Can this year’s UN International Day of Peace make any difference in a conflict-obsessed world?
September 20, 2024
That question above is both meaningful – and meaningless. A paltry “Day of Peace” — this year, Saturday 21 September — insults the efforts of those who work year-round for something approximating “peace”. Or, at least, who work in multiple ways to promote more intelligent evidence-based possibilities to contain, if not resolve, conflict, and to reduce the unchecked pursuit of power and territory through destruction and death.
