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Peace Begins in your house - Hospitality Organizations

Welcoming a stranger in your home can be an act of peace.

The Peace Movement wears many faces and manifests in a myriad of forms. Many of us have demonstrated repeatedly, written letters to and lobbied government representatives, signed petitions, participated in boycotts and responsible purchasing, flown peace flags and displayed peace symbols, along with measures of nonviolent resistance. Artists and musicians were able and shared their benefit peace. Too many people are already arrested, become victims of violence, or simply given their lives toward this goal. Nevertheless you will find there's world with wars and related atrocities in many regions, subversive measures and terrorist acts. There's more grounds for a pacifist movement than in the past.

In direct reaction to World War II, an organization called Servas was formed in 1949 on pacifist principles, their motto "With Every True Friendship, We Build the foundation for global Peace." The premise was simple: as we become acquainted with the "other", the dichotomy of "us - them" begins to digest therefore we can no longer distance ourselves from and villainize strangers or members of other cultures, countries, religions; war is a lot more unlikely that when we are personally informed about our supposed or potential enemy. This is built on sound psychological principles, as well as the program is in existence today. It is identified by the N't being an accredited NGO by using a peace-keeping mission and has been involved in numerous international projects. At its core, however, it can be hospitality organization which has a system of members opening their properties along with other members that happen to be traveling, housing and feeding them for you to 2 days, guests sharing in the daily activities of the host in order to improve understand the culture of this particular region.

Other hospitality groups have arisen with all the advent of the online market place, first "Hospitality Club" accompanied by "CouchSurfing" and after this a selection of others. The premise of each online hospitality group ranges from free (systematically reciprocal) accommodation to international friendships, English language practice, electronic 'penpals', local travelers' clubs, and then for some, pacifist principles on the lines of Servas.

The backdrop in social activism of those in online groups is less prevalent or apparent as opposed to those in Servas. Nevertheless, the psychological and philosophical premises are universal. Whether other hospitality groups attempted to do this purpose is of little consequence for the reason that principle remains true nonetheless. Thus, this concept of housing and feeding strangers, an age-old concept built into the hospitality codes of many a culture surrounding the world and today revisited in new form, is a grassroots pacifist movement on the global scale.

World peace can always be in this reach...one couch during a period.

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