Against a backdrop of rising global tension an opportunity for the ordinary people of the world to
have their say has been created in the form of a world-wide Petition for Peace to be presented
to world leaders.
The online petition at Petition4Peace.net is available for every citizen in every country to indicate their
support for world peace.
The situation in the Middle East and the Caucasus has the potential to drag humanity into yet another
major war. Too often in the past it has been already too late before husbands and wives, sons and
daughters find themselves involved in a conflict not of their making. This petition gives them the
opportunity to make their position abundantly clear in advance.
The end of the Vietnam war, which caused perhaps two million casualties, was finally brought about
by public pressure. The Petition for Peace provides an opportunity to stop the next war before it
starts.
Now is the time to demonstrate the power of the people. The message is quite simple:
“Be advised: We, the ordinary citizens of this Earth will no longer fight, support, or otherwise engage
in war or mortal conflict of any sort.”
Every one with access to the Internet is urged to use their voice by signing the petition without delay.
The few moments it takes to visit Petition4Peace.net will demonstrate the will of the people which our
leaders would be foolish to ignore.
Full text of the petition is reproduced below for information.
Petition for Peace
Background
For thousands of years it appears that mankind has been obsessed with war. The focal point of historical development as taught in most countries is largely war or other major conflict.
In 2007, Wikipedia catalogued six major wars – ‘causing destruction of outstanding severity’ –and 27 ‘other conflicts – some on-going for more than sixty years!
In the 1914-18 World War less than 5% of casualties were civilians; now, more than 75% are non-combatants.
The military action of Georgia against South Ossetia on 8.8.08 has raised the spectre of all enveloping global conflict once more.
Why does a species that has learned to sail the seas in ships of steel, fly through the air like birds, eradicate diseases, and beam sound and pictures around the planet prove unable to master the simple art of peaceful co-existence?
The Alternative - The Solution
Isn’t it time to speak out for what the ordinary man or woman has come to know full well, but our ‘leaders’ seem incapable of understanding:
It never has and never will.
Sons and daughters, husbands and wives are the inevitable victims of a handful of individuals who create the conditions of war to get away with what at other times would be indefensible.
Yes, as Robert MacNamara observed, “At times, we may have to live with an imperfect, untidy world.” But diplomacy, discussion, engagement to seek a win-win situation for the good of all is the only solution to disagreement.
Why now?
The US Government is pushing for global hegemony. The sovereignty of Russia and China is threatened. The US has neither the wealth nor the forces for a conventional conflict, but it does have a stockpile of nuclear weapons - standing idle as it were.
Petition
Be advised: We, the ordinary citizens of this Earth will no longer fight, support, or otherwise engage in war or mortal conflict of any sort.
