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IJB Thinks #10: The Opposite of War

IJB Thinks is getting one issue older once again. And the name of this edition is The Opposite of War.

We study about wars at school, watch war-related movies in which ridiculously good-looking actors get shot, learn definitions of it, read about it on the news. Nowadays, war is fairly easy to define, to describe, to visualise.

In very simple terms: it's a bit screwed up that we can perfectly describe a war and generate some sort of consensus about its causes and consequences (at least in a historical perspective), whereas it seems that there is no consensus about what the opposite of war is. How does it look like? How does it taste like? How does it sound like, smell like, feel like?

We're going through a time of big changes. Sometimes we tend to use that word –changes– too much, to such an extent that we forget to put things into it, to give it a meaning, to turn it into actual novelties. I'm sure that the JB world is craving to know about what you think these changes should look like, how you are trying to approach the issues that concern you, how you picture the opposite of war. Personally, I'm dying to know how that feels like.

Submit your piece for IJB Thinks #10: The Opposite of War, before February 15th 2009.

It can be a short story, an opinion article, a movie review, a poem, your artwork, a project you organised or participated in...

Send it to ijbthinks@ijb.cisv.org