I just interviewed Christopher Le Breton, who as the co-manager of The Peace Foundation, I wanted to know if peace is actually possible, especially with
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What he told me below shows that a small country like Nuclear Free New Zealand could be pivotal in world events.<\/strong> This may be one of New Zealand\u2019s greatest social and mindful exports of the 21st century. Nuclear Free New Zealand could again become the moral compass \u201cThe Peace Foundation<\/a>\u201d was established in That in 1987, it helped bring about \u2018Nuclear Free New Zealand\u2019 in partnership with citizen groups around NZ all coming together. This awoke NZ and then That in 2008, it managed to initiate a \u2018chair\u2019 of Peace Studies at Otago University in Dunedin. As a result it has become a leading centre of Peace studies On the 8th of June 2012 was a main player in inaugurating Auckland as a \u2018World Peace City.\u2019 <\/p>\n And over the last 20 years has been facilitating and teaching children in schools about \u2018peer mediation\u2019 and \u2018conflict resolution\u2019 in the \u2018Cool Schools<\/a>\u2019 program. With children been taught how to mediate disputes for This interview covers many avenues as to how The Peace Foundation can teach skills and methods to bring about peace in the classroom, playing fields and Showing too, that NZ could be a major global innovator to restore world peace, by embedding the Cool Schools program beyond the 2,000 schools that presently This may be one of NZ\u2019s \u2018 greatest social and mindful exports' of the 21st century. That Nuclear Free NZ could again become the moral compass for a planet of peace and a totally new paradigm.<\/strong> Once this simple method of understanding is laid out - so that both parties comprehend how the situation started - that when through a simple process is Where in our day in the 1950\u2019s, 60s,& 70\u2019 Chris (and myself) were never taught this at school, which fortunately, in the last 20 years has been introduced Naturally, the enthusiasm is to have NZ become a world leader in Peace-Making - having it languaged from the 'top of the Government apparatus being imperative\u2019 The interview covers indigenous wisdom - that comes from the Aotearoan Maori Kaitiakitanga meaning guardianship and protection. That Kaitiaki means we At present, many countries are looking to NZ to find a \u2018new model\u2019 of how to live in community and as a country, because the current fragmenting neo-liberal Two great Maori leaders, Te Whiti o Rongomai and his uncle Tohu of Parihaka who living on the seaward slopes of Mt Taranaki here in NZ are seen as a non-violent, From a standpoint of The Peace Foundation, of bringing goodwill and harmony to our daily lives, the importance of Peer Mediation in schools is a win win With the possibility now to teach Leadership through Peer Mediation stats show that classroom learning improves - with higher grades, classroom behaviour The Cool schools program is a superb NZ first and need encouragement at all levels of civil society. <\/p>\n At present, The Peace Foundation has a Crowdfunding campaign<\/a> to take Peer Mediation into 160 NZ schools and then to the whole country. This would also include an understanding of Kaupapa Maori (a principle or That when New Zealanders \u2018kiwi\u2019 go for their OE (Overseas Experience) they be \u2018Peace Ambassadors\u2019 as they will be totally skilled and equipped to solve By doing this in such an honourable way, it will increase the knowing that what is being taught in NZ schools is a major gift and asset to peaceful coexistence The fact that the NZ government used to have a Minister of Disarmament - that was initiated by the Labour Government, speaks volumes of the past, but in However, it all comes back to the core of our being - that we need to live in harmony with our inner selves - as an extension of global family. That David Lange the NZ Labour Prime Minister in 1987 wanted a Nuclear Free planet, but could not export this ideal, because our food exports were left One big question for the MSM - Main Stream Media - why do they relegate \u2018Peace & Love\u2019 as being basically \u2018dirty\u2019 or even obscene words when in fact Listen to this very passionate interview with high ideals, that will inspire those who want to be the change in the world we want to see.
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\n for a planet of peace and a totally new paradigm. <\/p>\nThe Peace Foundation
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\n Auckland NZ 1975, with the vision of building peaceful local, national and global communities.
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\n the world woke up to NZ.
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\n themselves.
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\n community all the way to national and global situations.
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\n teach it to the rest of NZ\u2019s schools and then exporting it with fully trained \u2018 NZ Emissaries and Ambassadors\u2019 to visit other countries, live alongside
\n them and show them these easy to learn skills of peer mediation.
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\n understood and cleared - they let out a collective aha. In that moment of Yes! It changes - from what happened to what is possible - they end up high
\n 5 - ing or fist bumps or shaking hands - hugs, - then on their way.
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\n to over 2000 schools across NZ.
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\n and also up from the grassroots too. Bearing in mind we have to make peace with ourselves first. <\/p>\nIndigenous Wisdom
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\n are all guardians - and that we draw on the best of indigenous wisdom that maori have known for centuries.
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\n economic system is not working.
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\n peaceful model and way of living and being. That there is anecdotal evidence that they inspired both Gandhi, as well as Martin Luther King. So this
\n is a very compelling story from the heart of NZ. That in the 1880\u2019s government troops invaded and destroyed their pa and marae, (group living area)
\n arresting hundreds of maori and destroying and dispersing the whole village.
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\n win situation for all concerned. The result being, there are less problems in classrooms and in the playground - teens get on better - warmer relationships,
\n less family violence in the home that ends up later in life with fewer divorces - and a calmer more coherent neighbourhood.
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\n improves, plus more tolerance becomes evident as well.
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\n policy) and then upon the success of this project take this overseas to other countries and spread not only to the world but bring about peace in all
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\n areas of dispute and \u2018reconcile opposing points' of view.
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\n especially in a world that is crying out for peace and goodwill.
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\n 2012, the present National Government axed this bold intuitive.
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\n sitting on overseas docks, especially in France and not moving. So to keep our farmers financial, our PM had to rescind the desire to export this noble
\n ideal. NZ was blackmailed!
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\n they most probably are the highest words in the human lexicon?
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