Inside Binghamton University Carazo urges use of mass media to promote peace Technology and the mass media are changing our world, but they can be used to build a culture of peace according to Rodrigo Carazo Odio, former president of Costa Rica. The peaceful culture Carazo hopes to achieve is based on common understanding and mutual respect-something that currently exists in Costa Rica, but not worldwide. Peace is made, never found.
Peace is a way of life.
To create that way of life, Carazo said education is the key. It seems clear that the lack of understanding among individuals, within societies and among nations, is caused, among other things, by educational shortcomings that prevent people from looking for nonviolent, positive ways to settle their conflicts. Carazo believes that, through education, knowledge of the origins of aggression, tension, conflict and war would have greater diffusion. Turning education and the media into instruments of peace, Carazo said, would carry more weight than any arms race, or disarmament, would.