Discussed with my Philosophy of Peace students today Ralph Summy's and Johan Galtung's notion of POSITIVE PEACE, i.e., the situation where the basic needs (survival/subsistence, well-being, identity, and freedom) of every individual in society are adequately met. The other name of positive peace is SOCIAL JUSTICE. And of course, all these are a VISION, something which we always aspire for, but also something which realistically we won't be able to witness to come into FULL FRUITION in our lifetime. I believe that one archetype of a leader who wholeheartedly embraced the idea of the unreachable-but-worth-pursuing VISION was Moses. he concretely, flesh and blood struggled for his own people, but he himself wasn't allowed to enter the land flowing with milk and honey. He humbly accepted his role and thus didn't usurp the power which he clearly knew to have come from a power greater than him; and that such power was for the sake of a people whose welfare and well-being are greater than that of his own.
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