Speaker: Jody Williams
Length: 11:23
Rating 3 / 5
Summary
Peace cannot be achieved from hoping for it alone. It requires organisation, courage and work to make it happen. Jody went through a list of people who worked hard for peace and made sacrifices to keep fighting.
Critique
I enjoyed watching this talk, but not sure what I learnt from it. Yes peace takes work, and it is difficult to achieve. I’m not sure if anyone thought otherwise.
Some of her examples were interesting: Wangari Maathai who organised tree plantings as an excuse to gather people together and instigate social change.
She also makes a good point – some people categorise peace with cowardice and weakness – with symbols like doves and rainbows. The difficulty of achieving peace makes it a stronger goal than that.
