regenerative peace - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

The genocide in Gaza is not an isolated anomaly of war, but the systemic expression of a civilizational design failure. It reveals the catastrophic incoherence of our current global order — politically, economically, symbolically, and ethically. This white paper proposes a regenerative redesign strategy that reframes genocide as the terminal breakdown of coherence across nested systems and calls for a multi-domain transformation rooted in a life-value centered framework.

Grounded in the developmental grammar of Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate (TATi), the paper offers a comprehensive analysis of four core design failures — political/institutional, economic/infrastructural, narrative/media, and symbolic/moral — and outlines actionable interventions for both immediate coherence restoration and long-term systemic redesign. These include ceasefire enforcement, reparative finance, narrative rehumanization, legal redefinition of structural genocide, and the reconfiguration of sovereignty around bioregional, participatory, and sacred principles.

Moving beyond state-centric or humanitarian discourses, the paper integrates regenerative economics, coherence-based legal architecture, and symbolic healing as foundational components of genocide prevention and peacebuilding. Gaza is positioned not only as a site of atrocity but as a threshold for civilizational renewal — a genesis point for reweaving a world where coherence, not domination, is the organizing principle.

This framework is offered as a scalable model for global conflict transformation, intergenerational justice, and the structural unthinkability of genocide.

This white paper offers a comprehensive and systemic critique of war through the lens of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), a normative framework that grounds all legitimate value in the preservation and development of life-capacities across biological, psychological, social, and ecological domains. By examining the conflicts in Iraq, Ukraine, and Gaza as paradigmatic case studies, the paper reveals that war is not an aberration of politics but a structural expression of life-incoherence — a breakdown of systems that prioritize domination, strategic abstraction, and resource control over the sanctity and flourishing of life.

Through in-depth analysis, the paper demonstrates that each conflict is sustained by epistemological distortion, axiological inversion, and the operation of what LVOA theorist John McMurtry terms the Ruling Group Mind (RGM) — a system of elite-controlled narratives and institutions that obscure causality, justify violence, and normalize systemic destruction. War, in this context, emerges as a predictable consequence of governance systems unmoored from the ontological ground of life.

Moving beyond critique, the paper outlines a Regenerative Peace Paradigm based on five pillars: ontological grounding in the sacredness of life, epistemological clarity, axiological coherence, institutionalization of the civil commons, and regenerative feedback through trauma-informed systems. It calls for the transformation of security paradigms, the demilitarization of global systems, and the reconstruction of international institutions capable of upholding life-support infrastructures across all cultures and ecosystems.

This paper serves as both an academic intervention and a moral appeal to policymakers, peacebuilders, civil society leaders, and cultural creators. It asserts that peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of life-system coherence — a goal that is not only ethically imperative but structurally necessary for planetary survival. The time has come to shift from managing crises to realigning civilization with the only value that endures: life itself.