Well. World Peace has been reinvented repeatedly since time itself began, most likely. One recent notable, and honest attempt at it would perhaps be when Truman and Roosevelt started discussing a draft for an international law, which would eventually become the UN. They thought, if equal principles could be upheld between all states, no action could be taken and be both justified and seen as wrong. Thereby, the vicious circle of violence would be broken. Further, they thought this ideal would be self- sustaining, because of the fact that people would want peace. And apparently, people do, even Bush supposedly wants peace. They did of course accept the fact that there would be outlaws, and that wars would be fought, but they percieved it as essential that these rules, the self- evident rule of equality, should be employed by the ones who were able to. And this was where peace would start, with any civilized state.
I suppose this could be seen as naive. But honestly, to think that it would be possible to create peace by establishing rules that can only be employed by one part, going to righteous war or by eradicating all opposition are much, much worse. Looking at known events in history, it doesn't actually seem possible either.
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