Manifesto of Peace

~ 8 ~ While peace is a boon for human society, violence is a curse. Peace is an asset, and violence is a liability. Peace is love and violence is hatred. Peace is amity and violence is enmity. Peace brings people closer and violence distances them. Peace fosters a high level of human culture and helps it to flourish, whereas violence breeds a jungle culture. Peace elevates humanity to the level of civilized social existence, whereas violence causes a descent into barbarism. Peace promotes life, while violence is the harbinger of death and destruction. Peace brings the good elements of a society into prominence, while violence does the very opposite. Christ once said, “Love your enemy.” This means, live with your enemy peacefully, i.e. win over your enemy by using the power of peace. Human history testifies to the fact that peace affords everything, while violence yields nothing. PEACE TURNS MINUS INTO PLUS According to a German psychologist, Alfred Adler, a unique quality possessed by human beings is ‘their power to turn a minus into a plus’. What