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UNDERSTANDING THE LETTER OF PEACE
29-04-2008
Seven years ago a strange document fell into my hands: it was a letter that talked about peace and was addressed to the United Nations. When I first heard about it I didn’t know what it was all about exactly, and although I was doing some work experience for my translation degree at the Letter of Peace Foundation in Barcelona, those ten points still sounded very far away from me. As I read the decalogue I began to understand that the Letter of Peace was not a document written with a fixed beginning and ending, but rather an initiative full of life that grew like a tree with ten branches stretching out to help peace spread all over the world. What is more, the vision of peace proposed by that document was totally innovative as it allowed us to simplify the great collective obstacles to obtaining world peace by taking them into the individual realm. In this way, each person could make each of these ten points their own, gradually and in line with their possibilities and priorities, openly and through the use of dialogue. In this way ensuring that people’s environment went beyond the absence of war, making it into a true celebration.
Joan Baron Castellà (Translator and Interpreter)
Spain - Gerona
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