Peace or War

 Take Action

18 January to 28 June 2019

Consultant: Peter M. Southwood (Dr)

Knowledge is power so there is no reason for educated individuals to feel powerless.

Consider the following options:

1. Read my letter of 18 January 2019 to the members of the former Iraq Inquiry Committee and, if you would like more information, my article no. 1.

If anything is unclear, email me at: consultant@directionofconflict.org [max. 100 words]

There is also a postal address on my letterhead.

I cannot promise to answer every communication personally but will endeavour to provide anonymised responses on this website to the most frequent queries or comments.

2. Find out who the head of your nearest University politics or international relations department is – contact details are usually readily available on Uni websites – and write to him or her asking what that department is doing to apply ‘an irenical perspective’ to research into specific conflict areas. [Name one, e.g. Ukraine, if you have a special concern.]

A polite inquiry should draw out a polite and informative response. Academics are there to serve the public benefit. If the reply isn’t clear, or you just need some help in interpreting it, I’ll try to do so upon request. Naturally, I’d be interested to hear about any such responses.

3. Make a very small donation called a ‘peace offering’ to the International Peace Project (IPP), which is an educational charity (reg. no 1101966) based on ‘an irenical perspective’, If sufficient numbers of people contribute, the IPP Trustees will be able to organise ‘Peace Games’ in conflict areas to educate the public in the differing means of securing a state of peace and so avoiding war. See the trial ‘Peace Games’ on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at www.ipp2000.org (scroll to bottom of the Home page for a copy of the IPP Briefing no. 1).

If enough adults were to donate just GB£1.00 per year – and perhaps children might like to help, too – then IPP’s proven success in this activity could be replicated across the world wherever the evil effects of war are felt, especially by children. Change by educational methods is inevitably slow but its beneficial effects are much greater in the long term.