Interview with my two favourite people (Barack Obama & Will Smith). ♥
"Critical ingredients for any effort for peace is the ability to stand in your shoes, see through your eyes, to constantly imagine whats it like ... like, being a mother in Bangladesh right now...and if the waters were rising because of climate change. That kind of ability to imagine ourselves in different situations helps us connect with other people....
I dont want to simplify it, none of this is easy. What it does mean is for example, when wealthy countries think about foreign aide, thinking about it as an investment. This is a way so we dont have to send soldiers on a peace keeping mission because peace is already there. This is a way to make sure that we have new markets. Now that these folks bought a bicycle maybe now theyre ready to buy a car... constantly thinking about how to create opportunities for collaboration and cooperation. "
