The subject matter is a reappraisal of Ghandian politics for the 21st century. War is abolished by legislation. Ask not for world peace, ask for world legislature. Ask not how to disarm, but how to legislate international relationships. This book defines war as militaries in contest with militaries.
Peace is defined as politicians in contest with politicians.
When universal civil law exists between nation states, militaries and weaponry become superfluous. World peace will require that the latter condition prevail worldwide. In which John is sentenced to 45 days in jail for his activities protesting against the Trident Submarine Base at Bangor, May 22, 1978. In which John explains his fundamental ideas and offers pragmatic suggestions for achieving a citizens' world community by transforming the turbulent world of international anarchy into a new order of peaceful and creative inter-dependence. In which John proposes a form of politics in which there are legislated relationships between international states, obviating the need for any national militaries because world peace and political unity will be maintained, instead, through political action and world legislation via the development of global institutions and organizations such as a world court or universal forum of justice.