A couple of weeks later, this letter appeared in the school news paper.
The cause of human conflict is not some deep mystery. We all probably realize it is nothing more than insecurity. What seems mysterious is how we resolve the multiple insecurities we all carry with us from birth.
Changing the human circumstance won’t help much because no two of us will be satisfied with the same thing. No amount of conditioning can quash our individuality. So the mere fact we are all different becomes the excuse for violence, for wars, for needless death. But the problem is not our differences, but our sensitivity to them. When we feel secure, those differences are actually pleasant.
A sense of security is not absolute. It only has to be enough for the moment in which we live. The Peace Club is not deluded about how easy it is to pull people up out of their pitiful small existence into a sense of security and peace. All of us are still struggling ourselves. Yet for all this, we live for peace, and we would rather die than turn away from our cause.
This is the Peace Club Manifesto.
