Any effort at unity and peace deserves anyone’s support, because people everywhere need it, to end humanity’s pain and suffering.
But peace and unity will not come about merely by slogans and appeals: it calls for committed and consistent effort. It has to be achieved through justice, based on understanding and accommodation of each other’s legitimate interests and concerns. It also calls for truth, mutual forgiveness and reconciliation.
Like charity, peace and unity must begin at home. Without achieving it themselves, if a people preach unity and peace to others they are likely to be told: Physician first heal thyself.
Finally, while peace and unity should begin at home, it should not end there. It should be extended to all fellow human beings. The goal should be all encompassing and indivisible peace and unity.
But peace and unity will not come about merely by slogans and appeals: it calls for committed and consistent effort. It has to be achieved through justice, based on understanding and accommodation of each other’s legitimate interests and concerns. It also calls for truth, mutual forgiveness and reconciliation.
Like charity, peace and unity must begin at home. Without achieving it themselves, if a people preach unity and peace to others they are likely to be told: Physician first heal thyself.
Finally, while peace and unity should begin at home, it should not end there. It should be extended to all fellow human beings. The goal should be all encompassing and indivisible peace and unity.
Ishrat Aziz
(Indian Foreign Service, Retd.)
(Indian Foreign Service, Retd.)
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