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501 2,20| bodies within the social fabric of a nation. In a democratic
502 3,66| peacemaker will have to face are of infinite variety.
503 3,61| of a confidence-builder, facilitator, creator of a serene atmosphere…
504 3,73| Most peacemakers in history failed in their central objectives.
505 2,21| run late and electricity fails, if slums multiply, if the
506 3,67| press. There may be repeated failures in the peace-promoting work
507 3,49| non-violence, sought to be fair with all parties concerned,
508 3,42| waging a war in behalf of fairness to their community or set
509 3,71| strength and motivation in her faith and love. She is ready to
510 2,21| human lives, if public works fall behind schedule, if trains
511 1,9 | legitimate way of showing familiarity or respect will differ from
512 2,30| forms of exaggerations and fanaticisms should be avoided. Championing
513 3,69| making allegations, their own fashion of creating myths. The peacemaker
514 3,55| always the thinker. He acts fast, but does not always reflect.
515 1,1 | our inability to go beyond fatwas and suicide bombs to solve
516 2,29| build up public opinion in favour of a course of remedial
517 2,24| interests, and bringing your favourites to power. It is quite another
518 3,40| every citizen. We have been fed for over a century on philosophies
519 3,53| really matter in the fighting federation are those who think, provide
520 1,17| watch out for a negative feedback. Rather than feel humiliated
521 1,5 | thoughts and express their feelings, do we begin to make our
522 2,27| financial assistance she fell short of for a successful
523 3,45| you to understand how they felt compelled to go to such
524 3,48| 48. Thus, even the fiercest fighters are looking forward
525 3,42| we have to take sides and fight to finish, we shall not
526 3,54| person, a stocky and stunted figure. But he is a perceptive
527 3,68| to reverse the flow. And finally, the truth reveals itself.~ ~
528 2,27| idea, to another a small financial assistance she fell short
529 3,42| take sides and fight to finish, we shall not succeed to
530 3,52| interest in keeping the fires burning. I would describe
531 3,55| and the entire movement fizzles out. It is the thinker that
532 3,61| Winning the headlines may be flattering, but the fruits therefrom
533 3,74| peacemaker’s effort is like the flickering lamp over the high altar,
534 1,7 | mawkish, squatting on the floor demeaning. For one community,
535 2,24| government officials), and follow them up diligently with
536 3,68| against Christian initiatives. Follow-up efforts may never take off.
537 2,25| merits: conoscere le leggi fondamentali che regolano la politica,
538 1,9 | differences not merely in dress, food and etiquette; but in styles
539 3,65| the process she is clean forgotten or is marginalized, she
540 3,49| finds the “Open Sesame” formula when she has established
541 1,5 | through the unassailable fortress of a closed world, and get
542 3,39| 39. It was my good fortune to have been able to organize,
543 3,48| fiercest fighters are looking forward to an era of peace. That
544 3,42| Most contenders in the fray are convinced that they
545 3,62| distance. But she should feel free from having to play up to
546 1,4 | utterances, and through frequent inter-actions with poets
547 1,1 | cultures and ethnic groups, fresh chances to study humanity
548 3,39| the help of my ecumenical friends, not only activities like
549 1,10| totally from ours. It can look frightfully threatening. Nothing seems
550 3,52| It is not likely that the frontline fighters will come to talk.
551 3,56| totally remote from the frontlines. But at least they should
552 2,33| we live our out life and fulfil our mission.~ ~ ~
553 3,60| and intelligent, leaving full freedom to the contestants
554 2,21| the universities do not function, if there is national waste;
555 2,32| do the rest of the task.~G.K.Chesterton used to warn
556 3,46| not going to sell out the gains they have made during a
557 3,62| having to play up to the gallery. She should not give chance
558 3,66| recent History, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. ~ ~
559 3,46| 46. Another learning we gather from peacemaking experience
560 3,58| profitably spent at a common gathering of all the participants
561 3,58| period of time in separate gatherings, to thrash out their own
562 3,72| brief prayer in the evening gave us the needed strength to
563 1,19| according to their cultural genius, you may be surprised to
564 1,6 | discussion, our speech and gesticulations may look to a person of
565 3,71| begin all over again. She gets busy with the healing of
566 3 | Getting the Right people for a Dialogue~ ~
567 1,14| institutions have remained cultural ghettoes, closed in upon themselves,
568 1,19| response from the masses. Giant missionaries in history
569 2,26| refers to : le politiche giovanili” (SL 39).~ ~
570 1,8 | their elders, boys mix with girls, the way they all show respect
571 1,16| receiving injections or giving blood. ~ ~
572 1,17| in that culture and get a glimpse of the “soul of the community”.
