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positively channelled to create international
structures of global co-operation in all areas of
human endeavour.
3. Security of nations should not be dependent
on military might or threat to use or actual use
of force. No nation should imperil the security
of other nations in the pursuit of its own
national security. All nations should co-operate
in assuring the security of each nation.
4. War and militarisation, like slavery and
serfdom, should be abolished in all countries.
War is not a necessary consequence of human
nature, nor is it a necessity of history. Children
should be taught that war is evil. Their toys
and their books should, instead of promoting
the war instinct in them, foster ideas of peace
and internationalism.
5. Nuclear Weapons are evil, anti-human. It is a
moral evil to make, buy, sell, keep, exchange,
deploy, use or threaten to use them. They
should be legally banned and totally abolished.
6. Research on new technologies of war should
also be banned like laser beams, other directed
energy weapons, kinetic energy weapons,
enhanced radiation weapons, etc. There should
be a concerted international effort to deploy
existing science/ technology as well as new
research solving the problems of poverty, illhealth,
ignorance, environmental deterioration
and lack of housing, clothing and transport,
which affect the under-privileged.
7. Space and the high seas including ocean
bottoms, should remain the common property
of humanity, controlled by a democratic
international authority, and should be kept free
from all weapons of mass destruction They
should instead become the major arena of
democratic, international, scientifictechnological,
cultural and communicational
cooperation, and promote a sense of global
belonging and loyalty among all peoples and
nations.
8. Competing socio-economic and political
systems should be allowed to co-exist and
cooperate in an atmosphere of healthy mutual
co-operation, mutual trust, and friendly
competition.
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9. International treaties, agreements and
conventions including the Charter of the
United Nations should always be respected;
no nation should violate these unilaterally; they
should be developed further as a basis for the
new international polity that is emerging.
10. Terrorism, whether private or state, is an evil.
It victimises the innocent; creates distrust and
insecurity; render human society more violent
and inhuman.
Clausewitzian Theory of Peace to War as a
vicious circle can be deconstructed through this
model. It is not merely debunking war as mode
to victimise ‘the other’;Instead, violence against
human society in any form is condemned. A
harmonious co-existence is ideated. In the twenty
first century, an era of advanced mode of
communication, dialogue should be given its due
space. Mar Gregorios urges world nations and
centres of power to reorient these resources to
those that would benefit the humankind at large.
In close, the fundamental purpose is to further
oneself from the whims of ‘survival of the fittest’
and move towards unity. Political tension between
nation-state occasions a tense political
environment, a void. Intervention of religion plays
a pivotal role in gluing further escalation.
Politically, it is ideal for the state to distance itself
from religion. But it is the prophetic duty of the
church to stand as a ‘corrective force’ in such
unusual times.
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