Join Us in Building these Four Cornerstones
Only if we consciously and concertedly build these four foundations for a partnership way of living can we move from a violent dominator culture to a more equitable, peaceful, and sustainable future for ourselves, our children, and generations still to come.
“It is not enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.
And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To spread the consciousness that we can, and must, change traditions of domination requires courage. It takes courage to challenge domination and violence in both international relations and intimate relations. It takes courage to actively oppose injustice and cruelty in all spheres of life: not only in the so-called public sphere of politics and business but in the so-called private sphere of parent-child, gender, and sexual relations.
It may not be popular, and may even be dangerous to do so, since domination and violence in intimate and intergroup relations are encoded in some religious and ethnic traditions that are our heritage from a more rigid dominator past. But it must be done.
We are at a time when the mix of high technology and the domination model can take us to an evolutionary dead end. High technology in service of conquest and domination – whether of people or of nature – is not sustainable.
We urgently need to shift from domination to partnership worldwide – and young people have a major role in this cultural transformation. Thinking in new ways, young people can build the foundations for a more joyful, peaceful, partnership world.
