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1. The earth is one world, and its human beings must learn
to live in peace with each other or perish.
2. The human race is one and interdependent;
the good of each
depends on the good of all and our love for each other.
3. The way of love and peace is nonviolent and does not hurt
anyone.
4. The uniting power of love, peace, and friendship
is stronger
than the divisive strife of hatred, war,
and enmity.
5. The conversion of a hostile and militaristic
world into a peaceful global society is
primarily an educational
process of changing consciousness from fear, suspicion, and mistrust
to love, confidence, and trust in the human capacity
to solve
problems, cooperate, and establish justice.
6. Every human being has the equal right to life, liberty, security,
and justice.
7. Respect for individual freedom and dignity requires the protection
of all human rights by means of a universal
system of justice.
8. Justice in human affairs evolves
through democratic means and due process
of law.
9. The use of force is justified only when a legal authority,
designated by consent of the people, is required to restrain
and
bring to justice a violator of the law.
10. A law enforcement official has legal authority only within
the territory
of the people who designate that official.
No nation
has the sovereign right to use any force outside its national
borders.
11. War, the use of force
outside one's territory, the threat to use such force,
and the
sale or transfer of military weapons outside one's territory
should
be prohibited by international law.
12. International wars and internal oppression of human
rights are allowed
to occur because there is no enforceable world law.
13. Enforceable world law and justice
may be established by instituting
a democratically elected federal world government to protect human rights
and solve international
disputes through a compulsory system of jurisprudence.
14. In a federal world government each
nation would maintain sovereignty
over its own internal affairs,
except that the federal world government
would have legal authority to protect human
rights and settle international disputes.
15. Education, communication, democratic process, and nonviolent
protest of wrongs
are the purest and most effective means
of social reform.
Peace and justice are attained only by peaceful
and just means.
16. Biological, chemical, and nuclear
weapons are so horrendously deadly to people
and damaging
to the environment for such long periods
of time
that only deluded minds seriously contemplate their use.
17. Belief in deterrence
of war by massive armaments
and nuclear weapons
is based on fear, suspicion, mistrust, and
insecurity;
this weapons policy perpetuates more fear, suspicion,
mistrust, and insecurity in the world.
18. Those people who have moral courage
and faith in the justice of their
economic and political philosophies
and in the nonviolent social
change
of democratic
processes
will support enforceable world
law instead of massive national armaments.
19. Huge expenditures on massive armaments of destruction are
a colossal waste of human
and material resources, causing poverty,
inflation, and a lowering of the quality of life.
Such resources
could otherwise be used for improvement of the environment,
food
production and distribution, education, health, and other beneficial
purposes.
Purposes
1. To awaken the inner peace
that dwells in the hearts of all beings.
2. To create the consciousness of world peace
and to foster friendship
and harmony among all people.
3. To promote and protect the human rights
of all people, regardless of
race, color, sex, language, religion,
political or other opinion, national or social origin,
property,
birth or other status, as delineated in the
Universal Declaration
of Human Rights of the United Nations.
4. To assure international justice
and universal human rights
by developing
ways to preserve them, such as a federal world
government,
democratically elected by all the people of the
earth,
with a world court of justice
having compulsory jurisdiction to decide all cases
of international
disputes and violations of world
law and human rights,
and with a
world peacekeeping force of individuals from all countries who
would be
dedicated
to the whole of humanity and who would enforce world law and the
decisions
of the world court of justice
by the most peaceful means possible.
5. To achieve disarmament and
the total elimination of all
biological, chemical, and nuclear
weapons in the entire world.
6. To purify and maintain a clean and ecologically balanced environment
for our health and prosperity and for
future generations.
7. To alleviate poverty and hunger, and to improve the health,
Education,
and living conditions of
all people on earth.
8. To encourage all schools from the primary grades to the university
to offer peace education from a global perspective.
Methods
1. To live peacefully and lovingly as examples to all.
2. To educate ourselves and others by every means to increase
awareness
of the oneness of life, the interdependence of all beings,
the ecological unity of the environment,
the way of love and nonviolence, and the urgent need
for transnational attitudes,
programs, and institutions for the
sake of mutual survival.
3. To communicate by every means the truth and the facts
which
reveal and nourish world peace.
4. To pray and meditate and
expand the consciousness of peace.
5. To respect and nurture human
rights with tolerance and understanding.
6. To refrain from contributing to the preparations and activities
of war
and from hostile and aggressive attitudes.
7. To protest nonviolently against oppression, militarism,
nuclear weapons, pollution, and
violations of human rights.
8. To work for the total elimination of biological, chemical,
and nuclear weapons in every
country.
9. To promote and practice world citizenship, and to work to organize
a World constitutional convention
to plan the democratic
institution of a federal
world government.
10. To use all human wisdom,
science, and technology
in developing
and purifying the environment,
eradicating hunger and sickness in all countries,
and making global education available to all people.
11. To communicate closely with all peace organizations and dedicated
peace workers
to facilitate the forming of a united worldwide
network
to bring about the establishment of world peace.