How can we achieve global peace?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJan 7, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“How can humanity achieve world peace and eliminate conflict on a global scale?”

In order to achieve world peace, we need a special educational method that can help us understand why we have constant conflicts and arguments, what is the core reason for them and how we can rise above the conflicts and arguments in order to create and sustain peace.

“Peace” — based on the Hebrew origin of the word — means wholeness or completion. So peace does not mean a static, homogenous state where everybody becomes the same, thinking the same, all loving and hugging one another like at the end of a soppy Hollywood movie, brothers riding into the sunset.

Peace means a conscious and purposeful acceptance of our diversity and differences and actively and consciously making sure that we can hold onto positive, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing interconnections, co-existence, and cooperation above and beyond everything that separates and rejects us from each other.

And naturally, we are all separated and rejected from each other by our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, subjective, and individualistic egos. It is this human ego that drives all of us towards conflicts, arguments, and success at each other’s expense that is at the core of wars and the lack of peace.

This is why we need the above-mentioned educational method to help us understand and actually feel the ego inciting us against others all the time while also giving us the tools to recognize, control and harness the ego’s incredible driving force for positive and mutually beneficial goals and activities.

True peace is a fragile and dynamic state that needs constant maintenance, constantly recognizing and controlling the negative intentions and incitement of our ever-growing egos, balancing it with ever-growing, conscious and purposeful connection activities.

The above-mentioned educational method can help us understand and viscerally feel our total interdependence giving us another incentive to aim for true peace.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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