Children need world peace

Zoish
Indus International School
India

Our world has seen many wars over many years. We should have peace. To achieve peace we need to know what war is, who starts them, and what the consequences are.

People start wars when they want more land, water, oil, and other natural resources. For example, Israel and Palestine are fighting over the land that Israel is on. Sometimes people and countries are angry, emotional, or have disagreements and want to teach others a lesson. For example, in Africa, Ethiopia and Eritrea have fought and are fighting a war of independence. India and Pakistan have also fought many wars over land or caused by anger. People have beliefs and opinions which can cause one nation to believe that they are right and others are wrong or that they have a better race than others. In World War Two, Hitler, the German dictator, thought Germans were the best race in the world. He therefore wanted Germany to rule over Europe and the rest of the world. Dictators want more power, money, and attention. They start wars to get these. Today, many countries are ruled by dictators. These include North Korea, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Wars have many ill effects. Wars kill people and their families. They also injure people for life. For example, people can become blind, their skin can get burnt, or they can lose an arm or a leg. Many soldiers become paranoid, depressed, and develop mental illnesses. This causes their families to also suffer. Cities are destroyed and polluted. There is also a shortage of food, water, and electricity. Many people want to run away from war. Wars create many refugees. For example, in the India-Pakistan partition there were a million refugees. There is no transportation in or out of the city or country. Many orphans are also created. Families lose contact or are broken up due to war. War is bad but it is terrible for children. Children need world peace to grow up.

To achieve world peace we should have an organisation for the world. We should create a place where countries can go to talk when they disagree. For example, India and Pakistan could go to this special place to talk everything through if they have a dispute. The world has created a place like that called the United Nations. The United Nations is also called the UN. The UN provides a place for countries to tell everyone what they disagree about. The UN is formed from almost all the countries of the world. The most powerful countries, like the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Russia, China and India, have to protect the weaker nations from being invaded by other stronger nations. The stronger nations have to protect the weak and only then can we have global peace. But sometimes the stronger nations allow their best friends to start wars and that is not good.

Countries should be sent to a world judge who decides which country is right. The UN provides such a world judge in the form of the World Court.

Also, when two countries exchange goods and trade they do not fight. Therefore, the world organisation should also provide ways in which poor countries can develop more goods and trade and become rich. When people have enough food, water, electricity, education and a good life they do not fight. Our government should provide this to us. The stronger nations should also help provide these to poorer nations so that the poor nations do not need to go to war to get these. For example, India should help Pakistan become richer so that Pakistan and India do not fight as often.

People should get their government to act. People should get to know the world news. Countries need to have news reporters who can report news as telling the truth without worrying about going to jail. This is called having a free press. For example, India has a free press and we can get the news on TV, radio, or the computer when we want and about what we want. Hitler, however, didn't inform people that he was going to kill the Jews so that none of the Germans could stop him from killing them. Children should be taught in schools about human rights because if they know what is happening in the world they can do something about it.

People should be worried about wars going on between their neighbouring countries and ask their government to solve it. For example, if Bangladesh and Pakistan are fighting, should India worry? Yes, because many refugees will be coming into the country to seek shelter. There is not enough food and water to feed everyone. So India should help stop the war.

People should also force their government to be democracies. In a democracy the power is with the people and if people do not like the government then we can vote them out in the next five years. Most democracies do not fight between each other.

We should help after the wars by helping orphans. Builders can help by building cities. We should supply food, water, money, clothes, homes, and medicine. The government should help people unite with their families and help people who lost family members in the war. We should act the way America acted when they gave aid to Europe and Japan after World War Two.

In summary, to have world peace we first need to understand what causes war and then we need the governments and people of the world to act to prevent war and create business and trade links between countries.

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