Dr. Carlos Peralta · President of the World Organization for Peace – OMPP / WOFP

To the Secretaries General, Ambassadors and representatives of the World Organization for Peace in the 185 nations:

I address you out of the deep concern raised by the situation that humanity is currently going through.

The armed conflicts unfolding in different regions of the world, together with the growing tensions between States and the new military alliances, have created a scenario of enormous uncertainty. Every day we witness the loss of human lives, families that are destroyed and civilian populations that suffer the consequences of confrontations which, in many cases, lie beyond their will and their decision. The mass abduction of young and elderly people taken by force into a war from which they do not know whether they will return alive.

It is difficult to accept that, at the beginning of this third millennium, humanity continues to resort to war as an answer to its differences.

For this reason, the World Organization for Peace calls upon the governments and the leaders of all nations to halt the escalation of conflicts and to recover, above any difference, the path of dialogue and negotiation.

The world today faces the danger of a global escalation.

The situation takes on an even greater dimension when powers that possess weapons of enormous destructive capacity become involved.

Given the existence of nuclear arsenals, a military escalation may lead to consequences that no government, no nation and no people should ever have to face.

There is no true victor in a nuclear war.

The use of this type of weaponry would have consequences reaching far beyond the borders of the countries involved and would affect entire generations.

We therefore believe that the international community must act with the utmost responsibility and avoid any decision that could lead to an irreversible escalation.

Russia and Ukraine: the urgent need to recover peaceful dialogue is being sought.

The war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine constitutes one of the greatest concerns of the international community.

The continuation of hostilities has caused enormous human suffering, loss of lives, displacement and consequences that reach far beyond the territories directly affected.

The World Organization for Peace considers it necessary for all the actors involved to work towards recovering diplomatic channels and finding a solution that makes a lasting and definitive agreement possible.

Alliances between nations must contribute to security and to Peace, not to the widening of conflicts.

The Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz: this critical situation extends to the East and to much of the world.

We also observe with deep concern the situation in the Middle East and the tensions related to the Strait of Hormuz.

Any escalation in this region may generate consequences reaching numerous countries and affecting international stability.

We therefore urge all the parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Iran and the other regional and international actors, to deepen diplomatic efforts and to find mechanisms that make it possible to avoid an expansion of the conflict.

The participation of new military actors may increase the dimension of a crisis that already represents a serious risk for the civilian population.

Dialogue must begin before the weapons speak.

We remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a warning for humanity.

History must remain present in our memory.

For humanity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki represent one of the most painful testimonies of the consequences of using nuclear weapons against cities and civilian populations. Both events left a lesson that we must not forget: a war may end, but its consequences may remain for generations.

Today, the existing military and technological capabilities are considerably greater than those of that time.

Humanity therefore bears an even greater responsibility: to prevent a tragedy of such magnitude from happening again.

From the World Organization for Peace we reaffirm our commitment to the principle of Never Again a Nuclear War.

Human life must stand above any difference, and everything reached through common agreement contributes to the general well-being.

A human life cannot be considered a figure.

Behind every person who dies there is a family, a history and a future that disappears.

Particularly painful is the suffering of children and of the civilian populations caught in the middle of the confrontations.

The protection of the civilian population must be a permanent priority of the international community.

We cannot grow accustomed to the images of destroyed cities, as in Gaza, separated families, dead children and millions of people forced to abandon their homes.

Peace cannot be merely an aspiration. It must become a political decision.

The responsibility of the great powers: it is time for it to be activated in favour of all humanity, which is one.

In these moments of such international tension, the great powers bear a special responsibility.

For this reason, the World Organization for Peace has raised the need for the world's leading powers to use their capacity of influence to favour agreements, open channels of communication and contribute to halting the escalation of conflicts.

A proposal has been made to the People's Republic of China, to the United States of North America, the Russian Federation and India, among other great nations with significant economic, political and geopolitical influence, which can play a relevant role in the search for mechanisms that allow international stability to be recovered.

This is not about establishing victors and vanquished. It is about preserving human life.

Our only planet for human life requires high responsibility, absolute control and permanent monitoring.

The international situation must also lead us to reflect on the responsibility we bear towards the planet we all share.

Natural phenomena, environmental emergencies and the effects of human activities on our environment require scientific research, prevention and international cooperation.

The World Organization for Peace, together with its body Monitoring in the World, considers it necessary that all scientific and technological development be accompanied by responsibility, transparency and adequate control mechanisms, especially where risks may exist for the population or for environmental balance.

The CERN experiment, the European Centre for Nuclear Research, with its Big Bang tests running through the bowels of the earth, has thrown out of calibration what was perfect and is irreparable; to this are added similar plants in different nations which, surely, between them all cause the fracturing of the tectonic plates, and there the telluric movements are flat, without ascending scales of warning, as wise mother nature has always given. These are nuclear tests and no one sees what is happening there beneath our feet, where the earth's axis and the poles have already been affected.

Climate change enters a plane of danger, with global overheating, forgetting that everything in the great depths of the earth is irreparable: the drilling of the deep and millenary seams of methane gas, whose gas reaches the surface and, in contact with oxygen, causes sudden fires.

Science must be at the service of humanity and of the preservation of life, not blind experiments to see what happens the following day or, in their cause and effect, what the results are.

The humanitarian and health crisis has spread into every sphere.

Added to the armed conflicts are the social and health difficulties that many countries continue to face after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health systems require sufficient resources, infrastructure, professionals and medicines to meet the needs of their populations.

Millions of people continue to live in conditions of vulnerability and require an international response that places the person once again at the centre of public policies.

The resources devoted to human development, health, education and food must occupy a priority place within the decisions of States; and the purchase of weapons for the destruction of life contributes nothing in favour of human health.

The security of a nation cannot be measured solely by the capacity of its arsenals, but also by the quality of life of its inhabitants.

Today we make a call to the Secretaries General, Ambassadors of the OMPP WOFP and to the 33 Agencies and Bodies, including all their Directors.

Secretaries General:
Ambassadors:
Directors of the Agencies and Bodies of this Organization for Peace.

The World Organization for Peace was conceived as a space of contribution to dialogue, to understanding between nations, peoples and cultures, for the defence of human life; and in particular, a no to nuclear weapons.

We therefore ask our representatives in the various nations to convey to their respective governments the need to strengthen all those mechanisms that may help to prevent new wars and to put an end to the existing conflicts.

Every Secretary General and every Ambassador of the OMPP can become an instrument of dialogue and understanding within their own sphere of responsibility.

Peace needs people willing to build bridges where others raise barriers.

It is a commitment of all humanity united for its prosperous future, where today we are more than eight billion people sharing one same roof on one same planet.

We have different languages, cultures, religions and beliefs, as well as varied histories and ways of understanding life. But there is something that unites us: we all need to live; and when we come to know one another, it is there that we see that we are all brothers and sisters.

Most peoples do not want war, that historic error of selfishness and reduction of population throughout all times.

Families want security. Children need to grow up in Peace. Peoples need opportunities to develop. Nations need stability to build their future.

For this reason, the World Organization for Peace calls upon governments, international institutions, political leaders, religious representatives, civil society and all men and women of good will, to work together for Peace.

We must not wait for a new tragedy to force us to understand the value of life.
We must act before.

Diplomacy must prevail over confrontation.
Dialogue must prevail over threat.
Cooperation must prevail over division.
And human life must stand above any difference.

Peace is everyone's responsibility.

Dr. Carlos Peralta President World Organization for Peace – OMPP / WOFP