WORLD PEACE: THE IMPERATIVE OF CULTURE AS A LEARNED BEHAVIOUR

Resumen

All over the world, wherever there is a group of people or community, it is certain that one of the most important things such a group needs for survival is peace and stability. The present work is a treatise on the imperative of culture, which is a learned and shared behaviour, as a pointer to world peace. The paper posits that since human nature is the same all over the universe, then there are some ontological attributes to the nature of man and the society anywhere they are found. Peace is paramount here because it is necessary for the co-existence of different people and divergent worldviews. The work upholds that since man lives in culture and culture to a very large extend shapes human mind and spectrum of ideas, culture can then lead to world peace, in as much as it is geared towards the true nature of man as a society-dependent being. Culture is learned and shared, as a result, man can always embrace the virtues of any culture outside of his, as far as it is in agreement with the conditions necessary for the development and stability of the society where man lives. Hence, world peace is actually tenable as the paper argues through culture.