On waging peace
06/16/2010
Iraqi vet and peace activist Paul Chappell, who heads the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Peace Leadership Training Program, says that waging peace requires just as much training, recruiting, strategic analysis, discipline, and commitment as waging war. It is far from a passive enterprise. Gandhi, too, bristled at the term "passive resistance." He said, "Satyagraha (soul force) proceeds on the active principle of love, which says, 'Love those that spitefully use you.' I find it difficult in spite of my conscious practice of it for the last 50 years."Iraqi vet and peace activist Paul Chappell, who heads the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Peace Leadership Training Program, says that waging peace requires just as much training, recruiting, strategic analysis, discipline, and commitment as waging war. It is far from a passive enterprise. Gandhi, too, bristled at the term "passive resistance." He said, "Satyagraha (soul force) proceeds on the active principle of love, which says, 'Love those that spitefully use you.' I find it difficult in spite of my conscious practice of it for the last 50 years."
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