UNESCO Peace Chair Chief Prof M.D. Nalapat said that while the real world, we live in, is not an ethical ideal world, but all peace-loving citizens need to make a collective effort for peace.
Speaking at an interaction organized by Gandhian Centre for philosophical Arts and Sciences, MAHE, he said wars in the past have happened due to the tendency of domination and control over resources and the ‘real world is not an ethical world’. But we should strive for peace.
Apart from international peace,the notion of peace would include the notion of gender, ecology, social justice etc. In international relations, one should also participate with a position of strength, he argued.
In India, all religious need to coexist and the notion doesn’t belong to any one particular religion. The essence of all religions is peace and one should return to the essence, he said, citing examples of futile conflicts of the past, including partition. Prof Varadesh Hiregange, Head, GCPAS moderated the interaction.