One could say that we could achieve the desired result wihtout any great difficulty, given the political will to achieve the end. That is, when we seriously undertake to achieve it, which will be, once again, when we have the political will to do so. So far, the will is clearly lacking, but the knowledge of what has to be done is not. It involves, above all, the tackling of the myth of national sovereignty, which reigns today even when its practical meaning has largely disappeared. The tenacity with which people and above all governments cling to sovereignty must be related to the knowledge, deep down, that it is really an illusion.
Myths are often much greater than truth in human affairs and politics is a very human affair.
The great, unsually unmentioned and unacknowledged fear is of the implications. The abolition of war will be followed by the greatest political revolution of the past ten thousand years. For just as virtually every society has engaged in warfare, so they have all prepared for war. And those preparations, long sacnctified by tradition and usage, continue unabated, even in countries that believe themselves to be at no danger from neighbours or others. The institutions of militarism survive, ready to be reactivated at short notice and they affect the way that our societies view themselves and the world in which we live.