By Henning Jon Grini.
Creating peace throughout the entire world still seems to lie some distance ahead. Especially given the current unrest and instability in the world, and the war in Ukraine, which has now been ongoing for nearly four years.
If we look beyond the most recent years, statistics show that there has gradually been a decline in the number of wars worldwide. Securing permanent peace across the globe is incredibly important, as wars entail enormous consequences. They leave behind immense suffering and destruction, while showing little or no regard for nature.
In Conversations with God, Book 2 by Neale Donald Walsch, a proposal is presented for how we might create peace in the world. This proposal, which is described in detail in the book, may be worth taking a closer look at. I have attempted to create a summary of it here.
In the Conversations with God trilogy, the author Walsch engages in a dialogue with a higher, wise source—what humans call God. As a background and foundation for peace, this divine voice says:
It is time for the world to stop deceiving itself, to wake up, and to realize that humanity’s only problem is a lack of love.
Love breeds tolerance; tolerance breeds peace. Intolerance leads to war and looks with indifference upon intolerable conditions.
Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know what indifference is.
The fastest way to love and care for all of humanity is to begin seeing humanity as a family.
The fastest way to see all of humanity as a family is to stop isolating yourselves. Every nation-state that together makes up the Earth must unite.
According to this divine voice, this solution already exists today, but on a smaller scale. The task, therefore, is to extend this solution to encompass the entire Earth. This experiment is called the United States of America. The USA was the first to organize itself as a union of free states and succeeded in uniting them under a central authority (Here we must distinguish between today's Trump administration and the system itself).
We have the United Nations, but according to this divine voice it lacks power and strength, and would require a complete reorganization in order to function. This would be, if not impossible, at least extremely difficult and demanding.
These American states have not been at war with one another for more than 200 years (with the exception of the American Civil War, which concerned the abolition of slavery and was a conflict between the Northern and Southern states).
One of the reasons the European Union was established was precisely to prevent future wars, as Europe had been plagued by countless wars throughout the centuries.
Although there was resistance to uniting the American states at first, partly because the states believed they would lose their individual sovereignty, this did not happen. On the contrary, the states became stronger, among other reasons because military spending was significantly reduced and resources could be used for other purposes.
It is no coincidence that the United States became the richest and most powerful nation in the world. This may suggest that a union is a strength. The point here is to transfer a system that has worked for more than 200 years. It is important to clarify that this refers to how the United States has organized itself internally. What the USA has done externally is a completely different matter. Neither the EU nor the United States is perfect, far from it. They have failed in many areas, but the systems have prevented wars between their member states.
The Erosion of Compassion
Although the United States is far from perfect, it remains the best attempt currently in operation. (Again, one must not confuse the current administration, which has fascist tendencies (Trump as of January 2026), with the system. Why Trump came to power is debatable, but my opinion is that decades of inequality have corrupted and infiltrated politicians. And now we see the result.)
These American states were built on a nation “under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” About this, the divine voice says:
The phrase “under God, indivisible” means exactly that, it expresses the universal truth of unity; oneness: a matrix that is very difficult to destroy. But the matrix has been weakened.
What has happened, according to this divine voice, is that the meaning of individual responsibility has gradually come to mean “everyone fends for themselves.” The divine voice elaborates:
The original meaning of individual responsibility, the meaning upon which the American vision and dream were built, found its deepest significance and highest expression in what is called compassion.
What made America unique was not that each person fought to survive on their own, but that each person took responsibility for ensuring that everyone survived.
America was a nation that did not turn its back on the hungry, that never said no to those in need, that opened its doors to the weary and the homeless, and that shared its abundance with the world.
But as America grew large, Americans grew greedy. Not all, but many, and over time, more and more.
When Americans discovered how good life could be, they sought to make it even better. But there was only one way to make it better, and better, and better. Someone else had to have it worse, and worse and worse.
When greed replaced greatness in the American mentality, there was less room for compassion for those worst off.
The divine voice goes on to say that America’s foundational ideal, compassion, crumbled, and that the nation appears to have lost its vision. In addition, Americans became arrogant on the international stage. America helped others when it benefited America (that is, the American power structure and its wealthy elite).
A new world union must be established on a new foundation based on a higher understanding, closer to what the original U.S. Constitution spoke of. The divine voice says:
America, and the rest of the world, can function only when each is willing to be responsible for all as a Whole.
And so we return to what was stated at the beginning of this article: we must expand our concept of family to include all of humanity. A world union must be able to guarantee two things, according to the divine voice:
- The fulfillment of basic needs.
- The opportunity for advancement.
To achieve this, two changes are required, according to the divine voice: one within the political system, and one within our spiritual development.
Political Solution (Short-Term Solution)
Here is what the divine voice proposes:
- On the path toward a unified world government, a powerful world court must be established to resolve international disputes, along with a peacekeeping force to enforce the laws you have chosen to live by.
