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No Commitment - No Peace: From Zimbabwe to Afghanistan

In August 2017, IPP invited Zimbabweans to commit to the education of their children in their new Constitution of 2013 but most did not do so. Instead since that time there has been:

- military intervention (November 2017)

- organised violence against civilians (2018)

- disputed elections (2018)

- cyclone damage in the east of the country (2019) – an act of God

- more violence against civilians (2019) and

- economic deterioration (2019).

‘Honest conversations’ are now sought to ascertain the reasons for this lack of commitment and the consequences both in the home country and amongst the Diaspora. (Obviously the events listed above have other explanations, too.)

Yet what is true for Zimbabwe is likely to be true for every other country of the world, varying only in degree. Some do not even separate politics from education and those that do in law, like the constitutions of the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe, often fail to do so in fact. If anyone wants to challenge the superior way of promoting peace by educational, rather than political, means based on democracy and the rule of law let them fund, or compete in, the ‘Peace Games’ in any area of major conflict in the world – see the explanation below (unchanged on this website since January 2006).

IPP Objectives

Q1 Who is this website for?

Everyone interested in securing a state of peace and avoiding a state of war throughout the world.

Q2 Surely I can't make a difference? It's all about big power politics.

The good news is that understanding the differing means to secure peace and avoid war rather than power politics and the use of armed force may decide the direction of a conflict in the long term. If so, you can make a difference through educational rather than political means.

The bad news is that not many people know or believe this.

Q3 How are you going to prove your point then? Mount a campaign?

No. That could not prove it. ‘Understanding’ is a matter of education rather than politics. Instead IPP’s unique strategy for peace is based on the ‘Peace Games 2004’.

To illustrate this strategy the Trustees of the International Peace Project²⁰⁰⁰ (IPP), an educational charity, launched the trial games focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in December 2004.

Trial Peace Games: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Q4 What are the trial peace games?

They are about predicting a ‘climate’ for peace or war between Israel and the Palestinian Authority by taking all relevant factors into account, e.g. military, economic and political issues. Three competing views are offered in IPP Briefing No.1

An Israeli perspective (based on Professor Raphael Israeli’s work);
A Palestinian perspective (based on Cheryl Rubenberg’s work);
An Irenical perspective, which means ‘aimed at peace’ (by Peter Southwood).

Each contribution has the same sub-headings for ease of comparison. Appendices packed with concise information from reliable sources help you decide which view may be right.

Q5 How can I ever know whose view is right? It's just academic.

As opposed to just political? Well, the peace games use objective standards, demanded by good research, in applying that knowledge to predict the direction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: you’ll learn which analysis is right by whether later events in the region lead to peace or war.

Q6 How do I know it's truly educational?

IPP is grounded on an English legal case which established in 2000 that an ‘irenical perspective’ is a basis for education in the charitable sense. It contained a prediction of the return to global war that happened post-9/11. Judge for yourself by reading the History section of this web site.

Q7 This seems a very long-term project! What sort of commitment are you looking for?

Jerusalem (the 'City of peace') isn't built in a day. If the commitment of peoples to peace is not active and enduring, for the sake of succeeding generations, then there will be no alternative to enduring the evil effects of war. By improving your understanding of the climate that secures a peace you would be advancing the benefits of the prevention and resolution of armed conflicts. Please read the Get Involved section of this web site.

[IPP Briefing No. 1]

[Press Release]

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