573 2,31| addressing national and global problems, a similar course
574 2,26| is being ravaged (SL 36), globalization injures local economy (SL
575 2,25| our prayer, and we become globe-trotters.~ ~
576 3,74| every heart, dispelling gloom and holding out hopes.~ ~ ~ ~
577 3,43| passion they have for their goals and the sense of justice
578 2,36| stage should the primacy of God-quest and the consecrated ‘apartness’
579 1,14| rebel, or the teaching staff goes on strike, or neighbourhood
580 2,21| 21. In an era gone by, we could claim to be
581 3,65| the same atmosphere and goodwill, and discuss the recommendations
582 3,38| Guwahati, Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon, till the hostilities ceased.
583 1,11| Cultural Unconscious that governs the human behaviour of a
584 3,63| opposing partners towards a gradual awareness of this great
585 3,44| driven them to, they will gradually, and with caution, begin
586 3,54| small man. He may not be a graduate. He may even be illiterate.
587 3,42| a conflict, we take for granted that one side is definitely
588 3,57| missing. Or else, she may be greatly disappointed with the turn-
589 3,44| by the magnitude of their grievances and are able to understand (
590 3,40| our combating spirit has grown. And our reconciling skills
591 1,13| heritage and are on the guard against rootlessness contribute
592 2,34| community itself under the guidance of its animator.~ ~
593 3,56| have some influence on the guiding-group in the organization. Though
594 2,35| I may not be present in Gujarat to assist the earthquake
595 3,70| is as much true of local gunmen and World Powers. Wars may
596 2,32| will yield better results. Half the problem is solved when
597 1,2 | will be leaders who can handle cultural differences with
598 3,68| even by allowing things to happen and events to flow. She
599 3,37| Peace came at last in 1998. Hardly 1% among the people are
600 2,32| the situation, we do more harm than good. A perceptive
601 3,55| or after killing a few harmless people and causing severe
602 1,4 | cooperation of youth without harshness. It may have an admirable
603 3,43| and humiliating to them. Hasty condemnations will enrage
604 3,52| likely either that the war hawks will deign to sit for dialogue.
605 3,68| troubles, she should hold her head high. She need not try to
606 3,61| such roles. Winning the headlines may be flattering, but the
607 3,69| discussions cannot make headway because the contestants
608 1,3 | needs to be reformed and healed. ~ ~
609 3,71| She gets busy with the healing of historic injuries and
610 3,72| worked for 4 months in hearty unity, the Eucharist in
611 3,72| tirelessly in the rain and in the heat. The mysticism of the brief
612 2,21| every citizen is to be held responsible. ~ ~ ~
613 3,72| during those difficult days, helped us to welcome new volunteers
614 3,48| feel threatened. It is this hidden entry point that the peacemaker
615 1,6 | exclamations an effort to hide hollowness in thought and
616 3,74| sunshine and joy over every hill and in every valley. It
617 | himself
618 3,68| rekindled if their community is hit again unexpectedly. Malicious
619 3,74| heart, dispelling gloom and holding out hopes.~ ~ ~ ~
620 1,6 | exclamations an effort to hide hollowness in thought and absence of
621 3,68| while. But she should be honest and upright in her intent
622 3,46| having to compromise their honour or damage their image. If
623 3,74| a Presence and whispers hope (SL 80). And when His peace
624 3,74| dispelling gloom and holding out hopes.~ ~ ~ ~
625 1,1 | and unexpected widening of horizon to the inherited wisdom
626 1,9 | children in a missionary hostel is considered criminal,
627 1,4 | express dissent without hostility, elicit cooperation of youth
628 2,35| mistreated, children starve, houses leak, minorities are humiliated,
629 1,5 | joined hands) in Delhi, and hug and pat on the back in Rome
630 1,11| Unconscious shared by all humankind. Anthropologists will find
