Peaceful Place Than It Was Term Paper

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Those three activities were: educational and cultural exchange, humanitarian relief, and peace (Lyrie, 2002, 55). Of course, during that time the level, affordability and speed of modern communications was not what it is today. The early efforts in the three categories that actually serve as the basis for the global peace initiative today involved participants of the sciences, political, economic and sociological communities in problem identifying and solving conferences, meetings, and summits held around the world. Today, these same kinds of communications are being held amongst average citizens from nearly every country around the world who are finding that we all have so much in common and that our different cultures and traditions are more interesting than threatening.

It would be fantastical not to acknowledge the forces opposing world peace and the celebration of cultural exchange and traditions.
Today, those forces are represented by the acts of terrorism that is opposed to the mingling amongst people of the Islamic faith and other religions and traditions. However, religious exchange, which is what Al Qaeda and fundamentalist Islamic terrorists are most concerned with, has become as prevalent as is the exchange of other ideas like politics, economics, and even dating (Last, 2005, 34). There is instantaneous access to the Pope's cyclicals, the religious position of a particular faith leader on important world issues as well as access to the complete volumes of the Old Testament, New Testament, and the Koran, or the three "book" religions.

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