World Peace: Can It Be Achieved Without War?

by Farid H. Nu’Man

What a world we have become, is something time soon will tell.
We move through this space as if being chased, in fact, desperate - for Hell.

Always, the effort in life is keeping close company with that which provides life.  However, if life suffers a death in the horrors of starvation and immorality, is that life really life?
Do we not see, the lives not worth living?

Yes, we do. It’s not ignored, and we do care, yet we compromise our souls and convince each other that it will never happen again. Remember Hitler’s war and America’s slave trade? We are born inclined to what is right. But we fail in our objective, keeping close steps with our Maker, on whom our lives depend.

Most ask for truth, yet for many, it is a horror to behold.  Can there be world peace with the absence of war?

To reply, fighting Aids is a battle but can we win is our objective.  How do you interpret hot with the absence of cold. Some even say there is hope in the balance, but where is the foundation for that balance for even balance has a place.

You get what you ask for, and look at what we have - destitution on a world-wide scale, poverty in numbers like roaches in the projects. Greed, jealousy, and poison in the midst of grace and elegance. We admire too much, what we term our progress, how advanced we have become. Three Mile Island, Somalians, Palestinians, Bosnians and Negro lynching, to brag the most about our “ethnic cleansing”.

So you say, politics is the catch of the day. I’ll have catfish, if there is any left.  Politics is not the answer because it’s not the root of the problem.  Racism is the problem and fear is its root. And, from the looks of this foundation, I see hopelessness and shame. Fear is a reaction to something unknown, yet its presence is felt.  Ignorance feeds this fire.  The battle now becomes feeding truth and morality to its root.  But, we’ve invented guns and bombs for containers and we carry them in anger.

Can there be world peace without war?

Originally published in the Winter 1993 print edition of

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