Ideology of Peace
THE IDEOLOGY OF PEACE
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a conversion is the individual able to play the role
of a peace-loving person.
The need is to convert non-peace into peace, for
only after this conversion is he able to play the role
of a peaceful person. That is why a comprehensive
ideology of peace is necessary. Simply making
appeals and pronouncements will not suffice for
this purpose, for they will not persuade people to
adopt peaceful ways.
This has been borne out by historical events and it is
likewise my own personal experience. I have been
engaged in a peace mission, for the last fifty years,
and I can say with conviction that hundreds and
thousands of youths who, spurred on by their
emotions, had taken to violence or militancy,
underwent a revolution in their thinking after
listening to my reasoning and studying my writings
which, by means of forceful arguments, established
the paramouncy of peace. They abandoned the path
of violence and opted for the path of peace.
I found that those youths, out of a lack of
awareness, had mistakenly thought that violence
was to be equated with bravery, and peaceful action
