Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 247
Political Peace 247 hitherto divergent outlooks: less veto in the Security Council’s sessions, it seems, and more united decisions on how global problems should be resolved. This may present a completely new look to the Security Council of the future. The only snag so far is the danger of China playing the odd-man out, but in view of China’s immensely complicated economic and political problems; it should not be impossible to convince China of the advantages of agreement. Whether this dream comes true or not is beside the point. Given that the Security Council as well as the United Nations emerged as the most powerful political instrument to influence the events of the globe and coerce smaller nations to submit to the supreme will of the nations of the world, such a scenario was inconceivable prior to the tumbling of the Berlin Wall. But the question remains, nay, it looms larger on the political horizon than ever before, whether or not the United Nations in its new role of combined judicial and executive powers of such enormous proportion, will be actually able to achieve global peace? I beg to be excused if I may sound over-pessimistic, but my answer to this question is a very apologetic, ‘No’. The issue of war and peace in the world does not only hang by the thread of superpower relationships. It is a deep and complex question with its roots embedded in the political philosophies and moral attitudes of the nations of the world. Moreover, economic disparity and the widening gap between the haves and have-nots of the world are bound to play an important role in the future events of the world. Some effects have already been discussed in the previous section of this address. Unless the principle of absolute justice in the economic relationship between countries is