Future Visions of Peace
Zachary Metz |
TEDxHofstraUniversity
• December 2017
Zachary Metz, Partner, Consensus Group - This session takes its inspiration from a powerful dilemma raised in the early 1990s by renowned peace scholar Elise Boulding. The session is motivated by her concern with “the challenge of imaging peace in wartime”, which is acutely relevant now. This session will explore what will matter most for the pursuit of sustainably peaceful societies in the next fifty years. The discussion will wrestle with some fundamental questions regarding the future (and history) of peace, including: Are humans naturally and historically war-makers? In the next fifty years, who will make peace, and who will make war (and why)? How will very big changes towards peace come from very small things? And, critically, what can you do today in pursuit of a future vision of peace? Zachary gratefully acknowledges Warscapes journal and Editor in chief Bhakti Shringarpure, for kindly allowing use of several important and powerful images from the site for this TEDx talk.