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1001 2,27| present it in a new form. The range of influence we can exert
1002 3,53| to be measured by their rank in the social hierarchy,
1003 3,70| turn cynical, but tries to ransom people from their own inconsistencies.~ ~
1004 2,26| encouragement, environment is being ravaged (SL 36), globalization injures
1005 1,12| and cordial relationships re-established, merely by people learning
1006 2,32| with emotional explosions. Reaching out with a sympathetic and
1007 3,65| realities, they may evoke a good reaction. The participants in the
1008 3,65| balanced and respond to realities, they may evoke a good reaction.
1009 3,47| it would not be true to reality. In the same way, the violent
1010 1,6 | self-awareness. We begin to realize, for example, that, when
1011 2,33| all, our entire mission is realized through the on-going confronting
1012 3,61| not last long. The simple reason is that the solutions you
1013 3,73| fighting may end for many reasons: weapons run short; fighters
1014 1,14| children in a missionary school rebel, or the teaching staff goes
1015 1,16| in the community against receiving injections or giving blood. ~ ~
1016 1,4 | promuovendo interazioni di reciprocita’ (SL 113); and again “un
1017 3,61| But the temptation to win recognition and wide acclaim is so great,
1018 3,43| a position to initiate a reconciliation-dialogue with contending groups unless
1019 3,68| get discouraged from the recurrence of violence. Collective
1020 1,12| 12. You have to redefine the boundaries of your own
1021 1,1 | and distinctiveness with redoubled determination. “As economic
1022 3,69| using the word ‘justice’ to refer to the advantage of his
1023 2,20| 20. We have already referred to the danger of religious
1024 2,26| their initiatives : the SL refers to : le politiche giovanili” (
1025 3,55| fast, but does not always reflect. So, after organizing a
1026 2,25| moment of self-education, reflection and prayer. The entire world
1027 1,3 | within it, and needs to be reformed and healed. ~ ~
1028 3,38| 000 people still remain in refugee camps. The Church leaders
1029 2,21| human rights are denied to refugees or minorities(SL 36), and,
1030 3,68| peacemaker contacted may refuse to put up an appearance.
1031 3,68| high. She need not try to refute every charge and counter
1032 1,2 | dictum is equally true with regard to our evangelical and educative
1033 3,60| some suggestions, mostly regarding procedures. Occasionally
1034 1,4 | economic equality without regimentation, express dissent without
1035 2,25| le leggi fondamentali che regolano la politica, l’ambiente,
1036 3,50| arbitrator, she will be rejected. If she has already earned
1037 3,65| marginalized, she should rejoice, for it is God who is the
1038 3,68| Collective anger may be rekindled if their community is hit
1039 3 | Problems related to Peacemaking~ ~
1040 1,8 | consciousness, life and relationship at another. The manner in
1041 2,20| of religious communities remaining alien bodies within the
1042 2,29| in favour of a course of remedial action, through articles
1043 2,33| and get an opportunity to remedy it. A careful handling of
1044 3,56| dialogue may be persons totally remote from the frontlines. But
1045 2,28| well. If the road must be repaired, if the local health centre
1046 3,67| the press. There may be repeated failures in the peace-promoting
1047 3,43| Excessive preaching and repetition of pacifist platitudes in
1048 2,32| We are, so often, good at reporting and even embellishing an
1049 3,65| the local level, try to reproduce the same atmosphere and
1050 2,27| programme, to another the space required to conduct a strategic meeting,
1051 2,33| Providence sends us a problem to rescue us from another bigger problem.
