Today's increasing level of violence demands we recognize, address, and reverse his hostility. We are called to live on and care for this gifted world through unity. Today's levels of localized, nationalized, and internationalized conflicts promotes fear while increasing the desire for self-protection. This trend dangerously leads to increased violence. Knowing that violence begets violence highlights our need to reverse this trend. Knowing this, and addressing it, needs to be forefront in our individual, collective, and governmental daily agendas. Peaceful parameters do not just happen. They are established through thoughtful conversation, common consideration, recognized equality, and a collective desire to reduce conflicts. This time to address this need is growing shorter and shorter. Now is the time declosetise our conflicts, converse our shared needs, desires and wants, and plan how we, as a human race, can begin to live together as one human family. "Our Way Forward" addresses these issues in a planned and informative and manner, while providing hopeful poems and reflections for a peaceful world.