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Patience Kamau’s passion is for the earth’s “wild” creatures. She is a peacebuilder-conservationist who at heart, sees her role as a conciliatory one between humans and our global environment\u2019s complex ecosystems. Along with others who feel and think similarly, she seeks to continually step into the flashpoint and convince fellow humans that, though we now contextually exist in a free market economic system based on exultations of short-term growth and endless profits, a blind pursuit of interest maximization with little thought to environmental impact only serves to undermine our species\u2019 long-term survival.<\/p>\n
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
\nthere is a field. I’ll meet you there.<\/p>\n
When the soul lies in that grass,
\nthe world is too full to talk about.
\nIdeas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.”
\n~Rumi<\/p>\n
———-<\/p>\n
What if “the field” is compassion?
\nThat when we lie in it, we see pieces of ourselves in each other
\nso that my understanding of “I” ceases to be,
\nas it merges with your diminishing sense of “I”?<\/p>\n
What if “the field isn’t about who wins the argument,
\nbut rather about a struggle to maintaining the capacity to see humanity,
\ndignity and worthiness in the other?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7902,"template":"","regions":[1362,1367,765,780],"fields-of-practice":[1169],"degree":[760],"grad-year":[1417],"class_list":["post-7901","cjp_alumni","type-cjp_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-africa","regions-kenya","regions-north-america","regions-usa","fields-of-practice-conflict-transformation-and-peacebuilding","degree-ma_ct","grad-year-1417"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cjp_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"fields-of-practice","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields-of-practice?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"degree","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/degree?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"grad-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grad-year?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}