Global peace: Our dream, our responsibility

Ridhi
Indus International School
India

What is global peace? Global peace is an ideal of freedom, peace, and happiness among and within all nations. It is the professed ambition of many past and present world leaders. Global peace is for human beings to live on Earth peacefully, without any wars or destruction. The war makers should be stopped before they end humankind. To have a better and safer future, we should all work in harmony towards global peace.

Today the United States and other leading governments spend billions of dollars on the making of weapons, and other items for wars. If even half of the money spent on ways to make skeletons of our enemies were spent on ways to make them our friends, through the proven methods of non-violence, we would have no more wars. We could then focus on providing a good future for human beings and the Earth. But most people do not like this because the mass media does not feature actions for peaceful progress. The media strongly influences most public opinion and they make more money by focusing on violence and conflict.

Global peace is a state of harmony and the absence of hostility. This term is applied to describe a cessation of, or lapse in, violent international conflict. In this international context, global peace is the opposite of war. The only way to avoid global catastrophe is for all who support the ways of peace to now come together in a moral equivalent of war. Together, we can change the global war mentality to a global state of mind dedicated to positive actions for the peaceful resolution of conflict.

Our quest must be for global peace, because global peace is indivisible: there cannot be peace in one part of the globe while war, or acts of terrorism, occurs in another part. Globalisation, whether in its positive or negative aspects, has brought about a situation whereby events in any part of the globe affect us all. This is true in terms of economic, cultural, or political issues, and certainly true in military matters and in terms of war and peace.

All nations long for global peace. Leaders negotiate for it. Armies fight for it. Many pray for it. To make the Earth a better place, we need to have global peace, and to have global peace, is to stop having war.

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