It is your mandate to leave a legacy of peace for posterity. The Peace Manual Summary
Beyond food, clothing and shelter, the desire for every person is to have peace, love and the celebration of oneself and of life. This Peace Manual traces the fundamental issues to peace and shows three items needed for peace, which are:
1. The World Vision of Peace.
2. The Character for Peace.
3. Schooling the Senses for Peace. Often, when disruptive or unprogressive events are happening in the communities we live in, there are calls for restraint or change in attitude which sound as though such calls are in themselves enough to resolve the situation. The world is at war now: civil, ethnic, religious and national tensions and conflict situations are happening all around us and we need peace. To make any meaningful changes, the various calls for peace must be backed by pragmatic tools and actions for creating the inner individual harmony that will generate peaceful relations among people. And, if this translates into a top-of-mind item for civil society organizations and other influential groupings the world over, world peace can be achieved in our lifetime. The Peace manual provides a workable definition of peace with practical exercises we can employ to develop and experience peace individually, at the community level, nationally and globally. The Peace manual is thus a practical Peace Tool Kit. It has three main parts that follow the metaphor of a pregnancy because there is so much we can learn from nature. Part one (1) introduces understanding the concept of Peace as in the conception of peace in our minds. Part Two
(2) delves into embracing the Possibility of Peace as in the expectancy or gestation itself of peace; and Part three (3) demonstrates the practical Peace exercises for developing peace as in the birthing of peace in our lives. Peace is possible in this lifetime; join us make it happen now! In my lifetime, I have seen the cold war dissolved; I have seen the Berlin wall come down; I have seen Apartheid dismantled; I have seen a man of colour in the White House; and I have seen grassroots movements topple governments through social media. In our lifetime, we can together heal segregation redirect civilisation to the celebration of Diversity in Oneness. Brother Ishmael Tetteh
