The mission

This blog will be my attempt at learning a great deal more about the world of conflict that surrounds us and communicating my thoughts on the conflict. The idea is to focus on the concepts of relationships between nations, ethnic and religious groups as well as internal government/ civilian relations. 

I will try to get a global sense, in that, i do not expect to post many articles on the same area of conflict. 

I believe that our nation and more specifically, our generation, lives in ignorance of the conflict of the world around them. We are so attached to the comfort of the safety of Canada and North America that we are ignorant to the outcry of the world around us. I, myself, would easily profess very little knowledge of the conflict that surrounds and encompasses most of the world.

I now desire to break out of my comfortable zone of ignorance.

All too often it is ignorance itself that leads to conflict and conflict that leads to ignorance and therein lies the real problem of War and hatred. It is nothing more than a vicious circle that will not end.

I do not profess to believe in the possibility of a utopian society, at least on this side of heaven, but I do believe that it is in understand others and their goals that we find unity.

Assimilation should not be our goal- diversity of cultures is what makes the world a beautiful place, but it is in our knowledge that when it comes down to it, we are all humans and we all want to believe in the goodness of humanity that we will move toward achieving peace.

I was inspired by the work of Kevin Sites in his mission of traveling and documenting the world of conflict he saw around him in a personal way. I would encourage anyone with interest to look into his work at http://hotzone.yahoo.com/.