Peace Goals

My short term goal for creating peace would be just simply be a better person. To not judge people for their appearances, or simply help anyone when I can. For my long term peace goal would be becoming a FBI or CIA agent and help people in need.

A Never Ending Nightmare in Juarez

The struggle in Juarez, a never ending nightmare. The people at Juarez have experiencing lately a civil war between the Mexican government and the drug cartels. Since the political campaign “PAN” won the elections, they have tried to stop the drug cartel. Therefore they started a civil war that is too great to handle. Until one side wins the war there will be no peace for the citizens in Juarez.
Before the political campaign “PAN” won, there was another political campaign “PRI” which had a way to keep everything in control. The political campaign “PRI” would allow the drug cartel to do their business, as long as there were no citizens casualties. This method worked fine, everyone would do their own thing and no one would get hurt. When the political campaign “PAN” won the elections for the first time in eight decades, they changed the whole system “PRI” established. The change in system created chaos among the citizens of Mexico and the drug cartels.
When the political campaign “PAN” obtained power over Mexico, they tried to stop the drug cartels. The drug cartels had set an agreement with the “PRI”, and know that they are not in power they tried to make new agreement with the new government. The drug cartels had offered to pay the Mexican debt, but at the risk of the entire Mexican population the government refuses. The new government made a great mistake by trying to stop the drug cartels.
The drug cartels continued their business ignoring the government warnings. When the police started to actually enforce the law, the drug cartels responded with a series of murders. At first the government were winning the war, but only because they took the drug cartels by surprise. Most of the cartels were small and could not face the entire Mexican government, so the only smart choice was to join forces with other cartels. The cartels in Mexico joined forces with the cartels in Colombia. The Colombian cartel’s have a special way to infiltrate fear to the population in Mexico. The drug cartels in Mexico would just shoot their victims in the head, but they adopted Colombians ways of murdering their victims. By slaughtering them, and leave their headless corpses in a public place so they could leave message. That if someone dares to stop them that they would be next. This message of death is so powerful that the police stopped perusing them.
The drug cartels war had gone to such degree that in a small town in Mexico the chief of the police department dared to face the drug cartels. Know the chief of police is dead, and no one would want to fill its position. Eventually a young brave woman took charge of the police department. Sadly the police department stopped caring their weapons, to show the drug cartels that they would not fight back. Actually this war has helped the cartels to become more powerful, that they are known recruiting their own army to fight against the Mexican government. The cartels had put in the past signs around the city promising a better pay if you joined their army.
The drug cartel had sent strong messages to the Mexican government that they want to stop the war. Sadly the Mexican government has refused all agreements. The Mexican government wants to stop the drug cartels at any cost, they would not settle for less. The drug cartels started to put car bombs all around the city of Juarez, demanding the government to stopped trying to stop them. The drug cartels detonated one car bomb, thankfully there were no casualties. The Mexican government responded to the cartels, that they could detonate all the car bombs they wanted but this incident would not stop the Mexican government from pursuing them.
The situation in Juarez is getting worst by the day, and the Mexican government is to proud admit failure. The Mexican government needs to go back to the agreement the drug cartels made whit the political campaign “PRI”. The Mexican government has to stop their foolish dream of defeating the drug cartels, because the only thing they have achieved is a civil war. Until the Mexican government realizes that like them the drug cartels will never stop until one becomes victorious, the citizens in Juarez will never live in peace.

Juarez

The situation in Juarez is pretty sad; people can’t even throw a birthday party to their kids without worrying that someone is going to kill everyone. The killing in Juarez has gone to such degree that everyone in Juarez is afraid to go out of their houses. The cities around Juarez don’t even plan to go near Juarez anytime soon. The situation has gone really bad that everyone had to sell their nice cars and buy a junk car that no one is even going to pay attention to them. Every one right know is afraid of the drug cartels and no one can do anything about it.

Creativity for Peace

The struggle between Israel and Palestine has affected most of their youth by making them hate an entire society without an explanation. Israel and Palestine are in an ongoing dispute to decide a mutual recognition, borders, security, water rights, control of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, Palestinian freedom of movement and legalities concerning refugees. This dispute has brought war to both countries, and brought many casualties. The children of both countries have a mutual hate to each other, but they don’t really know why. The fathers of these children are indulging hate to their children’s by telling them that the opposing country is the different to them, an enemy. That other country has to convert in their country way of life.
The center of Creativity for Peace is reaching these children to make them realize that there is no difference between each other, that there’s no reason to have this mayor struggle between two nations. Also the center helps them “reduce prejudice and heal the trauma of war”. The center of Creativity for Peace wants to create the next generation of female leader that will bring peace to Israel and Palestine. This center is flying Jewish and Zionist Yishuv girls to a summer peace camp in New Mexico. In the camp they put a one Jewish girl and a Palestinian girl in one room, so that if they want to have a good time they have to learn how to coexist with each other. In the peace camp the girls have a variety of activities to make them collaborate with each other. These activities help them develop trust, compassion, and increased self-esteem. It also helps them expand their point of view by releasing their anger, fear, pain and “break down old beliefs through deep listening and compassionate speaking”. The peace camp has a full staff that is composed of facilitators, professional counselors, art therapists, and professional artists.
“The center of Creativity for Peace has had seven successful summers of camp with 146 girls participating and has evolved into a year-long program in which friendships thrive as participants create new relationships that cross religious and cultural boundaries”. In the three week summer camp the girls learn leadership and communication skills and promote understanding, trust and reconciliation. “Upon their return home, the girls continue to strengthen coexistence through regularly organized meetings, email, and telephone conferencing”.
The center of Creativity for peace is a non-profit organization and therefore they are helped exclusively from contributions by individuals, family and community foundations, and businesses.” In 2009, foundations constituted 73 percent, individuals 23 percent, and corporations 2 percent of their income”. The center of creativity for Peace requires donations in order to exist the encourage people to help the program in any way possible, by donating, promoting the program, or by becoming a volunteer.
The center of Creativity for Peace website has plenty of helpful information for everyone. In the website you would find how to donate, how to become a volunteer, how to enroll in the program among other helpful things

Building peace

This documentary is about a guy that goes to hiking trip with his friends in Pakistan. In the trips a snow storm separates him from the group. The person from a nearby village rescues him and cures his injuries. He notices that the Pakistani an kids want to have an education. He promises them that he would come back and make a school for them. After some time he returns and helps them by building a school.

“An enemy is a person whose story we have not heard” by Gene Knudson Huffman

This quote means that since we don’t know somebody else intentions we probably assume that he is doing something that is going to affects us. If we take the time to hear someone else story we would stop seeing the as enemies. Sometimes you would get hurt by strangers and immediately you would see them as a enemy. Most of the cases when this happens and someone takes the time to hear their enemy story they understand their reason and not see them as an enemy anymore.