When the United Nations came into existence in 1945, the whole world took a sigh of relief. Finally, the idea of solving international conflicts through wars as a medium was replaced by the concept of finding a solution to global struggles through healthy dialogues. This lasted for a while. As times rolled on, the world witnessed the emergence of five superpowers each one of which carried a veto in all United Nations decisions. These five superpowers were the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and China. At one time or another, each one of them tried to show its muscles to the rest of the world in military strength and weapons capability.

Power Nations in Political Sphere

The United Kingdom showed its muscles when it sent an armada to regain the Falkland Islands from Argentina. On the other hand, France demonstrated its ability to annihilate opponents by testing atomic weapons in the Pacific Ocean, in spite of global opposition. Besides, China concentrated on expanding regionally with the invasion of unarmed Tibet and later with the annexation of both Hong Kong and Macao. Since then its concentration focused on Taiwan and used diplomacy to put world pressure against Taiwan. Moreover, both the Soviet Union and the United States concentrated on world domination by all means conceivable.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the world took a sigh of relief because everyone was convinced that under the leadership of the United States, the achievement of world peace was at hand. However, the world found that it was wrong in its judgment because the United States, instead of developing a program of international disarmament and world peace, it embarked on a massive military build up. This American nation increased its manufacture of weapons of mass destruction and began to furnish them to countries all over the world, friends and enemies alike, as long as they gave the right price.

While leading American politicians began to talk periodically of the importance for the United Nations to bring about a permanent world peace, this American nation suddenly embarked on its own, independently of the world body of nations. Hence, the birth of Pax Americana took place, which proved itself to be in conflict with Pax United Nations in philosophy and method of approach to bring about a genuine world peace.

Some 2,000 years ago, the world witnessed a good period of peace, which was brought by Pax Romana. Of course, the word “pax” is the Latin world for “peace.” The Roman Empire, having eliminated all of its enemies, concentrated on providing people with a good and decent life as much as possible. This lasted for more than two centuries where historians tell us that at this time the whole world was at peace. Needless to say, this was the Pax Romana, which was generally brought up by the use of brutal force that exterminated successfully every single opposition it encountered.

Pax Americana in Perspective

The newly emerged Pax Americana needs to be thoroughly examined in order to explore the kind of elements or policies, which are being adopted supposedly to promote and bring about a genuine world peace. The US Republican administration, under the leadership of President George W. Bush, brought the real policies of Pax Americana into the open in a clear and crystal manner. The Pax Americana’s primary policy is to disarm the world as much as possible while, at the same time, it continues to have the United States be armed with numerous weapons of mass destruction and to use them at any time against any nation deemed challenging or dangerous, even without warning! We need to explore why a super power in history never served to benefit all people without exception.

The Pax Americana is fundamentally based on having the United States controlling the whole world from every aspect one may conceive or imagine, the economy in particular. And since the United States is a capitalist nation that is ruled by the rich, anything that is conducive to the benefit of American big industry will be carried out, regardless as to whether millions of innocent people would suffer and die miserably as a result. The motto of Pax Americana is: The end justifies the means. This Machiavellian axiom, which was condemned by all Christian churches in the middle ages, has become accepted and tacitly supported by virtually all the American Christian churches of today, in particular the fundamentalist ones.

Nowadays, there is hardly any global area, which is not dominated by American influence. There is nothing wrong in having the world being dominated by a single nation if that nation were to put priority, in all of its actions, on the universal welfare of all people without exception. Almost everything that Pax Americana does reveals the promotion of the interests of American big industries, which control with iron fist the American government, to the detriment of the weak and the poor, the suffering and the sick, as well as the helpless innocent who are mercilessly manipulated and exploited. The policy of Pax Americana is based on virtually one sole item and purpose: a continued great military build-up that is equipped with weapons of mass destruction. Money is taken away from people’s health care, children’s education, and the nation’s social security and passed to the military and the weapons industry.

Pax Americana believes that peace can only be imposed from the outside through a strong military power that is equipped with the most sophisticated and devastated weapons of mass destruction one can possibly imagine. To this end, the United States cannot allow any nation on earth, to the best of its ability, to challenge it even remotely with any lethal devices. This enables us to comprehend the fuss the US government has been raising over other nations having weapons of mass destruction, among the latest: Iraq, North Korea, and Iran. These are small and virtually insignificant nations, whose major blunder was to oppose US foreign policies and various capitalistic ideas.

