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		<title>Quo vadis Moldova after repeated parliamentary election?</title>
		<link>http://politicus.blogmoldova.com/2009/08/21/quo-vadis-moldova-after-repeated-parliamentary-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viorica Antonov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Moldova is a fragile nation with a quasi-democratic political system. Under umbrella of democracy, the political system is still facing challenges of communism, quasi-democracy and illusion of choice. The crucial events of April 2009, followed as a protest against the fraudulent election in which communists won, attested that the instruments of human rights and principle of tolerance were forbidden by the communist authorities, changing definitely the modern history of Moldova. The new general elections on July 29, 2009 won the pro-Western political parties, building an Alliance for European Integration. However, the Alliance does not hold enough seats in parliament to protect the support for candidature of president. The new Moldova`s Alliance government has to determine the priorities of both domestic and foreign policies. The foreign policy suffers from the same dilemma of identity crisis unable to define “quo vadis Moldova – Moscow or Brussels?” There is any irony here. Moldova with communist party or European Alliance under rule could not avoid its geographical priorities and geopolitical defense consisted of historical status of European nation within Slavic milieu. If these both important facts could build the treatment of both domestic and foreign policies since independence and would extend within national strategies, plans and programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of these discernments, Moldova certainly could have other files of modern history.]]></description>
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		<title>I am back</title>
		<link>http://politicus.blogmoldova.com/2009/08/20/i-am-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viorica Antonov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I am back&#8230;after being offline less than 1Year. This year was devoted to my travels, and what I learned while travelling I would like to write about. Lots of stuff I have to do. Since I left my blog, nothing was so important as to return to it, even I must admit I did not [...]</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Fiind în Austria am descoperit muzica Africii</title>
		<link>http://politicus.blogmoldova.com/2008/09/08/fiind-in-austria-am-descoperit-muzica-africii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viorica Antonov</dc:creator>
		
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<font face="Verdana"><img height="305" src="http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1607117-A_Nigerian_Woman-Nigeria.jpg" width="357" align="right" />Fiind de multă vreme în Austria, nu am încetat să descoper multe lucruri noi pentru mine. Locuri pitoreşti, oameni primitori, muzică deosebită, mîncare delicioasă, glume haioase şi nu doar. Fiind într-un colectiv internaţional, nu a fost marea mea mirare când în loc de muzică austriacă, despre care voi vorbi cu alt prilej, voi auzi cu totul alta şi nu mai puţin melodioasă cum ar fi cea africană.<br />
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De ce? Probabil nu doar pentru că este la modă şi austriecilor le pace exoticul dar şi mie la fel ci şi pentru că o treime din studenţii universităţii sunt din ţările africane. Respectiv, avem un bun prilej de a cunoaşte cultura Africii, care este atât de variată, care nu se limitează la numărul ţărilor din Africa ci la mulţimea triburilor situate pe ţărmul continentului african. De-a lungul timpului aflându-mă în Austria, am început să cunosc câte ceva din muzica acestui continent. Nu sunt mare şi tare la acest capitol. Ceea ce îmi place mie este stilul natural al muzicii din Nigeria. Poţi auzi acordurile a mai multor instrumente naţionale şi vocile sunt magnifice. Ceea ce ascult la moment este formaţia Infinity. Formaţia este cunoscută foarte bine în Nigeria. În special recomand piesa</font> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOUQAzQlpDI" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Olori Oko</font></a><font face="Verdana">. Videoclipul este foarte impunător. Cred că merită de văzut. Şi alta care îmi place este</font> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaJnhOALcYA&#38;feature=related" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Aye Ole</font></a><font face="Verdana">, videoclipul căreia este plin de culori vii la început şi vezi profunzimea spirituală a Nigeriei şi natura umană percepută de acest grup muzical.&#160;<br />
Un alt segment al muzicii Africane pe care vreau să-l menţionez este muzica din Uganda. Ceea ce imi place mie este</font> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL90erCEIto&#38;feature=related" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Juliana</font></a><font face="Verdana">. O tănără interpretă care foloseşte African soul. Muzica din Uganda îmi place prin faptul că aduce cu ea&#160;sunetul valurilor de pe plajele Coastei de&#160;West al ţării şi ritmul sălbatic al dansului vânătorilor din centrul ţării. Ceva se poate auzi şi vedea</font> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_HbO6_vPhc" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">aici</font></a><font face="Verdana">. De asemenea nu aşi putea să omit pe cei care se numesc</font> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItlJusSRqtE" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Afrigo Band</font></a><font face="Verdana">, cea mai bună trupă a ţării, aşa cum îmi spun prietenii din Uganda. Un lucru deosebit şi minunat mi se pare compresiunea stilului salsa cu cel rumba de către Afrigo Band. Poţi vedea</font> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpTvoCgPD2Q&#38;feature=related" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">aici</font></a><font face="Verdana">.