P.E.A.C.E.

  P.E.A.C.E. ROOM DATABASE — 
THE HEART OF THE SYSTEM

From an academic and intellectual viewpoint, the subject of database files and the data itself is neutral.  However, from a human and emotional perspective, even the titles might be considered by some to be value biased, questionable and perhaps even unacceptable.  This is a reflection of the power of knowledge and the fear, by some, of truth.  Ethnocentrism, cultural myopia, strident nationalism, greed and evil are issues here.  These are, of course, ingredients of win/lose scenarios.  The database will support the development of tools that facilitate the creation of win/win scenarios.

 


Beginning Database File Structure and System File Description 

Agents of change                  

Aggression tendencies

Agriculture technologies

Arms trading

Art expression

Border issues

Children in combat

Climatology

Communication

Conflict transformation

Consumption levels

Corruption

 

Creation stories,  oral histories

Culture adaptability

Cultural trance

Deforestation

Dehumanization

Democracy

Desertification

Dictators/tyrants

Disaster lessons

Drugs

Ecology

 

Economics

 

Education

Energy

Environmentally 
induced conflict

 

Environmental refugees

Erosion

Ethnic issues

Ethnocentrism

Exopolitics

Failed States

Fishing technologies

Future visions

Genetic engineering

Global warming impact

Gun control

Hate,  fear,  revenge

Health

Homelessness

Hopelessness

Human development

Human rights

Immigration/ 
emigration

Indigenous science
and technology

 

Innovation

 

Inhumane tendencies

 

Internal violence

International treaties

Leadership profiles

Love, hope, forgiveness

Lost nuclear weapons/ nuclear storage issues

Medical

Meteorology

Military

Music expression

Natural disasters

Neighboring states relations

Non-religion ideology contribution to peace/war

Non-violence

Oceanography

Ocean resources

Origins of humankind

Political policy making

Population

Prisons

Privacy

 

Race

 

Re-entry stress/violence

Refugees

Religion contribution to peace/war

Research levels

 

Rose and Thorn file

Sacred Values

Secret/surrogate wars

Slavery

Slow moving catastrophes

Status of children,  women,  elders

Sustainability

Terrorism

Torture

Toxicity/pollution

Transportation

 

Tribes/clans

Unnatural disasters

Use of regional 
international peaceful 
settlement procedures

Visions and dreams 
of  peace

War residue, e.g.,  mine fields

Water

Xenophobic issues

The database will be unclassified, garnered from open source material.  It is estimated that up to 80% of government classified files are based upon open source material.  To establish and maintain this huge database will be a labor-intensive task. In so doing, it will provide opportunities for many who, by their labor, vest themselves in a more peaceful future.

How the various files interact with each other, and the reports and displays they generate are the tools that will be used to develop peace strategies.

Not all of the names of the files suggest their content and function.  For example, the Rose and Thorn file will address the subject of stereotypes.  Is it true that every seven year old Palestinian can tell you everything you need to know about his Jewish neighbors on the West Bank,  and similarly, his Jewish counterpart knows everything about the character of a Palestinian?  If this is so, such knowledge may appear to be in the DNA of these children, their parents and grandparents — a source of potential deadly profiling scarring hearts and minds, and poisoning generations after generation.  The Rose and Thorn file will detail what protagonists say about each other and themselves.  That is a necessary beginning if there is to be a will to change.  The database will also record the visions, the dreams and prayerful hope for peace of all communities, and support the will to make that the future.

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Revised July, 2008

 

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