When we accomplish our duty as World Citizens
The World Summit for Peace, Bogotá-October 1st to 4th 2009, has elaborated a promotional poster, which contains a letter that the Indian pacifist M.K. Gandhi wrote to Julian Huxley in Bongui Colony, New Delhi, on the 25 of May 1974. In a short and vital paragraph, the prominent Indian leader pointed out the transcendental lesson that he learned from his mother “From my ignorant yet wise mother I learned that those rights which are rightfully deserved and conserved come from the duty well carried out. As a result we are only creditors of the right to live once we fulfil our duty as citizens of the world”.
War means against, Peace means with
War means against—Peace means with; this slogan was elaborated by the extremely creative publicists Angel Beccassino and it has been used in graphic pieces printed by the Bogotá Secretary of Government’s Communication Team. The same bureau in the Bogotá Mayor’s office also created the promotional message “Give life to the Culture of Peace in the Planet. Get informed, participate, dialogue, construct and bring your proposal”.
The World Summit for Peace graphic pieces proposes group work as the solution. This proposed strategy is shown as fundamental in order to reach the objective and, likewise, it stresses the necessity for considering multiple alternatives so to generate a diversity of possible solutions.
Zero Hour: the Inauguration of the World Summit for Peace
The evening in the Colombian capital fell like rain showers converted into sprinkling drizzles. The cold stood still, it concentrated and with each minute it more intense, like the heavy traffic in the city. However this couldn’t detain our panellists or the approximately 323 people who attended in order to resolve the mysterious secret: ¿Why don’t we talk? After, t he drizzling became rain and the rain converted into a downpour; the local news reported that the National Weather Institute had determined that we would find ourselves in a dry spell.
Gypsies, Afro-Colombians, Indigenous, intellectuals, artists, craftsmen, politicians, singers and poets began to enter the Gimnasio Moderno Cultural Center. An audience representative of all social classes and economic distinctions made their made their grand entrance. Initially, they observed the exhibited art that preceded auditorium. The artistic sharpness of the “20/20 Vision Eye Exam” art exposition by Mónica Savdié exhibited the heart-rending bloody chapter of paramilitary massacres in the Colombian countryside. As you circled the display and you gained a clearer vision of things. A few steps ahead, you could see the detailed cartoon pieces from the Spanish cartoonist El Roto. These both critical and non-conformist images touched on the strange contradictions between human beings and their surroundings. El Roto left us on the doorstep of the “Miedos de Paz” art showing created by Pacifists Without Borders. Pop Art was used on conventional newspapers from Germany, England, Colombia, and Ecuador. Subsequently, this artistic intervention cast a new vision on the topic of war. These art pieces addressed the fundamental questions about the nonsense of war, the tastelessness of armed confli ct and the trifle nature of violence, through highlighting the news in green dots, yellow dragonflies, blue assault tanks, red dolphins, and orange colored letters. In some cases sayings were invoked from Gandhi, such as “An eye for an eye, leaves the whole world blind”.
We picked up Aida Quicué, directly from Cauca, as she stood alone on 11 avenue and 74 street, in the middle of a cold, grey and rainy Chapinero neighborhood. That day the ex-councilor for the indigenous organization, CRIC, had just received a strange arrest warrant. In this great collective effort to reflect upon peace and war, we were accompanied by such personalities as the constitutional delegate Juan Manuel Charry, the ex-mayor of Apartadó Gloria Cuartas, the director of the Human Rights Office in the Bogotá Secretary of G overnment Franz Barbosa, the well-known journalist Antonio Morales and the Argentinean pacifist and publicist Angel Beccassino.
Rumors and Mysteries of Peace
323 people, two tables and six invited panelists sat waiting to hear the guidelines of the round table discussion. In front of the panelists sat Hector Arenas—the moderator of the dialogue—, Guillermo Solarte—Director of Pacifists Without Borders—and Amber Solarte as the editor of the World Summit for Peace’s video. After the opening of the currents, the yellow light trickled onto th e stage. A man with a salt and peppered beard, deep voice, and crown topped hat and suit presented the event’s program, point by point. It was S ergio Gonzalez, the director of the Acto Latino Theater. He dramatized the master of ceremonies role with his picaresque sense of humor.
Below in the audience, all was dark, when all of a sudden the Anthem sprouted from the silence. It was titled: Why don’t we talk? This was a composition created by the song writer Hernán Urbina Joiro and interpreted by the famous Vallenato singer Ivan Villazón. Everyone present watched the video of the terrible war which has subjugated the Colombian people. Simultaneously, the beautiful faces of peasant farmers, aborigines and afro-descendents, the Colombian flag, white balloons and giant white strips of cloth read “we want peace”. The applause didn’t have to be waited for, much less the smiles.