631 3,54| illiterate. He may be a humble, soft-spoken person, a stocky
632 3,43| will sound provocative and humiliating to them. Hasty condemnations
633 3,37| people lost their lives, hundreds of villages were burnt,
634 1,17| humiliated and upset when you are hurt, look closer. Do not be
635 3,54| thought that we would have the ideal society if it was ruled
636 3,40| struggle and inspired by the ideals for fighting for justice
637 1,18| values in a culture, and identified ourselves with that community,
638 3,70| fighting to save their ethnic identity and cultural heritage, may,
639 2,30| lead us to another form of ‘idolatry’: e.g., romanticizing the
640 3,68| interpret the issues wrongly, ignore the peacemaker’s initiatives
641 2,23| benefit in compensation. Ignoring all moral norms and ethical
642 2,36| cause ( Sandra Schneiders, IHM, Finding the Treasure, Paulist
643 2,25| la politica, l’ambiente, il mercato (SL 51; also 31,
644 2,21| every citizen contributes ill or well to the future of
645 2,28| well, if the problem of illiteracy or of school drop-outs is
646 3,54| graduate. He may even be illiterate. He may be a humble, soft-spoken
647 3,46| their honour or damage their image. If the peacemaker wants
648 1,18| nature than we might have imagined. ~ ~
649 1,6 | exuberance an expression of immaturity, our cheerful exclamations
650 2,36| prophetic insight born of immediacy to God and social marginality,
651 3,45| asking you to condone their immoderation, they are asking you to
652 2,27| We can never measure the impact we make on society through
653 2,25| That is why it has become imperative even for religious persons
654 1,3 | including the modern one, is imperfect, containing evil and exploitative
655 3,70| hand and salvaging one’s imperial interests on the other,
656 3,60| acceptance and of being implemented. ~ ~
657 3,53| 53. Their “importance” is not to be measured by
658 1,1 | hand; and on the other, imposing unequal trade laws and invoking ‘
659 2,25| 25. It is impossible to make this type of contribution
660 3,45| situation in which they are imprisoned at the moment ( which, of
661 1,16| make sure that there are no in-built prejudice in the community
662 1,1 | opportunities”: challenges like our inability to go beyond fatwas and
663 2,21| day, no more. By action or inaction, every citizen contributes
664 2,32| rush to the press with an inadequate understanding of the situation,
665 3,70| ransom people from their own inconsistencies.~ ~
666 3,61| become easy. If she remains inconspicuous and keeps a low-profile,
667 3,40| 40. With increasing instances of violence the
668 1,2 | 2. Increasingly, in different parts of the
669 | indeed
670 3,73| comes in His own good time, independently of all that the peacemaker
671 1,14| work. It may merely be an indication that our institutions have
672 1,6 | arrogant, our silence a sign of indifference, our exuberance an expression
673 2,30| the poor, minorities, or indigenous people. It may not actually
674 1,1 | civilizational group is asserting its individuality and distinctiveness with
675 3,66| will have to face are of infinite variety. There may be stiff
676 3,68| deliberately spread. The press may inflate the number of victims, interpret
677 2,28| In addition to general information, a religious community needs
678 2,25| religious persons to keep informed of events, social processes,
679 1,1 | widening of horizon to the inherited wisdom and experience of
680 3,45| experience their pain in the inhuman situation in which they
681 3,43| not be in a position to initiate a reconciliation-dialogue
682 3,49| her when she takes her own initiative. Her ability to build up
683 1,16| community against receiving injections or giving blood. ~ ~
684 2,26| ravaged (SL 36), globalization injures local economy (SL 31), a
685 3,55| people and causing severe injury on the other party, he runs
686 3,66| those benefiting from the insecurity created by armed conflict.
