Evil will always find instruments to create spawning grounds to take root in the hearts of men as the diabolical orchestration of fanatics foster hopelessness and create doubts about the survival of mankind on Planet Earth.

Terrorism, on national and universal scales, fostered by despotic, demonic leaders, has become endemic, with innocent people kidnapped and/or murdered while criminals make progressively outrageous demands after their wanton destruction of social and physical structures, with a consequential decline, and oftimes curtailment, of economic growth.
And the list of atrocities continues to grow.

Of 164 nation states no less than one-third are engaged in armed conflict. The arms sale by superpowers to warmongers has contributed significantly to the perpetuation of armed conflict within and between nations and currency is diverted from food acquisition and social service provision to sustain luxurious lifestyles of profligate leaders while the populaces subsist on the precipice of existence – some states in the Middle East are cases in point.

As a contributory factor to global moral decay, and even more potent since the advent of modern technological devices, is the modern entertainment industry, which has negatively impacted, as nothing else has, on sensitive and impressionable young minds. Unless a youngster possesses an inherent or in-bred high moral code that motivates resistance he/she will inevitably develop anti-social and anti-developmental value-systems; influenced, informed, and exacerbated by moral turpitude and peer pressure.

Unfortunately, adults and persons in positions of authority often propagate negative behavioural patterns, which their offspring, or young persons in general, use as moulds for their own behaviour.

In 1939 the Academy Award winning movie ‘Gone with the Wind’ shocked the world with the use of a four-letter word, but today movie stars and ‘heroes’ use these words as a matter of form, disregarding the fact that young fans emulate their mannerisms. Smoking by ‘heroes’ has the same implications of influence on impressionable minds.

‘Rambo’ took to the battlefield in Vietnam and Rambomania erupted in teenland. ‘Macho’ students wielding various types of weapons terrorise teachers and other students – oftimes injuring and sometimes killing in the process. Adult gang wars have bred children gang wars as ‘heroes’ are imitated, while blood and gore are romancing the realms of erotica, eventuating and perpetuating even more violence, promiscuity, and all their related ills. Children’s games are violence-oriented and have taken away the innocence of childhood even from babyhood.

Families have become individualistic in contrast to units and this breakdown of family togetherness has contributed significantly to the moral decay in society, with all its inherent dangers.

World leaders are stymied by the momentum of universal corruption and depravity, where even children are targeted for exploitation; but instead of addressing global problems in a collective way, as essayed by Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s formula in his New Global Human Order, formidable concentrations of technological energies and resources are expended on formulating mechanisms engineered for purposes of warfare.

Many august bodies have issued dire warnings of impending doom for mankind unless the nuclear race is curtailed; but no-one is heeding this plea.

According to the book ‘James Fighting Ships 1986-87’ Britain, China, France, Russia, and America have 131 ballistic missile submarines in active service. No city lies beyond their reach and a warhead is geared to land within a mile of its target. Some carry sufficient warheads to ‘obliterate countries within 5,000 miles,’ says the Guinness Book of World Records. It is claimed that the warhead in l ballistic missile could cause a nuclear winter to imperil all life on earth. Configure the statistical formulations and empirical data with the inclusion of other nuclear-ready countries from then to now and a frighteningly chilling possibility for a nuclear holocaust emerges.

All it would take is one vital human error to set in chain events that would provide the impetus toward laying waste all living organism on earth, because the radioactive fallout could blanket the earth in a limitless nuclear winter.

Professor Freeman, former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote a book entitled “This is the Way the World Will End: This is the Way You Will End, unless…” He affirms therein that there are 151 indications of immediate attack recorded within an 18-month period: “Four resulted in a state of alert for B-52 bombers and intercontinental missiles in preparation for retaliation.’ He reported that all errors were corrected in time, although some came close to tragedy, to the extent where, on 9th November 1976 nuclear bombers took to the air in six minutes readying a nuclear counterattack.

In early 1984 forty-seven scientists, including eighteen Nobel Prize winners, advised the “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,” a monthly publication, to move its ‘doomsday clock,’ which represented their assessment of the eminence of a nuclear conflagration, forward by l minute to 3 minutes before midnight.

The very real possibility of space becoming a battleground, with lasers devastating specific targets on earth, no longer exists only in the realms of science fiction but has become a stark threat to humankind.

In l984 India, Mexico, Tanzania, Sweden, Greece, and Argentina issued a Declaration, identified as the Four-Continent Peace Initiative.

Company Path in Guyana is home to the Non-Aligned Monument, which honours the four founding fathers of the Movement: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt; President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana; Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru of India; and President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia. The monument bears the inscription: “Having led their peoples to freedom they did not rest; but taking the whole earth for their nation, and all peoples for theirs brothers, they sought to free the world from war and to give the oppressed a sense of dignity and hope of justice; to ensure for all peoples the right to freedom and independence; and to determine, without hindrance, the paths of their political, economic, social development: To secure for all states respect for their sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the right to equality and active participation in international affairs. With them, through the Movement of the Non-Aligned, our human race took a major step forward – toward a world of peace, of justice, and of progress. Thus they began a dialogue for all mankind.”

In l913 Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the USA. This peace-loving man’s most famous phrase was: “The world must be made safe for democracy…civilization itself seems to hang in the balance,” when he was forced to enter World War 1. He then laid his head on the table and cried like a child.

Wilson it was who conceived the League of Nations, which was the forerunner of the United Nations, the logo of which is a Biblical passage taken from the Book of Isaiah and reads in part: “They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” His objective was peaceful co-existence on a global scale. In Guyana former President, Dr, Cheddi Jagan conceptualized and promoted a “New Global Human Order,” which he envisaged would eliminate world hunger and promote prosperity for all mankind.

In 1986 the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University launched a programme of donations of a million minutes of global peace – eliciting a response of over a billion minutes of peace. There have been many such initiatives but one of the most touching was the involuntary laying down of arms by enemy troops in December of l914, who exchanged meagre rations and souvenir gifts in no-man’s land in celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace.

However, world leaders are engaged in a mad dash to precipitate Armageddon as all peace initiatives are trampled by egomania; but if leaders of and within nations could liberate their souls like the Mahatma, who at no time ever hated his country’s oppressors, and strive to achieve peaceful resolutions in a unity of purpose that could coalesce under the lambent flame of a unifying entity – a Godhead, if you will: No names nor doctrines, but what Plato describes as “a turning of the whole soul towards the light,” then the propagation and phenomenon of war would be relegated to pages within history books and a victory would be won that no war could wrest – liberation of souls, of nations and, ultimately, of the world.