| The Statement addressed to the peoples of the world, issued by the Universal House of Justice in 1985 in response to Bahá'u'lláh's injunction to its members to promote the Lesser Peace and as its contribution to the UN Year of Peace (1986). It states that peace is inevitable: it will be established either after 'unimaginable horrors' or as a result of 'an act of consultative will'.38 |
| The Promise of World Peace outlines the favourable signs for peace; defines the role of religion as a source of order; examines the root causes of war; sets out the obstacles to peace such as racism, the inordinate disparity between rich and poor, unbridled nationalism and the lack of full equality between the sexes; states that world order can be founded only on a consciousness of the oneness of mankind, offers the Bahá'í community as a model of the unity necessary for peace, and calls for the holding of a 'mighty convocation' of the leaders of all nations that will lay the foundations of universal peace. |
| The Promise of World Peace has been presented to heads of state and government in most countries, as well as to other national and civic leaders. By 1988 it had been presented to over one million people. |
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