Working together towards a more peaceful world
There are a large number of people who are working for peace in this war-torn world, ranging from professors in academic departments who spend their lives thinking, studying, and teaching about peace, through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) whose mission is to create a more peaceful world, to dedicated activists who are ready to be arrested and sent to jail for serious periods of time to further the cause of peace.
What is perhaps lacking in all this diversity is a central focus for our thoughts about peace. How can humanity make the transition from militarism to a safe world with a greatly reduced military budget and massively increased spending on the essentials of life for all people – water, food, shelter, clean energy and prevention of pollution, education, health care, biodiversity, decarbonisation, and all the other key requirements of civilisation? This after all is the real security that we need at all times.
The role of defence forces
Defence forces may be generally seen as a necessary component of the modern state, and may perhaps still be a necessary component of nation states well into the future, but at significantly lower levels, and on a mutually agreed basis. The world is in 2026 spending far too much on military technology, and this ever-increasing overspend is creating less security, not more.
We must stop and reverse this escalatory trend.
The eventual aim of this site is to set out all of the arguments for peace, at first simply, so that a child of fifteen can grasp it, then link to pages that expand each topic further and further in a tree-like structure leading to expansions and discussions and eventually to academic references.
Many changes are needed to make that transformation. The changes range from getting ourselves into a calm and peaceful state, peace in our families, in our community, our nation and finally, peace in international relations. This site is mainly about international peace, and the need for a clear, focused and comprehensible plan of what is needed to bring about a more peaceful world.
Peace Manifesto
One possibility for a focused plan is that peace organisations could agree on a brief Peace Manifesto that sets out the essential components needed to bring about a more peaceful world, a brief manifesto that could draw us together and that would help us to focus on the changes we want our representatives to make.
There is already a Peace Manifesto movement which adopts and promotes this brief message:
“I’m sick and tired of the culture of war,
so I give my support to the culture of peace,
and I will keep spreading the word
on social media until we win.”
International Day of Peace
The United Nations has an International Day of Peace each year on September 21st.
The Catholic Church also has a World Day of Peace on January 1st each year.
We need to advertise these days more actively.
A More Peaceful World 