Peace is essentially the establishing of right human relations, the recognition of the indissoluble unity of the
human family - one world/ one humanity- of synthetic rapport, with its resultant cooperation and interaction
between the world's nations on behalf of the whole.
We are all familiar with our individual identity, first within our family unit, and progressively, as our sense of
responsibility develops, with our community and with our nation. It is only one more step and imperative at this
time in order to realise peace, to find our identification as an individual within that great group, the human
family, the world community, with all the responsibility that implies .
Peace produces balance, equilibrium, synthesis and understanding. Peace proceeds from a state of poise
and stillness. Peace is a state within which growth can take place. Peace manifests as goodwill in action. This
is possible if the major world democracies have the will to restore world order, negate the old order of
selfishness and aggression, and usher in the new order of world understanding, world sharing and world
peace.
To date people have considered that peace is a state established when conflict has been resolved (or even
quieted temporarily) at which time it is possible to develop understanding between nations.
However, peace will be the result of understanding and sharing, not the origin of them, demanding of us that
shift in identification from the separate self-centred individual to the world citizen, the responsible individual
within the whole.
Peace is conventionally seen as the absence of war - a state of emotional and static calm that exists when the
conflict ceases, when people can once more enjoy their day-to-day lives in their particular environment, without
disruption. There is however no guarantee that conflict will not recur sooner or later, as a glance through time
will confirm. But we need to understand Peace in a more active and vital sense than comfortable living. It
cannot be exclusive to certain people or nations. It must be universal in expression and in action everywhere
across the planet.
Such an established recognition can lead to cooperative endeavour and open the way to human progress in
ways we may not yet anticipate.
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