1052 1,8 | dignified may appear cold and reserved to another. What looks to
1053 3,46| that they were compelled to resort to violence only because
1054 2,28| community can mobilize local resources and energies for the solution
1055 1,8 | appears to one community as respectful and dignified may appear
1056 2,32| problem will yield better results. Half the problem is solved
1057 3,46| the peacemaker wants to retain her credibility, it must
1058 3,69| By ‘peace’ he may mean retaining in serenity a whole lot
1059 3,68| And finally, the truth reveals itself.~ ~
1060 3,68| turning-point for the current to reverse the flow. And finally, the
1061 1,7 | leaving the shoes outside is ridiculous, various forms sentimental
1062 2,35| for security and comfort. Risk-taking is part of religious life (
1063 2,28| of view as well. If the road must be repaired, if the
1064 3,41| peacemaking (Mt 5:9; 5:20; 5:40ff; Rom 12:17-21), while Nietzsche
1065 2,30| form of ‘idolatry’: e.g., romanticizing the poor, minorities, or
1066 1,5 | hug and pat on the back in Rome to express our sentiments
1067 2,32| confident approach to the root causes of the problem will
1068 1,18| seem to manifest greater rootedness in the concepts of justice,
1069 1,13| are on the guard against rootlessness contribute to dialogue.
1070 3,59| the entire matter. A few rounds of separate and common meetings
1071 3,70| be striving to keep the routes of their drug-trade clear.
1072 3,57| not sufficient to send a routine letter of invitation to
1073 3,54| the thinkers that often rule. ~ ~
1074 3,54| ideal society if it was ruled by philosophers. I do not
1075 1,5 | get access to the secret rules and inner working of another
1076 3,68| unexpectedly. Malicious rumours may be deliberately spread.
1077 3,55| injury on the other party, he runs short of ideas, and the
1078 3,61| peacemaker, if she is successful, rushes into the roles of a mediator,
1079 2,20| responsibility. There is a Russian saying, “Each of us are
1080 3,48| tries to target. But often, sadly, that secret door remains
1081 3,40| reconciling skills have sagged. ~ ~
1082 1,18| earliest days. But once we have sailed through the barriers, and
1083 1,18| things to all people for the sake of the Gospel. There are
1084 2,31| address problems and exert a salutary influence even on distant
1085 3,70| democracy on the one hand and salvaging one’s imperial interests
1086 2,36| workers for the cause ( Sandra Schneiders, IHM, Finding
1087 1,17| look closer. Do not be satisfied with finding that a particular
1088 3,70| Wars may be fought for saving democracy on the one hand
1089 2,20| responsibility. There is a Russian saying, “Each of us are responsible
1090 3,48| barred. And the peacemaker says, since I am helpless the
1091 3,55| levels of the hierarchy scattered in the various units.~ ~
1092 2,21| public works fall behind schedule, if trains run late and
1093 2,36| workers for the cause ( Sandra Schneiders, IHM, Finding the Treasure,
1094 2,29| helpful. Parents of our school-children, past pupils, clubs, associations,
1095 3,58| believers) teaching of the scriptures. Depending on the charisma
1096 3,64| and their own agonizing search for a way out of the deadlock
1097 2,22| advantage to their own varied sectarian interests. ~ ~
1098 2,35| some of our eagerness for security and comfort. Risk-taking
1099 3,72| recognize our vulnerability and seek remedies (SL 60, 92), to
1100 3,63| awareness of this great truth. Self evident as it is, if you
1101 3,50| she presents herself as a self-appointed mediator or arbitrator,
1102 1,6 | eyes, a legitimate form of self-assertion may look aggressive. Too
1103 1,8 | another. What looks to one as self-confident and expansive may look to
1104 2,25| entertainment, but a moment of self-education, reflection and prayer.
1105 3,46| that she is not going to sell out the gains they have
1106 3,51| recent conflict-management seminar. A universal outlook, a
1107 3,72| 400 volunteers (priests, seminarians, sisters, doctors, nurses,
1108 3,57| it is not sufficient to send a routine letter of invitation
1109 2,33| Not rarely, Providence sends us a problem to rescue us
1110 1,7 | ridiculous, various forms sentimental piety mawkish, squatting
1111 1,5 | back in Rome to express our sentiments of love and respect. But
1112 3,69| he may mean retaining in serenity a whole lot unfair advantages
1113 3,38| months, and organized a series of peace-meetings at Guwahati,
1114 1,17| space that true dialogue and serious evangelization takes place. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1115 2,23| unprincipled behaviour of civil servants (bureaucrats) whenever they
1116 3,65| peace no matter who all served the cause.~ ~ ~
1117 3,49| ultimately finds the “Open Sesame” formula when she has established
1118 3,55| harmless people and causing severe injury on the other party,
1119 2,35| involved. We may need to shake off some of our eagerness
1120 | shall
1121 1,3 | within which it has taken shape. However, every culture,
1122 1,11| a Collective Unconscious shared by all humankind. Anthropologists
1123 3,63| long distance with them sharing the pain of their people.