687 3,64| central concerns may appear insensitive to them. What they themselves
688 1,14| against them. We need to insert ourselves further into their
689 2,34| is the community that is inserted into a cultural context,
690 2,36| locus of that prophetic insight born of immediacy to God
691 3,40| philosophies of struggle and inspired by the ideals for fighting
692 3,40| 40. With increasing instances of violence the world over,
693 1,14| population throws stones at our institution, it is not always anti-Christian
694 1,14| be an indication that our institutions have remained cultural ghettoes,
695 2,36| essential to the spiritual integrity of all action in behalf
696 2,32| to interpret events with intelligence, and not intervene with
697 1,12| understand your meaning through intelligible explanations. Many political
698 3,56| message will ultimately reach intended circles. ~ ~
699 3,72| in the midst of people, intense activity, problems of life
700 2,36| matter, how extensive and intensive their involvement in the
701 3,68| honest and upright in her intent and ego-less in her service.
702 3,70| contradictions between professed intentions and actual conduct. This
703 1,4 | utterances, and through frequent inter-actions with poets and thinkers,
704 1,3 | experience in inter-cultural and inter-civilizational living: “..laboratorio di
705 1,3 | have much experience in inter-cultural and inter-civilizational
706 1,2 | beginning to live more and more inter-culturally. It will be leaders who
707 3,72| together ecumenically and inter-religiously, and serve 200,000 victims
708 3,50| The peacemaker begins by interacting with the two groups in hostile
709 3,61| atmosphere…an atmosphere in which interactions become easy. If she remains
710 1,4 | You speak of “promuovendo interazioni di reciprocita’ (SL 113);
711 1,3 | living: “..laboratorio di interculturalita’ “ (SL 88; also 52). It
712 3,66| to the entire effort from interested parties on either side.
713 1,1 | human rights’ in order to interfere in the destinies of weaker
714 1,6 | concern but as excessive interference.~ ~
715 2,31| the media, including the internet is available to us through
716 3,67| exert. There may be negative interpretations in the press. There may
717 3,55| It is the thinker that interprets history, constructs a theory,
718 2,25| TV) should not be a brief interval for entertainment, but a
719 2,32| with intelligence, and not intervene with emotional explosions.
720 2,29| discerning leaders: you speak of intervenire per creare opinione publica (
721 1,8 | to another provocative an intruding. Nodding ‘yea’ may mean ‘
722 3,57| send a routine letter of invitation to the participants in the
723 3,59| other, does the peacemaker invite them to come together. After
724 2,29| other civic bodies can be invited to join in the common effort. ~ ~
725 3,59| solutions and alternatives, invokes collaboration from the other
726 1,1 | imposing unequal trade laws and invoking ‘human rights’ in order
727 1,14| aloof, and remain cultural islands within the larger society.
728 3,61| things as though not doing it-----that is the role of the
729 1,1 | borders come down,” said Doug Ivestor, the Chief Executive Officer
730 3,67| Petty-minded officers may be jealous. Anti-Christian groups may
731 1,5 | Tokyo, offer a namaste (joined hands) in Delhi, and hug
732 2,31| course of action is possible, joining hands with other religious
733 2,29| through articles in the local journals, letters to the editor,
734 3,74| last, there is sunshine and joy over every hill and in every
735 3,61| mediator, arbitrator and judge. Even if the contestants
736 2,32| the rest of the task.~G.K.Chesterton used to warn
737 3,52| have a vested interest in keeping the fires burning. I would
738 3,61| remains inconspicuous and keeps a low-profile, her long-term
739 3,56| will easily persuade the key-thinkers of a militant organization
740 3,55| he is exhausted; or after killing a few harmless people and
741 3,66| Gandhi and Martin Luther King. ~ ~
742 1,7 | prostrations, touching of statues, kissing and other demonstrative
743 2,25| if citizens do not remain knowledgeable. That is why it has become
744 3,56| turn up are people who are known to be peaceable, as long
745 3,37| 37. In the Kuki-Paite clashes in Manipur (India)
746 2,25| fondamentali che regolano la politica, l’ambiente, il
747 1,3 | inter-civilizational living: “..laboratorio di interculturalita’ “ (
748 2,21| children are put to hard labour (SL 41), if women are exploited (
749 3,74| effort is like the flickering lamp over the high altar, which
750 3,37| homeless. The violent struggle lasted several months. We succeeded
751 2,21| schedule, if trains run late and electricity fails, if
752 1,16| organizing health camps and launching blood donation campaigns,
753 2,21| citizens by merely obeying the law and paying the taxes. To
754 1,1 | imposing unequal trade laws and invoking ‘human rights’
755 3,52| society with their charismatic leadership or prophetic utterances. ~ ~
756 2,35| children starve, houses leak, minorities are humiliated,
