Article February 18, 2013 Issue

To end all wars

Michael Pabst

Don’t we all come from one Father? Aren’t we all created by the same God? 

—Malachi 2:10, The Message

World peace—an expression that brings a longing look to some faces—and maybe a derisive smile to others. A worthy goal, no doubt, but a naive unrealistic hope? For decades during the Cold War between the East and the West, it seemed as if only a balance of power was able to preserve peace. But people in Europe lived with an uneasiness during that time that this state of peace was really merely the absence of war. Many felt that only the terror of war (and Europe was very familiar with the terrors of war!) prevented an open conflict. 