The mystery always was and always has been:
Why don’t we talk?
Words were created in order to solve mysteries, to give light, to alleviate the soul and to unite thoughts in coherency. The attendees and invited guests were eager to see who would be the first panelists to light the fire of the long awaited discussion. Antonio Morales´ voice rose to the occasion and he emphatically analyzed, in a concrete fashion, the “democratization” of the Media. He questioned the concept of freedom and its union between democracy and peace.
The famous constitutional delegate Juan Manuel Charry, showed that best way to correct the failed political conflict should be accomplished by recovering basic ethics. Additionally, he proposed uniting words with actions: “we should be tolerant and abolish discrimination”. Likewise he pointed out that modern paradigms have changed due to the fact that “before politics prevailed and now it’s economic s”. He closed the first round by saying “We should conciliate the constitutional values of dignity, freedom and peace”.
The indigenous ex-councilor of the CRIC Aida Quilcué talked about “being convinced of our identity. We can obtain peace in our family and in our surroundings”. Her secure and powerful voice dispelled the haze of doubts as she recited the pacifist concept that “peace can’t be constructed with weapons”. Likewise she criticized that the written word isn’t taken seriously in Colombia given that it is always viola ted by the same men that write it.
Similar to a mystery movie filled with mismanagement, spies and crooked business deals, the ex-mayor of Apartadó talked about the silent and dark intentions of the Colombian Establishment to put us to sle ep. Likewise, she mentioned the license given to a few in order to express themselves and their constant self endowment of founding father’s imaginary characteristics. She ended her first intervention by saying “You shouldn’t legitimize censorship or criminalization in this country”.
A deep yet kind voice would at times seem like it threw out short sentences of doctrine, unlike a tyrant or a despot, he spoke like someone who had lived through the problem about which he was referring. He had learned to make slogans in order to clarify his ideas. Angel Beccassino began by saying: “more and more people buy weapons so to protect themselves from more and more people who buy weapons”. He talked about the problems related to disproportionate ambition and about the shrouding fear that human beings have in terms of hoarding or the incessant greed of the large scale businessmen. According to him, these greedy people are leaving the world withou t the sufficient air to breath or the vital water to drink.
Antonio Morales focused his commentaries on modern journalism as well as the mismanagement given to the profession in this day in age. He clarified that the idea of the Freedom of Press is not the same as the Freedom of Business. Just like a journalist isn’t the same as a transmitter of opinions. The problem, in his opinion, has been triggered by the mutation of a journalist into politicians and a politician into a journalist or the leader of printed and televised media.
“Peace doesn’t just exist in one place, in the same way that peace isn’t anyone’s economic patrimony. We need to depolarize ourselves in order to be able to clearly listen to other people.” Someone could have asserted that this sentence would have been great in order to make a book called “Phrases for Peace”. It just so happens that this prophetic statement was complicated among others to make a book and below this sentence you can clearly distinguish, in bold black letters, the name of the author: Juan Manuel Charry.
The Radio – Theater of the voices
Buenos Aires- Argentina 8pm
After having finished the first round of conversations, the panelists were relaxed and the audience seemed to be restless, for they anxiously awaited to see who would be next to speak. The hall remained in the darkness; there were mere whispers and stares. The air was filled with expectation. “Hello” was the first word that came out of the silence. It was like being in a large old movie theatre and listening to one of those old fashioned radio shows. Around 323 people were gathered and waiting for radio program presenter to initiate the live radio program. The first word pronounced by Susana Merino, who works as the director of the digital magazine “Grano de Arena”. Without speculating, she stated, “They don’t transmit the ideas like they really are, nor in a similar fashion, they only transmit a certain part of the story. As in the case of General Manuel Belgrano, who before being a military man was a lawyer, economist, journalist, politician and diplomat”. Hence she proved that the profound reality of the story is generally unknown by the great majority.
Susan’s soft and amiable voice made a “between the lines” proposition. According to her, there was a need for change and she claimed that in a broad way “many people talk about the need to generate political change, but nothing will alter if we don’t first modify the condition of the human heart. The purpose of this, isn’t for anyone to renounce th eir convictions, rather it is more important that they incorporate this internal change in their own lives and through an indelible respect for the beliefs and points of view of others”.
