Once we need force, it cannot keep us safe
Force can help us stay safe only when violence occurs only at the periphery of our community
- the physical periphery - the social periphery.
As violence moves closer to the core of the community, as violence begins to develop within the core of the community, - the physical core - the social core, then force can no longer keep us safe. In an environment of increasing violence, responding with increasing force feeds a cycle of ever-increasing violence. Beyond a certain low threshold, responding to violence with force only perpetuates and increases cycles of violence. Force does not and cannot establish peace.
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