Everyone talks about peace because
everyone wants it badly. We want to live in harmony with others. Peace keeps us
socially intact and gives us a happy life. Peace in a society or in a nation
helps the improvement of the society or nation. So, all are interested in
keeping the peace at any cost. But unfortunately peace in society is disturbed
at times by differences in opinion and diversity in culture.
Similarly nations in the world like to
be peaceful in order to improve the lifestyle of peoples and country’s infrastructure.
But border issues, religious intolerance, economic imbalances, inadequate
national resources create disturbances. Treaties are being signed among nations
whenever the leaders of the nations meet. They talk much about peaceful
coexistence. But somehow differences create difficulties. Sometimes fighting
between countries also takes place.
Peace of mind is considered as one of
the virtues man wants in life. Peace of mind for every individual helps to
attain happiness and good health. But how to achieve peace? Practice the mind
to keep in peace. It has lot of effects on the body and mind. On the other
hand, peacelessness disturbs our mind. It affects our thinking, our daily
activities and work. Anger and anxiety are created in the peaceless mind!
Normal life is affected. People suffer just because they do not have peace!
Countries in the world often do not
live in peace. So they thought of an organization to keep peace in the world.
Thus they created the United Nations in 1948. All the countries of the world
are members – rich and the poor nations. In general, peace is disturbed by
natural calamities, man-made civil wars, terrorism, religious fighting, racial
differences, border disputes etc. So, sometimes peace is to be kept by force.
The United Nations has a wing for peace keeping force sent out to countries
where the above mentioned
calamities occur. In fact, these forces are sent by various member countries.
Every year May 29 is observed as
International Day for Peace Keeping by the United Nations. Peace in the world
is achieved by conciliation and understanding. Talks across the table often
fail because of the adamant nature of nations. Lots of lives are lost because
of such adamant attitude. No one cares about it! Peace makers make rules and
resolutions to create an environment of harmony and friendship. Peace keepers
physically involve themselves to keep peace. They take risk. Our world is
swinging between
peace and peacelessness. Avoiding conflicts is essential. We need to forget the
differences among human beings living in different countries. People of a
country may not have as much hatred towards the people of another country as
the rulers of the country. Because of their adamant tendencies peace is
disturbed and
countries are put to difficulty. “Peace
cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding” said Alfred
Einstein. Let the leaders of every country learn this and keep their citizens
happy.
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