Susana analyzed how real version of history has been suppressed by numerous half truths pertaining to vehement rejection of war and its hostilities by the same men who fight in them. She referred us to the text “The Crime of War” written by General Manuel Belgrano. She followed up by paraphrasing the general’s unnerving statement, “Homicide is murder, be it man on man or nation against nation” and “Peace similar to Liberty can only be a product of education”.
Nairobi-Kenya 2 am
In his living room, Alvaro Gutierrez waited for the beginning of the “Grand Opening of the World Summit for Peace”, next to Kenyan youth leaders from the a wide variety of national youth organization, such as: The National Party and the Orange Democratic Movement.
He emitted a nostalgic voice from this corner of South America. A group of politically involved youth from that African country waited in his hot living room in Nairobi. At once, Alvaro Gutierrez began his participation. From Kenya, he spoke about the African Peace Process, Colombian natural disasters and the willingness for a solution to the conflict. Among other things, he noted that peace efforts in Colombia will soon be further complicated due to external threats that search to possess one of the World’s largest water supplies as well as the increasing demand for this precious liquid. At last, he finalized by saying in a clear and deeply felt voice: “Colombia needs peace, we Colombians in exile need to return home”.
México City 6 in the afternoon
A jovial, happy, an d energetic voice later presented itself as being Cristina Avila. She announced that peace isn’t just a problem that derives from weapons; it is also a problem that derives from the lack of justice which has condemned seventy three million children to child labor. This prematurely exercised activity has subjected them to the loss of their dignity.
Her voice continuously played with the sound waves and in the minds of audience members questions emerged like: What would her face look like? Could someone still be asking themselves this question? She continued her participation by saying “peace is a reality which is never shown in televised newscasts, thus we have learned to speak another language”… “Peace will not be constructed by governments; rather it will constructed by every day people”. That night, Cristina Ávila debuted in Colombia her online magazine “Peace Correspondent”. This online publication represents a modern and vigorous vision about balanced news from a pacifist’s point of view.
“We are many Pacifists and we are just tuning our voices”
The three virtual participants ended their reflections in a lively way after having inserted their opinions into the discussion with the other panelists. The audience seemed to flutter around while waiting for more panelist’s reflections. Gloria Cuartas professed that the World Summit for Peace, Bogotá 2009 would bring about the necessary hope for Colombia and, furthermore, it would provoke Colombian exiles to return home. She commented about the fact that she still remained terrified about her tragic lived experience in a San José Apartadó school house. Her most harshest and most ruthless memory occurred in 1996, when a paramilitary massacre took place in that small coastal town’s school house. The most painful memories of this incident consisted in her desperate attempt to calm the town habitants in vain, after they had been bathed in the blood of innocent victims.
The metaphor the Summit:
The World Summit for Peace is will be undertaken, “in order for us to be lifted from all cardinal points so to be able to observe from afar the great diversity of realities and discover with clarity that which is beyond us, in order to discover why the poorest citizens remain killing other poor people”. This statement made by Ángel Beccassino can be taken as a Metaphor for the World Summit for Peace, Bogotá 2009.
Antonio Morales concluded by synthesizing his contributions for the night. The first summary would touch on how the freedom of press could function as a catalyst to strengthen the freedom of business. In addition, he spoke of the Colombian actors in the armed conflict—the military, the (guerrilla), and the paramilitary—and the media coverage on the conflict as being one of the many manifestations of the belligerent perversions. At last, he talked about the unanimous nature of main media: there are thousands of opinions by only one voice is permitted to speak. He finalized by reiterating that an opinion wasn’t information.
Cristina Ávila, from Mexico, closed by underlining in a seductive voice that “we are many pacifists and we are just tuning our voices”.
A Vallenato for Reconciliation
At the end of January, the Vallenato Composer, Hernán Urbina Joiro, donated his socially charged song, Why don’t we talk? , to the World Summit for Peace, Bogotá—October 2009. The social message focused on: respect, harmony and reconciliation. In addition, Ivan Villazón, the famous Vallenato singer, later joined this musical process and put his veteran touch on the final production of the song. Therefore, the World Summit for Peace Anthem draws from the sentiment of the Colombian people and convokes them to sit down, to talk their problems out, to leave their weapons aside and listen to one another.
Peace Builders
Waiting, building, joining forces: The peace builders have been building bridges, so to involve important figures and institutions which want to figure out the solution to the problems around the construction of peace. We have conciliated thoughts and processes, through alliance between people and events, the following are just some of the committed organizations involved in this event.
By Diego Leonardo González Rodríguez.
