Ideology of Peace
THE IDEOLOGY OF PEACE
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With peace, we progress: without peace, we face
ruin.
Why should an ideology be required for peace?
There are two principal reasons for this. When one
focuses on an objective, one has to adopt one factor
and discard another. This can be done with
conviction only when one has clear and specific
theoretical justification for it. Without this, one
cannot be wholehearted in one’s acceptance or
rejection of any concept or practice. For instance, if
the notion takes root in the minds of certain
individuals that their rights have been usurped and
that to redress their grievances they must resort to
violence, it will be impossible to dissuade them,
unless we are able to prove with forceful arguments
that violence is not the solution to their problems,
that such a course will only aggravate matters and
will never restore to them their rights. To bring
these individuals to the path of peace, it is essential
that they should be convinced by an ideology based
on reason that, to achieve their objectives, they must
essentially renounce violent methods and conduct
their struggle along peaceful lines. Ideology gives
us the logical basis as to why one course of action