757 2,22| Unfortunately, citizens have not yet learned to expect a code of conduct,
758 1,15| of culture all need to be learners all the time, for culture
759 3,39| I give below a few of my learnings from my peacemaking experience.~ ~
760 3,62| premature publicity can leave you exposed and vulnerable. ~ ~
761 3,68| successes. She may feel left alone to struggle. But even
762 1,15| declaiming our successes, in a legalistic, pedantic and distant manner
763 2,25| respective merits: conoscere le leggi fondamentali che regolano
764 3,45| compelled to go to such lengths. They are not asking you
765 3,46| they have made during a lengthy struggle or compromise their
766 3,38| were rendered homeless. At lest 180,000 people still remain
767 3,57| sufficient to send a routine letter of invitation to the participants
768 2,29| articles in the local journals, letters to the editor, or discussions
769 3,55| may be many at different levels of the hierarchy scattered
770 3,52| come to talk. Their skills lie in another direction. It
771 3,48| That is why they keep a little door open for the peacemaker,
772 3,64| emerge from the participants’ lived experience and their own
773 1,1 | study humanity in its varied lived-contexts, further occasions for dialogue,
774 1,4 | apprezzamento delle culture locali” (SL 42). ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
775 2,36| vocation is to be a consistent locus of that prophetic insight
776 3,61| keeps a low-profile, her long-term contribution can be greater.
777 3,46| that there is a profound longing for peace even in the heart
778 3,48| the fiercest fighters are looking forward to an era of peace.
779 1,8 | reserved to another. What looks to one as self-confident
780 3,48| since I am helpless the Lord will help me.~ ~
781 3,69| retaining in serenity a whole lot unfair advantages and privileges. ‘
782 3,61| inconspicuous and keeps a low-profile, her long-term contribution
783 3,66| Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. ~ ~
784 1,4 | poveri, spesso, sono I nostri maestri” (SL 115; also 116). It
785 3,44| profoundly struck by the magnitude of their grievances and
786 3,66| cause: in recent History, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
787 | makes
788 3,69| their own strategies of making allegations, their own fashion
789 3,68| hit again unexpectedly. Malicious rumours may be deliberately
790 1,18| background today seem to manifest greater rootedness in the
791 1,4 | very well excel others in manifesting humanity in family relationships
792 3,37| the Kuki-Paite clashes in Manipur (India) in 1997, some 400
793 2,36| immediacy to God and social marginality, which are essential to
794 3,65| is clean forgotten or is marginalized, she should rejoice, for
795 3,66| History, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. ~ ~
796 1,19| amazing response from the masses. Giant missionaries in history
797 3,39| clubs, and produce educative materials like booklets, posters,
798 1,7 | forms sentimental piety mawkish, squatting on the floor
799 | me
800 1,9 | diverse worldviews; dissimilar meaning-systems. ~ ~
801 3,69| words have changed their meanings. For example, someone may
802 3,63| Living together always means being prepared for compromises.
803 3,53| importance” is not to be measured by their rank in the social
804 3,71| 71. If memories of historic injuries are
805 3,58| animator(s) a great measure of mental transformation takes place
806 2,25| politica, l’ambiente, il mercato (SL 51; also 31, 82, 99-
807 3,54| not want to discuss the merit of this view, but merely
808 2,25| views and their respective merits: conoscere le leggi fondamentali
809 | might
810 3,66| peacemaker may appear a threat to militants committed to violence and
811 1,2 | that will thrive in the new millennium. As Peter Drucker warns, “
812 1,5 | working of another type of mind. ~ ~
813 3,57| that key people will not be missing. Or else, she may be greatly
814 1,19| response from the masses. Giant missionaries in history were adept at
815 1,9 | bound to stumble from one mistake into another. If serving
816 2,35| are threatened, women are mistreated, children starve, houses
817 1,8 | with their elders, boys mix with girls, the way they
818 2,28| religious community can mobilize local resources and energies
819 1,9 | community to community. The mode of consulting, and the measure
820 3,52| among both radicals and moderates, like thinkers, writers,
821 2,30| everything, however, let us keep moderation; all forms of exaggerations
822 1,13| terms with the concepts of Modernity while their society has
823 3,72| problems of life and at brief moments during the day. During our
824 3,72| unity, the Eucharist in the morning and brief prayer in the
825 | mostly
826 3,43| the sense of justice that motivates them, or their approach
827 3,59| come together. After a few motivating words from the peacemaking
828 3,71| finds renewed strength and motivation in her faith and love. She
829 3,73| exhausted; army pressure mounts; good sense comes to prevail.
