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Conference in Paris
Former First lady of Portugal speaking.
(Click on the image. You need quicktime to see this short fragment)
Yesterday I went to Paris, for a conference on Peace Education for Children.
It is quite an interesting topic, but as in many cases, the danger to end up in very empty but beautiful ideas is always present.
The only answer I have on all those theories and superb illusionary projects is in fact our own SnowBlog project.
I don't claim of having invented the newest of the newest, nor that the project runs smoothly. But we are actually doing something.
What does it help to make another resolution which no country will ever follow? What does it help to philosophize about 'no violence' when there are people sitting in that same public that aren't able to open up the debate without falling into the cliches?
I don't always believe in these group sessions. I rather believe in 'doing'.
Maybe sometimes too much.
In the meanwhile I did learn that things have to have a profound structure -and actually I think it is the first necessity, otherwise you better don't start- and that long term thinking should be in the plans from the first moment.
So thinking is a necessity.
But solving the world in a room isn't my idea of change.
Yet, these sessions are rather interesting to get in touch with the right persons, because, networking on the web might be a faster way, reality shows that networking needs person-to-person contact.
Like that geekdinner of last night. Sorry I missed it, I was sitting in a Thalys direction home.
Posted on January 20, 2005
in Projects - SnowBlog.net
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