Some Thoughts on Peace from Blue Danube
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 22 Apr 2024
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service
Imagine that you are walking along the riverside of the Danube River. If you visit the Danube Park in Vienna nowadays, you can really enjoy seeing the amazingly beautiful scenic beauty of the River and of the spring flowers in the Park!
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Nearby the Park, there is the Vienna International Centre (VIC) in which the UN Office at Vienna (UNOV) and the main offices of other relevant international organizations are accommodated.
The Headquarters of IAEA is in the “A” Building of the VIC. The staff members of IAEA are reportedly very busy now behind the closed door of the Building because of the potentially and catastrophically dangerous on-going conflicts and problems, including the Israel-Iran Conflict, the Ukraine War, the North Korean nuclear weapon experiments and more.
There is a nice restaurant on the top floor of the Danube Tower in the Park. Let the world leaders gather at the restaurant to have a world peace conference!
The Danube River has been peaceful for centuries. “As early as 1616, the Danube was a keystone in negotiating peace.”
The Motoyasu River, in front of the ex-Hiroshima Commerce and Industry Hall (a.k.a. the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, the Ground Zero), is peaceful today.
The Urakami River, in front of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Memorial Peace Park, the Ground Zero, is also peaceful today.
A five-minute walk from the River takes you to the Urakami Cathedral.
- See the Urakami Cathedral then and now. What do the Cathedral and the Statues in front of it teach us, the humanity on this planet?
May peace flow from the Danube River, from the Motoyasu River, and from the Urakami River to every corner of the world!
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Satoshi Ashikaga is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. Having worked as researcher, development program/project officer, legal protection/humanitarian assistance officer, human rights monitor-negotiator, managing-editor, and more, he prefers a peaceful and prudent life. His previous work experiences, including those in war zones and war-torn zones, constantly remind him of the invaluableness of peace. He visited Hiroshima. He lived in Nagasaki.
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