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HOW ARE WE GOING TO CREATE A WORLD WITHOUT ANY WAR?

World Peace Attempt is an attempt to establish stable world peace, and we've created a game called World Peace Bingo to help us do it.

It's like any game of bingo, but with people instead of numbers. When somebody named on the ticket tags us on social media, they get marked. If we mark a full straight line across the board, everybody wins.

We define establishing world peace as ending all large-scale military conflict, and we have a plan. Now we need the plan to get attention, and if we get enough of it, bingo.

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In this game, we're all on the same team and we all win together, just as it is with achieving world peace.

If you're one of the 100 people named on the ticket, tag @WorldPeaceBingo on social media in a way that's shared to your audience, and your name will be marked. If a full straight line of names across the ticket is marked, we win. The straight line can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal.

If you aren't named on the ticket, of course we'd still love you to play! Like, follow, tag, and share @WorldPeaceBingo on social media...the more followers we have, the more likely the named people are to play along. If you know someone who is named on the ticket, reach out to them and tell them to participate. If you don't know any of the named people, that's okay...pick one and reach out to them anyway.

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We acknowledge how crazy, unrealistic, and unachievable the goal of achieving world peace looks from within the established social narrative, but there is a critical difference between campaigning for peace, or talking about peace, and attempting to create peace.

...this is an attempt.

The established social narrative might try to discourage us from looking at world peace as a genuine possibility, but we're rejecting the pessimistic attitude. We're proving that world peace can be treated as a serious goal, by making an attempt. Dismissing peace as crazy, unrealistic and unachievable allows the existing dynamics between militaries and governments to continue along, unchallenged by innovative thinking.

Along every possible line of names there are at least a few people who have an enormous social media following, so in order to win, a lot of public support will be visible, and a lot of attention will be directed to World Peace Attempt. A winning ticket doesn't guarantee world peace, but it does represent us reconceptualizing the idea of world peace. It represents us collectively embracing a new perspective. It represents us saying, loudly and together, 'perpetual war is not okay'.

But there's more...

There is power in demonstrating optimism, but World Peace Attempt also intends to have a direct impact on the people who are most influential over our progress. The strategy for directly influencing world leaders is something called 'The Simple Question'.

 

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For most of the past century, a small group of interconnected media corporations controlled almost all of the information that was broadcast and published, but in recent years, something with transformational potential has happened. To anybody willing to investigate, the extent to which those media corporations dishonestly manipulate public opinion has been exposed, and we’re simultaneously seeing the meteoric rise of independent journalists and podcasters, who can grow massive audiences but aren’t beholden to corporate pressure like their predecessors were.

Out of necessity, politicians are turning to these independent voices to help win public support, and this puts a profound opportunity within reaching distance. Corporate media failed in their responsibility to ask questions of politicians that might disrupt their system of profit-making, but as those same politicians now engage with independent content producers, the questions we should have been asking all along can now be asked.

World Peace Attempt invites the growing community of independent podcasters and journalists, and regular citizens as well, to ask one simple question of world leaders whenever the opportunity arises…

How are we going to create a world without any war?

With the support of a winning @WorldPeaceBingo ticket, it can become much more than just a question. It can become a new but feature of the political landscape; a modern but dutifully upheld tradition; nobody reaches or holds a position of power without regularly being asked The Simple Question.

If embraced, politicians obviously anticipate being asked the question. They prepare answers accordingly, and alter their policy decisions accordingly too. In countries where voting happens, some of us vote based on the responses we hear, so peace-oriented candidates are more likely to reach positions of power. Mature and thoughtful answers win public affection, but also build trust between nations.

Those who have succumbed to hopelessness might not be convinced that The Simple Question can make a difference, but the very act of asking it consistently will represent something important. Perhaps change happens mildly and gradually, or perhaps we see noticeable moments of pivot, but the consequences of asking the question will echo and ripple forever into the future...we think it's worth an attempt.

 

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