50 Mutually Supportive Ways to End War

Hatred does not cease with hatred. Hatred incites more hatred. The dark, traumatised minds of both sides engage in the plotting of revenge. Emotionally charged or unemotional and cold, both personas desire the infliction of mass suffering to secure their objectives.

This mindset is a pathology far more serious, far more dangerous than the current narrow boundaries/definitions of mental sickness.

The medical profession, the experts in mental health have let us down.

Their is a refusal in society to define the violence of the state and the violence of the organisation as confirmation of deeply rooted unresolved mental health problems.

In a civilised society, the proponents of war, who support one side to slaughter the other, would require the skills of experts in psychiatry, psychology, mindfulness, meditation, counselling, spiritual/religious/secular practices and intensive support to bring an end to their collective desire to make others suffer.

Sadly, we live with the absurd belief we have evolved when every war, every act of violence, confirms this most primitive of behaviour governs much of life on Earth.

We consider ourselves civilised and that view itself forms into such an identity that the ‘civilised’ world gets used as a weapon to denigrate and destroy the ‘other.’

A List of 50 Mutually Supportive Ways to end Wars.

What ways can you give support to resolution of conflict?

1. Aid/Reconstruction
2. Analysis/critiques of state of mind of political/military leaders and others who sanction death and destruction.
3. Application of the Arts
4. Arms control
5. Banning banking from countries engaged in war
6. Banning imports from countries engaged in war
7. Banning export of weapons
8. Blockades
9. Blocking streets, motorways, public buildings
10. BDS. Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions
11. Civil Disobedience on a massive scale or modest scale
12. Comedy, skits, poking fund
13. Conciliation
14. Conferences
15. Constructive exports
16. Creativity
17. Critiques of war
18. Demonstrations/Marches/Street Protests
19. Diplomacy/Dialogue
20. Disarmament
21. Economic Sanctions
22. Education in ethics, empathy, non-violence in schools, workplace and institutions
23. Ending participation in major sporting events
24. Ending arm sales, international and national
25. Excommunication
26. Graffiti
27. Grass roots movements
28. International Courts
29. International cooperation to resolve conflict
30. Mass Petitions
31. Meditation/Prayer/vigils/pilgrimages
32. Mock Funerals
33. Name and shame of those who invest in war
34. Parades. Gatherings. Concerts
35. Pilgrimages
36. Private Meetings between representatives of both sides
37. Prosecution
38. Protests/sit-down/non-compliance
39. Prohibiting loans
40. Public Talks
41. Religious meetings, vigils, meditation in public
42. Resistance to military call-up/conscription
43. Non-violent training
44. Resistance
45. Sanctions on the rich/powerful who gain from war
46. Social Media
47. Street Music. Poetry, Theatre, Dance, Costumes
48. Strikes
49. Tax. Refusal to pay
50. UN Resolutions.

May all beings live conscious lives

May all beings develop alternatives to war

May all beings live in peace.