1124 1,7 | another community, leaving the shoes outside is ridiculous, various
1125 1,8 | girls, the way they all show respect to a teacher or
1126 1,9 | disastrous. The legitimate way of showing familiarity or respect will
1127 3,48| peacemaker, which they can snap shut any time they feel threatened.
1128 3,42| and that we have to take sides and fight to finish, we
1129 1,8 | not able to read cultural signals, we may take offense quite
1130 1,3 | authentic values that have significance for the rest of humanity,
1131 3,49| community have been around for a significant period of time in beneficent
1132 1,6 | 6. Similarly, only through intelligent
1133 | since
1134 3,72| volunteers (priests, seminarians, sisters, doctors, nurses, youth,
1135 3,52| war hawks will deign to sit for dialogue. They have
1136 3,53| the social hierarchy, the size of their purse, or the number
1137 3,39| like booklets, posters, and slogans; but also to have been closely
1138 1,10| uncooperative, cold or slow. Two systems of Cultural
1139 2,28| drop-outs is pressing, or if slum situation is deteriorating,
1140 2,21| and electricity fails, if slums multiply, if the universities
1141 3,48| peacemaker, which they can snap shut any time they feel
1142 1,3 | valid culture, e.g., the so-called ‘Modern Culture’, to which
1143 3,52| in a peace-dialogue as “socially important people”: people
1144 3,54| illiterate. He may be a humble, soft-spoken person, a stocky and stunted
1145 2,28| resources and energies for the solution of the problem (SL 40).~ ~
1146 2,32| results. Half the problem is solved when one is able to interpret
1147 | someone
1148 | something
1149 | Sometimes
1150 1,4 | people expressed in proverbs, song, story and philosophical
1151 1,4 | transactions: “I poveri, spesso, sono I nostri maestri” (SL 115;
1152 2,24| responsibility for general welfare soon after elections, the nation
1153 1,17| you are able to reach some sort of generally applicable
1154 3,49| always taught non-violence, sought to be fair with all parties
1155 3,43| stages of the dialogue will sound provocative and humiliating
1156 1,8 | decorations, colours and sounds are at one level of a person’
1157 2,36| the struggle, not just a source of committed workers for
1158 2,30| people that one may help; we sow a hundred ideas that one
1159 3,52| like thinkers, writers, speakers and people who stir society
1160 3,74| over the high altar, which speaks of a Presence and whispers
1161 3,49| exaggerated ego-claims, have a special skill for establishing warm-hearted
1162 3,64| is unwise too to prompt specific issues on which a compromise
1163 1,6 | point in discussion, our speech and gesticulations may look
1164 3,58| would be best that they spend some period of time in separate
1165 3,58| also may be very profitably spent at a common gathering of
1166 1,4 | transactions: “I poveri, spesso, sono I nostri maestri” (
1167 3,59| the peacemaking team, one spokesman (spokeswoman) from each
1168 3,59| peacemaking team, one spokesman (spokeswoman) from each side places the
1169 1,7 | sentimental piety mawkish, squatting on the floor demeaning.