830 1,7 | celebration and white a colour of mourning.~ ~
831 3,65| proposals, the communities may move on to final negotiations
832 1,13| while their society has moved on to Postmodernity.~ ~
833 3,55| in political or militant movements the same is true. The doer
834 2,30| you get a whole process moving. In everything, however,
835 3,41| Bible glorified peacemaking (Mt 5:9; 5:20; 5:40ff; Rom 12:
836 1,15| quite unconscious of it. In multi-ethnic nations, such mistakes can
837 2,21| electricity fails, if slums multiply, if the universities do
838 1,9 | criminal, serving pork to Muslim employees will be fatal.
839 3,72| to create a climate of mutual esteem and collaborate across
840 3,69| own fashion of creating myths. The peacemaker should not
841 1,5 | deep bow in Tokyo, offer a namaste (joined hands) in Delhi,
842 3,59| separate and common meetings to narrow the differences and widen
843 1,8 | Nodding ‘yea’ may mean ‘nay’. ~ ~ ~
844 3,56| organization to come to the negotiation-table. The next best thing to
845 2,28| about becoming a part of the neighbourhood-society from the cultural point
846 1,10| relationships with your colleagues, neighbours, students, patients of another
847 | Neither
848 3,51| best way of proving her neutrality. A commitment to humanity
849 2,25| also 31, 82, 99-100). The news-hour (TV) should not be a brief
850 3,41| 40ff; Rom 12:17-21), while Nietzsche critiqued compassion and
851 2,32| to warn us against the “noble temptation to see too much
852 1,8 | provocative an intruding. Nodding ‘yea’ may mean ‘nay’. ~ ~ ~
853 3,49| beneficent services and non-controversial activities among the groups
854 3,68| in her service. Her very non-resistance may prove a turning-point
855 3,49| they have always taught non-violence, sought to be fair with
856 1,13| with skill has become a normal part of life in the modern
857 1,4 | I poveri, spesso, sono I nostri maestri” (SL 115; also 116).
858 1,9 | for us to do is to take note of differences not merely
859 | Now
860 3,72| seminarians, sisters, doctors, nurses, youth, Christians and non-Christian
861 2,21| good citizens by merely obeying the law and paying the taxes.
862 3,73| failed in their central objectives. Peace did not always come
863 1,17| applicable conclusions. Keep observing, evaluating, correcting.
864 1,4 | have developed devices to obtain justice without violence,
865 1,1 | lived-contexts, further occasions for dialogue, and unexpected
866 1,1 | Ivestor, the Chief Executive Officer of Coca Cola, “cultural
867 3,67| suspicious. Petty-minded officers may be jealous. Anti-Christian
868 2,24| political leaders and government officials), and follow them up diligently
869 3,70| human rights and the flow of oil into one’s tankers. People
870 1,3 | which the less developed ones are unmistakably tending.
