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• W768934864 abstract "MENDING OUR BROKEN WORLD: A PATH TO PERPETUAL PEACE Rudolf C. Gelsey Denver, CO: PlanDocs Press, 2012 211 pages, paper, $19.95...[A]ll people share a moral responsibility to create peace (p. 13), were the opening words to the Statement of Conscience on Creating Peace at the June 2010 General Assembly of Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. Author Rudolf Gelsey introduces the idea of perpetual peace to include renunciation of war which precludes all forms of massive violence, including tribal, religious, and racial wars; crimes against humanity; along with genocide and conflict between nations. It also presupposes supporting a sustainable environment as well as introducing religious reform and a spiritual attitude of seeing ourselves as a Sacred Unity, one planet, one human family. With a clear and convincing presentation of past mistakes and current opportunities for global peace, Gelsey introduces a democratic World Federalist Union. He reminds us that this idea is not a new one, but that it started with the perennial philosophy of global vision and the world as one universal city.Chapter one introduces a comparison chart of the world of violence and the world we want in Glories and Dangers Great Nations and Empires. World peace was historically not achieved because of empires launching wars to be the number one world power. Gelsey wants the readers to understand past events and intentions for world peace, where there were successes and eventual failures. He explains the historical characteristics of empires and the tendencies to start with jubilation and claims to bring peace, periods of problems, and end with a form of dissolution. Examples of this are Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Chapter one claims the United States has ideas of Manifest Destiny, American Exceptionalism, and a the messiah complex in which the underlying messages are superiority, racism, and that the US alone has the right to bring civilization, democracy, or liberty to the rest of the world, ultimately saving and rescuing the world from its savage ways. Gelsey urges the US and other superpowers to look at past empires such as France, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, all ending in failure at world domination and efforts of peace.In Achievements and Shortcomings-The League of Nations the UN, chapter two, Gelsey discusses the UN and its experimental charter. Gelsey contends the UN should be termed the Disunited Nations. He focuses on the experimental idea that nations, according to the charter preamble, would be allowed to govern themselves, police themselves, and most importantly have the power to be free of outside interference; and have the right to human life and dignity of persons. Gelsey says the UN has not lived up to their charter laws and has violated their own rules, and war has denied these rights. Gelsey's chief argument is that some states act as super-states and have super self-appointed powers to veto the rules when it is in their best interest, the US being one. Because of the super-states smaller states can never enforce their own policy, the great nations and empires remain in charge. According to Gelsey, the policy is self-destructive.Chapter three considers From Delusions to Solutions; conventional and realism. Conventional realists believe that a country's commitments, such as safety and self-interest, should not exceed its capabilities, i.e. it's military. Mending Our Broken World uses higher realism that recognizes that the US should be promoting processes and institutions of international accountability-binding on itself, as well as others, and transcending the conventional dichotomies of and self-interest versus altruistic morality. The highest realism suggests that instead of being rivals, all nations would work together for the common good of humanity. Gelsey offers that the solution is working together in a world federalist union (WFU) joined by a common destiny. …" @default.
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