In particular, I would like to call attention to the threat to peace posed by poverty, especially when it becomes destitution. There are millions of men, women and children suffering every day from hunger, insecurity and emargination. These situations constitute a grave affront to human dignity and contribute to social instability. The inhuman choice of war 2. At that time, I emphasized that the indispensable premise for building true peace is respect for the freedom and rights of other individuals and groups.
Peace is obtained by promoting free peoples in a world of freedom.
Wars continue to break out and destruction has fallen upon peoples and whole cultures because the sovereignty of a people or a nation was not respected. This presupposes a conscious public commitment on the part of each nation and its government to renounce claims and designs injurious to other nations. The consequences deriving from such a commitment are easy to see, also with regard to economic relations between States. To reject all temptations to secure economic dominance over other nations means to renounce a policy inspired by the prevailing criterion of profit, and to replace it with a policy guided by the criterion of solidarity towards all and especially towards the poorest. Poverty as a source of conflict 3.