The World Summit for Peace, Bogotá-October 1st to 4th 2009, has elaborated a promotional poster, which contains a letter that the Indian pacifist M.K. Gandhi wrote to Julian Huxley in Bongui Colony, New Delhi, on the 25 of May 1974. In a short and vital paragraph, the prominent Indian leader pointed out the transcendental lesson that he learned from his mother “From my ignorant yet wise mother I learned that those rights which are rightfully deserved and conserved come from the duty well carried out. As a result we are only creditors of the right to live once we fulfil our duty as citizens of the world”.
War means against, Peace means with
War means against—Peace means with; this slogan was elaborated by the extremely creative publicists Angel Beccassino and it has been used in graphic pieces printed by the Bogotá Secretary of Government’s Communication Team. The same bureau in the Bogotá Mayor’s office also created the promotional message “Give life to the Culture of Peace in the Planet. Get informed, participate, dialogue, construct and bring your proposal”.
The World Summit for Peace graphic pieces proposes group work as the solution. This proposed strategy is shown as fundamental in order to reach the objective and, likewise, it stresses the necessity for considering multiple alternatives so to generate a diversity of possible solutions.
Zero Hour: the Inauguration of the World Summit for Peace
The evening in the Colombian capital fell like rain showers converted into sprinkling drizzles. The cold stood still, it concentrated and with each minute it more intense, like the heavy traffic in the city. However this couldn’t detain our panellists or the approximately 323 people who attended in order to resolve the mysterious secret: ¿Why don’t we talk? After, t he drizzling became rain and the rain converted into a downpour; the local news reported that the National Weather Institute had determined that we would find ourselves in a dry spell.
Gypsies, Afro-Colombians, Indigenous, intellectuals, artists, craftsmen, politicians, singers and poets began to enter the Gimnasio Moderno Cultural Center. An audience representative of all social classes and economic distinctions made their made their grand entrance. Initially, they observed the exhibited art that preceded auditorium. The artistic sharpness of the “20/20 Vision Eye Exam” art exposition by Mónica Savdié exhibited the heart-rending bloody chapter of paramilitary massacres in the Colombian countryside. As you circled the display and you gained a clearer vision of things. A few steps ahead, you could see the detailed cartoon pieces from the Spanish cartoonist El Roto. These both critical and non-conformist images touched on the strange contradictions between human beings and their surroundings. El Roto left us on the doorstep of the “Miedos de Paz” art showing created by Pacifists Without Borders. Pop Art was used on conventional newspapers from Germany, England, Colombia, and Ecuador. Subsequently, this artistic intervention cast a new vision on the topic of war. These art pieces addressed the fundamental questions about the nonsense of war, the tastelessness of armed confli ct and the trifle nature of violence, through highlighting the news in green dots, yellow dragonflies, blue assault tanks, red dolphins, and orange colored letters. In some cases sayings were invoked from Gandhi, such as “An eye for an eye, leaves the whole world blind”.
We picked up Aida Quicué, directly from Cauca, as she stood alone on 11 avenue and 74 street, in the middle of a cold, grey and rainy Chapinero neighborhood. That day the ex-councilor for the indigenous organization, CRIC, had just received a strange arrest warrant. In this great collective effort to reflect upon peace and war, we were accompanied by such personalities as the constitutional delegate Juan Manuel Charry, the ex-mayor of Apartadó Gloria Cuartas, the director of the Human Rights Office in the Bogotá Secretary of G overnment Franz Barbosa, the well-known journalist Antonio Morales and the Argentinean pacifist and publicist Angel Beccassino.
Rumors and Mysteries of Peace
323 people, two tables and six invited panelists sat waiting to hear the guidelines of the round table discussion. In front of the panelists sat Hector Arenas—the moderator of the dialogue—, Guillermo Solarte—Director of Pacifists Without Borders—and Amber Solarte as the editor of the World Summit for Peace’s video. After the opening of the currents, the yellow light trickled onto th e stage. A man with a salt and peppered beard, deep voice, and crown topped hat and suit presented the event’s program, point by point. It was S ergio Gonzalez, the director of the Acto Latino Theater. He dramatized the master of ceremonies role with his picaresque sense of humor.
Below in the audience, all was dark, when all of a sudden the Anthem sprouted from the silence. It was titled: Why don’t we talk? This was a composition created by the song writer Hernán Urbina Joiro and interpreted by the famous Vallenato singer Ivan Villazón. Everyone present watched the video of the terrible war which has subjugated the Colombian people. Simultaneously, the beautiful faces of peasant farmers, aborigines and afro-descendents, the Colombian flag, white balloons and giant white strips of cloth read “we want peace”. The applause didn’t have to be waited for, much less the smiles.
