My Journey to Switzerland

Nuclear Disarmament Forum. A narrative of that journey was published in the March 2002 issue of Al-Risala. Moreover, in October 2002, this latest journey was my third to Switzerland. Once again, it was at the invitation of the Nuclear Disarmament Forum, which, as indicated earlier, is a wing of an organisation called ‘Peace International’. SWITZERLAND: A MODEL OF PEACE I n terms of peace, Switzerland is a model country. Located in Central Europe, Switzerland is a landlocked country. It does not have a coastline. Some people might think that for a country to lack access to the sea is a significant limitation. However, despite this supposed limitation, Switzerland is a highly developed country. Iraq has only a remote coastline. To make up for this supposed limitation, it mobilised a massive amount of resources, built up a vast army, and attacked neighbouring Kuwait, so that it could capture its coastal area and thereby compensate for its small coastline. Now, what was the outcome of this action? Its outcome was that Iraq was ravaged by a war it had