After a journey that kept me from maintaining my social media presence, this message serves as a recap, for concord and peace are in everyone’s interest, and more than will, what is needed is understanding.
The cause of war (of mutual destruction or self-destruction) is evil—not occasional, but sustained—stemming from weapons, which harbor ill intent or a purpose of harm, and act through their power, their threat. They determine outcomes through the projection of harm even before harm itself is inflicted.
Thus, the victim—the one targeted—has no choice but to submit to the will of the one who aims and to serve them by reinforcing their weapon (which necessarily becomes their priority), or to confront them with other weapons and organize in the same way: as an incorporated weapon in a hierarchical mode.
That incorporated weapon is the state, which obstructs humanity, freedom, and truth—a system (of states or armed units) in which Humanity has inevitably lived up to the present, since disarmament can only be universal, something impossible in a world that is unknown and disconnected.
Therefore, the state is understandable—but it must also be overcome. The shape of peace is inclusive decision-making that prevents and avoids the intention of harm and seeks only the common good—something that is now possible, and for which we propose the reform of the UN, so that it may cease to be a useless forum of states and become the instrument of Humanity.
This reform must begin from our shared humanity (not from the state, or from our citizenship or nationality—our belonging to the state), because it is our humanity that (beyond the law) identifies evil in the (power of the) weapon.
It is humanity that puts us in the place of the other, without deceiving ourselves with appearances (human beings are equal, friends—let no one be fooled, whether we wear turbans or hats), and it leads us to eliminate evil (which is common, equally harmful to all) by disarming universally.
Disarmament and human development are two sides of the same coin. Just as disarmament cannot be anything but universal (a unilateral disarmament or a peaceful, humane attitude is equivalent to surrender or defeat), development too must be human, universal, and must prioritize meeting human needs and integrating the most disadvantaged—before enhancing our capabilities.
The reform of the UN consists in the universal agreement for Humanity to jointly cease its service to weapons: through ceasefires and by halting all forms of weapons development. And that is already human development, because only the weapon separates and deceives us—it strips us of our humanity.