WHAT MAKES THE CENTURY CEASE-FIRE™ IMPERATIVE UNIQUE?

 The Century Cease-Fire™ Imperative is a unique “recipe” of strategies that help sustain our co-existence, consisting of the following ingredients:

1.    It seeks the modest (but more realistic) first-step goal of a cease-fire, rather than rushing to the ultimate (but a more unrealistic) goal of immediate “peace.”  
 
2.    It sets a unique timeframe for these cease-fires; namely, a Century.  This is not to say every conflict will take a Century to resolve; but the most intractable ones may well require that time for the intense hate, intolerance, and  mistrust to literally die out.

3.    It seeks to change the paradigm for addressing conflicts away from a focus on present grievances based on historical acts, to a focus on the innocent children who have yet to be born --- specifically (and symbolically) on the children to be born on 11/11/11 of this Century --- and what we are doing to prevent the poisoning effect of hate and intolerance caused by adult influences.

4.    It identifies the essential ingredients necessary for non-violent co-existence among traditional adversaries, while recognizing today’s harsh realities that may justify the judicious use of force.  The Century Cease-Fire™ Imperative thus hypothesizes that a unique mixture of 6 ingredients may make for the most effective “carrot-and-stick” (or “good cop/bad cop”) approach to international relations, which could be summarized in short-hand as the “T.R.U.T.H. or Consequences™” doctrine of international relations --- where the acronym “T.R.U.T.H.” represents the values of mutual Tolerance, Respect, Understanding, Trustworthiness, and Humility; but coupled with an unequivocal resolve to use force, when necessary and appropriate, to deter and impose “consequences” on those individuals or organizations who are determined to commit heinous acts of violence against innocent children and civilians.

5.    By being a non-partisan, student-based, world-wide grassroots movement, World leaders would be afforded the “political cover” necessary to have the courage to seek the pre-conditions requisite to sustain a Century Cease-Fire™.  World leaders would thus not need to take ownership of a plan that may have risks of failure; but merely justify their use of this potential international relations tool as simply responding to the “will of the people,” who are calling for the Century Cease-Fire™ strategies to be implemented.  Thus, no World leader needs to fear losing credibility if, for any reason, attempts at a Century Cease-Fire™ fail, as it was not a strategy initiated by the World leaders.