We Want World Peace

Someone just said "we want world peace". One way to have world peace, is to convince every human on Earth to want it as well. People usually pursue what they want or desire. As to how to go about doing that, there probably exists a wide spectrum of things that make people want peace. War, terrorism, interventions, assassinations, criminal homicides... those are instances where that peace is broken. One could argue that it is the aftermath of war, especially wars that devastate many nations, that are most effective in making people 'want peace'.

People however forget war and its suffering. New generations of belligerents arm themselves and inevitably seek violence. In societies where peace was a result of war, remembrance makes people "want peace". Knowing the horrors, the suffering and the cost of war, makes people less likely to pursue it, but it also motivates those who were victimized by genocide, not rely on others but their own military strength to protect their 'peace'. Consider Germany and Israel for instance. Germany because it was the Nazi aggressor in a world war, has laws and remembrance that allows the mistakes of the past to be avoided. Israel on the other has become a militaristic society, precisely because Jews' transnational pacifism led to their holocaust in WWII.

How to convince people to want world peace? The same way as they are convinced to want anything else, by advertising, education, financial incentives, propaganda, building of a world citizen identity, teaching tolerance toward ideological and political diversification. There are many ways to make people "want peace". Often it is enough to convince top leaders of nation states to choose dialogue and diplomacy over brinkmanship and war.

"It was an impossible dream that brought about human flight and other wondrous scientific discoveries that make life easier. It was an impossible dream that brought forth medicines to cure certain illnesses, reduce pain, suffering and extend human life. Impossible dreams can come true.

As we enter the new year let us not abandon the quest for world peace as we continue to “dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.”'  -  from We do want world peace by Carl J. Asszony

In 2011, I predicted that the Taliban will attack Malala Yousafzai because of her activism conflicting with their views, that she will suffer head wounds and live. I told this to Brooke Baldwin, who came to Poland to interview me and find out why I'm under constant electromagnetic torture. Now a Noble Peace Prize laureate, Malala returned to Pakistan recently, for the first time since the school bus shooting. School shootings in USA are quite different, usually it is the students themselves who are the killers, and not a month goes by without a mass shooting incident.

I myself like to say that I had a hand in two Nobel Peace Prizes, the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to the European Union "for over six decades [having] contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" and the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which would have never been possible, if I didn't come up with the idea of having the Assad regime voluntarily remove chemical weapons from Syria and had not Margaret Brennan communicated this idea impromptu at a Geneva conference to Lavrov and Kerry directly, top diplomats of Russia and USA, who immediately seized on the idea disregarding Obama's red lines.

One of the people who was in constant direct to brain communication contact with me over the past few years repeatedly said that "we don't back down" as the United States. It succinctly explains why the country is perpetually engaged in war, usually on multiple fronts, since its very inception. One way to ensure war is to consistently refuse to compromise, break out of treaties, and pursue violent military solutions for dispute resolution. Fortunately the opposite is also possible, a sure to way make peace is to negotiate compromises, to uphold or renegotiate treaties, to seek non violent economic and diplomatic solutions to disputes.

Peace is often a matter of choice, especially for nation states that hold permanent seats on the UN Security Council. USA, China, Russia, France and UK did not have to intervene in Syria nor did they have the UN mandate to do that, they chose to do so. How long would the war in Syria have lasted, if instead of military intervention, the belligerents involved were sanctioned on arms sales and Syria embargoed on all military related materials, supplies and equipment by all members of UN Security Council instead of them actively participating in the conflict?