Can a children’s book help create a more peaceful world? What if we could raise a generation of young people who would not even consider war as an option for resolving conflict?  There are many people and organizations working towards that goal, teaching concepts like Non-violent Conflict Resolution and Compassionate Listening

Rose Lord, director of The Women's Self Reliance Program, a project of Global Coalition for Peace, has written a book for young children that tells the story of a boy who wanted to make gardens instead of war. The story was inspired by a conversation with her three-year-old grandson that occurred one afternoon while he was helping her plant her garden. 

Sometimes the effort to make a subject understandable to a young child can bring the light of understanding to what seems like a very complex subject.     Sean’s questions helped his grandmother to see the simple truth behind the seemingly complicated and un-resolvable issue of war. 

“Why do people have wars, Grandma?”   “I guess it’s because they’re afraid.” “Afraid of  what?” “That they won’t have enough of the things they need and want?”

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But as the book strives to point out, the Earth offers an abundance of the things we need and if we just stop being afraid and learn to share, there will be no need for war.

“Sean the Veggie Man,” starts out with an introduction from Max the dinosaur, who’s worried about the state of things on planet Earth.  Max tells us the story of his friend, Sean, who as a little boy learned about gardening from his father and grandmother.  He grows up with a love for gardening and for teaching other people this joyous pastime.  When, as a young man, Sean is drafted into the army of an unnamed country, he is determined that he will make gardens instead of war. 

Children of today have a steady diet of violence, on TV, in movies, on the news, in the schools, in toys and video games and unfortunately, all too often, in their homes.  Although the subject of violence is rarely discussed until some horrific event occurs, there is all too much evidence of how it is affecting our children.  It is the hope of the author that this book will be used to encourage children to talk about their feelings about war and the themes of this story: that people are the same all over the world; that the Earth offers an abundance of the things we really need and that violence can be prevented by sharing what we have with one another.

If we don’t want to create a world that is as uninhabitable for people as it is for dinosaurs like Max, we will have to start somewhere to raise a generation of children who will not even consider war as an option for resolving conflict

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"Sean the Veggie Man"

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