Hawaiʻi Island artist and activist Tomas Belsky writes in “Hawai`i Island: A Global Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict Resolution” that the magnificent Moku o Keawe can become a global center for peace and justice rather than a one-stop shop for military training, as Governor Abercrombie proposes:
I have always envisioned Hawaii as the best place on Earth to be dedicated to a world free of war, violence, and environmental degradation. We owe it to ourselves, our future, the world and especially to the host culture to create that Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict Resolution. The late Senator and war hero, Spark Matsunaga, envisioned and proposed the establishment of such a Department of Peace for the Federal Government. This is a most noble and necessary dream for today’s tortured world, and it may be human kinds very last chance to turn our scientific, technical know-how into our own salvation.
My dreams are unfettered by fickle realism, as an Artists’ must be; if you can’t dream it, you can’t build it. And it surely will not build itself.
- Instead of a massive military expansion on Moku O Keawe (Hawaii Island), we build the International Center for Peace, Justice and Conflict resolution as envisioned by Senator Matsunaga.
- There be constructed, here, a permanent home for the Olympic Games — as the Greeks did for their classical city states.
- We incorporate the Majesty of Mauna Kea into the Cosmic Center of Celestial Studies without denigrating the sanctity of the Mountain as held by Native Hawaiians.
- We dedicate Hawai’i Island as a center of Global importance for the development of education and the Arts — All the Arts.
With this vision there would be a carefully planned economic growth and advancement in our status as a civilization , bringing honor, respect , and celestial blessing upon these Islands of Aloha. We would be welcoming in the Universal AGE of PONO for all the world to enjoy.
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