It is time to declare Peace is a Human Right. This was the voice of organized civil society that spoke at the Hague and which has agreed to the Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century, a 50 step program for getting from a culture of violence to a culture of peace. I do not propose the abolition of war from the perspective of an ideological pacifist. I am not. I am not a Gandhian, although we share the same birth date.
War is waste, and waste is the greatest environmental crime.
There are no winners in war. Rousseau wasn't around to witness the wars of the past 25 years or he would have amended his view that wars are only fought by states. War is a source of tyranny - the 'good society' of the social contract was meant to rid society of the evils that caused war. It denies that war is biologically based, but rather a product of our culture. War begins in the minds of men and so too, peace begins in our minds, they concluded.