There are thousands of trained military strategists on this planet and no trained peace strategists.
There are hundreds of military academies financed by nations and only a handful of privately sponsored peace academies.
The UN University for Peace in demilitarized Costa Rica is the only one of its kind and probably the poorest university on Earth. Only 36 of 191 governments have ratified it. See list in Annex. We pray for peace and we pay for war.
List of countries which by 2004 have ratified the UN Treaty
creating the University for Peace:
Argentina Bangladesh Bosnia-Herzegovina Cambodia Cameroon Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Cyprus Dominican Republic Ecuador | El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Honduras India Italy Mexico Nicaragua Pakistan Panama Peru Philippines | Saint Lucia Senegal Slovenia Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Togo Turkey Russia Uruguay Venezuela Yugoslavia |
Of the 191 member countries of the UN only 36 have not yet ratified it so far. Of the five big veto powers — China, France, the United Kingdom, the USA and Russia — only Russia has ratified it. That says a lot. They have no excuse: under the Treaty no government is obliged to contribute resources to it. The 155 governments concerned should be ashamed.
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