1170 1,14| school rebel, or the teaching staff goes on strike, or neighbourhood
1171 3,43| platitudes in the early stages of the dialogue will sound
1172 3,50| the evidence of neutral stands and convincing works, she
1173 2,35| are mistreated, children starve, houses leak, minorities
1174 2,20| nation. In a democratic state, we have a national responsibility;
1175 1,15| l’esigenza di vivere in stato di discernimento” (SL 109;
1176 1,7 | prostrations, touching of statues, kissing and other demonstrative
1177 3,46| even in the heart of the sternest combatant. But peace at
1178 3,66| infinite variety. There may be stiff opposition to the entire
1179 3,52| speakers and people who stir society with their charismatic
1180 3,54| humble, soft-spoken person, a stocky and stunted figure. But
1181 1,14| neighbourhood population throws stones at our institution, it is
1182 1,4 | expressed in proverbs, song, story and philosophical utterances,
1183 2,27| space required to conduct a strategic meeting, to another still
1184 2,26| educative protest-march on the streets (SL 56). Your students can
1185 1,14| the teaching staff goes on strike, or neighbourhood population
1186 2,27| balanced view, and remain strong and consistent, our enemy
1187 3,47| Jung once said that the strongman must somewhere be weak,
1188 3,44| But if you are profoundly struck by the magnitude of their
1189 1,13| economic views. Some are still struggling to come to terms with the
1190 3,54| soft-spoken person, a stocky and stunted figure. But he is a perceptive
1191 3,47| cleaver man must somewhere be stupid…otherwise it would not be
1192 1,9 | food and etiquette; but in styles of organization, perception
1193 3,49| welcome presence in the subconscious of the warrior-group. If
1194 1,5 | develop an awareness of the subtle and unexpressed sensitivities
1195 3,42| to finish, we shall not succeed to become mediators between
1196 3,37| lasted several months. We succeeded to hold peace parleys with
1197 3,49| concerned is the key to her success. Those who have fought hard
1198 2,36| apartness’ of the religious suffer in our over-enthusiasm for
1199 3,66| tremendous capacity to endure suffering. If you want to save the
1200 3,60| 60. I would suggest that during the entire period
1201 3,60| deadlock should she offer some suggestions, mostly regarding procedures.
1202 1,1 | to go beyond fatwas and suicide bombs to solve our problems
1203 3,66| Violence is not broken by superior violence, it is broken by
1204 1,19| cultural genius, you may be surprised to find an amazing response
1205 1,15| of the same country, and surprisingly even by persons of the same
1206 1,14| between ourselves and the surrounding people, and merely keep
1207 3,67| of the Government may be suspicious. Petty-minded officers may
1208 3,73| which God makes people beat swords into ploughshares. ~ ~
1209 3,39| rallies, prayer-meetings, symbolic actions, signature campagins,
1210 2,32| explosions. Reaching out with a sympathetic and reconciling attitude
1211 3,43| unless you have a measure of sympathy for their cause in your
1212 1,10| uncooperative, cold or slow. Two systems of Cultural Unconscious
1213 | taking
1214 3,52| frontline fighters will come to talk. Their skills lie in another
1215 3,59| conclusions. Often such talks fail, and the peacemaker
1216 3,70| the flow of oil into one’s tankers. People who claim to be
1217 3,48| the peacemaker tries to target. But often, sadly, that
1218 3,49| peacemakers, if they have always taught non-violence, sought to
1219 2,21| obeying the law and paying the taxes. To day, no more. By action
1220 1,8 | they all show respect to a teacher or a religious person, will
1221 1,2 | business challenges are less technical than they are cultural”.
1222 3,51| more important than some techniques that she may have picked
1223 1,4 | of those societies whose technology or economy is considered
1224 2,23| behaviour, people seem to tell their representatives occasionally, “
1225 1,4 | even a society that clings tenaciously to outmoded equipment and
1226 1,3 | developed ones are unmistakably tending. Today we recognize that
1227 3,72| across cultures, to overcome tensions (SL 92), to recognize our
1228 3,61| solutions you propose are not theirs. Doing things as though
1229 | then
1230 2,36| justice. Religious Life is a theological and spiritual resource for
1231 3,55| interprets history, constructs a theory, visualizes a future in
1232 3,61| flattering, but the fruits therefrom may not last long. The simple
1233 3,37| villages were burnt, and thousands of people were rendered
1234 3,66| peacemaker may appear a threat to militants committed to
1235 1,10| It can look frightfully threatening. Nothing seems to make sense
1236 1,12| political problems, economic threats, operational deadlocks and
1237 1,2 | differences with skill that will thrive in the new millennium. As
1238 1,14| neighbourhood population throws stones at our institution,
1239 3,53| purse, or the number of thugs they command. The people
1240 3,38| Kokrajhar and Gossaigaon, till the hostilities ceased.
1241 3,72| needed strength to toil tirelessly in the rain and in the heat.
