Swanson -- The One Big Peace Conference and Open Borders
The One Big Peace Conference and Open Borders Leave a Comment / October 16, 2026 Approximately once a day for forever, so approximately 365 times a year, someone proposes to me the same good idea. Hey, they suggest, I’d like to organize one big peace conference and create one big peace movement to unite everyone and be stronger instead of fractured. I have several answers. First and foremost is: hell yeah, great idea, do it! do it! do it! Another answer is: there are reasons the 364 other people who’ve said this to me this year have not actually done it, just like the 365 who thought of it last year. It costs lots of money. It’s harder to get people to a conference than to a rally or a protest. There are language barriers. Whoever is in charge of organizing it will be assumed by others to not be totally welcoming of their views. There will be at least some truth to that, since no two people completely agree on everything. If you have this one big conference for everyone in a physical ...
