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     The Gem 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Thursday, March 1, 1990 
     
    
   
   
    
     Peace, Barriers To and Prerequisetes For 
     
    
   
   
    
     Banning nuclear 
     
     weapons, prohibiting the use of 
     
     poison gases, or outlawing germ 
     
     warfare will not remove the root 
     
     cause of war. Peoples are inge- 
     
     nious enough to invent yet other 
     
     forms of warfare, and to use food, 
     
     raw materials, finance, etc. to 
     
     subvert one another in an endless 
     
     quest for dominance and power. 
     
    

    
     It is thé_root cause of war, and 
     
     the prerequisites for peace that 
     
     must be considered. Some of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     barriers to peace are: 
     
    

    
     Racism: one 
     
     of the most baneful and persis- 
     
     tent evils, racism is a major bar- 
     
     rier to peace. It retards the un- 
     
    
   
   
    
     foldment of the potentialities of 
     
     its victims, corrupts its perpetra- 
     
     tors, and blights human progress. 
     
    

    
     Disparity between rich and 
     
     poor, a source of acute suffering 
     
     keeps the world in a state of in- 
     
     stability, virtually on the brink of 
     
     war. 
     
    
   
   
    
     om og AS DAY 
     
    
   
   
    
     “MONDA 
     
    
   
   
    
     Unbridled nationalism, ;as 
     
     opposed to a sane and legitimate 
     
     patriotism must give way to a 
     
     wider loyalty, to the love of hu- 
     
     manity as a whole. 
     
    

    
     Religious strife, throughout 
     
     history has been the cause of in- 
     
     numerable wars, a major blight to 
     
     progress, and is increasingly ab- 
     
     horrent to the people of all faiths 
     
     and no faith. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A few of the prerequisistes for 
     
    
   
   
    
     peace are: 
     
    
   
   
    
     1. Full equality between men 
     
     and women — Though one of the 
     
     most important, is the least ac- 
     
     knowledge prerequisite. The de- 
     
     nial of such equality perpetrates 
     
     an injustice against one half of 
     
     the world’s populations. There 
     
     are no grounds, moral, practi- 
     
     cal, or biological, upon which 
     
     such denial can be justified. only 
     
     as women are welcomed into full 
     
    
   
   
    
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     partnership in all fields of hu- 
     
     man endeavour will the moral 
     
     and psychological climate be cre- 
     
     ated in which international peace 
     
     can emerge. 
     
    
   
   
    
     2. Universal education — this 
     
     deserves the utmost support that 
     
     the peoples of the world can lend 
     
     it. For ignorance is the principal 
     
     reason for the decline and fall of 
     
     peoples and the perpetuation of 
     
     prejudice. The decision—making 
     
     agencies should consider teaching 
     
     the concept of world citizenship 
     
     as part of the standard education 
     
     of every child. 
     
    
   
   
    
     3. A fundamental lack of 
     
     communication between people 
     
     seriously undermines efforts to- 
     
     wards world peace. Adopting an 
     
     international auxiliary language 
     
     would go far to resolve this prob- 
     
     lem, and necessitates urgent at- 
     
     tention. 
     
    

    
     Two points bear emphasizing 
     
     in all these issues. One is that 
     
     the abolition of war is not simply 
     
     a matter signing treaties and pro- 
     
     tocols; it is a complex task requir- 
     
     ing a new level of commitment to 
     
     resolving issues. The other point 
     
     is that the primary challenge in 
     
     dealing with issues of peace is to 
     
     raise the context to the level of 
     
     principle. For, in essence, peace 
     
     stems from an inner state sup- 
     
     ported by spiritual or moral at- 
     
     titudes and it is chiefly in evok- 
     
     ing this attitude that the possibil- 
     
     ity of enduring solutions can be 
     
     found. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     from Montreal and the McGill 
     
     Debating tournament. The com- 
     
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     ended up with a 1-5 record. Al- 
     
     though not as high as we hoped 
     
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     Guard College, Victoria (VofT), 
     
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     Windsor, UNB, and UNBSJ. 
     
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