New words or concepts
Words
: war-mongering
men (p 6), reprisal (p 9), inextricably
(p 9), endeavours (p 14)
Concepts
: men tend to have “ethic of
justice” and women tend to have “ethic of care”.
It
said that women tend to be more “peace-loving” than men. It is because women
always
consider
having a maternal thinking, and being seen as a peace maker. These ideas came
from the facts that women are giving birth, nursing babies, as care-givers
responsible for children and family, as life giver, feeding their family, doing
kin works, teaching the very young, tending the frail elderly, nuturing,
building relationships, resolving conflicts within families, and reconsiling
differences within families. So it is said that women are prone to be
non-violence person. However, although it said that it is not
institutionalized, there have always been violent women but it seems very rare
cases. As a peace-makers, women that acknowledged from their maternal thinking
can organize movements on issues of peace such as on issues of economic
survival, nationalist or racial/etnics issues, humanistic and nurturing and
women’s rights.
Discussions and concerns to domestic violence
(particularly when violence took place against women) are as important as to
violence against women during war time.
Women
can be as peacemaker and can make significant changes within their social
context. Although usually in general, women’s role in community group such as
churches being recognized as volunteers or charitable actions, women can do
more. Women’s works for peace can be recognized in doing some actions
concerning human life issues (especially for children, for themselves and other
women), in using nonviolent techniques, acts and strategies to make and
maintaining peaceful life, also for their rights. Women can do more like
organizing nonviolent movement to get their rights, or in political struggle in
their nation, struggle in environmental issues, etc.
Men and women are not born with violence
behaviour and deep
inside them tend to have peaceful mind
and behavior, however we are created in God’s image. There are many reasons can
change and shaped men and women become violence, such as how they
were educated by their family, life experiences, social influences, and their
recents situation and conditions. Men and women can be as peacemaker
by having same understanding about how important to life in peace.
New, helpful, or compelling insights.
A new compelling insights for me is the
concept of men tend to have “ethic of justice” and women tend to have “ethic of
care”
Two discussion questions based on this reading :
What is the correlation between domestic violence and
violence against women during war time?
What kind of roles that women can participate doing
peace-building within their community (i.e. within their society which has
inter-religious conflict inside)?
War-mongering
men
·
Monger – dealer in
tricked-out wares, a dealer or trader usually in compounds (like fishmonger),
sometimes used figuratively and derogatorily (to derogate : to take away from
something os as to impair it, to lower oneself / lose face, lower in esteem),
chiefly, to promote, to disseminate – often in a way that is regarded as
deceptive or self serving.So “war-mongering men” means ... men who promote war
·
Reprisal
·
To take back, to forcible
seizure of property or subjects in retaliaton for an injury inflicted b another
country, to act or practice of using force, short of war against another nation
to obtain redress of grievances, injury done or the doing of injury.
·
Inextricably (adv)
·
Impossible to escape
from, impossible to disentangle or separate
·
Endeavours
·
Duty, to try to do, to make
an earnest attempt, strive, or effort
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