50 Mutually Supportive Ways to End War

Ways to end the barbarism and depravity of those engaged in the killing fields.

Both sides in a war live in the perpetual delusion that annihilation of the enemy in the battlefields, in their homes, schools, hospitals and places of worship will stop their rage against them.

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. Voluntary Service.

May all beings live conscious lives

May all beings develop alternatives to war

May all beings live in peace.