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Dr. Yamba Elie Ouédraogo
Ambassador
for Peace, Burkina Faso
Nobody has come up with a better proposal than Rev. Moon for
pulling humanity out of the mud of violence, war and conflict. World peace will
not come from the skills and abilities of science, diplomacy or economics.
World peace does not come about by the signing of agreements and treaties.
World peace will not be established even if the images of war temporarily
disappear from the media. But a corrosive and pervasive secular, self-serving
thought has come to govern human relations. We have wrongly confused progress
in economics, diplomacy and science with the far more elusive—and much more
vital—ethical progress that is needed for true peace.
Rev. Moon is in no way suggesting a return to a primitive,
simple life, with the precarious and restrictive relationships which characterized
it, but rather a return to the fundamental principles of unselfishness upon
which all successful traditions and cultures are based. In this way the
external and the internal can come to unite. I am convinced that there is a
compelling need for human beings to be educated in the true love teaching of
Father Moon. Starting with the individual and the family, and reaching out
beyond our nation, beyond Africa to the world, the practice of true love living
for the sake of others will bring us to live in harmony with each other. Peace
will come and war will end only when war itself no longer has a purpose or function.
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