TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE

TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE We often talk of peace in the context of war. But this is a very narrow and restricted notion of peace. Peace is deeply linked with the entirety of human life. Peace is a complete ideology in itself. Peace is the only religion for both—man and the universe. It is the master-key that opens the doors to every success. Peace creates a favourable atmosphere for success in every endeavour. Without peace, no positive action—small or big—is possible. RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT TERROR T HE HUMAN right to live without terror is, without doubt, an urgent need of our times. From the First World War till now, a great number of charters and declarations of this nature have been issued by different international forums, including the United Nations. But, as we know, these charters and declarations have yielded no result. Looking at this matter deeply, we find that the problem is not basically about the lack of a suitable charter. Rather, it is essentially about the lack of results from the charters that we already have. We need an ideology to counter terrorist ideology: The issuing of charter is only half the solution to the problem. The remaining part of the solution involves extensive ideological campaigning in the charter’s support. Since this task has never been effectively performed, the various charters have not yielded the desired results. Let’s take an example to illustrate this point. After the Second World War, the United States of America faced two major threats, one after another: one pertaining to communism, and the other to terrorism. As we know, America successfully solved the problem of communism, while it utterly failed to solve the problem of terrorism, even after spending trillions of Terrorism begins from the mind, not from the gun. It must be countered with an ideology, not with guns.