The mystery always was and always has been:
Why don’t we talk?
Words were created in order to solve mysteries, to give light, to alleviate the soul and to unite thoughts in coherency. The attendees and invited guests were eager to see who would be the first panelists to light the fire of the long awaited discussion. Antonio Morales´ voice rose to the occasion and he emphatically analyzed, in a concrete fashion, the “democratization” of the Media. He questioned the concept of freedom and its union between democracy and peace.
The famous constitutional delegate Juan Manuel Charry, showed that best way to correct the failed political conflict should be accomplished by recovering basic ethics. Additionally, he proposed uniting words with actions: “we should be tolerant and abolish discrimination”. Likewise he pointed out that modern paradigms have changed due to the fact that “before politics prevailed and now it’s economic s”. He closed the first round by saying “We should conciliate the constitutional values of dignity, freedom and peace”.
The indigenous ex-councilor of the CRIC Aida Quilcué talked about “being convinced of our identity. We can obtain peace in our family and in our surroundings”. Her secure and powerful voice dispelled the haze of doubts as she recited the pacifist concept that “peace can’t be constructed with weapons”. Likewise she criticized that the written word isn’t taken seriously in Colombia given that it is always viola ted by the same men that write it.
Similar to a mystery movie filled with mismanagement, spies and crooked business deals, the ex-mayor of Apartadó talked about the silent and dark intentions of the Colombian Establishment to put us to sle ep. Likewise, she mentioned the license given to a few in order to express themselves and their constant self endowment of founding father’s imaginary characteristics. She ended her first intervention by saying “You shouldn’t legitimize censorship or criminalization in this country”.
A deep yet kind voice would at times seem like it threw out short sentences of doctrine, unlike a tyrant or a despot, he spoke like someone who had lived through the problem about which he was referring. He had learned to make slogans in order to clarify his ideas. Angel Beccassino began by saying: “more and more people buy weapons so to protect themselves from more and more people who buy weapons”. He talked about the problems related to disproportionate ambition and about the shrouding fear that human beings have in terms of hoarding or the incessant greed of the large scale businessmen. According to him, these greedy people are leaving the world withou t the sufficient air to breath or the vital water to drink.
Antonio Morales focused his commentaries on modern journalism as well as the mismanagement given to the profession in this day in age. He clarified that the idea of the Freedom of Press is not the same as the Freedom of Business. Just like a journalist isn’t the same as a transmitter of opinions. The problem, in his opinion, has been triggered by the mutation of a journalist into politicians and a politician into a journalist or the leader of printed and televised media.
“Peace doesn’t just exist in one place, in the same way that peace isn’t anyone’s economic patrimony. We need to depolarize ourselves in order to be able to clearly listen to other people.” Someone could have asserted that this sentence would have been great in order to make a book called “Phrases for Peace”. It just so happens that this prophetic statement was complicated among others to make a book and below this sentence you can clearly distinguish, in bold black letters, the name of the author: Juan Manuel Charry.
The Radio – Theater of the voices
Buenos Aires- Argentina 8pm
After having finished the first round of conversations, the panelists were relaxed and the audience seemed to be restless, for they anxiously awaited to see who would be next to speak. The hall remained in the darkness; there were mere whispers and stares. The air was filled with expectation. “Hello” was the first word that came out of the silence. It was like being in a large old movie theatre and listening to one of those old fashioned radio shows. Around 323 people were gathered and waiting for radio program presenter to initiate the live radio program. The first word pronounced by Susana Merino, who works as the director of the digital magazine “Grano de Arena”. Without speculating, she stated, “They don’t transmit the ideas like they really are, nor in a similar fashion, they only transmit a certain part of the story. As in the case of General Manuel Belgrano, who before being a military man was a lawyer, economist, journalist, politician and diplomat”. Hence she proved that the profound reality of the story is generally unknown by the great majority.
Susan’s soft and amiable voice made a “between the lines” proposition. According to her, there was a need for change and she claimed that in a broad way “many people talk about the need to generate political change, but nothing will alter if we don’t first modify the condition of the human heart. The purpose of this, isn’t for anyone to renounce th eir convictions, rather it is more important that they incorporate this internal change in their own lives and through an indelible respect for the beliefs and points of view of others”.
