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 may 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. Defence forces are a necessary component of the modern state, but the world is spending far too much on military technology, and this ever-increasing overspend is creating less security, not more. We must stop and reverse this trend.
Many changes are needed to make that transformation, and this site is about just one of those changes – the need for a clear, focused and comprehensible plan of what is needed to bring about a more peaceful world.
The aim here is to set out all of the arguments for peace, at first simply, so that a child of fifteen can grasp it, then linked to pages that expand each topic further and further in a tree-like structure leading to expansions and discussions and eventually to academic references.
A More Peaceful World 