Continued Military Build Up

Enormous money is being spent for a solid military build up everywhere. This is incomprehensible to say the least and criminal to say the most. Pax Americana is depriving the hungry and the poor from food, the weak and the sick from medicine, and the elderly and the invalid from adequate housing facilities. The United States spends on military build up and the manufacture of mass destruction more than all the countries of the world combined! Here is how the US military, equipped by weapons of mass destruction is being used by Pax Americana to control the world.

As of the year 2003, there are 11,400 US troops in the United Kingdom, 11,900 in Italy, 71,400 in Germany, 148,000 in Iraq, 8,300 in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, 4,800 in Saudi Arabia, 7,500 in Pakistan, 4,300 in Kuwait, 38,000 in South Korea, and 39,700 in Japan. Of course, there are several more countries with US troops on their soil in virtually every continent. The United States is planning to spend $400 billion dollars during the 2004 year on continued military spending and weapons of mass destruction. If half of this amount were to be used for positive and constructive purpose, the world would soon get rid of AIDS, and such tragic diseases as multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, leukemia, heart disease of any kind, cancer and several other maladies that are lethal.

In spite of its shortcomings, Pax United Nations is geared toward the universal welfare of all people without exception. The strength of a nation is not sought in military and weapons but in a good economy as well as in people’s good health and education. The safety of the world is sought better through a program of systematic disarmament rather than through a program of continued military build up and the continued manufacture of weapons of mass destruction as advocated by Pax Americana. Pax United Nations seeks to solve all of the world’s problems through healthy dialogues. Quite often the United Nations had been accused by the United States as being a weak organization incapable of promoting a genuine world peace. Well, if we continue to have big powers, such as the United States, Russia, and China, among others, which dare to defy the United Nations resolutions each time they are deemed to be not in their exclusive political interests, we will continue to experience the futility of the United Nations very unfortunately.

By its very nature, the United Nations is supposed to function as World Government. This means that every decision is geared toward the universal welfare of all people without exception and is implemented by every single government as a result. This would apply to the promotion of international understanding and world peace through education, the protection of the environment from air and water pollution, the safeguard of human rights as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the implementation of a program of international disarmament, and the utilization of human resources merely for positive and constructive purposes.

Philosophy of Pax United Nations

The philosophy of Pax United Nations is structured on the achievement of these outlined objectives. We all recall how in recent times the United States, the architect of Pax Americana, has rescinded the Kyoto agreement that was meant to protect the environment on a global scale, abrogated the ABM treaty, which was designed to reduce considerably the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction and keep the world safer as a result, and embarked on a course of its own independently of the United Nations. As long as we have the big nations of our earthly society talking about national interests instead of worldwide interests, of interests that promote the welfare of some to the exclusion of others, Pax United Nations will find it very difficult to bring about a permanent world peace.

For Pax United Nations to be effective, all nations must work together hand in hand for the welfare of all people of all nations without exception. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union we had also experienced the Pax Sovietica, which acted pretty much along the same lines of Pax Americana. Likewise, Pax Sovietica tried to dominate the world in its own way. If the world has to be dominated by some entity of any kind, the most suitable would be the United Nations. Our primary obligation is to strengthen Pax United Nations. The Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) may do a good job in this regard. The best form of government seems to be social democracy, where people elect their government officials and where the government, in turn, assumes the responsibility to look after the health care of their people along with their education from the cradle to the grave.

Is it possible for us all to see one day Pax United Nations becoming an effective instrument to enable the world to solve all of its problems without resorting to violence? The answer is in the affirmative. However, we need to understand that the military is an institution created by the government for purpose of performing legal violence, that is, violence, which is sanctioned by the government. In view of what has been stated, it is of paramount importance that the United Nations is enabled to continue the role for which purpose it was established, namely, to proceed to solve all problems through healthy dialogues without ever resorting to violence of any kind.

Addendum: It is the intention of the IAEWP Democracy Project, the IAEWP Peace Corps and The One Percent Solution (TOPS) program to facilitate the organization of Pax UN through use of all media, events and the Culture of Peace Implementation Strategy (Approved Strategy).