Consciousness, spirit, energy and how these translate to how we run our economy, the content in media -- a presentation delivered to The Philippine Buddhist Youth Camp 2012

1. Love and Peace with the World
Philippine Buddhist Youth Camp 2012
Presentation
5:00-6:30PM, March 31, 2012
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2. Be here, Now.
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3. An Exercise
• With your group, prepare a tableau (using your bodies
only, no other props) to express the idea/concept of
the word assigned to you. Keep the word a secret. 
• When you’re ready to present, show your “body
tableau” to everyone, freeze for a minute or 2, as we
ask everyone to guess what your are presenting.
• After everyone is done, let one member of your group
finally, reveal the “secret word” and explain what you
were presenting . 
• After all groups are done presenting, please reflect on
this exercise. What did you observe? What have you
learned?
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6. • "A map is not the territory it represents, but
if correct, it has a similar structure to the
territory, which accounts for its usefulness".
This means is that our perception of reality is
not reality itself but our own version of it, or
our "mental map". – Alfred Korzibsky, father
of general semantics
The Map is not the Territory.
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7. • "Maps are never value-free images; except in the
narrowest Euclidean sense they are not in themselves
either true or false. Both in the selectivity of their
content and in their signs and styles of representation,
maps are a way of conceiving, articulating and
structuring the human world which is biased towards,
promoted by, and exerts influence upon sets of social
relations. By accepting such premises it becomes
easier to see how appropriate they are to
manipulation by the powerful in society." Harley. J. B.
"Maps, Knowledge, and Power," The Iconography of
Landscape, ed. Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994.
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LENS OF IDENTITY: Born into a world with
mechanics in place: stereotypes, prejudices
LENS OF SOCIALIZATION: Reinforcement by schools,
church, other institutions, media
Socialization on a personal level
Reward or punishment
LENS OF EXPERIENCE: Results might be re-affirmation or guilt,
anger, silence, violence, internalization of patterns of power
Do nothing; promote the status quo
Interrupt
Question
Reframe
Raise
consciousness
Change
Transform
CYCLE OF SOCIALIZATION DIAGRAM
(created by B. Harro, 1982)

9. LOVE, FEAR
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10. 6 Types of Love
(J.A. Lee, “Colors of Love”, 1973)
• Eros is romantic, passionate, love—what Tennov labeled limerence. In this type of
relationship, love is life's most important thing. Lee said a search for physical
beauty or an ideal type also typifies this type of love.
• Ludus is a game-playing or uncommitted love. Lying is part of the game. A person
who pursues ludic love may have many conquests but remains uncommitted.
• Storge (STORE-gay) is a slow developing, friendship-based loved. People with this
type of relationship like to participate in activities together. Often storge results in
a long-term relationship in which sex might not be very intense or passionate.
• Pragma is a pragmatic, practical, mutually beneficial relationship. It may be
somewhat unromantic. A person who leans toward this type of relationship may
look for a partner at work or where the person is spending time. Sex is likely to be
seen as a technical matter needed for producing children, if they are desired.
• Mania is an obsessive or possessive love, jealous and extreme. A person in love
this way is likely to do something crazy or silly, such as stalking. The movie Fatal
Attraction was about this type.
• Agape (a-GOP-aye) is a gentle, caring, giving type of love, brotherly love, not
concerned with the self. It is relatively rare. Mother Theresa showed this kind of
love for impoverished people.
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11. Agape Love
(1 Corinthians: 4-7)
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does
not envy, it does not boast, it is not
proud. 5
It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking, it is not easily
angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs. 6
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth. 7
It always
protects, always trusts, always
hopes, always perseveres.
• Love mentality: “All is One”; what I
do to me I do to you and what I do to
you I do to me; “I am loved/ I am
taken care of.”; sufficiency,
cooperation, sharing
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12. What is Fear?
• Instinctual response to potential danger;
when healthy, a protective mechanism
• Physiological symptoms: Rapid heart rate,
Increased blood pressure, Tightening of
muscles, Sharpened or redirected senses,
Dilation of the pupils (to let in more light),
Increased sweating
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13. • Perceived danger may be
real (supported by facts) or
potential (based on
perception, past experience,
information, prior
conditioning, perceived
degree of security)
• Fear mentality: “I am
alone”; “I am separate from
you”; scarcity, competition,
attack modes
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14. PEACE, VIOLENCE, CONFLICT
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Concepts of Peace
• Pax (Latin) – a pact, a contract; an absence of war through the
imposition of order by a dominant power
• Sala’m (Arabic) – peace with justice/order/following the right
path of God
• Shalom (Hebrew) – wholeness, integrity, harmony; co-
existence of opposites through acceptance of differences;
continuous growth of all creative human powers
• Shanti (Sanskrit) – equanimity, spiritual peace, oneness with
the Divine, non-attachment, self-realization
• Heping (Chinese) – harmony within and without, stability and
order
• Filipino?

