(Marco Emanuele)
The process of building peace requires, first and foremost, a cultural transformation. Thinking in terms of complexity and systemic sustainability is fundamental.
It is not enough to want peace, as many rhetorically declare, but it is necessary to build the conditions for it at every level and in every area of coexistence. Despite the urgency of peace, it cannot be built through haste and simplistic solutions.
Peace is the deep conviction to work towards a dynamic order of reality in transformation, going beyond: this is what makes the difference. Transformation is different from change: if we think of the technological revolution, it works deeply to overturn the paradigms of reference to which we were accustomed. Peace, therefore, stands on the cusp between technological revolution, the evolution/involution of the human condition and the reconfiguration of power relations at the level of international relations: complexity within complexity, we might say.
It follows that, looking at the complexity of peace, we need a new realism that is not limited to separating and distancing, but works to recompose and reconnect what is scattered. Reality is changing so rapidly that peace must become a cross-cutting nourishment for symbiotic relationships, never neglecting the fact that the human condition lives in an “onlife” state where competition for competition’s sake and violence for violence’s sake (principles of war) are growing evidence of our historical approach: in essence, banal evil persists.
While the culture of war shows itself in all its organised evidence, the culture of peace is still in the shadows: our task is to help illuminate it in a historical present, in the future that is already present.
