Peace relies not only on the resolution of national issues, but on the solution of global problems

We need to structure our curricula and our institutions to permit global thought, vision and action, igniting the imagination of students and researchers alike, challenging us all to stretch our minds and to create not only new technologies and a strong economy, but a world at peace.

'In a world in which our destiny is increasingly a collective and planetary one, no task is more vital than promoting, through education and culture, an active sense of tolerance and moral understanding. For this is the only basis upon which a lasting peace can be established,' once said UNESCO's Federico Mayor, writes Roseann O'Reilly Runte. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE

January 7, 2026

This past year, one word adorned the cover of my holiday cards: peace. It is the wish l share, and yet, every day when I read the headlines, I think of 17th century English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon’s comment that “hope makes a good breakfast, but a poor ...

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