[sim7c00]

Irenology is something i'd hope more people take a keen interest in. It's a relatively new paradigm in peace studies which reflects exactly what the problem is, and how to build towards solving it.

I'd recommend anyone working in this space to reflect on the concept of imperfect peace, and stop trying to get to utopian peace. Unlike computers, perfect solutions rarely exist in social sciences. This should not undermine efforts to work towards improvements though.

There are many ways to 'build peace' and we can all be peacebuilders in our personal lives, to reach a better state for everyone on this planet. You don't need to do any big things. If you do, that's great, but each little step helps.

Personally, I try to encourage this type of thought in those around me, and make them reflect on their actions and how they work towards more peace, or more violence, so they might adjust their beliefs and actions towards more peace (this is really difficult!). Also, my wife studies peace and works there, so I try to support her in any way I can to help increase her agency in this sphere.

No one can solve all problems, but everyone together can easily do it. Rather than telling people who are stressed out about these big issues to 'care less' or say 'fuck it' like some books and people recommend, I hope someday everyone cares even a little more, so the ones who do care aren't so burdened and cursed by their caring.

Peace lives within all of us, and it's time to let it out!

[sim7c00]

If you want to know what peace is - it is no longer defined as simply the absence of war or the 3 types of violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace - it is very interesting to realize that peace itself is a thing, not the lack of another thing.

If we take away violence, but do not build peace or learn how to build peace, the void left will just fill again with new violence. Hence it's important for everyone to learn to build peace, so when violence is taken away, we can fill the gaps with peace.

The issues described by OP are results of types of violence inherent in our systems. - this post is not about the current wars but the OPs stated issues - despite the wars also fitting in this category when abstracting like this.

[hprotagonist]

> it is very interesting to realize that peace itself is a thing, not the lack of another thing.

[from] a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

letter from a birmingham jail

[mdgrech23]

There's plenty of people on this sub who call themselves problem solvers. They ra ra another billion dollar rocket launch while people 5 miles away from the launch are living in their car and their kids are hungry. Why is no one solving those problems?

[sim7c00]

A lack of critical thought which causes our society to become more unequal and impoverished. People want billions not understanding (even while this was known thousands of years ago already) that having billions makes other people have nothing.

As it's already been known for such a long period of time, it might be easy to say it's on purpose, simply 'greed', but rather I think most people are simply unaware and easily distracted.

It's much simpler to chose negativity over positivity, violence over peace etc. - and so also when thinking about these topics and the 'why' one should be careful not to fall into negative thought. It's often the easy conclusion, not always the correct one.

I hope by personal agency people can slowly change this. It's a very slow process though due to various factors.

1. information wasn't always so available to people, so it's been really slow going getting good information to everyone. This is now somewhat solved, though its still hard to sift through the pile of information at peoples disposal to the good information.

2. Most behavioral patterns in humans are learned in year 0-5 of their lives, especially emotional patterns. And despite what most people believe of themselves, their emotions basically rules their behavior (it makes sense, as it's the larger part of what exists.). Due to this, as people between 0-5 are unaware of the importance of their learning, and the patterns that get conditioned onto them, there is a slow progress from generation to generation that can make improvements to this cycle of 'bad behavior'. it's hard to watch, but really the better future is for our kid's kids. "Rome wasn't built in a day".

[ellyagg]

Launching a billion dollar rocket is far easier to solve than the problems you're listing.

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“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”

John von Neumann