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Religion, Practice and Science of Non-Violence
down to deal with its smallest unit, the individual. Federation preserves diversity where it is worth preserving or where cannot be eradicated peacefully. It creates the minimum of effective government at the inter-state level while allowing decentralized autonomy to existing state and local governments. Federation preserves plurality of Government within an overall unity. Federation involves the simultaneous disarmament of the hitherto independent states. In most federations, the minimum power transferred to the federal government includes determination of war and peace, provision for the common defense, regulation of foreign and inter-state commerce, conduct of foreign relations and creation of a uniform currency. Until the end of Second World War about a dozen great regional federations were in existence and many more have come up after that.
A federation of the nations of the world seems to be an ideal organization to end the prevailing anarchy between the nations.
So far the international peace organizations have tried to resolve the conflict situations after they have arisen; they could do better by laying equal or more stress upon inculcation of habits of non-violence among peoples of the world so that lesser number of such situations arise.
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