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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9612183.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %PEACEMAKERS GIFTS ACCEPT SECURITY FREEDOM SAFELY+961218 %VULNERABLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION TRANSCEND VIOLENCE 961218 When we hear the call to be peacemakers we need to seek common understandings of what makes for peace, security, serenity, tranquility and the transcendence of violence. Praying for a successful war makes the enemy feel insecure and usually leads to war. Preparing for war is a clear sign of distrust and of the beliefs that security can be achieved by threats and counter threats. Such beliefs makes sense only if security is perceived in terms of the elimination of vulnerability. Yet true security entails the freedom to be safely vulnerable. Preparing for war is a clear sign of being confused about and/or dishonest about the nature of true security. Dishonest people are not to be trusted without caution. Dishonest people are usually defensive because they need to be perpetually hiding their ways of being dishonest. Defensive people thus make other people feel insecure and so themselves prone to be defensive. Defensive paradigms augment themselves in disintegrative ways which justify themselves. The threats of war, violence, terrorism and their related plagues can be transcended only as people develop common understandings of the nature of true security and what makes for peace---so that they may cooperatively become peace makers in terms of such a common understanding. Such understandings can also augment themselves as people cooperate to resolve conflicts --- to the mutual advantage of all who are involved. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================