Fractured World by Design!
Peace is Just in a Calendar!
September 21st marked the International Day of Peace. But for many of us, peace is not a date... it’s a distant echo. It does not arrive with hashtags or ceremonies. It is postponed by policy, fractured by war, and buried beneath bureaucracy.
This post is a follow-up to yesterday’s reflection, where I refused to celebrate peace. Today, I explore how the absence of peace affects something often overlooked: employment.
Where Peace Is Absent, Work Is Erased!
Conflict doesn’t just destroy buildings... it dismantles livelihoods.
Teachers become petitioners.
Engineers become exiles.
Artists become archivists of pain.
In Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, and refugee corridors across the world, skilled professionals are displaced, silenced, and stripped of opportunity. Peace is not a luxury... it is the foundation of economic dignity.
Let this day be more than symbolic. Let it be a reckoning. Because peace is not just the absence of war... It is the presence of opportunity.
Standing Between What Was and What Must Be!
A solitary figure stands firm at the center of the frame, flanked by two olive branches—one on each side, symbolizing fragile hope. Behind him, the world appears fractured: continents split, borders blurred, and skies dimmed by unrest. The figure does not turn away. His posture is steady, his gaze forward. He stands not in triumph, but in persistence—between the memory of peace and the demand for its possibility.
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