{"id":9105,"date":"2011-07-08T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2011-07-08T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T16:34:27","slug":"hawaii-island-a-global-center-for-peace-justice-and-conflict-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9105","title":{"rendered":"Hawai`i Island: A Global Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawai\u02bbi Island artist and activist Tomas Belsky writes in “Hawai`i Island: A Global Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict Resolution”<\/a> that the magnificent Moku o Keawe can become a global center for peace and justice rather than a one-stop shop for military training, as Governor Abercrombie proposes:<\/p>\n

I have always\u00a0envisioned Hawaii as the best place on Earth to be dedicated to a world free of war, violence,\u00a0and environmental degradation. We owe it to ourselves, our future, the world and especially to the host culture to create that Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict Resolution<\/a>. The late Senator and war hero, Spark Matsunaga<\/a>, envisioned and proposed the establishment of such a Department of Peace for the Federal Government. This is a most noble and necessary dream for today\u2019s tortured world, and it may be human kinds very last chance to turn our scientific, technical know-how into our own salvation.<\/p>\n

My dreams are unfettered by fickle realism, as an Artists\u2019 must be; if you can\u2019t dream it, you can\u2019t build it. And it surely will not build itself.<\/p>\n

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  1. Instead of a massive military expansion on Moku O Keawe (Hawaii Island), we build the International Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict resolution<\/a> as envisioned by Senator Matsunaga.<\/li>\n
  2. There be constructed, here, a permanent home for the Olympic Games \u2014 as the Greeks did for their classical city states.<\/li>\n
  3. We incorporate the Majesty of Mauna Kea<\/a> into the Cosmic Center of Celestial Studies without denigrating the sanctity of the Mountain as held by Native Hawaiians.<\/li>\n
  4. We dedicate Hawai\u2019i Island as a center of Global importance for the development of education and the Arts \u2014 All the Arts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With this vision there would be a carefully planned economic growth and advancement in our status as a\u00a0civilization , bringing honor, respect , and celestial blessing upon these Islands of Aloha. We would be welcoming in the Universal AGE of PONO for all the world to enjoy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hawai\u02bbi Island artist and activist Tomas Belsky writes in “Hawai`i Island: A Global Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict Resolution” that the magnificent Moku o Keawe can become a global center for peace and justice rather than a one-stop shop for military training, as Governor Abercrombie proposes: I have always\u00a0envisioned Hawaii as the best place … <\/p>\n

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