Peace 101

History

The history of peace goes to the beginning of time. Peace has won out at critical stages. But those who would have it diminished in effect would rather show that violence has always been more successful.

But violence cannot succeed without peace since all violence is justified as an effort toward peace. Violence in an of itself is cyclic and of no logical use to anyone. Killing without stop, will result in decimation and extinction. So the violence itself rests on the concept of peace that it opposes. peace however can thrive without violence.

There are many ways that peace services and even overcomes violence. To gain a perspective of the history of peace study the following incidents in relation to their essentiality to modern life.

• AD 33 Jesus as Prince of Peace

• 1215 Magna Carta No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, . . . or in any other way destroyed . . . except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice.

• 1949 The Geneva Convention

• 1940's Gandhi and Nonviolence
• 1960's King and the Civil Rights Movement
• 1990'a Mandela opposing Apartheid

Moses Mohammed Buddha Joan of Arc

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