The Promise of World Peace by Universal House of Justice

Hoda Mahmoudi, the current holder of the Baha'i Chair.Īs an academic program at the University of Maryland, the Chair provides a forum to advance research on global peace issues. 'The head of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the university was very interested in the peace statement and said, 'Why not have a program on campus that explores this process-oriented approach to peace',' explains Dr. Its release inspired the founding of The Baha'i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland in 1993.

The letter provided a compelling exploration of the root causes of peace and extended the challenge of peace well beyond the questions of disarmament and security, to the deep-seated social disorders that act as barriers to peace.

Whether the path to peace would entail enormous suffering, however, would depend on the decision of the world's leaders and its peoples. Yet, it asserted that global peace is the inevitable next stage of humanity's social evolution. Presented to over 80 world leaders, The Promise of World Peace was published at a time when the question of a nuclear annihilation loomed large over humanity. Their programmes of education, transformative in their effects and encompassing both the material and spiritual aspects of life, welcome everyone who wishes to contribute to the community’s prosperity.COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, United States - It is 30 years since the Universal House of Justice released The Promise of World Peace, a groundbreaking statement addressed to the peoples of the world on the subject of global peace. They champion the full equality of women with men in the affairs of the community. They cultivate environments in which children can be raised untainted by any form of racial, national, or religious prejudice. They are learning how to nurture communities that embody those prerequisites of peace we identified in 1985. In the years since, the followers of Bahá’u’lláh have been patiently refining that model and working with others around them to build up and broaden a system of social organization based on His teachings. It also offered the global Bahá’í community as a model for study that could reinforce hope in the possibility of uniting the human race. “ The Promise of World Peace”, the message we (The Universal House of Justice) addressed to the peoples of the world in 1985, set out the Bahá’í perspective on the condition of the world and the prerequisites of universal peace.

The Promise of World Peace by Universal House of Justice