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Key Elements of Peace
• Absence of war and physical violence
• Conditions necessary for human fulfillment
and the growth of our creative powers
• Conditions necessary for human harmony
• Conditions necessary for oneness with all
creation, inner peace

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Peace
Total Peace
Integrated Peace:
Absence of Indirect Violence
Direct/Symptomatic Peace:
Absence of Direct Physical Violence

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Violence:
Inflicting Harm, Damage
• Direct Violence
-usually physically
manifested (hitting,
beating, shooting,
bombing, raping,
kicking, etc.)
• Indirect Violence – usually
insidiously/subtly manifested
– Cultural Violence: hate speech,
gossip, xenophobia, discrimination
in any form, gender violence,
“chosen-ness”, etc.
– Structural Violence: poverty,
slavery, apartheid, colonialism,
corruption, excessive material
inequality
– Ecological Violence:
overconsumption, pollution,
environmental harm and damage

19. The Triangle of Violence
Cultural
Violence
Direct
Violence
Structural
Violence
visible
invisible
Hitting, Beating, Shooting,
Bombing, Raping …
Myths and Legends,
„Choosenness“, Gender Violence
Poverty, Corruption

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Peace:
“A Space for Human Flourishing”
Say no to peace
If what they mean by peace
Is the quiet misery of hunger
The frozen stillness of fear
The silence of broken spirits
The unborn hopes of the oppressed.
Tell them that peace
Is the shouting of children at play
The babble of tongues set free
The thunder of dancing feet
And a father’s voice singing.
- Diana Francis,
Conflict Transformation: From Violence
to Politics

22. Is Violence the same as Conflict?
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What is Conflict?
Conflict is a process through which two or
more actors try to pursue incompatible
goals while trying the undermine the goal-
seeking potential of the others.
It may also arise when two or more actors
pursue compatible goals with incompatible
methods.
Conflict arises when there are unmet needs
and changing needs.

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Sources of Conflict
• Scarce resources
• Uneven distribution of power
• Poor or no communication between parties
• Parties have incorrect perceptions of each other
• There is a lack or very low level of trust
• Unresolved grievances exist from the past
• Parties do not value the relationship between
them

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Conflict Escalation
9. Destruction and self-destruction
8. Destruction of the opponent
7. Limited destructive blows and sanctions
6. Threatening strategies
5. Open attack and loss of face
4. Formation of coalitions
3. Confrontation, with a “fait accompli”
2. Debate
1. Tension and Crystallization
How Conflict is Managed
And Communicated
Quantity and
Quality of
Information

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• Conflict is part of life. Life means growth.
• Conflict is about change. Life is a series of
changes towards growth.
• Change requires adjustments and
readjustments of perceptions, attitudes,
behaviors, structures, ways of life.
• Responses to conflict can be creative and
collaborative, if change is seen as an
opportunity for new and better possibilities
rather than a threat.
Conflict is not the same as Violence.

28. PEOPLE’S BASIC MAPS OF THE WORLD
FEAR-BASED: “WE ARE SEPARATE”
> PROMOTES VIOLENCE
LOVE-BASED: “ALL IS ONE”
> PROMOTES PEACE
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29. “THE WORLD”: APPLICATIONS IN ECONOMICS
AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS (JOURNALISM)
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30. ECONOMICS: NEEDS & WANTS
TRADITIONAL MARKET
ECONOMICS CARING ECONOMICS
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31. JOURNALISM
THE LINEAR MODEL THE FEEDBACK LOOP
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32. The Media
Filter
FACTS
Source
Personal
Knowledge
What source? Hirarchy…
How many? Time…
Interpreters…
What information do
you pick up?
In what condition are you?
How much do you
understand?
Professional
What‘s News?
Journalistic decisions…
Target Group
For whom do you write
and report?
Team
Who is working with you?
Time
…for investigation, for
interviews, for writing
and authorizing?
Money
NO COMMENT…
Editorial
House Style
External Influence
Newsvalue compared to other stories
Space in the paper, program
Taste, personal relationship
Organizational background?
? Report / Article

33. Peace Journalism
is when editors and reporters make choices –
of which stories to report, and how to report
them – which create opportunities for society
at large to consider and to value non-violent
responses to conflict.
(Jake Lynch, Annabel McGoldrick,
Reporting the World / BBC)

34. Key Questions of a PJ Approach:
• How is the conflict framed?
• What is the shape of the conflict?
• How is violence reported?
• What is the role of the journalist in the
conflict?

35. Characteristics of War Journalism
War Journalism reports on conflict
as a Sports Reporter does on a
tennis match:
• who is fighting (playing)
•what the score is (casualties
taken/territory won or lost by
either side)
•who is winning and who is losing

36. The Shape of the Conflict
Party A Party B
Two Party Geometry

38. The DMA-Syndrome
Dualism
Manicheism
Armaggedon

39. Dualism
• Two party geometry
• „Us“ and „Them“
• „Goodies and Baddies“
• Victory or defeat

40. Manicheism
The world is divided into
Good & Evil.

41. Armaggedon
Before we
can establish
peace
we need
the last battle!

42. Characteristics of Peace Journalism
Conflict is to a Peace Journalist as disease is to a
Health Correspondent.
e.g. Heart disease reported as:
•Technical aspects,e.g. the latest development in open-
heart surgery (the equivalent of War Journalism
and its talk of ‘surgical strikes’).
•But also: underlying causes (diet and lifestyle, poor
education, housing conditions etc.))
•highlight possible SOLUTIONS - initiatives to counter the
effect of marketing fatty foods to children, or
persuading people to take more exercise.

43. The Shape of the Conflict
Round Table Geometry

44. Summary:
Peace Journalism vs War Journalism
• Two party geometry
• Tug of war
• Zero sum gain
• Victory or defeat
• Demonization for
justification
• Good and evil
(DMA Syndrome)
• Round table
• Conflict as common problem
• Positive sum gain
• Search for solutions
• Humanizing all parties
• Shades of gray

47. Ubuntu, Xhosa culture