Are peace & non-violence outdated concepts?

After the end of the cold war in early ’90s, the well-known American sociologist Alvin Toffler talked of the “Third Wave” or the down of a post-industrial civilizations and envisioned a new and more humane quality of power based on

Knowledge and information as against the traditional concept of power based on violence and

material wealth. Wishing you all a very good afternoon, this is Nikhil & I opine that peace & non-violence are more required today than they were ever required in the past.

 With nuclear enabled adversaries like Pakistan, China, India has got no other option but to resort to age-old concepts of peace & non-violence. Peace & non-violence are completely in.

To quote an example of what war could inflict on the millions of human lives, I would like to mention America-Iraq war. A war raised in the name of war against terrorism actually landed millions of innocent peoples in great losses & trouble with almost no success in capturing the real terrorists.

The irony of the day is that nuclear arsenals created during the Cold War, waged between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)  are still in existence & can destroy the world many a times over. Today to safeguard the hoi polloi of the world, we don’t need nuclear warheads but nuclear bunkers .There are several other instances where war has waged nothing but destruction.

Mankind is currently sitting on the nuclear time-bomb, ready to explode any time, & the only solitude is nothing else, but, peace & non-violence. Wars lead to nothing but mutual destruction as has happened in the Israel-Palestine case. Such great damage could have been easily averted by employing the diplomatic weapons.

What world needs today is not war but peace, not competition but co-existence to survive & prosper.

Gone are the days of Neolithic age, where weapons were the only means of ensuring survival. Today the benchmark is continuous growth & that requires esprit de corps, the feeling of mutual respect to each other. What world needs today to ensure this dream is an empowered organization which can curb the dangerous warheads like Korea, Germany, Japan & of course, US. We, as the denizens of the most beautiful planet of the solar system, Earth, cannot afford to have one more world war.