Humainologie creative dialogue TOMORROW TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 with Trudy Govier facilitating

“The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.”  - George S. Patton  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton    “Shall we put an end to the human race, or shall mankind renounce war?  People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war.  The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty.  But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term ‘mankind’ feels vague and abstract.  People scarcely realize in imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and not only to a dimly apprehended humanity. …And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited.  This hope is illusionary.”  - Bertrand Russell, “The Russell-Einstein Manifesto,” July 1955 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell    “Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.”  - Bertrand Russell, “Survival through International Law,” Grotius Day Address, Munich, West Germany.  August 28, 1957      A Calgary peacebuilding museum can be a place where we Calgarians are inspired to change a culture of war into a culture of peace.  Tomorrow, Tuesday September 20, Trudy Govier will lead our creative dialogue on ideas for the proposed peacebuilding museum in Calgary.   It’s at the Parkdale United Church, 2919 Eighth Avenue NW, starting at 7:00 PM.  You can join the meeting by Zoom: Topic: Peacebuilding dialogue sessionTime: Sep 20, 2022 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86393534667?pwd=dlUrVDdCeTl1VzJ4d29zZWRJZTRZUT09Meeting ID: 863 9353 4667Passcode: 12345 Will human life on earth survive another century?  Less than a decade after those words from Bertrand Russell and George Patton, the Cuban missile crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis made it too close to call.  We were on red alert and many people thought they would not live to see Christmas of 1962.  Now we seem to have forgotten.  We must not only learn the lessons of history; we must change the course of history. A peacebuilding museum in Calgary could become a place that has a transformative effect on the lives of visitors, because the exhibits and programs raise their awareness both of history and of the far brighter future to which they themselves can contribute.  Months ago, our dialogue group received Michael Bopp’s essay in which he referred to the transformative work being done worldwide, and the existential necessity to connect with others doing that work, so that together we can be more effective.   A peacebuilding museum in Calgary could help us do exactly that.  It could become a catalytic site to make Calgary a microcosm of the world that we want for the future.   Imagine that!   If we build it, they will come. Arthur