Speech at London Conference

Speech at London Conference

I am thankful to the organizers of this conference for giving me the opportunity to attend this international meeting and share my views with this learned audience. We started our journey of peace from Switzerland, and now London is our next station. In Switzerland we have successfully identified the basic problems faced by the world of today. The joint declaration at the Swiss City of Zug rightly pointed out the first step in this regard. It called for building a better world, based on moral and spiritual values. It was also emphasized that, the beginning of this process involves the elimination of nuclear weapons. Only then, can peace be established in our world. It is a fact that, no constructive work can be effectively performed without the establishment of peace. Peace is must for all kinds of progress and development. One aspect of the deliberations at Switzerland was that it emphasized the importance of ideology for coping with violence. Violence always begins in the mind, so we have to uproot it from the mind itself. We have to find an ideology of peace as against an ideology of violence. Otherwise there will be no end to violence. The horrible events in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001 have only affirmed this point. This event has proved that, with