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Thus, questions of status, rank, hierarchy, sovereignty and legitimacy were constantly negotiated and re-negotiated via the performative language of the ceremonial. For Osborne looking at matters of diplomatic ceremonials offers perspectives on how sovereignty could be defined, calibrated and even questioned. In his article Osborne explores these issues by looking at spaces of diplomatic ceremonial, questions of precedence and the importance of the ceremonial for dynastic marriages and peacemaking.
(4/6)

#emdiplomacy #peacemaking #court #ceremonial

Daegu peace concert bridges Korean divides through forest metaphor, uniting 400 citizens in hope for reconciliation and understanding. Powerful stories of resilience and unity shared. #Peacemaking #Unification

"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions." - Nhat Hanh.

#Wisdom #Insight #Peace #reconciliation #ConflictResolution #EmotionalMaturity #Peacemaking #Reconnection #PersonalGrowth #Quotes #Unity #HigherSelf #KillYourEgo #humanity #empathy #compassion

‘Peace is not inevitable; it is an active choice’: Senator Mitchell call to young people

“For peace to flourish, we need conversations and editorials and pamphlets and sermons and town halls and stories, all filling in the spaces across the old divides.”

Read our article by Emily LIGHT 👉 https://sharedfuture.news/peace-is-not-inevitable-it-is-an-active-choice-senator-mitchell-call-to-young-people/

#SharedFuture #NorthernIreland #GFA #peace #peacebuilding #peacemaking #politics #youth

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

Bechtold is writing his PhD thesis on English diplomats at Imperial diets in the 16th cent. Braun is professor for modern history in Mulhouse. He published extensively on #emdiplomacy and #peacemaking. He also edited a volume of the French correspondences from the #WestphalianPeaceCongress for the APW. More recently, his attention turned from #earlymodern #peacecongresses to the perpetual Imperial diet.

So, who could be better than these two to write the #handbook article on diets al diplomatic spheres! (3/7)

#HRR #PerpetualDiet #earlymodernDiet #earlymodern

@earlymodern @womenknowhistory @historikerinnen @histodons

Oetzel argues that research has focussed for too long on the #WestphalianPeaceCongress and deduced from there to the later congresses. Thus, we need more (comparative) research on the earlier as well as the later congresses to understand #peacecongresses as a specific diplomatic sphere. Moreover, we should ask why were some peaces negotiated in a congress setting while others were still negotiated in a bilaterally. (6/6)

#emdiplomacy #peace #peacemaking #HistoricalPeaceResearch

@earlymodern @womenknowhistory @historikerinnen @histodons

Generally, the function of #peacecongresses changed over time. At first, their main purpose was to negotiate a peace. Later they became more a place where a peace agreement was proclaimed, represented and celebrate, while the main negotiations took place elsewhere at the courts. In the second half of the 18th century their purpose changed, too: The should no make peace, but prevent a new conflict. Of course, these different functions often overlapped. (5/6)

#emdiplomacy #diplomacy #peacemaking #HistoricalPeaceResearch #peace

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She sees two reasons for this: the temporality of #earlymodern #peacecongresses (#negotiations could last between a few weeks & years) & the lack of a centre, which at courts was the prince, so that procedures, ceremonies etc had to be agreed upon anew for each congress. This is one of the reasons why especially the #WestphalianPeaceCongress took so long. There was no generally accepted precedence, thus one had first to negotiate how to negotiate. For the later congresses it was a bit easier, here #Westphalia was used as an example – however, not always as a positive one, but also, as a way how not to do it. (4/6)

#emdiplomacy #diplomacy #peacemaking #peace

Read Psalm 146:1-4
https://et.gy/o0wtr4

Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
Psalm 146:3-4

Admiration is healthy: it is clear glass through which we see in others gifts and attributes to which envy is blind. But hero worship introduces a distortion; it confuses the mere human with the near divine. Hero worship is a first cousin to idolatry.

Prayer: God of majesty, I would not confuse my admiration of those whom I respect with adoration of you whom I trust. I will appreciate people but worship only you, in and through Jesus Christ. Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 145:8-13
https://et.gy/PyzBJI

All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your faithful shall bless you.
Psalm 145:10

Praise is a collaboration between the material of creation ("all your works") and the people of the covenant ("all your saints"). Like a theater in which sets are constructed to enhance the dramatic speech of the players, the world is designed for the drama of blessing. As we discover the purposes and designs of God's work, we find support and stimulus for praise.

Prayer: God, help me to hear the praise that proceeds from things, from mountain shapes and rock textures, star tracks and sun warmth; and then let me add my "little human praise" to make a song pleasing to you (Robert Browning, "The Boy and the Angel"). Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 145:4-7
https://et.gy/thlOxm

One generation shall laud your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.
Psalm 145:4

Praise is antiphonal between the generations. Praises lifted in one century are echoed in another. Our voices pick up themes announced hundreds of years ago and add personal variations, producing "the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty thunderpeals, crying out, 'Hallelujah!'" (Revelation 19:6).

