Peace and Development
Building peace means pursuing development. This means pursuing justice for all people and nations. It means recognizing a moral order that work in the human universe, and guiding our choices and the action accordingly. It means that citizens of the most affluent nation in the history of the world must use effectively their most important tool, which is their citizenship. We are to give good direction to our national policy on foreign aid, for overseas work, for world hunger, and management of loan for trade and terms of trade.
Development is not just a matter of economic and material goods. It involves the whole person; economics, culture, politics, religion – economic needs, cultural need, political needs, and religious needs. There are many things that we can do to promote peace and development. When financial and material resources are freed by a reduction of the military budget, as of perestroika, how will they be used? For the world development? For the world’s poor?