This is an excerpt from a talk at the March 1991 meeting of the Humanists of Utah.

These remarks are mind, are not original, are a result of much reading, listening, asking questions of friends, even tiny bits of thinking. I have concentrated on goals rather than means of reaching these goals. Since there is little unanimity, and many alternatives, I am calling this path my "Dream for a Peace with Justice," as peace alone is not enough.

Back in 1945, the United Nations grew from a dream into a reality. I was present at that historic San Francisco gathering. In my dream of a peace with justice, I envision a greatly strengthened United Nations truly functioning as a world government, as was that dream of a half century ago.

My emphasis is on peace with justice. Mere non-shooting is not enough; peace in my vision is positive.

Justice will require change--major change--in the way we think, in our life styles, in the way we interact with other people and societies, and our planet.

Peace with Justice means that there shall be no more billionaires in the Middle East--or the world--when so many millions have little or no material comfort of their own. The bounty of the region must be shared among all peoples of the region. The gap between rich and poor must be substantially narrowed.

• The United Nations (or its successor) must be the dominant controlling force in international politics, much stronger than any nation. The UN must control all international military forces, including raising, training and deployment of all troops, and the manufacture and possession of all military munitions. In the transition process, all countries including the United States, the Soviet Union, and others, shall transfer control of their weapons and munitions factories to control of the U.N. Each nation would be authorized to maintain a national emergency relief force capable of assistance during natural disasters, such as floods, earthquakes, fires, hurricanes. The U.N. would supervise the removal and disposition of all military type weapons, and demobilization of excess military troops and material.
• Five nations, including the United States, will have to give up their veto power in the Security Council.
• The United States should pay up promptly all of its arrears to the U.N.
• The United States should reaffirm its adherence to the decisions of the World Court. In the process, it should accept the decision against it in the case of mining Nicaraguan harbors, and pay the fine levied against us by that Court
• An international Court for individual international criminals needs to be established.
• An international code of conduct must be established for multinational corporations.

Far reaching as these changes may be, there is even a more far reaching change that everyone of us must consider making, that from the unrestrained growth concept of society, to a sustainable society. This may be a new concept to many; yet, it is as old as human society. In my opinion, it is an integral part of a world peace with justice. You say it's too Utopian? That's why I have called my comments a dream, a dream of what could be when peach with justice would be achieved in this global village of ours.

--Robert. Goff