Susana analyzed how real version of history has been suppressed by numerous half truths pertaining to vehement rejection of war and its hostilities by the same men who fight in them. She referred us to the text “The Crime of War” written by General Manuel Belgrano. She followed up by paraphrasing the general’s unnerving statement, “Homicide is murder, be it man on man or nation against nation” and “Peace similar to Liberty can only be a product of education”.
Nairobi-Kenya 2 am
In his living room, Alvaro Gutierrez waited for the beginning of the “Grand Opening of the World Summit for Peace”, next to Kenyan youth leaders from the a wide variety of national youth organization, such as: The National Party and the Orange Democratic Movement.
He emitted a nostalgic voice from this corner of South America. A group of politically involved youth from that African country waited in his hot living room in Nairobi. At once, Alvaro Gutierrez began his participation. From Kenya, he spoke about the African Peace Process, Colombian natural disasters and the willingness for a solution to the conflict. Among other things, he noted that peace efforts in Colombia will soon be further complicated due to external threats that search to possess one of the World’s largest water supplies as well as the increasing demand for this precious liquid. At last, he finalized by saying in a clear and deeply felt voice: “Colombia needs peace, we Colombians in exile need to return home”.
México City 6 in the afternoon
A jovial, happy, an d energetic voice later presented itself as being Cristina Avila. She announced that peace isn’t just a problem that derives from weapons; it is also a problem that derives from the lack of justice which has condemned seventy three million children to child labor. This prematurely exercised activity has subjected them to the loss of their dignity.
Her voice continuously played with the sound waves and in the minds of audience members questions emerged like: What would her face look like? Could someone still be asking themselves this question? She continued her participation by saying “peace is a reality which is never shown in televised newscasts, thus we have learned to speak another language”… “Peace will not be constructed by governments; rather it will constructed by every day people”. That night, Cristina Ávila debuted in Colombia her online magazine “Peace Correspondent”. This online publication represents a modern and vigorous vision about balanced news from a pacifist’s point of view.
“We are many Pacifists and we are just tuning our voices”
The three virtual participants ended their reflections in a lively way after having inserted their opinions into the discussion with the other panelists. The audience seemed to flutter around while waiting for more panelist’s reflections. Gloria Cuartas professed that the World Summit for Peace, Bogotá 2009 would bring about the necessary hope for Colombia and, furthermore, it would provoke Colombian exiles to return home. She commented about the fact that she still remained terrified about her tragic lived experience in a San José Apartadó school house. Her most harshest and most ruthless memory occurred in 1996, when a paramilitary massacre took place in that small coastal town’s school house. The most painful memories of this incident consisted in her desperate attempt to calm the town habitants in vain, after they had been bathed in the blood of innocent victims.
The metaphor the Summit:
The World Summit for Peace is will be undertaken, “in order for us to be lifted from all cardinal points so to be able to observe from afar the great diversity of realities and discover with clarity that which is beyond us, in order to discover why the poorest citizens remain killing other poor people”. This statement made by Ángel Beccassino can be taken as a Metaphor for the World Summit for Peace, Bogotá 2009.
Antonio Morales concluded by synthesizing his contributions for the night. The first summary would touch on how the freedom of press could function as a catalyst to strengthen the freedom of business. In addition, he spoke of the Colombian actors in the armed conflict—the military, the (guerrilla), and the paramilitary—and the media coverage on the conflict as being one of the many manifestations of the belligerent perversions. At last, he talked about the unanimous nature of main media: there are thousands of opinions by only one voice is permitted to speak. He finalized by reiterating that an opinion wasn’t information.
Cristina Ávila, from Mexico, closed by underlining in a seductive voice that “we are many pacifists and we are just tuning our voices”.
A Vallenato for Reconciliation
At the end of January, the Vallenato Composer, Hernán Urbina Joiro, donated his socially charged song, Why don’t we talk? , to the World Summit for Peace, Bogotá—October 2009. The social message focused on: respect, harmony and reconciliation. In addition, Ivan Villazón, the famous Vallenato singer, later joined this musical process and put his veteran touch on the final production of the song. Therefore, the World Summit for Peace Anthem draws from the sentiment of the Colombian people and convokes them to sit down, to talk their problems out, to leave their weapons aside and listen to one another.
Peace Builders
Waiting, building, joining forces: The peace builders have been building bridges, so to involve important figures and institutions which want to figure out the solution to the problems around the construction of peace. We have conciliated thoughts and processes, through alliance between people and events, the following are just some of the committed organizations involved in this event.
By Diego Leonardo González Rodríguez.
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