Every human being is a global citizen, in that we all share a fragile planet on which we depend for our livelihoods. Those of us privileged enough to have an education and global connectivity have an unprecedented opportunity to take global responsibility to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems today, such as deeply entrenched conflict. Reducing the level of global conflict is essential if we continue to share this planet, and learning to do so without war or social injustice is a powerful way of taking global responsibility.
Pauline van der Meer Mohr is a social entrepreneur, non-executive director and former Senior Executive Vice President & Head of Human Resources of ABN AMRO Bank.
Questions: One perceives global conflict as Ms. van der Meer-Mohr describes it as war between states. If this is true, how can we as individuals influence how nations interact? Or are there other ways that individuals play a role in global conflict?
2 comments:
The answer lies in a story of a simple seed that grows into a tree bearing fruit, with new seeds growing into trees etc. etc.
Every conflict started with a small seed, being a small simple conflict, and grew into a large even global conflict.
If we grow enough seeds (people) that know and use alternative ways of solving conflicts peacefully and with regard to 'all stakeholder', the woods will overgrow the conflict trees.
Major changes started small.
"As an ook cometh of a litel spyr"
Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1374.
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