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, & national laws.
But the World Peace Force would prevent genocide
and keep all conflicts between nations non-violent.
OUTLINE:
1.
HOW OUR CYBER-SEMINAR IS ORGANIZED
2.
SCHEDULE OF DISCUSSIONS
3.
JOIN THE FACEBOOK PAGE CALLED "CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE".
4.
THE FUTURE
5.
MORE ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
1. HOW OUR CYBER-SEMINAR IS
ORGANIZED
This exploration of the possibility of creating a
World Peace Force
takes place by means of a special e-mailing list
of the Experimental Educational Community of the Twin Cities
and our Facebook Page called "CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE".
Each month a new subject is summarized
on both the EXCO e-mailing list for this class
and on the Wall of our Facebook Page.
The complete essay on the Internet is linked from
both of these places.
Readers who have some further thoughts on the subject for that month
are invited to share their questions or comments on the Facebook Wall.
Sometimes these written comments from participants in this
seminar
cause the original author to revise and/or expand the original essay.
And further discussion is invited on the Facebook
Wall
The monthly discussion themes are also linked
below.
Each month's Internet essay can be downloaded and
printed out
if participants have printeres connected to their computers.
Each presentation is about 10 KB in length,
which is 3 or 4 pages if printed out.
Depending on what happens in the first year of this
Internet seminar,
additional themes can be added to this list.
And new authors will also be welcome.
3. JOIN THE FACEBOOK PAGE
CALLED "CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE".
To join this Facebook Page, you first must join
Facebook. (If you
are already on Facebook, you can skip the rest of this paragraph.)
This is completely free of charge.
Go to the Facebook website: http://www.facebook.com.
Enter your preferred e-mail address.
Create a password. (These
can be remembered in your computer
so that your access opens automatic whenever you go to
Facebook.)
These two items (e-mail address and password)
are all you need to join Facebook.
But you can also add a picture of yourself
and lots of other things to your Facebook profile at your leisure.
Once you are registered with Facebook, search for
this Page:
"CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE".
Click the 'like' button.
Then you can respond to each monthly theme as it
happens.
Those who do not wish to join Facebook
can still participate by reading the essays above as they are revised
each month
and sending their thoughts to the author by e-mail:
James Park: parkx032@umn.edu.
And those who wish to receive monthly e-mail
reminders of these themes
can join the EXCO e-mailing list for this world-wide electronic
discussion group.
Go to the EXCO website: http://www.excotc.org
and clicking to join this class: Creating a World Peace Force.
4. THE FUTURE
Who knows what might emerge from this on-line
seminar?
Do you want to meet 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?
5. MORE ABOUT THE
FACILITATOR
James Leonard Park is an independent
existential philosopher
and advocate of world peace.
He is the author of the first 13 Internet essays
discussed in this
cyber-seminar. See the specific
titles above.
During his long career in face-to-face 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 interest in adult education: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/JP-AL-ED.html