</font></p>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Verdana">Ceva interesant reprezintă stilul muzicii din</font> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq9RBtHSLYI&#38;feature=related" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Tanzania</font></a><font face="Verdana">, care nu prea m-a impresionat, nu mi se pare melodioasă muzica, poate fiind tipică latină firea mea. Însă ce aşi vrea să vizitez în această ţară e</font> <a href="http://www.serengeti.org/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Parcul Naţional Serengeti</font></a><font face="Verdana">. Parcul acoperă 14,763 km de cămpii, savană, răuri şi păduri. Parcul este situat în partea de nord a ţării şi găzduieşte peste 3 milioane de animale de tot felul întâlnite pe continentul african. Locaţiile umane sunt strict interzise pe teritoriul parcului pentru a evita accidentele mortale. Un loc cu adevărat fieric, un paradis dar şi foarte periculos pentru om, dacă nu se respectă regulile de protecţie.<br />
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În Uganda există un loc foarte verde şi bogat în lacuri, munţi, dealuri şi făşii verde de păduri, întins pe un teren de 260 km<sup>2</sup>&#160;-</font> <a href="http://www.mihingolodge.com/lakemburo.htm" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Parcul Naţional Lake Mburo</font></a><font face="Verdana">.&#160;Muzica din Uganda la fel ca şi natura&#160;se contopesc întruna şi te fac să te adânceşti în farmecul acestui paradis. Deşi războiul început în 1986 a demolat sate şi a stabilit mii de victime şi ucişi,&#160;iar rebelii mai continuă&#160;astăzi să înăsprească situaţia complicată din ţară, acest paradis al muzicii şi naturii nu a încetat să existe.&#160;Uganda se cosnideră o ţară modernă pe continentul Africii,&#160;amenajată cu hoteluri şi aeroporturi moderne, deşi nivelul de sărăcie predomină atât în&#160;zona rurală, unde procentul este foarte&#160;mare, cât şi&#160;în cea urbană. cu toate că recent au fost descoperite rezerve de petrol şi gaze naturale în&#160;ţară.&#160;&#160;<br /></font></p>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Verdana">Întorcându-mă la subiectul muzicii,&#160;pentru cei care sunt interesaţi de muzica afro,&#160;recomand</font> <a href="http://www.africanmusicforum.com/video/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">această</font></a> <font face="Verdana">pagină. Pentru cei care vreau să viziteze în special Uganda, recomand</font> <a href="http://www.visituganda.com/home.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">aici</font></a><font face="Verdana">.&#160;<br />
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Stilurile muzicale ale Afrciii&#160;sunt Afrobeat&#160;şi Fuji Garbage în Nigeria, Jit Jive în&#160;Zimbabwe, Bikutsi şi Makossa în Camerun, Soukous în Congo, Highlife în coasta de West al Africii.&#160;Aşi recomanda, pentru o amplă informare în cultura şi muzica ţărilor din Africa, pe</font> <a href="http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/112/Gerhard+Kubik-2007" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Gerhard Kubic</font></a><font face="Verdana">, legendarul austriac vorbitor de afro limbi, profesor de Antropologie Culturală la Universitatea din Viena, renumit etnologist.</font></p>

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		<title>Războiul din Georgia încotro va duce?</title>
		<link>http://politicus.blogmoldova.com/2008/09/02/razboiul-din-georgia-incotro-va-duce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viorica Antonov</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politică externă]]></category>

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O lună Europa vorbește despre violențele din Caucaz. Acest lucru îl privesc și bine și rău. Bine, deoarece liderii politici europeni pare că și-au dat seama în sfârșit că Caucazul nu e doar un teren viabil pentru conducte de gaze spre Europa, dar și un punct strategic vulnerabil pentru ea. Și rău deoarece încă nu s-a luat nici o decizie cu privire la intervenția militară rusă&#160;din Georgia. Rusia a depășit normele acceptabile ale dreptului internațional cu prețul de a menține conflictul cât se poate de lung. De ce? Simplu. Pentru că ura față de americani, altfel nu pot să numesc, este întratât de mare, încât un conflict dintre două sate, cum a fost la început, a fost transformat în unul dintre două state, doar pentru a demonstra cine e stăpân pe situație din regiune. Rusia nu poate uita independența Kosovo și intențiile americanilor de a finansa proiectele energetice din bazinul Caspic precum ar fi Baku-Ceyan. 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO"><img height="198" src="http://finfacts.ie/artman/uploads/2/Putin_Russia_aug222008.jpg" width="294" align="left" />Rușii singuri au provocat acest conflict până ca el să înceapă în această formă sângeroasă, oferindu-le, de-a lungul ultimilor ani, pașapoarte rusești populației&#160;Abhaziei și Osetiei de Sud. Și plus la toate, Rusia nu poate accepta ideea de aderare a Georgiei la NATO. În cazul Ucrainei, se va proceda la fel, dacă aceasta va decide să adere la Tratatul Nord Atlantic în timpul apropiat? Ori se va aplica o altă tactică necunoscută nouă, căci aceasta din Georgia pare să repete cazul Ceceniei, când conform ”planului&#160;Barbarossa” opoziția cecenă a fost formată din soldați ruși mascați în rebeli și militari de opoziție doar pentru a avea motiv de intervenție militară în Cecenia și astfel de a realiza ideile cruciale.