On OPTIMISM: A Peace Linguist’s Plea
POETRY FORMAT, 25 Dec 2017
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
Optimism is a powerful sea on which to sail
It challenges all ships to make PEACE prevail
Optimism in faith and hope is embedded
to global peaceland it is always headed
Global Seeds of Optimism let´s keep sowing
Our peacebuilding identity will keep growing
The best possible Peace let`s always expect
and to that wise goal all diplomacy let`s direct
Optimistic let´s always be
A peaceful world we will see
Optimistically let`s always (inter)act
Discourse dignity will become a fact
By optimistically educating Humanity the Earth to share
for a wise global citizenship we`ll also show how to care
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Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom Hélder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights) and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, ABA Global Education (www.abaweb.org). He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com.
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