled discussions for the first year:
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
September 2011
World without War
October 2011
World Peace Force—100 Years for Transition
November 2011
The Meaning of Complete World Disarmament
December 2011
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Disarm the Planet Earth—One Nation at a Time
January 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Eliminate all Weapons of Mass Death
February 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
End all Military Dictatorships
March 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
When National Governments Collapse
April 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Separate the Arabs and Jews in Palestine
May 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Separate Warring Factions in Iraq
June 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Disarm All Sides in Afghanistan
July 2012
Religious Prisons to Rehabilitate Islamic Terrorists
August 2012
Enlightened Presidents of the United States
Could Use the U.S. Military Forces
as an Interim World Peace Force
September 2012
What might emerge from this EXCO group?
Do you want to discover others who dream of making peace on Earth?
While we work to end particular wars,
can we imagine ways in which such wars could have been prevented?
Spread the word among all your friends committed to peace.
A complete course description appears here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/ED-WPF.html
FACILITATOR:
James Park is an independent
existential philosopher and advocate of world peace.
He is the author of the Internet essays
that will be discussed in this seminar.
During his long career in alternative adult education,
he has led about 200 different discussion groups.
Most of these were in the Minnesota Free University.
See more information about his
career in alternative adult education,
including a few other possible classes.
CLASS TIMES:
Discussions began in September 2011.
But new participants may join any time.
This world-wide discussion group is always available on-line.
CLASS DATES:
Every month.
PLACE:
Participants may join the discussion from anywhere on Earth.
CLASS SIZE:
At least 10, no upper limit.
INTERNET PRESENCE:
After only 20 days on the EXCO website,
this class has risen to #1 or #2 on Google
for the exact words "World Peace Force".
People who love peace anywhere in the world
are welcome to use the on-line essays linked above
as discussion-starters for groups anywhere.
Simply send the URL of the selected essay
to your group before the meeting.
This EXCO class will begin as an Internet class,
which will communicate entirely by means of our computers.
This allows participation from anywhere on the planet.
And participants can chime in whenever they are inspired to write something.
The Facebook Page called CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE
has now been created.
How to join is explained in the complete course description:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/ED-WPF.html
updated November 1, 2011.
Disarm the Planet Earth---One Nation at a Time
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-DISARM.html
This is the complete URL for the January 2012 essay
for Creating a World Peace Force.
A typing error prevented it from being posted before.
And here is the complete essay,
in case the complete blog-entry diseappeared:
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
DISARM THE PLANET EARTH
—ONE NATION AT A TIME
SYNOPSIS:
Warfare has been a fact of life on the planet Earth
ever since tribes of human beings were able to identify themselves
and define other groups as their enemies.
Once nation-states emerged, they often found themselves at war with one another.
But warfare is not the inevitable fate of the our species.
It should be possible to settle disputes between groups of people
without resorting to violence.
The United States of America offers a long-lasting example of
several states that have been able to live at peace with one another for 150 years.
The 50 states of the USA do not commit war against one another
because we have courts of law that settle all disputes as they arise.
The whole planet could follow this pattern:
Instead of going to war as a way of settling disputes,
the parties could submit each dispute to neutral judges,
who would give equal time to each side of the dispute
and then create a ruling that might not be liked by either
but which would be a just settlement of their differences.
As courts of law emerge for setting international disputes,
the need for national military forces diminishes.
And eventually, as our planet becomes more completely civilized,
there will be no need for national military forces at all.
The change to a disarmed world will take place one nation at a time,
beginning with those nations that have misused their military forces most obviously.
OUTLINE:
1. THE WORLD PEACE FORCE WOULD REPLACE ALL NATIONAL MILITARY FORCES.
2. NATIONS OF THE EARTH THAT ARE ALREADY DISARMED.
Join the Facebook Group called CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE
After you click to join this EXCO group,
go to Facebook and join us there.
On Facebook we are also called
CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE
James Park,facilitator
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