Processes of peacemaking and peace building around the world

To be a peacemaker is the most difficult job in the world, but it is not impossible. Along with the year we have been seen icons who are been remembered thru the generation. As the first example we can mention our Lord Jesus Christ who was killed just to prophesy the peace and love between the human kinds. However, we do not need to be so extraordinary in order to make the different or even just to contribute in having a better world. It seen to be that people who look for war between the populations had better luck
We do not have to wait for a big opportunity, nor it going to appear in front to us. The different is on us, it is on every day of our lives. There are people who expose their own lives for a better quality of other people’s live. Nelson Mandela, as an example, sacrificed his family, his privacy and his freedom for the equal rights of the African people. This fight took more than a single day, but at the end an entire nation is enjoying today the benefits of his scarify. He did not use any sign of violence, guns or practice that would place a life in danger. On the other hand, when he got into the government, he did not take his power again those who send him to prison for almost three decades.
Even in the worse scenery there are place to contribute to the process of peacemaking. By the time of the Second World War, when the Nazis took over Europe and went against the Jude people to kill them, many people help to hide them in order to save their lives. If we look back we will find many histories about it. Thanks to this people there are still Jude people who survived to the war. Even thought they took advantage in certain way because their situation, they help them even with the minimum sign of care. The best seller movie Schindler’s List tell about a Germany guy who represent a true history lived during the WWII. This is not easy to have it done, but if he did it, why we cannot.
Those are just few examples of what we can do when we want it do to it. There are many people we can mention but what they did is done, and now it is our opportunity to write in the book of life. “The power of one is to do something… anything”, we hear it constantly but nobody wants to step ahead. The process of a peace-building may kill you, but if you decided to go for it, your name will live forever.

Bibliography:
La lista de Schindler. On http://www.hoycinema.com/sinopsis/lista-Schindler-1993.htm Access on December 08, 2010.
Invictus. On http://www.lahiguera.net/cinemania/pelicula/3579/sinopsis.php Access on December 08, 2010
International Online Training Program On Intractable Conflic. On: http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/peacemkg.htm Access on December 08, 2010.

Destiny's Poem

Jose Miguel Monge Fallas

The star of my life

From the highest of the sky
into the darkness of the night
I am looking for light
that is ruling my own life.

I keep fighting for the right
to change the way in my life
and before the day I’ll die
I would change the light in the sky.

Get away from me destiny
what is this pain that you make me feel?
let me build my own destiny
and with happiness this pain I would heal.

I still fighting in my life
to change the star in the sky
and as an owner of my life
this light every day will shine.

I have the control of my destiny
I have the control of my life
I changed the start in the sky
And the light, even in a clear day will shine.



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Current jail sentences for drunk drivers

In Costa Rica, the new law is seen to be taken as a joke for the drunk drivers. Actually, it is one of the biggest causes of death in our country. The current law is taken down by many reasons, and one of this is the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the number of accidents is raising and the families that looses their still growing up, the drivers who irresponsible drink and drive, are still outside enjoying this big mistake.
By the beginning of this year, the transit law took one step ahead. It seen to be “the beginning of the end,” of what is one of the biggest problems in our country. Unfortunately, drunk drivers need more than a stricter law to change their attitude. When the first drunk driver case when to court in Jan 22, 2010, for the new law has a short victory; even thought, few days later the victim was running free on the street. By the middle of this year, the number of accidents still being the same compare to the last year. Once again the law was not enough reason for the drunk drivers to stop their behavior behind the wheels. What supposed to rule the street is being dismissed by those who supposed to follow it.
With the first case in Jan 22, every turned upside down when the defendant send the case to the Supreme Court. The game started again between the Supreme Court and the “Sala cuarta”. This never-ending game is taken down the law, giving the opportunity to the law’s broker to play with the law. It really difficult to understands what laws are against? and what laws are made in favor of the criminals?. Everything looks like the law depends on the meaning that the judge gives it, and from where you are coming, so if you have relatives in the government, you are saving by their shields.
Every time there is a drunk driver on the streets, there is not just their live in danger. Every year many innocent lives are taken, and complete families are destroyed thanks to those irresponsible drivers. We can remember how this year, a U.C.R student was killed on a Saturday morning by a teenager who did not have a legal age to drive and by the way he was driving under the alcohol effects. Is it the problem of the law or is it the society? More than a simple live in dangerous, it could be my live next that would be in the middle of a drunk drivers way.
There is nothing in having a beautiful country, full of peace and freedom, if we are not safe. Our country needs to be educated, and our system needs to be more effective against those who broke the law. A drunk driver in the street is similar to a fired gun in the darkness, and the next victim could be me, could be you.
Bibliography:

http://white-collar-crime.lawyers.com/Jail-Sentences-Get-Harsher-for-White-Collar-Crime.html retrieved on November 13, 2010



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