Justice, freedom, development!

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This is a start and every start is difficult. It is difficult to talk about peace without saying empty words. It took me 10 years to understand what peace is, admitting that I understood it well. On how to build it, I still have confused ideas, like everybody...

I know for sure what it is not.
Peace is not a gift of heaven and is not a gracious concession of the King. Peace depends on the men, the men only, on what they pursue and on how they act towards each another. That is why we all have responsibility on it, whether we like it or not.

Peace is a fundamental human right proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1984. To build it, it is essential "the renunciation of the use of force in international relations" (Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace, UN, 1984).
But achieving this goal would be far only a step forward because conflicts and tensions not die by the signing of international treaties. Also today many conflicts are not international but intranational, between groups from the same state.

Martin Luther King in 1963, in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, distinguished "a negative peace which is the absence of tension" from "a positive peace which is the presence of justice".
In the same period, Malcolm X said: "You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom."
Pope Paul VI, in the encyclical Populorum Progressio, 1967, bound schrewdly peace to "the progress of the poorer nations" and to "international social justice".

Today only children and mistifiers talk peace with absolute and empty words. All over the world operators, activists and philosophers talk about justice, freedom and development.
Peace exists where there is justice, freedom and development.
Peace exists when everyone is free to develop themselves in the way they want, without having to fight for their rights.