{"id":15497,"date":"2025-04-18T03:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=15497"},"modified":"2025-04-25T03:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T03:30:53","slug":"2025-04-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-04-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Can there be World Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"971\" height=\"1089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/humanists.org_2025_04_20_Jody_Williams_peace.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15503\"\/><figcaption>Jody Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., April 20, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join our Forum this Easter Sunday, either in person or online, as we delve into the theme of World Peace. Let&#8217;s watch these two videos, then discuss the practicality of either of these visions being effective in the real world. One of the videos is ten years old, the other is two years old. The subject is an ancient one.<\/p>\n<p>You can review these videos at:<\/p>\n<p>How to make world peace? Troy Davis at TEDxStrasbourgUniversit\u00e9. 19 minutes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Y7XWpe0Zyc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Y7XWpe0Zyc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jody Williams: A realistic vision for world peace. 11 minutes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FD6CqD1kV8s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FD6CqD1kV8s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday&#8217;s facilitators will be Alex Havasy and Carl Angotti, both long-time Humanist Community members.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Attend in Person:<br>On the first and third Sunday of the month, such as March 2nd, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the <b>Mountain View Senior Center<\/b>, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View, CA 94040. Lunch will be served after the forum. We request a $10 donation.<\/p>\n<p>If you can join us in person, please email vp@humanists.org to help us make sure we have room for you. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will continue to present our forums <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Zoom. To join and be able to ask questions and make comments, click here<\/a>.<br>No password is needed &#8212; our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer (if it&#8217;s not already installed), and then take you to the meeting. 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Let&#8217;s watch these two videos, then discuss the practicality of either of these visions being effective in the real world. One of the videos is ten years old, the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-04-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can there be World Peace?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15497"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15507,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions\/15507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}