If people want world peace, then why don't they do something about it?

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Answer 1

Short answer: Because people think in terms of "they" instead of "we" as how your own question was stated. When the question becomes "why don't WE do more about it" we will answer our own question.

Long answer:
We don't see enough role models for reconciling and resolving problem relationships, as there are for badmouthing and discrediting and blaming opponents, making someone else the bad guy. We live in a society and culture that profits from conflict, war, betrayal and bad behavior. War makes more money than peace, running prisons that perpetuate crime makes more money than running schools that help prevent it, even cancer and sickness make more money than preventing disease. We would have to change our value systems to stop patronizing industries profiting off problems instead of solutions.

So don't believe the hype and buy into the helpless victim mentality. We can do something. People struggle every day to make peace with themselves and others, in personal relationships, which is the greatest and only contribution to world peace that we can control as individuals -- how we treat people and relationships in our own lives. This collectively becomes what we see in global politics, where we do not have as direct influence. So as Buckminster Fuller says, we need to think globally but act locally.

Peacemaking and mediation are most effectively done in private, person-to-person behind the scenes. So that's why we don't see the process portrayed in the public media which is used for bashing, inciting division and controversy for ratings.

People are conditioned to think "other people" have all the power, so we tend to focus outside ourselves instead of on relationships where we can make peace. That takes as much effort as the diplomacy in the Middle East, yet we do not place equal value on what we do as any other leaders in the world.

Please see http://www.houstonprogressive.org/believe/worldpeace.html about ending war by forgiving those we hate the most, which is the hardest step but the surest way to make a real difference.

People are naturally self-focused and tend to project personal issues on to others, while criticizing the same bias in others. By interacting with others, however, we can recognize our own flaws that others see clearly from their viewpoint. This mutual process is part of the learning curve. We need to forgive this tendency and use constructive criticism to our benefit, to help one another to troubleshoot and improve ourselves and situations, not to discredit and divide further.

When we can see beyond our differences, and stop the mental separation between "them" and "us" that is 98% of the battle. The other 98% is applying that teamwork to actually solve the problems created while we were fighting each other.

I believe peace is not only possible, but inevitable, as the human conscience will not stop searching and striving to achieve spiritual satisfaction and to end suffering and conflict. As we learn to see that all people struggle the same way, to fight the same battles, we can better help each other to succeed.

http://www.houstonprogressive.org/believe/believe.html

Answer 2

People do do things about world peace. Not enough people try. Do you want world peace? start getting smart and learn how to do speeches. It takes complete dedication but i wouldn't doubt it that anyone could start an agency for world peace. There are hundreds of them every where.

Answer 3

There is more money in war than peace. The lives lost are called acceptable instead of murder. The economies thrive on production of weapons while the average person fails to understand wars impact.

Answer 4

Because they are cowards, waiting for others to act on their behalf.... much like the democratic party of the US.

Answer 5

Peace is not war - as some on the right have suggested. Peace is absence of war.

Answer 6

Ok, you step up to the plate and lets see what you do.

Answer 7

There never will be........EVER.....There is only the strong, and the weak, which would we rather be?

Answer 8

it's easier said the done...

Answer 9

i eat nasty bugs, and change my self when im poopy

Answer 10

Okay, thanks. Probably need to start in our inner cities.