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO">Nu sunt de acord nici cu politica SUA, care astăzi mi se pare una dubioasă și urătă în sensul adevărat al cuvântului. Cred că cel mai bine această politică externă este criticată de însiși americani, care, după părererea mea, au înțeles mai bine decât alții pe cine l-au ales, deși, nu exclud că mulțimea încă mai crede în dreptatea politicii externe americane. Dar să lăsam pe americani să se lămurească cu liderii săi. Datoria noastră e să înețelegem jocul pornit în Caucaz.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO">Mi se pare acest joc o ecuație politică de extremă raritate, căci rezolvarea acestei probleme nu constă în greutatea ei, ci în variabilele apărute în procesul de calcul. Ce urmărește Rusia este previzibil – transformarea spațiului Caspic și Caucazian într-un monopol energetic rusesc, lucru apropo deja observabil prin vizita recentă a lui Putin în Uzbekistan pentru a demara negocierile cu privire la importarea gazului uzbek în Rusia, lucru deja și negociat cu viteza cosmică, doar că prețul nu este afișat, deși experții presupun a fi unul foarte și foarte flexibil pentru Uzbekistan, a cărui lider, Islam Karimov, amintesc, este unul autoritar. Prin urmare, acolo unde e controlul rusesc al gazoductelor ce vin sau spre Rusia sau spre Europa, acolo nu e SUA, sau cel puțin așa pare să fie. Capacitatea militară a Rusiei nu e atât de peformantă cum ar fi cea americană, însă potențialul energetic compensează multe lacune și vulnerabilități pe care le are astăzi acest stat. Ce urmărește Georgia este la fel de previzibil dar șocant – absolut nimic în privința rușilor. Dacă Rusia nu s-ar fi împlicat în acest furnicar creat de georgieini, osetini și abhazi și nu le-ar fi promis nimic celor două regiuni din Georgia cum ar fi un ”anschluss” la Rusia, ci le-ar lăsa să se lămurească singuri cu autodeterminarea teritorială și politică, lucrurile s-ar fi liniștit, pentru că soluția ar fi Georgia o federație la început și apoi, cine știe, poate o singură țară unitară europeană multietnică. Iar dacă vreți independență de Georgia adresațivă la ONU. Toți ar fi avut de câștigat. Însă ambițiile Rusiei nu au avut liniște și au izbucnit, mai întîi odată cu declarația independenței Kosovo, apoi prin ciudate explicații de ieșire din Tratatul FACE ca totul să sfârșească cu acest conflict sângeros. Reputația Rusiei a scăzut și încă scade. Nu le pasă nici că pot fi privați de dreptul de a organiza Olimpiada din Soci. Dacă Kremlinul continuă tot așa, Rusia riscă să-și piardă simțul statalității și să dispară ca stat, cât de banal nu ar părea acest lucru la moment, dar ea a luat o cursă greșită care poate duce la așa consecințe grave.&#160;</span></p>

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		<title>Why Peace Education? What is it anyway?</title>
		<link>http://politicus.blogmoldova.com/2008/07/25/why-peace-education-what-is-it-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viorica Antonov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<div><span><font face="Calibri"><span><font face="Calibri">Letter of Peace to Dr. Andria Wisler, Georgetown University, Washington, DC<br />
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Dear Andria, I want to share with you my understanding about peace education. Before I came here to EPU, my feelings about peace education were like chalk and cheese. I did not know how I could understand peace education. Should I consider it a participatory holistic process (which is very huge perception for me)? Or should I take it as a non-violent behaviour or maybe in some different&#160;way? These, all became issues for me and this is the why I came to EPU. I cannot say my background is wrong. I just improved it and I am still improving it thanks to various approaches in peace education which I hear in the classes. You can ask me why peace education? I think because it is the process for me to acquire the knowledge of nonviolence in my behaviour, attitudes, skills, and values. If I will live in harmony with myself it does mean I will live in peace with others. It doesn`t make me selfish or egocentric, this changes just my worldview. What I can tell you is that peace education is teaching me to think critically...<br /></font></span> <span><font face="Calibri"><img height="309" src="http://www.peaceeducationprogram.org/images/pep%20logo.JPG" width="364" align="right" />I cannot remember unfortunately who mentioned this but he or she was absolutely closed to truth:<br /></font></span><em><span><font face="Calibri">'A child born today in the U.K. stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than a university.... We are driving mad our children more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. '<br /></font></span></em><font face="Calibri"><span>I&#160;have been&#160;teaching more than 7 years in Moldova and I saw cases of degradation in mentality and thinking amongst the young people. I asked myself why&#160;young people&#160;come to schools and universities and use the violence and discrimination as technique of their behaviour. What is the mistake of adults? I know that media, especially TV channels which are the most adorable amongst young people, influence their behaviour. But is not all in this. I mean the problem is not just here. One question is how are TV monitored channels today? They are commercial, arrogant, false, and indifferent. And almost the newspapers and magazines are too. Second question is why are they so brutal?