THE IDEOLOGY OF PEACE

THE IDEOLOGY OF PEACE ~ 19 ~ a conversion is the individual able to play the role of a peace-loving person. The need is to convert non-peace into peace, for only after this conversion is he able to play the role of a peaceful person. That is why a comprehensive ideology of peace is necessary. Simply making appeals and pronouncements will not suffice for this purpose, for they will not persuade people to adopt peaceful ways. This has been borne out by historical events and it is likewise my own personal experience. I have been engaged in a peace mission, for the last fifty years, and I can say with conviction that hundreds and thousands of youths who, spurred on by their emotions, had taken to violence or militancy, underwent a revolution in their thinking after listening to my reasoning and studying my writings which, by means of forceful arguments, established the paramouncy of peace. They abandoned the path of violence and opted for the path of peace. I found that those youths, out of a lack of awareness, had mistakenly thought that violence was to be equated with bravery, and peaceful action