Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Disarmament requires trust.
Peace cannot be unilateral.
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.