With the news full of images of David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy ‘pressing the flesh’ in Benghazi, it is heartening to see that the end of the Libyan conflict is in sight. The efforts we are making for kosen-rufu, world peace, are slowly making progress, but oh so slowly.
Mahatma Gandhi said that good news travels at a snail’s pace and the peace movement cannot accomplish everything all at once. Often it can only advance by gradual and protracted means.
Gradualism does not, however, imply negative compromise or merely treading water. It truly reforms our times by sowing seeds of peace, in the minds of individuals, through sincere dialogue and, in this way, cultivating consensus.
The sights and sounds from Benghazi, leaving aside the politics behind the uprising, are the signs that peace is coming. It will not arrive today, tomorrow, or even in my current lifetime. That does not mean, however, that we should give up doing everything we can to hasten the day it does arrive.
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