New Strategies to resolve World's Religious conflicts?

robertteh SG

World leaders have tried many times to resolve the conflicts between the Israelites and Muslim nations for ages.

Many peace agreements have negotiated with the help of leaders like the presidents of United States etc.

Yet the conflicts remain as intractable as ever.

Why?

Political Leaders clearly could not produce results, as they are not trusted by the people in conflicts.

Obviously if we are to re-examine past efforts, there has been a singular lack of success in such past and current diplomatic peace missions.

Something apparently have gone fundamentally wrong with such peace efforts and undertaking.

I would propose that instead of resolving such conflicts among politicians, of all nations involved, all parties involved should pause for a breather and let the conditions be cultivated such that ordinary citizens with social status and influence associated in non-political arenas elect their own representatives of peace to interact for a change.

Totally new and neutral and non-political ordinary sincere peacemakers could emerge in due course to build social and cultural bridges among nations.

Political leaders are not suitable to intercede in such peace efforts as they are viewed with suspicions by both sides as likely to have hidden agendas behind all the efforts and negotiations.

US for example in proposing any changes to current balances of power will not be trusted by the Muslim nations.

US will also tend to use consciously or not economic, military or political pressures to bear on their negotiations whereas ordinary non-political ambassadors will be more trusted if they approach such objective based on people-to-people friendship to forge common social, cultural and educational or even community-building objectives.

Through exchanges of such nature, a lot remain to be and can be better accomplished by ordinary active citizens involved in building of cultural and community welfare projects among such nations.

United Nation has become politicised today and is not too suitable for such efforts.

A different format of peace will have to be found if nations in conflicts are to resolve their differences.

Atobe SG

Can ''Religious Conflicts'' be resolved, when those involved in provoking the conflicts are extremists that hijacked the Religion to give themselves the aura of religious righteousness in perpetuating the sufferings and death ?

Can the conflict in the Middle East be resolved when so many parties are sucked into the conflict and all sworn to the destruction and obliteration of the declared common enemy ?

Even amongst the Palestinian People, there are so many factions with different leadership and structures of command that even its own Palestinian Leadership could not even control.

Can the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs be resolved - when there are Palestinians Arabs who have been evicted from their homes, land and properties that are owned for generations - and all done to allow the State of Israel to be created ?

The bitterness is made worse when a victorious Israe emergedl from the 6-Day War in June 1967 controlling large tracts of land that allowed new Israeli migrants to create new settlements illegally on land taken during the 6-Day War - as prescribed by international laws - (such as the Hague and Geneva Conventions) - governing occupied land.

If the United Nations cannot play any useful role, who else can ?

The present ineffectiveness of the UN is due largely to the ineffectiveness of the UN Secretary-General to mobilize the national leaders of the World into a concerted action to resolve issues that destabilize and threaten lives all over the World.

For the UN to be effective, it will need the Secretary-General of the UN to be a person with a strong personality that is larger then Life, so as to gain the moral authority, respect and trust from the Presidents and Prime Ministers, Kings and Sheiks - from all the influential countries such as the USA, Russia, UK, France, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, and the various leadership of the Arab World. This is to prevent the leading members of the Security Council from vetoing any proposal that they will seen to be to disadvantage any one party.

The UN Secretary-General will need to have a strong mandate from all the Members in the UN to mobilize a scheme that is backed by stronger economic, political and military contributions to ensure that its decisions are clearly executed to resolve the ongoing conflicts.

The ongoing conflicts between the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs are seen as a just struggle against the injustices committed by Israel towards the Palestinian Arabs; and with this on-going struggles justifying any means to force a conclusion that favors the Palestinian Arabs.

This has led to more uprisings that culiminated in the September 11 crash into the World Trade Centre building in New York City; and it has spawned inspirational jihad groups throughout the Middle-east, South-east Asia, and home grown sympathisers now also in UK, USA and Australia.

Can we afford another September 11 incident ?

4getmenot SG

even if the world manage to resolve the conflict, there will always be extremists who will start the conflict all over again, whether in the name of the religion or for their own gain.. i dun see any resolvement in the short term or in the long run..

robertteh SG

The bible has recorded deep-seated conflicts from the earliest days between the Israelis and the Muslims who were at one time brothers or half-brothers in history past.

Ibraham in Islam was the same prophet as Abraham in the Jewish religion. So there were commonality of values at least the sharing of blood line. It is important to note that while christians cannot accept the religious practices of others and vice versa nevertheless they do have certain basic human needs and aspirations such as the need to educate their children to have better hygiene and housing etc and learn to live along side. They could buy time and let God eventually take care of the religious followings in the outside world.

For the jihad extremist they might have at one time or other staunchly subscribed to the need to spread their religions by revolutionary means, they should have learned by now that in this modern world that it will be much more difficult or impractical for them to do so without learning to live with one another.

To resolve religious conflicts of this kind which had been well neigh impossible and beyond efforts of politicians as witnessed for centuries, there is obviously a need to change mindset and change past practices and re-learn how to win over others of different beliefs in different ways such as through practising common values, tolerance and mutual respect without resorting to violence in this world.

This people-to-people cooperative caring and sharing is a enduring method to bring about lasting peace in the long run.

the Bear SG

ever watch the music video for Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

get the leaders, put them in a steel cage and let them settle it in there Mad

iveco SG

The world should just take up the Wiccan Rede.

If it harm no one, do what you will. Very Happy

crazy monkey SG

world leaders just need to apply these simple steps and there will be world peace Very Happy v

1. Focus and Consistency.
2. Positive Work Attitude.
3. Foresight & Insight
4. Supportive Environment.
5. Passion & Determination.
6. Coordination, Teamwork and Bottom-up Approach.
7. Adaptation to Changing Environments.
8. Creativity and Entrepreneurship
9. Leverage on Strengths and avoidance of Weakness. (Sun Sze Art
of War)

Laughing

robertteh SG

Why do you think they have so many problems despite their foresight, insight, positive attitude and talents etc in producing a value-adding and technology-driven economy talked about for years?

As a old Chinese saying goes, there is no shortage of vision but often it is the lack of implementation abilities that cause problems.

To avoid NATO, as you have put it, leaders must be humble and learn like all others to translate wonderful ideas like the globalisation challenges, restructuring plans, conceptual talents, and meritocracy etc into actions.

Actions are not possible without ideas and policies being integrated or connected to the daily works of staff as shown in OSP.

Without actions being organized into easily understood and implementable smaller steps, staff will be unable to take the necessary concrete or hands-on actions to turn intangible ideas and policies into results.

Our talents should recognize there is little excellence in middle management and be prepared to accept as their greater challenge to leverage our internal human and other resources built up with citizens' sacrifices to benefit the 80% majority of citizens and not to benefit only their own exclusive elites or the rich alone.

OSP translate ideas, policies and decisions into actions which are easily implemented in 4-step work processes set in 10 functional departmental core activities with full accountability and transparency.

It is true that process management will offer the ultimate help to upgrade company management and government services.

ceecookie SG

The gas chamber for one side? Laughing

sg mata SG

well, i don tink that world leaders do not know the ingredients to detox any conflict, but maybe they have something to gain from such conflicts, its just that they do not want to be so obvious….....