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World peace is a future ideal of freedom, peace and happiness among and within all nations.
The realization of world peace may also make the idea of individual nations obsolete. Some historians identify a long-term trend where nation-states stop fighting and become united. For example, old Europe with wars culminating in World War I and World War II, compared with the European Union; warring Chinese states compared with the modern Chinese nation. Some historians theorize that the world will eventually follow this pattern as well.
Dr. Frank Laubach, an American Missionary to the Phllipines in 1935 saw poverty, injustice and illiteracy as impediments to world peace. He developed the "Each One Teach One" literacy program which taught about 60 million people to read in their own language.
World peace is often claimed to be the inevitable result of some political ideology. Thus, communist thinkers such as Leon Trotsky assumed that the world revolutionWorld revolution is a Marxist concept of a violent overthrow of capitalism that would take place in all countries simultaneously. Arguably, the international situation in the years immediately following World War I was the closest the world ever came to s would lead to a communist world peace, and neoliberal thinkers such as Francis FukuyamaFrancis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952 in Chicago) is an American political economist of Japanese ancestry. A professor of political economy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, he is best known as the author of the c assumed that the rise of WestWest is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. West is the direction towards which the sun sets at the equinox. It is one of the four cardinal points of the compass, upon which it is considered the opposite of East,ern democracyA democracy is a form of government under which the power to alter the laws and structures of government lies with the voting citizenry (referred to as "the people", because in modern times it usually consists of all people over 18 years of age), and all will inevitably lead to the " end of history".
Whether world peace is achievable or not depends on what exactly we mean by it.
The utopiaSee Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word Utopia in its most common and general meaning, refers to a hypothetical perfect society. It has also been used to describe actual communities founded in attempts to create such a society. The adjn ideal of conflict-free interaction between all humans (or even all sentientSentience is the ability to feel or perceive. In the philosophy of animal rights sentience is commonly seen as the ability to experience suffering. The Eighteenth Century philosopher Jeremy Bentham raised the issue of animal suffering in An Introduction t beings) seems quite improbable to achieve, most basically because of the wide ranges of behaviour and personal circumstances there exist. Some people, acting in some manner, in some circumstances, are likely to get into a conflict over one thing or another. Indeed, the case can be made that if we did not conflict in any way with others, we would either be totally independent from them (rendering the issue moot) or we would have none of the individuality that makes us human.
Most interpretations of the concept are not so extreme, however. For one thing, there are many kinds of conflicts. If we only include armed conflicts, world peace may simply entail the resolution of all minor conflicts through nonviolent means (and possibly, the strong guarantee that this will always remain so—whatever is required for that). If, on the other hand, we interpret world peace as the total absence of things like trade conflicts or border disputes, achieving it becomes quite a bit more difficult.
Even if world peace (in whatever sense it is taken) is unachievable, this doesn't imply that striving for it is not a worthy (personal) goal. In this sense (and others), it is much like perfection .