It looks like the world is going to war....or some people / nations of the world...but somehow we happen to live in a "closed system" called planet earth where something someone is doing is affecting everyone.
However on a local scale we are pretty encouraged. In Berlin on May 1 there are violent demonstrations every year (a bit like a small scale version of demonstrations at the World Trade summit)...with hundreds of people injured and Millions of Euro of damage. A number of christians have started to pray that this year May 1 would be peaceful. In February the main group "sponsoring" the violence was suddenly dissolved and now the police reports that they can not find and traces that the other groups are mobilizing for "war against the police" ....so we keep praying that for the first time in decades we will not have war this year in our city....and hopefully neither in our world.