<span>&#160;</span> Because is not commercially to educate in</span> <span>the art of peaceful living. Violence is a result of emotional impulsivity which is an outcome of wrong perception of the things which is a consequence of wrong information and education. At least, it is my thoughts.<br /></span></font> <span><font face="Calibri">I am really happy to know that there is a growing realization in the world of education today that children should be educated in the art of peaceful living. In schools and universities curricula need to develop peace-related disciplines such as values education, moral education, global education, human values etc. We stressed cognitive learning in schools and universities at the cost of developing children's emotional, social, moral and humanistic aspects. The consequence of such imbalanced learning is evident today in the forms of youth unrest with their antisocial attitudes and behavioural problems.<br /></font></span> <span><font face="Calibri">Peace education means to learn about and for peace, harmony, human values, tolerance, reconciliation, understanding, open-mindedness, charity, patience, endurance, ethics, indulgency, help, love, compassion, etc.<br /></font></span> <font size="3"><strong><span>Learning about peace</span></strong> <span>means obtaining knowledge and understanding of what contributes to peace, what damages it, what leads to war, what does 'peace' mean on each level anyway, what is my role in it, and how are the different levels connected? Knowledge of peace is the human values and how we can keep them in our hearts and minds. Nonviolent knowledge brings peace of mind.<br /></span></font> </font></span><font size="3"><span>&#160;</span><span>Why peace education? I am still thinking on this issue. I consider we have many reasons to do peace education:<br /></span></font><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">There are over 600 million small arms in circulation around the world – one for every 10 people on the planet.<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">Studies show that more than 500,000 people are killed due to these weapons every year – or, one person every minute.<br /></font></span><span><font face="Calibri">Because small arms can:<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">destabilize regions;<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">spark, fuel, and prolong conflicts;<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">undermine development;<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">obstruct peacebuilding initiatives;<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">exacerbate human rights abuses; and<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">foster a “culture of violence.”<br /></font></span><font face="Calibri"><span>Accordingly with</span> <em><span>UNESCO Program of Action on a Culture of Peace</span></em> <span>and </span><em><span>the</span></em> <em><span>Culture of Peace News Network</span></em> <span>the real peace has a chance. I think that violence is a resistance to something what is wrong or immoral in someone perception. And in the same time, the motivated violence, such as military interventions, brain wash process “in the name of nation and for reasons of international security” became a hypocritical culture. Accordingly with programs mentioned above we can see what the perception of culture of war is and what the perception of culture of peace is.<br /></span></font><font face="Calibri"><span>Culture of</span> <span>War &#38; violence<br /></span></font><span><span><font face="Calibri">1.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">belief in power based on force<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">2.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">acceptance of an “enemy”<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">3.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">authoritarian government<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">4.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">secrecy and propaganda<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">5.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">reliance on arms<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">6.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">exploitation of people<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">7.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">exploitation of nature<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">8.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">male domination<br /></font></span><span><font face="Calibri">Culture of peace &#38; non-violence<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">1.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">belief that peace is possible and can be learned<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">2.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <font face="Calibri"><span><span>&#160;</span></span><span>reconciliation, tolerance, cultural understanding<br /></span></font><span><span><font face="Calibri">3.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">democratic participation, cooperation<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">4.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">free flow of information, critical awareness<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">5.