The achievement of permanent and sustainable world peace throughout history has been impossible, because in order for peace to exist we must all have to be at peace with ourselves.

* There can be no world peace until there is peace between countries.
* There can be no piece between countries until there is peace between states, provinces, regions and tribes.
* There can be no peace between states, provinces, regions and tribes until there is peace between people.
* There can be no peace between people until there is peace within themselves.

People do not naturally incline towards peace because peace requires submission, in other words one must be able to give up his/her immediate desires in order to maintain the peace.

This requires submition to higher authorities who have peace in mind in order to uphold it. When we were children, it was our parent's job to make sure that we kept the peace. As we get older and become contributors to society, it is our government's job to ensure that we maintain the peace. But these higher authorities are still only human who struggle with issues of peace themselves so they are not perfect keepers of peace.

This does not mean that we should not aim for empowering virtuous authorities; in fact one of the greatest deferrers of peace occurs when we strip away the powers of those who serve as leaders such as parents, teachers, older people, and elected government officials to implement justice; of course that is assuming that they all have our best interest at heart.

As long as people try to achieve world peace, we will never achieve it, but if we focus on submitting ourselves to the understanding of right and wrong and just and ethical values, we could get closer to achieving it. Before we can entertain the idea of creating a better world, we need to focus on creating better people.

We have falsely come to believe that we can create world peace because we are inherently good people who have control over right and wrong; these assumptions are false and are keeping us away from peace.

In order to fix a problem, it must first be acknowledged and addressed. The truth is that we are not inherently good, we are sinful by nature and we have no power over changing the universality of right and wrong. Because we are not good by nature, we need to recognize and submit to authorities that have our best interests at heart and we must grow spiritually so that we can have peace within our selves.

In order for world organizations to be more successful in promoting peace they will have to submit to the principles of right and wrong. The day that we all submit to the standard of right and wrong and respect our authorities who enforce it, we will be in a better position to have peace within ourselves and ultimately to have the greatest chance for world peace.