Banning nuclear weapons, prohibiting the use of poison
gases, or outlawing germ warfare will not remove the root causes of war.
However important such practical measures obviously are as elements of the
peace process, they are in themselves too superficial to exert enduring
influence. Peoples are ingenious enough to invent yet other forms of warfare,
and to use food, raw materials, finance, industrial power, ideology, and
terrorism to subvert one another in an endless quest for supremacy and
dominion. Nor can the present massive dislocation in the affairs of humanity be
resolved through the settlement of specific conflicts or disagreements among
nations. A genuine universal framework must be adopted. - The Universal House of
Justice (‘The Promise of World Peace’, 1985)
