This is part of the Wellism Vision.
Ideal reality
- Kindness: People treat each other with fairness, mutual respect, kindness, compassion, generosity, and caring, without oppression, tyranny, force, discrimination, exploitation, or cheating.
- Conflict Resolution: Disagreements are resolved through peaceful means, respectful discussions, and negotiations for mutual benefit.
- No Violence: There is no physical or verbal violence between people, and there are no wars.
Positive Path
Education and Training
Widespread courses and massive campaigns to educate and train people on how to interact peacefully with each other. In particular:
- The Wellism values and principles that underlie peaceful communication, such as respecting personal sovereignty
- How to de-escalate and resolve conflicts (when possible) even when the other party does not behave peacefully
Mediators
Training many people to become mediators, both professionally and non professionally, so that peaceful mediation becomes a prevalent pattern that is widely used in society.
Self-Defense
Training people in physical self-defense, especially children and women. In particular:
- Teaching the principles of using the least amount of force necessary to neutralize safety threats.
- Some of the trainees will also undergo training in firearms to form a civil guard in order to augment the police’s ability to protect the safety of the innocent.
Violent criminals will be less likely to operate in neighborhoods where there is a strong civil guard and prevalent practical knowledge of physical self defense.
Although in an ideal world there would be no need for such training as there would be no violence, unfortunately in our current world there are violent criminals, and so we need to handle this threat realistically and therefore enhance the self-defense capabilities of the innocents, in order to prevent and reduce violence as much as possible. Teaching the peaceful ideals is currently not enough.
Addressing Root Causes
Figuring out the core reasons and contributing factors for violence, and addressing them.