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dogmatic perception of human relationships will help in individual serving the society in a more selfless, devoted and enthusiastic manner.
Anekant theory this helps in overcoming social maladjustments, hangovers of subjective relationships and the resultant rigidities in the social structure. It promotes social quality between the rich and the poor, the upper and the lower strata, the intellectuals and the working
classes.
The world is in turmoil. We are close to the end of the 20th century. Its last decade has just commenced. The 20th century has been witness to two world wars and a number of local and regional conflicts. 20th century has also seen tremendous strides in science, technology and their unfortunate applications to increasingly destructive form of warfare. The atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb were followed by the invention of the nuclear weapons and accompanied by the indiscriminate spread of chemical weapons of mass destruction.
By the pressing of a button, the entire universe can be destroyed. The feverish arms race among the super powers has been sought to be justified by the deterrent theory as if the fear of using such weapons could prevent outbreak of war.
The tragedy of Hiroshima has, however, brought home to the world the crucity of the destruction that could follow a nuclear holocaust.
In contrast to is trend, there has also been a parallel effort to build durable peace on the debris of war by setting up United Nations Organization and other international bodies to enable resolution of problems through negotiations across the table instead of in the warfield.
Now that a ray of hope is appearing on the horizon and chances of more durable world peace on the concept of global interdependence are taking shape, the relevance of non-violence increases and does not get diminished.
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