871 1,1 | opportunities too, like new openings to other cultures and ethnic
872 1,4 | of the sacred, an amazing openness to the truth and to the
873 1,12| problems, economic threats, operational deadlocks and personal clashes
874 3,72| the day. During our relief operations at Kokrajhar in 1996 when
875 2,29| important to build up public opinion in favour of a course of
876 2,29| of intervenire per creare opinione publica (SL 56). Public
877 3,52| in society; groups whose opinions have wide acceptability
878 2,33| is going wrong and get an opportunity to remedy it. A careful
879 3,38| for several months, and organized a series of peace-meetings
880 | otherwise
881 1,4 | that clings tenaciously to outmoded equipment and antediluvian
882 1,7 | community, leaving the shoes outside is ridiculous, various forms
883 2,36| religious suffer in our over-enthusiasm for direct involvement. “
884 3,72| collaborate across cultures, to overcome tensions (SL 92), to recognize
885 3,60| some point of view they had overlooked. The less she presses her
886 3,43| preaching and repetition of pacifist platitudes in the early
887 1,5 | among ourselves and take pains to learn the differing norms
888 3,63| make is to lead opposing partners towards a gradual awareness
889 1,2 | Increasingly, in different parts of the world, we are beginning
890 3,43| depth and are touched by the passion they have for their goals
891 3,58| neutral animator(s) may make a passionate appeal for peace, basing
892 3,72| moment to which we clung passionately during those difficult days,
893 2,29| of our school-children, past pupils, clubs, associations,
894 1,7 | 7. In pastoral contexts, we may find that
895 1,5 | hands) in Delhi, and hug and pat on the back in Rome to express
896 2,24| nation takes the downward path. It is one thing being conscientious
897 1,10| colleagues, neighbours, students, patients of another culture. Are
898 1,9 | organization, perception of time, patterns of thought, hierarchy of
899 1,18| community, we become like Paul who made himself all things
900 2,36| IHM, Finding the Treasure, Paulist Press, New York, 2000). ~ ~ ~
901 2,21| merely obeying the law and paying the taxes. To day, no more.
902 3,71| time. In such a case, every peace-agreement is a truce. Hostilities
903 3,52| the people who matter in a peace-dialogue as “socially important people”:
904 3 | 3. Becoming Peace-makers~ ~
905 3,38| and organized a series of peace-meetings at Guwahati, Kokrajhar and
906 3,67| repeated failures in the peace-promoting work itself. ~ ~
907 1,15| successes, in a legalistic, pedantic and distant manner in the
908 1,1 | and experience of other peoples and civilizations. ~ ~
909 | per
910 3,59| assembly as his/her group perceives it, expresses his/her desire
911 1,9 | styles of organization, perception of time, patterns of thought,
912 3,42| set of interests. Thus, perceptions of justice clash. And when
913 1,3 | the view that there is a perfect and universally valid culture,
914 1,18| through the barriers, and personalized the positive values in a
915 3,56| likely that you will easily persuade the key-thinkers of a militant
916 1,2 | in the new millennium. As Peter Drucker warns, “Tomorrow’
917 3,67| Government may be suspicious. Petty-minded officers may be jealous.
918 3,54| society if it was ruled by philosophers. I do not want to discuss
919 3,40| fed for over a century on philosophies of struggle and inspired
920 3,53| those who think, provide a philosophy for action, develop strategies,
921 3,51| techniques that she may have picked up in a recent conflict-management
922 3,74| valley. It is a sunshine that pierces the secret thoughts of every
923 1,7 | various forms sentimental piety mawkish, squatting on the
924 3,59| spokeswoman) from each side places the entire problem before
925 3,56| have such comprehensive plans, those who really come for
926 3,43| and repetition of pacifist platitudes in the early stages of the
927 3,54| boss’ and his confederates. Plato thought that we would have
928 3,69| Democracy’ may mean doing as one pleases, freedom to do injustice,
929 3,73| people beat swords into ploughshares. ~ ~
930 1,4 | frequent inter-actions with poets and thinkers, is always
931 3,68| appearance. Their ears may be poisoned against Christian initiatives.
