Soldiers Without Guns - Directed by Will Watson
https://youtu.be/p1vG3jLNa20 or https://yewtu.be/p1vG3jLNa20 1hr 36mins.
The journey of New Zealand Defence Force personnel as they land unarmed into the heat of a 10 year civil war using only the weapons of Music, Maori Culture and Love to create peace. This radical idea of sending soldiers without guns was condemned by the media.
"Soldiers Without Guns, recounts and shows us a true story that contradicts the most basic assumptions of politics, foreign policy, and popular sociology. This is a story of how a war was ended by an army without guns, determined to unite people in peace. Instead of guns, these peacemakers used guitars.
This is a story that should be much better known, of a Pacific Island people rising up against the largest mining corporation in the world. After 10 years of war, they had seen 14 failed peace agreements, and the endless failure of violence. In 1997 the New Zealand army stepped into the conflict with a new idea that was condemned by the national and international media. Few expected it to succeed."
~ World Beyond War
#peace #nonviolence #Bogainville #Aotearoa #NewZealand #peace-keeping