1242 3,72| us the needed strength to toil tirelessly in the rain and
1243 1,5 | etiquette. We make a deep bow in Tokyo, offer a namaste (joined
1244 3,69| freedom to do injustice, or total chaos. Sometimes discussions
1245 3,43| with them at depth and are touched by the passion they have
1246 1,7 | the church, prostrations, touching of statues, kissing and
1247 1,17| not acceptable. Ask why. Trace things to a value in the
1248 3,62| opposing the cause of peace to track her down at every step and
1249 1,1 | other, imposing unequal trade laws and invoking ‘human
1250 2,32| interpreting it. When a tragedy takes place in one of our
1251 3,73| Their accounts read like a tragic waste. But nothing is lost
1252 2,21| fall behind schedule, if trains run late and electricity
1253 1,4 | relationships or social transactions: “I poveri, spesso, sono
1254 1,12| merely by people learning to transcend their culture. ~ ~
1255 1,4 | to the truth and to the transcendent, an enviable sensitivity
1256 1,19| group, and the society was transformed from within and its cultural
1257 1,12| through self-awareness, translate your colleagues’ meaning
1258 2,36| Schneiders, IHM, Finding the Treasure, Paulist Press, New York,
1259 3,66| broken by another power: a tremendous capacity to endure suffering.
1260 3,65| participants in the first trend-setting meeting we have described
1261 2,25| political and economic trends, prevalent ideologies, differing
1262 3,68| But even in the midst of troubles, she should hold her head
1263 3,71| every peace-agreement is a truce. Hostilities may be renewed
1264 3,57| greatly disappointed with the turn- up. ~ ~
1265 3,68| non-resistance may prove a turning-point for the current to reverse
1266 2,25| 99-100). The news-hour (TV) should not be a brief interval
1267 1,18| among an ethnic group for twenty years and yet remain an
1268 1,4 | reciprocita’ (SL 113); and again “un atteggiamento di accoglienza
1269 2,22| have often condoned their un-civic behaviour and partisan proclivity
1270 1,5 | make our way through the unassailable fortress of a closed world,
1271 1,14| to the society around and unawake to various cultural sensitivities.
1272 2,27| can exert on society is unbelievable: to one we may have given
1273 1,8 | unnecessarily or give offense quite unconsciously. What appears to one community
1274 1,10| hostile, unintelligent, uncooperative, cold or slow. Two systems
1275 | under
1276 3,62| is not careful, they can undermine her initiatives long before
1277 3,46| compromise their future; that she understands that they were compelled
1278 1,4 | or economy is considered undeveloped. In fact, even a society
1279 2,23| whenever they could draw some undue benefit in compensation.
1280 1,1 | and on the other, imposing unequal trade laws and invoking ‘
1281 1,1 | occasions for dialogue, and unexpected widening of horizon to the
1282 3,68| their community is hit again unexpectedly. Malicious rumours may be
1283 1,5 | awareness of the subtle and unexpressed sensitivities of different
1284 3,69| in serenity a whole lot unfair advantages and privileges. ‘
1285 2,22| responsibility from them. Unfortunately, citizens have not yet learned
1286 1,10| another culture. Are they unfriendly? Are they unintelligent?
1287 3,67| groups may be critical and unhappy about the influence that
1288 3,55| scattered in the various units.~ ~
1289 3,72| worked for 4 months in hearty unity, the Eucharist in the morning
1290 1,3 | that there is a perfect and universally valid culture, e.g., the
1291 2,21| if slums multiply, if the universities do not function, if there
1292 2,22| make the leaders. We can unmake them. We have the right
1293 1,3 | less developed ones are unmistakably tending. Today we recognize
1294 1,8 | we may take offense quite unnecessarily or give offense quite unconsciously.
1295 3,58| conflicting interests will feel unprepared to meet each other. Even
1296 2,23| corrupt, discriminatory and unprincipled behaviour of civil servants (
1297 1,14| closed in upon themselves, unrelated to the society around and
1298 2,24| wrong people out and exclude unwanted ideologies and interests,
1299 1,13| may be said about people upholding colliding ideologies or
1300 3,68| she should be honest and upright in her intent and ego-less
1301 1,15| they have long remained uprooted from their own society.
