Essay 3

Defining "World Peace"

            World peace is a powerful idea that is defined as peace or happiness within all nation or people. It can be said everyone would want peace in the world when they were young and others would want to just harm others as they grow older. But it can be heavily implied that world peace cannot stand with individuals alone due to the human nature of things. There are many factors which would stops world peace from happening war, terrorism, governments, beliefs and much more are responsible between world peace and instability. For those that still believe in world peace it is still quite possible due to strong communication between governments today compared to the days before world war 2 and the cold war. The way the world has come close to world peace is very significant and while it may not be possible for a world peace to happen in individuals it can still happen within nations.

            The first and most important step is for nations to come to peace with one another is communication. But world peace alone isn't just nations not attacking one another it is coming together and settling issues through discussion and promotion of peace. One example of a failure of this was when the early league of nation had forced Germany to a terrible treaty, causing enough turmoil which would lead up to war world 2. After the war world 2 the league of nations was replaced with the United nations that took more effort to show peace instead of punishing those that threaten the organization. The way I see it right now there is another popular version of world peace and that is helping one another and everyone or anyone else in the world. The red cross help influence this idea due to being able to cross the war zones and helping people on both sides.

            Even though there can be several definitions of world peace there are many limitations holding back world peace from existing. In the current time there are several issues to holding back world peace. One of them is governments even though democracy isn't perfect there is less chance of hard threats like from communism and dictatorship countries in the world that often promote war. For example North Korea and China both communist countries often issues threats to any land they see as invasive and more often then not causes instability and much more tension.  Another issue is one that affected us in our lands and it is terrorism, terrorists often destroy many lives witch leads to turmoil, hate and is the leading cause on why the middle east cannot find peace on their own lands. Even human nature may be a factor with this as we fought each other for thousands of years and no matter what we do we cannot always stop the murder of one another.  These issues are the reason why world peace is being prevented and is why world peace with every individual is not possible.

            While world peace isn't accomplished yet it may not be far off at all compare to many years ago. Many nations are communicating now while dictatorships and communist governments seems fell off more such as Russia, Egypt, Iraq and several more. Compared to the cold war where threats of a nuclear destruction was very close the world right now is in a much better place with all major nations taking part in talks of peace. Overall while we may not have world peace as individuals helping one another, it is possible that we will have it as nations if our progress keeps on going. Unlike back then where one country would declare war the United Nations allow all sides to agree in armed conflicts. The goal for world peace for all nations may be near but as for individuals it is not.

            World Peace can be put in many different definitions and some are close while others seem more like a dream or fantasy. But there is truth that a peace within nations is possible and it can come up at anytime as long as nations come together and communicate. Individuals may never find peace with each other but if nations can then it will come eventually. There are wars and issues holding us off this path to world peace but it is possible.

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