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Quotations: Dwight Eisenhower: My God, we simply have to figure out a way out of this situation. There's no point talking about 'winning' a nuclear war. The world no longer has a choice between force and law, if civilization is to survive, it must choose the world of law. Winston Churchill: Unless some effective world super-government for the purpose of preventing war can be setup...the prospects for peace and human progress are dark. Grenville Clark & Louis B. Sohn: Tony Blair, British Prime Minister: ...(terrorists)
would, if they could, go further and use chemical or biological,
or even nuclear weapons of mass destruction. Silviu Brucan, Rumanian author: While the citizens of great and
developed nations should look at the World Authority as the safest
way of avoiding a nuclear catastrope,,, the Third World should look
at it as the best way of building a more democratic and equitable
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WORLD PEACE OR MASS DESTRUCTION The Peace Imperative In the 5,584 years of recorded history, there have been more than 14,000 wars. Since 1945, when the United Nations was founded "to maintain international peace and security," it is estimated that there have been well over 150 wars with more than 30 million casualties. Yet, if we believe wars are inevitable, there can be no hope for the future of humanity. It is imperative that we take action now to establish international law to abolish war and to maintain world peace - before it is too late. A Nuclear Holocaust The United States and Russia have the capability of producing one Hiroshima bomb every twenty minutes - and their stockpiles have exceeded more than 50,000 atomic bombs. Today, thirty-five or more countries are capable of manufacturing nuclear weapons. Many scientists have concluded that "stable nuclear deterrence" has become impossible, and predict that the danger of nuclear war is now "probable." Major Peace Incentives At the end of World War I, "the war to end all wars", the League of Nations was founded at Geneva, Switzerland in 1920 to establish and maintain world peace. But the major nations of the world failed to give the League the authority and the means to enforce international law for world peace. Consequently, only eighteen years later, the world was inflamed with the most disastrous conflict in the history of mankind - World War II. In 1945, the United Nations (UN) was founded at the end of World War II to maintain international peace and security. Over Fifty years later, while the UN has helped advance the welfare of much of mankind, it has been incapable of establishing and maintaining world peace because it has not been organized, authorized, and equipped to enforce international law to maintain world peace and security. Progress for Peace In 1957, the European Council (EC) enacted the European Convention for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes whereby the signatories accepted the mandatory jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on all international legal disputes which might arise between them. For fifty years the Convention has effectively maintained peaceful relations between the European signatories. Currently, with the European Union (EU), the ECJ has advanced EU law as a 'transnational constitution over and above some national laws.' Today, the European Union (EU) includes 27 nations 'as a family of democratic European countries committed to working together for peace and prosperity. The rule of law is considered fundamental to the European Union and it's members have set up common institutions in which they delegate some of their sovereignty so that decisions ... can be made democratically at the European level.' Proposal Under the awesome threat of nuclear holocaust and international terrorism, the survival of civilized humanity demands that only the federation of the nations of the world can enable the enactment of international law and the enforcement of world peace. Consequently, the existing United Nations Organization must be reformed into an effective organization for world peace at the earliest possible date.
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