To end global war where it is produced daily

In its lead article, entitled „Perpetrators – why so many Germans turned to be murderers”, the German magazine “Spiegel” (no.11) quotes one of the best known researchers on perpetration as follows: “No cohort of age, no social or ethnic background milieu, no confession, no educational stratum has proven to be resistant to terrorist temptations.” And further concludes: “therefore it is not one reason only for normal men to shoot women and children into the back of the neck.”

Is this truly the only final conclusion? Have human being of all ages, all confessions, all educational backgrounds, all social and cultural origins really nothing else in common with each other?
Just because this latent readiness for violence is regarded “quite normal”, just because it can be triggered through appropriate social conditions, just because of this we have to carry on asking: Where does violence come from? How does it arise? And how can it be overcome?

In his book “Future without War” Dieter Duhm writes: “If we want to end war we have to end it where it is produced and reborn daily: in our everyday living conditions, in the continual stress of suppressed longings, in schools and families, in the tragedies of love, in our imagination of what it is to be a man, a woman, of sex and possession, in the much too narrow cages of our professional, social and sensual lives.”

The Totality of Possibilities

The issue of this blog is to present the book “Future without War” by Dieter Duhm by book descriptions, text examples, short excerpts and comments in order to find co-thinkers and co-workers worldwide willing to understand and realise together the peace plan which is described here.

To introduce this book I want to relate a personal experience:

Some time ago I met a few women for a talk. In the growing twilight Luz Maria from Colombia told us the story of her life. She was visiting Europe for the first time. She is a 50 year old campesina, a peasant, who can neither read nor write. At the age of sixteen she was almost killed. The machete missed her head by inches, but hit her left thumb almost severing it. Her husband and her eldest son were killed years ago. Since then Luz Marina has cared for herself and her six children all on her own. The campesinos are easy game for the armed groups, be they military, police, paramilitary, guerrillas or simply armed groups of bandits who are not bound by any moral authority nor subject to the rule of law. Only in the last few years over 150 people from her village were killed, some of them in a most gruesome way.

Luz Marina however cannot go away. Where to? The situation is just as bad elsewhere; at least there in her village she has a small piece of land where she can grow food to meet the basic needs of her family.

The fate of Luz Marina is the fate of millions, probably billions of human beings who live on our planet today. Where should they go?

“Future without War” has been written in response to such fates. The book wants to save people. To do so, the reader is asked in spite of today’s trendiness to study its theory, sentence by sentence, thought by thought. And by so doing it conveys the logic how to effectively help the world.

This book explains how the earth can be healed.

It is the knowledge of a new era. To quote Dieter Duhm: “New potential of intelligence and humanity is available when we concentrate on accessing previously unused information from the cosmic databank.” It teaches us to no longer separate theory from experience, the objective world “out there” and a subjective world “in us”. Equally it teaches us not to separate between those who live in crisis areas and those who do not, i.e. ourselves, who have a roof over our head and full refrigerator. We are all part of one and the same family of life. We all suffer from the same illness. Our own healing, together with help for the world’s poor, and the protection of the nature are all part of one and the same process which we must adhere to and reinforce by adopting life-changing decisions.

How can human beings live together correctly?

Recently I found following sentence in the internet:

“Even if we spent as much money on space exploration as we do on war, funding a mission to Mars would not solve any of our problems.” (Annalee Newitz)

Humankind is planning underwater habitats, the construction of huge eco-cities, the colonisation of another planet. The question remains: Would that solve any of our problems? Were our problem solved once we had conquered the last paradisiac island in the South Seas?

“How can human beings live together correctly? That is the deepest question of our time. In spite of all the necessary work in the areas of ecology, technology and strategy, we keep coming back to this goal. The areas of crisis of our time is the relationship between human beings. In this connection, I would like to quote Eugen Drewermann: “Human misery is international, it does not know any boundaries, nor does it allow any. At every place on earth, human suffering is great and it is transnational. In reality, one cannot say: Israel is here, and Canaan is there.” It is the task and the goal of our healing work to see, understand and end this misery worldwide.” (Dieter Duhm)