Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I've never understood why we're so proud of our ability to go to war - why? Galloping in, tearing things down takes little skill, less awareness, and achieves nothing. Just look at a one year old knocking over a tower of blocks or a child kicking over a sandcastle.

"The ability to build & maintain peace - bearing in mind that peace is an active thing, so very much more than an absence of war - now that is a true craft, one requiring myriad skills and full consciousness. From the Proto-Indo-European 'pak' - to stick, to fasten, to place - related to the Latin 'paciscor' - to agree, to stipulate - peace echoes of building solid foundations for stable, healthy societies that make war an improbability, hopefully obsolete. Now THAT would be something to be proud of."

-- Irim Sarwar, 2016-03-07