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		<title>Steps to Recovery from a Culture of Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing a book, “Love Always Wins: Hope for Healing the Epidemic of Violence, ” based on the theory that violence is an addictive behavior that can be put in remission through a similar 12-step program as the one used for chemical dependency. As a recovering addict and violent person who has broken the multi-generational cycle of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidhazen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1969556&amp;post=148&amp;subd=davidhazen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Second Amendment is obsolete</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we need to look at the context in which the 2nd amendment was written.  At that time, it made sense, force of arms had meaning.  Guns were useful for survival and most of the time they were not needed. Now we are clearly addicted to armament as a nation and as individuals, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidhazen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1969556&amp;post=138&amp;subd=davidhazen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victim, rebel, or co-creator?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidhazen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are at war with OURSELVES, we are deathly ill with interpersonal and systemic violence inflicted on ourselves. The response-ability is OURS, the grassroots, to invent and create the joy, wonder and power of people working together in harmonious community.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidhazen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1969556&amp;post=127&amp;subd=davidhazen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am a peacemaker: I conceive endless ways to collaborate and to spread reciprocal benefit.&#8221; &#8211; Mali Rowan I have been contemplating these words and reflecting on the goal of being peace. The recent election campaigns have highlighted what it is to not be peace. On the other hand, I&#8217;m believe a certain chain of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidhazen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1969556&amp;post=124&amp;subd=davidhazen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Pays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An economy based on peace-building could realize an annual &#8220;peace dividend&#8221; of $1.5 trillion (conservative estimate), so how much are you willing to invest in building the peace?  How about pledging $10 or more (&#60;&#8211;please clink) to The Peace Alliance and betting that 700 other people will join you to  reach $7,000 by August 30, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidhazen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1969556&amp;post=101&amp;subd=davidhazen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A bridge to peace and survival</title>
		<link>http://davidhazen.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/a-bridge-to-peace-and-survival-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidhazen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine asked for some brief ideas on “Where do we go from here?” Oftentimes the best way to see the path forward is to start from the distant goal and ask what has to happen before that, and before that, etc. Starting from the top goal and working backwards to the more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidhazen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1969556&amp;post=97&amp;subd=davidhazen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A lucid moment</title>
		<link>http://davidhazen.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/a-lucid-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 4 in the morning, after wrestling with a depressing issue the day before, suddenly the dawn breaks before dawn.  This is a deeply personal awareness that I share. I had been to Maundy Thursday service, and it was very somber, the whole story of a world gone wrong, terribly wrong, the story of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidhazen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1969556&amp;post=92&amp;subd=davidhazen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of detached, playful leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have observed of myself and other peace-builders that we regularly create the illusion of grandiosity, that we are the only ones doing the really important work, that nobody else seems to care or support what we are doing, and that we are martyrs to the cause, an enormously impossible task which we will heroically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidhazen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1969556&amp;post=90&amp;subd=davidhazen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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