1302 1,17| than feel humiliated and upset when you are hurt, look
1303 3,40| has become a central task urgent upon every citizen. We have
1304 3,63| you rush to conclusions urging compromise and quoting adages
1305 | used
1306 2,32| is more important than we usually think (SL 85, 109). We
1307 3,74| every hill and in every valley. It is a sunshine that pierces
1308 3,63| international community. The most valuable contribution the peacemaking
1309 3,66| to face are of infinite variety. There may be stiff opposition
1310 1,9 | consensus expected will vary with traditions. What is
1311 2,34| project, it is community venture. It is the community that
1312 3,58| they are already at the venue, they may feel emotionally
1313 3,52| for dialogue. They have a vested interest in keeping the
1314 3,42| demon and another a helpless victim, and that we have to take
1315 3,63| This is true of a family, a village, a nation or the international
1316 3,37| their lives, hundreds of villages were burnt, and thousands
1317 2,35| there, wherever rights are violated, equality is denied, justice
1318 3,60| The less she presses her vision, her course of action or
1319 1,9 | while organizing work or visiting families will have to be
1320 3,55| history, constructs a theory, visualizes a future in order to sustain
1321 1,15| referring to the “l’esigenza di vivere in stato di discernimento” (
1322 2,36| is very extensive, their vocation is to be a consistent locus
1323 2,24| conscientious about casting your vote to keep the wrong people
1324 3,72| SL 92), to recognize our vulnerability and seek remedies (SL 60,
1325 3,62| can leave you exposed and vulnerable. ~ ~
1326 3,42| that the other side too is waging a war in behalf of fairness
1327 2,33| another bigger problem. We wake up to the fact that something
1328 3,63| on-going conflict. You have to walk a long distance with them
1329 3,46| violence only because they wanted to convey a message most
1330 3,46| image. If the peacemaker wants to retain her credibility,
1331 3,49| special skill for establishing warm-hearted relationships with people,
1332 2,32| G.K.Chesterton used to warn us against the “noble temptation
1333 1,2 | millennium. As Peter Drucker warns, “Tomorrow’s business challenges
1334 3,49| the subconscious of the warrior-group. If she and her community
1335 3,70| gunmen and World Powers. Wars may be fought for saving
1336 1,17| way to keep learning is to watch out for a negative feedback.
1337 1,18| when we are at the cultural wavelength of~a community. We may work
1338 1,1 | interfere in the destinies of weaker nations. We have opportunities
1339 3,73| may end for many reasons: weapons run short; fighters are
1340 3,49| outlook on public issues is well-known. ~ ~
1341 3,65| recommendations. And if these are well-phrased, balanced and respond to
1342 | whenever
1343 | wherever
1344 | whether
1345 1,19| an entire society. They whispered God’s message to the soul
1346 3,74| speaks of a Presence and whispers hope (SL 80). And when His
1347 1,7 | sign of celebration and white a colour of mourning.~ ~
1348 3,59| narrow the differences and widen the areas of consensus may
1349 1,1 | dialogue, and unexpected widening of horizon to the inherited
1350 3,64| themselves are ultimately willing to concede is their gift
1351 3,68| people speak just as they wish for a while. But she should
1352 2,27| her need, and we witness wonders.~ ~
1353 3,69| someone may be using the word ‘justice’ to refer to the
1354 2,36| just a source of committed workers for the cause ( Sandra Schneiders,
1355 1,9 | role in society; diverse worldviews; dissimilar meaning-systems. ~ ~
1356 3,42| They claim that they are wrestling for justice for their own
1357 3,52| moderates, like thinkers, writers, speakers and people who
1358 3,68| victims, interpret the issues wrongly, ignore the peacemaker’s
1359 1,8 | provocative an intruding. Nodding ‘yea’ may mean ‘nay’. ~ ~ ~
1360 1,18| ethnic group for twenty years and yet remain an alien,
1361 2,36| Treasure, Paulist Press, New York, 2000). ~ ~ ~
1362 1,8 | relate with their parents, younger members relate with their