Prayer: Great and glorious God, what a choir I find around me. What rich themes of praise I can share. My voice with its thin sounds, unsure and imprecise, joins the great praises of the genera- tions and I hear strong and harmonious sounds, resonant with grace. Hallelujah! Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 145;1-3
https://et.gy/eXM3ZR

I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.
Psalm 145:1

Praise raises a banner, blazoned with God's name and attributes, high into the air. Thrust against the sky, the celebrative flag catches the attention of the wandering and aimless and leads them in a parade of joy.

Prayer: God, I want to fill the air with the notices of your goodness and attract drifting minds to a new allegiance to your Lordship, even through Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 144:9-11
https://et.gy/ATnsVM

I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you..
Psalm 144:9

Music is as much a part of battle as armor. Harps that fortify spirits have as much place as swords that maim bodies. Sounds as ancient and diverse as the skirling of Highlander bagpipes and the rallying rhythms of fife and drum are caught up and recast in the resurrection melodies that Christians sing in triumph over sin and death.

Prayer: For weapons of faith to do battle in your name and for tunes of faith to sing the triumphs of your grace, I give you thanks, Almighty God, "who gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 15:57). Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 141:8-10
https://et.gy/Na94lH

But my eyes are turned toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; do not leave me defenseless.
Psalm 141:8

There are moments in the Christian day when we wonder if a brief vacation from discipleship isn't in order. Voices lazily suggest that things are not as urgent as we had supposed, that perhaps the night is not very far spent. Then a time of testing clarifies commitment; we are forced to decisions that cement our loyalty to Christ, who bids us "keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial" (Mark 14:38).

Prayer: You, O God, are both end and means: you are where I am going and you are the way I get there. Defend me from siren distractions, from "the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches," which would lure me from the way and after other gods (1 John 2:16). Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 141:5-7
https://et.gy/fCw7z8

When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that my words were pleasant.
Psalm 141:6

There are disciplines and difficulties that are associated with the "way of the righteous" (Psalm 1:6). And there are luxuries and delights that come only in alliance with the wicked. But faith plots its way, not on the basis of what feels good and not on the grounds of what looks good, but by compass readings from the word of the Lord.

Prayer: Father in heaven, you never promised that faith would be easy or popular, only that it would be whole and eternal. Keep me faithful to you and guided by your word, so that I will always prefer the bracing rebuke of kindness to the oily flatter of wickedness. Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 141:1-2
https://et.gy/T7GTic

I call upon you, O LORD; come quickly to me; give ear to my voice when I call to you!
Psalm 141:1

Arrow prayers-petitions shot off to God on the spur of the moment - are spontaneous and urgent. The use of incense to symbolize prayer and the appointing of an evening hour for the sacrificial act of worship are legitimate enough, but prayer cannot be confined to such established forms and set times. Empty hands and unstudied words are always welcome before God.

Prayer: Lord, take the half-formed sentences I address to you and the half-conscious movements I make toward you-my interjections and my gestures and make prayers of petition and praise out of them, in the name of and for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 140:6-8
https://et.gy/3SrPuU

O LORD, my Lord, my strong deliverer, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
Psalm 140:7

Our needs do not exhaust divine help. There are no limitations to grace. Always there is strength for overcoming. "The prince of darkness grim, we tremble not for him; his rage we can endure, for lo! his doom is sure; one little word shall fell him" (Martin Luther, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God").

Prayer: "No more we doubt Thee, Glorious Prince of life! Life is nought without Thee; aid us in our strife; make us more than conquerors, through Thy deathless love; bring us safe through Jordan to Thy home above. Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son; endless is the victory Thou o'er death hast won" (Edmond Budry, "Thine Is the Glory," translated by Richard Birch Hoyle). Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 140:1-5
https://et.gy/9nHAHB

Deliver me, O LORD, from evildoers; protect me from those who are violent.
Psalm 140:1

Persecution, far from destroying faith, develops it. Hostile attempts against the faith are as futile as trying to get rid of a nail by hitting it with a hammer-blows only embed it more firmly in reality.

Prayer: Powerful and merciful Savior, keep me from evil today. When I am weak, give me strength; when I am tempted, grant me courage; when I am disheartened, provide me with hope. In the name of Jesus who "himself was tested by what he suffered" (Hebrews 2:18). Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

Read Psalm 139:19-24
https://et.gy/qmAeER

Search me, O God, and know my heart, Test me and know my thoughts.
Psalm 139:23

The all-knowing eye of God and his relentless pursuit are not interferences to be avoided but a companionship to be welcomed. God's knowledge of me and his presence with me bring understanding and freedom. In his light we see light (Psalm 36:9).

Prayer: Lord, I see through a glass darkly; I am full of obscurities and shadows. You are the light of the world. Show me what I am in the light of your love so that I may find myself in your way and in your salvation. Amen. 

#love #peacemaking #healing #inspiration #meditation

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

Most famously in 1529, Margareta negotiated the peace of Cambrai between Charles V and Francis I of France. This is also known as the ladies’ peace, as it was negotiated between Margareta for the Emperor and Louise of Savoyen, the mother of Francis I, for France. Contemporaries praised them for their efforts to end this yearlong war between France and the Habsburgs which befitted their female gender and thus their peace-loving nature.
Choosing Margareta and Louise as negotiators was a way of face-saving especially for Francis I. If he had to make concessions, it would not be his fault but his mothers. (2/3)

#AdventCalendar #AdventCalendar2024 #peacemaking #emdiplomacy #emdiplomat