Warrior Traditions Community-some thoughts on it’s Purpose
The Warrior Traditions Community
Dr. Kevin Keough- Founder of the Warrior Traditions Community
The Warrior Traditions community has been established to function as a resource center and gathering site for warriors around the world to exchange information, network, learn about different traditions, and create mechanisms to provide practical support for one another (eg. police officers are in a far better position to advocate for military personnel and vice versa for obvious reasons). The warrior's path is quite challenging, tends to to breed isolation, and offers virtually no rituals and traditions to promote Solidarity between people from different traditions and occupations. So, this place in cyber-space is intended to facilitate connections.
Warrior Traditions includes an audio interview series, a blog, and a web site dedicated to the exploration of warriors and warrior traditions representing all cultures from ancient times to the present. Every effort is being made to represent warriors from various occupations and warrior traditions from countries around the world. Any recommendations you have regarding leaders, authors, and instructors, willing to participate in the Warrior Traditions audio interview series will be much appreciated.
The Warrior Traditions community will offer opportunities for individuals and organizations to build bridges, engage in networking, form collaborative relationships, etc. within and between various occupations and traditions. to support a wide range of collaborative endeavors.
The Mission of the Warrior Traditions Community
* To provide warriors a unique forum to communicate with each other;
* To offer people easy access to solid information about warriors and warrior traditions from ancient times to the present;
* To develop commonly accepted definitions and nomenclature regarding warriors and warrior traditions to facilitate clear communication about these topics;
* To heighten public awareness of and respect for warriors and their traditions
* To stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues, trends, and challenges that seem to affect warriors in unique ways;
* To examine personal and cultural attitudes toward and perceptions of warriors and warrior traditions;
* To identify common life experiences, personal vulnerabilities,social roles, and world views found in warriors;
* To present detailed information about warrior traditions from all cultures re: history, philosophy, principles, codes of conduct, martial strategies and tactics, methods, unique features;
* To present books, DVD's, video clips, articles, essays, stories, and personal accounts representing as many warrior traditions as possible;
* To cultivate solidarity within and between warriors and warrior traditions
* To heighten public awareness about major challenges facing specific warrior traditions (eg. need for comprehensive health care and post deployment transition programs for military personnel....need for material resources, training, least harmful shift work schedules, advocacy to protect and support police officers from the elite liberal anti-law enforcement media attacks)
* To alert people to specific organizations, and recommendations for particular actions that would provide effective advocacy and practical support to warriors, warrior traditions- occupations (it is much easier for police officers to call for enhanced services for military personnel returning from deployment than for military personnel to call attention to this issue----similarly, warriors from non law enforcement traditions and occupations are better positioned to advocate for police officers, and so on).
* To cultivate Solidarity within and between various warrior traditions that fuels meaningful and effective endeavors to advocate for and support other warriors
Audio interview guests, submit brief personal biographies, information about their organizations, books, web sites, DVD's, articles, essays, etc. Guests are selected based on their ability to provide effective representation about their tradition/occupation and interest in developing/strengthening connections with individuals from other traditions.
All members of the Warrior Traditions Community are strongly encouraged to submit articles, essays, video clips,book and movie recommendations, etc. that represents essential information about martial arts systems/warrior tradition that can be placed in our library for people to review.
We plan to introduce opportunities for individuals and groups to promote products and services and generate income from the resources they have to offer.
We welcome your feedback, input, and suggestions about ways to better represent and serve the interests of all members of the Warrior Traditions community.
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