Global Peacemaking is of prime and timely interest. How do we attain it? If there is to be global peacemaking it must be central to local thinking as well as topmost in regional state and national purpose. This means it is paramount in the thinking, planning and acting.

Peacemaking begins in our homes. Young children need to experience over and over parents and kids working out solutions to large and small situations. Our first exposure to peacemaking is how families handle their differing wants and needs. Kids need to observe peacemaking, not just be preached to. Family coming together over differences prepares the individuals to work at solutions, to listen to, respect and ponder solutions. As children age and advance in school differences become more frequent thus we hope they learn more mature solutions.

It is not necessarily a matter of finding the right solutions quickly although it must be everyone’s aim to find the best answer for the most people. Hopefully individuals will open up to consideration of solutions sometimes different from those previously held. Keeping an open mind seems logical but is not always easy.

Global peacemaking can come only from hours and years of working on what may have started small. It comes from taking hard and sometimes painful looks at all of the world. It doesn’t mean we discard our beliefs just that we recognize and become aware of those of others.