IS THE IDEA OF PEACE ON EARTH NAÏVE ?

In a world of grim politics and seemingly native cynicism,

the very hope of universal peace may appear naïve. But
the most important hopes are often the naïve ones

What is world peace ?

To define this I would like to use the concept of Jody
williams a nobel prize winner on world peace

According to her unfortunately world peace was not

holding hands and singing kumbaya together . She said
that the main aim of world peace was to attain
sustainable peace in which majority of the people in
this planet have the access to basic neccessities and
important resources like education, healthcare etc. So
that people can live in freedom from want and freedom
from fear .

So let us take a dig on the ground reality of what people

think about world peace ?

In 2016 there was a survey done by the National

Geographic Society where they asked people from all
corners of the world about world peace.
50 percent of the people were optimistic about it and
the other half were just the contrary .

One of the really fascinating answers in that survey was

given by an american actor ‘Morgan Freeman’ where
he said that War and peace are just two binaries in
which you cant just contemplate one without the
other .

The best part of the answer was when he said “ If there

is peace you are preparimg for war and if there is war
you are fighting for peace .”

So clearly from that we only get a vague answer to our

question

Coming up to how much progress we have already made

?

The straight answer to this will be yes considering the

following cases :

 Hans rosling , a Swedish physicist in one of his

books stated that the amount of people who live in
 poverty has become half in the past 20 yeaars ,
which is a really good sign .

 Talking about the medical facilities we really have

improved alot

Back in the 19 th CE the amount of children dying

below the age of five was 44%
And now it has come upto 4% which is also a really
good sign

My point of view in this case is that I do believe in

world peace as world peace is not a myth .

Thereby I would like to conclude myself with a Dalai

Lama quote “We can never make peace in the outer
world until we make peace in ourselves”