Ideology of Peace
A JOURNEY TOWARDS PEACE
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international meeting, so that I may share my views
with this learned audience. We started our journey
of peace from Switzerland, where we successfully
identified the basic problems faced by the world of
today.
The joint declaration issued at the Swiss City of Zug
called for the building of a better world, based on
moral and spiritual values. For this to become a
reality, peace had first to be established, for without
peace no constructive work could be effectively
carried out. It was emphasized that the beginning of
the peace process would necessarily entail the
elimination of nuclear weapons, without which no
progress could be made.
One aspect of the deliberations in Switzerland was
that the importance of ideology for stemming
violence was stressed. Violence always begins in the
mind, so we have to uproot it from the mind itself.
We have to find an ideology of peace with which to
confront the ideology of violence. Otherwise there
will be no end to violence. The horrendous events
in New York and Washington on September 11,
2001, are adequate proof of this point. They
