How can we follow Gandhi, and slowly end the idea of war?

Question

He did it, so why can't we?

Answer 1

it might comfort you to no that our idea of war is dissapering.besides the iraq war,there are virtually no major wars going on.even Africa,a war-torn continent,is slowing starting to stop fighting and turning to diplomatic solutions.

Answer 2

Hi There-

Gandhi was a great man who nevertheless lived under some unique constraints. He dedicated his self to non-violence and self saccrifice in order to enact change. The people of the world were riveted as a result- chiefly in Brittain.

Working in his favor was cheifly the fact that he need only convince the people of Brittain that his points were just. Brittain was a democracy, so his saccrifice needed only touch the hearts of voters who would then change their minds.

The same was true for Dr Martin Luther King Jr whose peaceful protests were seen by voters around the United States who ultimately held their elected officials responsible for fulfilling his demands. While violence was periodically visited on he and his followers, (ultimately leading to his assassination), more remarkable was the fact that millions could protest in most cases without major violence.

However, in countries where you do not have the right to assemble; where dictators and despots will kill you for speaking out; where a subjugated press will never report your heroism; in these places, peaceful protest rarely ends well.

I know that many will say, "Hey, Brittain and the US are no great places" and that's fine. The simple fact is that peaceful protestors in MOST cases (not all) only prevail in democracies. Peaceful demonstration will only work in a country where the general populace (who is swayed by such protests) can a) hear about the protest and b) do something peaceful to stop it (i.e. voting). In any other setting, it is force or the threat of force that will ultimately make the change- for good or for worse.

PS: I just read Cow_Yogurt's response. That just isn't true. Africa has experienced horrid war in the past few years. Genocide has been going on in Rwanda and Darfur. If you are troubled by the Iraq war, then the current state of Mid Africa will make you cry.

Answer 3

Mahatma Gandhi did such a great job.. and we can also do it... but for that we have to bear a lot of things in prsent world.. nowadays there is lots of gun power is used for war so if everybody can do it together it might be possible but for that think what we have to loose.... its a buig quesstion.. if u read a book of Gandhi u can realize how much he and his indian beared....
and today everybody has a different mind whom u gonaa explain this not a everybody like one by one its too hard sweetheart but i like yr idea

Answer 4

Ghandi believed in living by the principles found in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5. If we all could live by bible principles the we will have peace.

Answer 5

Albert Einstein said: "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Maybe some people that are making decisions for others reflect upon what this divinely inspired genius said.