ABSTRACT
Peace comes almost always only after long periods of conflict and then months, or years, of patiently conceiving ways to resolve conflicting claims and convince the protagonists to accept realistic compromises. Peace works patiently and hard for justice, and the men and women across the world—whether in the human rights groups, the NGOs, the international courts or political figures themselves—these are the heroes. John Lennon remained apparently unaware of how antithetically he was living his private life. “Peace” he was proclaiming in public; “war” he was doing in private. People who only proclaim peace, filling others with guilt and helplessness, actually do damage in the world; the people who do peace, who work at realizing the laborious interior core of justice—those are the ones we need to watch and support, to cosset and honor.
