On a journey this past week to East Asia, one of my goals as a traveler was to visit that man-made wonder of the world known as the Great Wall of China. Being there, seeing it for the first time, after reading about it and studying its history while doing research on ancient China was a truly impressive experience. And, I have to admit, since it coincided with the launching today of my latest book, War: A Crime Against Humanity, on Kindle, Nook and Smashwords, as well as in print distributed worldwide by Amazon, it got me thinking. Not so much about the wall itself, mind you, but about the effort that went into it, a centuries-long effort built entirely on the premise of separation, isolation and division among peoples. More than a monument to human ingenuity, the Great Wall is that, a monument to isolationism, to divisions among peoples, to the risk of invasion and domination and to the meticulously expressed desire of one group of the world’s inhabitants to shut themselves off fr
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Author Roberto Vivo comments on wars past and present, on the world’s great peacemakers and on the pathway to global peace. His basic philosophy: In a world where 9 out of every 10 victims of armed conflict are civilians, war is no longer a viable political alternative. Indeed, it is the ultimate crime against humanity. If rising generations are to have a future, the key will lie in world peace. War is the pathway to oblivion.