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">negotiation, disarmament, non-violence<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">6.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <span><font face="Calibri">the same human rights for all<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">7.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <font face="Calibri"><span>respect for the Earth, sustainable development</span><span><br /></span></font><span><span><font face="Calibri">8.</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <font face="Calibri"><span>equality of men and women</span><span><br /></span></font><span><font face="Calibri">I don’t believe that culture of war is highest that culture of peace, but in conditions of economical concurrence and crisis of energy security as well of food missing and others became more difficult to keep peace and tolerance, non-discrimination and indulgency.<span>&#160;</span><br /></font></span> <span><font face="Calibri">I don`t dispute why we need peace education, I just want briefly to show you, my friend, who says we need peace education.<br /></font></span><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <font face="Calibri"><span><span>&#160;</span>“If we are to reach real peace in this world, if we are to declare war on war, we must begin with the children.”</span> <strong><em><span>Gandhi<br /></span></em></strong></font><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <font face="Calibri"><span><span>&#160;</span>“Establishing a lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”</span> <strong><em><span>Maria Montessori<br /></span></em></strong></font><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <font face="Calibri"><span>“They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not rise up against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.”</span> <strong><em><span>Prophet Isaiah</span></em></strong><span><br /></span></font><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <font face="Calibri"><span>“Violence begets violence, toughness begets toughness….It is either non-violence or non-existence.”</span> <strong><em><span>Martin Luther King Jr.</span></em></strong><span><br /></span></font><span><span><font face="Calibri">-</font><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></span></span> <font face="Calibri"><span>“Peace education has evolved into studying violence in all its manifestations and educating to counteract the war system for the creation of a peace system.”</span> <strong><em><span>Leonisa Ardizzone<br /></span></em></strong></font><span><font face="Calibri">These persons contributed to development of peace education in different corners of the world bringing together the chance to peaceful development for international society. The peace education is important for everyone who wants to live in harmony and tolerance. For me peace education is a challenge to improve myself as citizen of the world and to remain the person who I am. It is difficult to do if you live in violent zone or background, if your family practice violence, if you see the violence in the streets and on TV, in the schools and on international relations. But actually for all these facts I have the rationale to learn and teach peace. The peace education is the central thesis of tolerance. It teaches me to think critically and be open-mindedness. It is pedagogy teaching you to live with yourself in peace and to cohabitate with the all others in the world.<span>&#160;&#160;&#160;</span><span>&#160;<br /></span><br /></font></span><strong><span><font face="Calibri">This is my message to you, my dear friend.<br /></font></span></strong><strong><span><font face="Calibri">I am really hoped that is open discussion which can have continuity...</font></span></strong></div>

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		<title>Religion and Law – how purchase forgiveness?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Viorica Antonov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><img align="left" width="307" src="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Yonge-ReligionInTheHome/pages/206-The-Book-of-the-Law-Found/206-The-Book-of-the-Law-Found-q75-500x338.jpg" height="181" style="width: 307px;height: 181px" /></font> <span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I put this question to myself. I am religious person. I am orthodox. Does religion change the world perception of life, or is it a myth, when your world becomes destructive beyond of diesis, nuclear power, genocides, murders, military interventions, starvation, and undernourishment?<br /></font></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The world was always in changing despite of misunderstands between nations, religions and cultures. To identify you to one religion does mean to recognize you as a natural human being, as a person who has the right to one mistake, as a person who needs a set of values to adapt them in his/her life and to believe in these rules. <span>&#160;</span>But should we recognize and forgive the mistakes – <i>sins</i> – of military interventions, Nazism, genocides, international crimes which have been done by human beings just because we have this right to one mistake, instead what kind of mistake is it global or local? What religions say to people about mistakes? I want to mention about my perception about religious contexts. In the world there are many religious contexts, manuscripts, saint books, but all of them have been done by human being perceptions, mentalities, understandings and discernments. These texts brought to us the peace perception in our souls and balance of intelligence in our minds and just with latitude of time they became saint for future generations, and it is happened, how I think, because they represent the historical past of old generations, their perceptions and faiths and it has continuity – people believe in saints and make sins.