Ideology of Peace
AN INTERNATIONAL PEACE CENTRE
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PEACE, always desirable for its own sake, has been
vital to human progress in every age. The difference
now in this nuclear age is that it has literally
become a matter of life and death for humanity.
Peace means life: its absence leaves no hope of
human survival.
The author sees the establishment of peace, the very
antithesis of nuclear destruction, as an opening of
life's doors to every possible opportunity for
positive action. It may be compared to the removal
of a dam from a river. Life, like a flowing river,
surges onwards, constantly propelled by human
nature and coming to a halt only when the artificial
barriers of war and violence are placed before it.
Peace, unlike war, creates conditions that enable us
to work towards constructive ends and to strive for
justice unhindered. Indeed, it gives the greatest
possible stimulus to the flow of beneficent human
activity.
The writer’s aim, therefore, is to present peace in
the form of a complete ideology-an ideology which
awakens human consciousness; which provides the
answer to all life’s problems in terms of peace;
