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JAINISM AND WORLD-PEACE
World Peace: The Need Of The Time –
The world today is in the grip of conflict and strife. It is being torn asunder by threats of wars and terrorism. The Ethnic conflicts are at an all time high and various fundamentalist groups are fanning these conflicts to make their presence felt and to make political capital out of them. The world today is at its most unsafe epoch. The situations are being made more complicated by political and economic hegemonistic tendencies of some powerful nations and terrorising tendencies of some ethnic groups. Wherever we cast a glance on the globe, our eyes fall on trouble spots. Be it the Middle East, Far East or Southeast. Arab-Israel conflict has become a festering sore; the United States of America has waged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and is now threatening Iran with dire consequences; North Korea is escalating its fatal arsenal at the annoyance of the USA; Pakistan is fomenting trouble and actively supporting the separatist terrorist groups in Kashmir with men and material and moral support and the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka has claimed thousands of innocent lives and it still shows no sign of subsiding. This is not to mention the lesser intra-national insurgent movements that have various political, economic, religious and ethnic reasons. All of them are violent in nature and portend death and destruction. The world, at large, is in their grip and is looking askance for some hope of amity and peace.
