Book Review | Vappu and Ilkka Taipale have made hundreds of trips to promote peace and equality – A couple talked to North Koreans about the disadvantages of nuclear weapons

The Taipale couple has been touring the world for decades in matters of peace and social development, which they recount in their memoirs in Taipale.

Memoirs

Vappu and Ilkka Taipale: in Taipale. Zeal. 352 s.

Many gazing at their ideals of youth sadly, at least belittlingly: they were now such an exaggeration, the idea passed at the level of the clouds… As if the deep understanding found over time had inherently proved recent goals to be mistakes.

Vappu Taipale (b. 1940) and Ilkka Taipale (b. 1942) do not merge into this mainstream of self-denial. Six decades ago, these young medical professionals entered the forefront of the radical generation – and have remained radical.

It is not the politics of the day but the attitude towards life.

Struggle for the sake of peace and social equality, the global work of improving the world has remained the highest value of the couple. Written together TaipaleThe work draws their lifelong field of work, the contacts they make and the projects with their associated journeys.

Presentations, huge meetings, information exchange.

Quite an incredible going – and yet it feels like the pages of the book have been gripped by only a fraction of the experience. But good as well.

Taipale has two more established travel criteria. The earliest of these is IPPNW, a medical movement against nuclear weapons. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning peace organization was established in 1980, activists came across bloc boundaries, and Taipale is an insider of the organization.

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They are also taken to the world by one book, edited by Ilkka Taipale in 2006 100 social innovations from Finland -work. Translations have been dropped in more than 50 languages ​​- more to come – and Kalevala after that it is the second most translated Finnish work.

It is natural that whenever a new translation appears in some part of the world, there is a striking force in the book, Taipaleet.

Vappu and Ilkka Taipale at the opening opera of the 2007 Parliament opening ceremony, at the Red Line Opera of the National Opera on March 28, 2007.

Less glorious is the book’s financial history in Finland. The content of the book is the best (and cheap) country brand, but the translations have not been supported by Finpro, Team Finland, Business Finland, Sitra, OKM, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ framework department and the Finland 100 committee.

The work has spread to the world with small loose scholarships and Taipale’s own funds.

The results are already a few tens of tons. Taipaleet compare that Jorma Ollilan The report of the Country Brand delegation led by the company in 2010 cost 300,000 euros – the British consultant alone billed 150,000 euros.

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They travel balanced, in all directions.

The rarest rarity is to seek out and get to North Korea to speak out against nuclear weapons – and to snuggle in prisons and mental hospitals in every backyard. Somewhere a visit takes place, often not. The stories are harsh.

What about the armies of homeless children in the slums of the world? “They live on the streets, in the subway corridors, on abandoned plots,” described the street owner, who owns his work. Father Chinchachoma situation in Mexico City in 1993.

“The children don’t actually gang up, they are alone in the group as well, fighting alone for their own lives, food and sleeping place. There will be no solidarity in these circumstances. “

There is no setback all over the world, and progress can be reported. But the overview is dull.

Nearby country Taipaleille is Mozambique, an East African coastal state. They have been there frequently and know the reading elite and the political elite as their friends.

The liberation from the Portuguese colonial rule in 1975 created an optimistic spirit, but the many information heard by Taipale sheds light on the economic impasse and inconsolable corruption.

The couple’s hundreds of trips include often inviting people to Finland. It has spawned fruitful projects and friendships. There are also exotic food recipes sprinkled on the pages of the book.

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Taipale has quite an unusual travel description. Solidarity, the universal connection of the people, is not one of the most popular social symbols today, and it is therefore even more valuable to emphasize it.

Vappu and Ilkka, created to pass.

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A night on the Dnieper

“Ilkka make friends quickly; he is a good example of an expert in ‘elevator speech’. In five minutes, a connection is established that can carry a long way, ” Vappu Taipale characterizes her husband Taipalein the book. I can say that is true.

In the fall of 2015, I visited Kiev in a small group to which Taipale belonged. The program was enough: military hospital, ministries, experts…

But the most impressive was Friday night at the top institute of cardiology. There were many dozens of young doctors in the hall, who were quietly listening to Ilka and Vapu’s presentation on the Finnish military and education systems!

May Day was restrained and analytical, Ilkka captivatingly inspired. Ilkka stole the show, and the going only intensified with further invitations. A dense circle gathered around him, and the preaching master enlightened and amused his disciples.

Nowhere have I heard our welfare state be praised as effectively.

Veli-Pekka Leppänen

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