AN INTERNATIONAL PEACE CENTRE

AN INTERNATIONAL PEACE CENTRE ~ 171 ~ PEACE, always desirable for its own sake, has been vital to human progress in every age. The difference now in this nuclear age is that it has literally become a matter of life and death for humanity. Peace means life: its absence leaves no hope of human survival. The author sees the establishment of peace, the very antithesis of nuclear destruction, as an opening of life's doors to every possible opportunity for positive action. It may be compared to the removal of a dam from a river. Life, like a flowing river, surges onwards, constantly propelled by human nature and coming to a halt only when the artificial barriers of war and violence are placed before it. Peace, unlike war, creates conditions that enable us to work towards constructive ends and to strive for justice unhindered. Indeed, it gives the greatest possible stimulus to the flow of beneficent human activity. The writer’s aim, therefore, is to present peace in the form of a complete ideology-an ideology which awakens human consciousness; which provides the answer to all life’s problems in terms of peace;