<br /></font></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Here there are some common ideas</font> <span style="color: black"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">surrounding sin in various religions:<br /></font></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"><font size="2">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></span></font></font></span></span> <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Punishment for sins, from other people, from God either in life or in afterlife, or from the Universe in general.<br /></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"><font size="2">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></span></span></span></font></font> <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The question of whether or not an act must be intentional to be sinful.<br /></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"><font size="2">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></span></span></span></font></font> <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The idea that one's conscience should produce guilt for a conscious act of sin.<br /></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"><font size="2">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></span></span></span></font></font> <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">A scheme for determining the seriousness of the sin.<br /></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"><font size="2">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></span></span></span></font></font> <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Repentance from (expressing regret for and determining not to commit) sin, and atonement (repayment) for past deeds.<br /></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"><font size="2">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></span></span></span></font></font> <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The possibility of forgiveness of sins, often through communication with a deity or intermediary; in Christianity often referred to as salvation.<br /></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"><font size="2">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Crime and justice are related secular concepts.</span></font></font> <span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regardless of all mentioned ahead there is one the most important moment which I would like to develop in this essay – forgiveness. I want to share how it is my perception about the sin and forgiveness. Sin is closed to misdeed which is closed to crime. Sin asks forgiveness, which is closed to exoneration, which is closed to amnesty. How I can put in order the crime which has been done – genocide, atrocities, mass destructions – with forgiveness and reconciliation which does mean the understanding the situation which has been done or created by someone who committed a crime, a transgression to human beings?<br /></font></span> <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #292526;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">It may be very difficult to remove forgiveness from its spiritual context; in fact, the notion of a secular forgiveness may be, for many people, an oxymoron. In our days for international crimes, genocides and various atrocities there are the principle of responsibility and punishment accordingly with the international criminal law which is substitute to public international law. Therefore, the forgiveness from spiritual background removed to one international. There is one moment here which I want to laud. Religions as a set of values and convictions don`t recognize crime and remove it to higher category of sin. The international criminal law recognize crime and add it to highest type of violence against people. The paradox here is that the sin and crime are considered criminal acts in both cases, but in one is no punishment in order it is. Religion cannot be violent. It is the framework of peace and reconciliation. The belief helps us to forgive and to reconciliation in spite of our critical thinking.<br /></span> <span class="subhead1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Most of us like to believe that every human being deserves a chance at redemption. But are some crimes so dark that forgiveness can <span>never</span> be earned. And forgiveness became one emotional topic</span></span></font></font> <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">connected with the criminal justice system. Crime and violence against human beings, nations request penalty when the last sentence can be absolute. I cannot answer if the victims can be encouraged to give forgiveness to whom committed atrocities. Perhaps their religion and their principle of life can give an answer. And I cannot answer if any other criminal need this forgiveness, perhaps his or her religion and principle of life can give an answer.<br /></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">One think is factual that I am spiritual person and I can give forgiveness for sin, but not pardon for crime.</span></font></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span><br /></font></font></span></p>

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