Peace; is a treasure hidden deep inside everyone of us. Each one of us can dig it up and solve conflicts at their start. In most conflict cases, there’s a need for a discussion forum; a place where people meet and exchange points of view in order to solve their problems. That place is (should be) the United Nations Organization.
Conflict resolution in the UN takes time … not because of inexperience of the interlocutors, but because every step it’s taken must be carefully measured in order to remain in force for the foreseen future.
Something that kids easily understand … but it seams that the adults fail to see.
“The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”
Dag Hammarskjöld – United Nations Secretary-General – 1954
A major concern of the peacekeeper that is about to be deployed, is to explain to his/her kids that will stay back home, waiting for his/her return, the reason why he/she is deploying to a faraway country. Our kids deserve to know that peace and safety is not something all the children of the World enjoy. Our children will be ever so proud of their hero peacekeepers, that are far, far away, in a distant country, helping other children to be able to play without being hurt by bad people.
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