Rx for Resilience: Peace
Each year on September 21, the world observes the International Day of Peace, a time dedicated to strengthening the ideals of harmony and unity across nations. Few figures embody this vision more fully than Mahatma Gandhi, whose philosophy of nonviolence demonstrated that lasting change can be achieved through peaceful means.
Peace results from understanding, beginning in small behavioral gestures like patience, the words we choose, and the respect we show to one another especially those with whom we disagree and/or don’t identify with in terms of background, geography or any other differentiator.
Peace is built when we listen more deeply than we speak, when we seek solutions instead of divisions, and when we recognize the shared humanity that connects us all. This is our common ground and our common denominator as humans.
This week, the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly gathers in New York City with leaders from around the world. This year’s theme is: Better Together: 80 Years and More of Peace, Development and Human Rights. May these leaders be safe this week as they seek new ways to quickly implement peace, end wars and unrest in political hotbeds around the world, sowing the seeds of respect, compassion, strength and content in our increasingly interdependent global world.