932 2,25| fondamentali che regolano la politica, l’ambiente, il mercato (
933 2,26| the SL refers to : le politiche giovanili” (SL 39).~ ~
934 2,30| e.g., romanticizing the poor, minorities, or indigenous
935 1,14| strike, or neighbourhood population throws stones at our institution,
936 1,9 | considered criminal, serving pork to Muslim employees will
937 1,11| 11. Carl Jung posited the existence of a Collective
938 2,24| conscientious people into positions of responsibility (both
939 1,18| barriers, and personalized the positive values in a culture, and
940 3,39| materials like booklets, posters, and slogans; but also to
941 1,13| society has moved on to Postmodernity.~ ~
942 1,4 | social transactions: “I poveri, spesso, sono I nostri maestri” (
943 3,46| to convey a message most powerfully, especially to the opponents.~ ~
944 3,70| of local gunmen and World Powers. Wars may be fought for
945 3,39| meetings, campaigns, rallies, prayer-meetings, symbolic actions, signature
946 3,43| in your heart. Excessive preaching and repetition of pacifist
947 1,16| that there are no in-built prejudice in the community against
948 2,33| an educative process and prepare us for greater difficulties
949 1,1 | cultural barriers go up, presenting new challenges and opportunities”:
950 3,50| hostile relationships. If she presents herself as a self-appointed
951 3,60| overlooked. The less she presses her vision, her course of
952 2,28| or of school drop-outs is pressing, or if slum situation is
953 1,4 | understanding of cultures presumes a measure of equality among
954 1,11| Anthropologists will find it easier to presuppose a Cultural Unconscious that
955 3,73| mounts; good sense comes to prevail. There are many ways in
956 2,25| political and economic trends, prevalent ideologies, differing views
957 3,46| interests. Not certainly at the price of having to compromise
958 3,72| 1996 when 400 volunteers (priests, seminarians, sisters, doctors,
959 2,36| At no stage should the primacy of God-quest and the consecrated ‘
960 3,49| themselves excluded from the privileged position of becoming peacemakers,
961 3,69| lot unfair advantages and privileges. ‘Democracy’ may mean doing
962 3,60| suggestions, mostly regarding procedures. Occasionally it may serve
963 2,22| un-civic behaviour and partisan proclivity in exchange for some equally
964 3,64| deadlock they are caught up in. Prodding compromises in the area
965 3,39| campagins, peace clubs, and produce educative materials like
966 3,70| across contradictions between professed intentions and actual conduct.
967 3,63| disturbed. It is far more profitable to draw their attention
968 3,58| Some time also may be very profitably spent at a common gathering
969 3,46| experience is that there is a profound longing for peace even in
970 3,44| 44. But if you are profoundly struck by the magnitude
971 2,27| short of for a successful programme, to another the space required
972 3,69| difficulty as the dialogue progresses. It will seem to her as
973 1,13| critical of tradition and Progressives who recognize the value
974 2,34| involvement is not a personal project, it is community venture.
975 3,64| 64. It is unwise too to prompt specific issues on which
976 1,4 | educative. You speak of “promuovendo interazioni di reciprocita’ (
977 3,65| is wide acceptance of the proposals, the communities may move
978 3,59| to possible difficulties, proposes solutions and alternatives,
979 1,7 | barefoot entry into the church, prostrations, touching of statues, kissing
980 2,26| to take out an educative protest-march on the streets (SL 56).
981 1,4 | wisdom of people expressed in proverbs, song, story and philosophical
982 2,33| 33. Not rarely, Providence sends us a problem to rescue
983 3,72| Silence is strength, prayer provides energies (SL 14,60).~ ~ ~
984 3,51| other is not the best way of proving her neutrality. A commitment
985 2,29| intervenire per creare opinione publica (SL 56). Public pressure
986 2,29| our school-children, past pupils, clubs, associations, societies
987 1,12| clashes can be averted, purposeful dialogue initiated and cordial
988 3,53| hierarchy, the size of their purse, or the number of thugs
989 3,54| not be bewildered by these qualification. Very often the ‘big’ man
990 3,51| anxiety, these are some of the qualities that a peacemaker needs
991 3,51| far more convincing. This quality is far more important than
992 2,35| not want to go into the question of how far the religious
993 1,6 | Too many and too personal questions may be taken, not as our
994 2,27| consistent, our enemy may make a quick-turnaround and support our idea, though
995 1,3 | understanding of cultures has radically changed. There is no more
996 3,52| acceptability among both radicals and moderates, like thinkers,
997 3,52| 52. As battles rage, bringing the right people
998 3,72| to toil tirelessly in the rain and in the heat. The mysticism
999 3,39| peace meetings, campaigns, rallies, prayer-meetings, symbolic
1000 2,21| the country, if bribery is rampant, if ethnic conflicts or