World Peace: World Government, World Court and Peacekeepers?

“There will always be disagreements between nations, for disagreement is merely a sign – and a healthy one – of individuality.  Violent resolution of disagreements, however, is a sign of extraordinary immaturity.  There is no reason in the world why violent resolution cannot be avoided, given the willingness of nations to avoid it.

One would think that the massive toll in death and destroyed lives would be enough to produce such willingness, but among primitive cultures such as yours, that is not so.  As long as you think you can win an argument, you will have it.  As long as you think you can win a war, you will fight it.

A short term answer could be to establish what some have called a one-world government, with a world court to settle disputes (one whose verdicts may not be ignored, as happens with the present World Court) and a world peacekeeping force to guarantee that no one nation – no matter how powerful or how influential – can ever again aggress upon another.

Yet understand that there may still be violence upon the Earth.  The peacekeeping force may have to use violence to get someone to stop doing so.  As I noted in Book 1, failure to stop a despot empowers a despot.  Sometimes the only way to avoid a war is to have a war.  Sometimes you have to do what you don’t want to do in order to ensure that you won’t have to keep on doing it!  This apparent contradiction is part of the Divine Dichotomy, which says that sometimes the only way to ultimately Be a thing – in this case, ‘peaceful’ – may be, at first, to not be it!   In other words, often the only way to know yourself as That Which You Are is to experience yourself as That Which You Are Not.

It is an observable truth that power in your world can no longer rest disproportionately with any individual nation, but must rest in the hands of the total group of nations existing on this planet.  Only in this way can the world finally be at peace, resting in the secure knowledge that no despot, no matter how big or powerful his individual nation – can or will ever again infringe upon the territories of another nation, nor threaten her freedoms.

No longer need the smallest nations depend upon the goodwill of the largest nations, often having to bargain away their own resources and offer their prime lands for foreign military bases in order to earn it.  Under this new system, the security of the smallest nations will be guaranteed not by whose back they scratch, but by who is backing them.

All nations would rise up should one nation be invaded.  All nations would say No! should one nation be violated or threatened in any way.

Similarly, nations would no longer be threatened economically, blackmailed into certain courses of action by their bigger trading partners, required to meet certain ‘guidelines’ in order to receive foreign aid, or mandated to perform in certain ways in order to quality for simple humanitarian assistance.

Yet there are those among you who would argue that such a system of global governance would erode the independence and the greatness of the individual nations.  The truth is, it would increase it – and that is precisely what the largest nations, whose independence is assured by power, not by law or justice are afraid of.  For then no longer would only the largest nation always get its way automatically, but the considerations of all nations would have to be heard equally.  And no longer would the largest nations be able to control and hoard the mass of the world’s resources, but would be required to share them more equally, render them accessible more readily, provide their benefits more uniformly to all the world’s people.

A worldwide government would level the playing field, and this idea, while driving to the core of the debate regarding basic human dignity, is anathema to the world’s ‘haves’, who want the ‘have-nots’ to go seek their own fortunes – ignoring, of course, the fact that the ‘haves’ control all that others would seek …thus it will always be until a long-term solution  which is not a political one, is put into place.  That long-term solution – and the only real one- is a New Awareness and a New Consciousness.  An awareness of Oneness and a consciousness of Love.”

Source: Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God)