- The world government should consist of a Congress of Nations, with two representatives from each country in the world, and a People’s Assembly, with representation proportional to each nation’s population.
- The same balance of power (as in the United States) should be incorporated into a new world constitution, with executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
- Each nation should maintain its own peacekeeping police force, while national armies should be dissolved and transferred to a common peacekeeping force serving the greater group of states now called nations, just as U.S. states contribute their armies and navies to a shared federal defense force.
- Nations should reserve the right to form and summon their own armies at a moment’s notice, just as U.S. states have the constitutional right to maintain their own forces.
Regarding peacekeeping forces, the divine voice adds:
There will always be disagreements among nations, for disagreement is merely a sign, and a healthy sign, of individuality. Violent solutions to disagreements, however, are a sign of great immaturity.
Peacekeeping forces shall ensure that no nation, no matter how powerful or influential, can ever again attack another.
Nevertheless, it must be understood that aggression may still exist on Earth. It may become necessary for peacekeeping forces to use some degree of force to compel others to desist.
Regarding the world’s resources, the new global society and its nations should receive an equal share of resources relative to size. This also entails redistribution. Today, enormous sums are spent on defense systems and weapons in individual countries, many designed for mass destruction. These expenditures can be drastically reduced and redirected to other purposes.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the world spent USD 2718 billion on military purposes in 2024. Due to global instability, these expenditures are unfortunately increasing, and this undermines essential societal functions.
As a summary of the benefits of establishing a world union, the divine voice says it would:
- End all war between nations and end killing as a means of resolving disputes.
- End poverty, famine, and the enrichment of the wealthy through mass exploitation.
- End the systematic destruction of the Earth’s environment.
- End the endless struggle for bigger, better, and more.
- Provide an equal opportunity for all people to reach the highest form of self-realization.
- End all restrictions and discrimination that keep people down, whether in housing, employment, political systems, or personal sexual relationships.
Obstacles Ahead
There are, however, significant obstacles to achieving a world union. The greatest may be the gap between poor and rich countries, and between poor and wealthy individuals. The rich and powerful will cling to their positions. This has led to revolutions before, and undoubtedly will again.
The world’s 12 wealthiest individuals now control $2.635 trillion, more than the combined wealth of the poorest half of the global population, according to Oxfam’s annual inequality report (released January 2026).
On economic inequality, the divine voice says:
The struggle between “those who have” and “those who have not” has existed forever and is like an epidemic on Earth. It will continue as long as economic, not humanitarian, rights govern the world. As long as the needs of the body, rather than the soul, are humanity’s primary concern.
According to this divine voice, we live in a world of moral decay, with heart-breaking attitudes spreading at epidemic speed worldwide (one need only look at today’s crisis). Most production is based on a “use and discard” mentality. The global political machine is driven by self-interest, and society operates on a profit principle. Therefore, the world would benefit from complete transparency in economic matters, both national and personal.
Rich nations will resist a world union because they believe it would require them to relinquish their “privileges”, their sovereignty, wealth, and resources. The divine voice adds that those who “have” know that such a World Federation would inevitably focus more on those who “have not,” and they fear it would come at their expense.
Power has long been unfairly distributed. Smaller nations have depended on the goodwill of larger ones, while powerful nations have often sought the resources of weaker states. As a result, wealthy nations fear aggression from those who envy what they possess. According to the divine voice, there are two ways to eliminate this threat:
- Distribute all the world’s wealth and resources equally, so that no one desires or needs what others have, allowing all to live with dignity and freedom from fear.
- Create a system that abolishes disparities, thereby eliminating both the need for war and the possibility of war.
This would also be in the interest of wealthy nations and to their own benefit, says the divine voice. As noted earlier, such a world union would bring enormous advantages for all. If basic needs were met, crime would disappear, and government could be reduced due to diminished need for control. Additional benefits include:
- Local governments would save money and have more to spend on welfare and genuinely beneficial services, as resources would no longer be used to defend nations against one another.
- People would experience greater security, safety, and prosperity through cooperation rather than competition.
- Without losing any independence, each nation could become even stronger.
Spiritual Solution (Long-Term Solution)
As long as humanity remains underdeveloped, according to the divine voice, laws are necessary.
These agreements and rules must be built upon a higher understanding and an expanded definition of self-interest. Today, many laws are based on the power interests of the strongest. In highly evolved societies, laws are scarcely needed, because beings regulate themselves. This is somewhat anarchistic, because, as the divine voice says, nothing generally serves the masses better than allowing them to govern themselves. You cannot develop spiritually and become a better human being when authorities constantly tell you what to do.
Regarding truly lasting peace, the divine voice states that it requires a spiritual solution. All life is spiritual, and therefore all of life’s problems are spiritual in nature, and have spiritual solutions. Working on oneself and one’s own spirituality creates inner peace. The greater the inner peace, the less one needs from the external world.
Thus, what is required is a spiritual solution, one that must then be lived out in practical life to transform everyday experience. According to the divine voice, what is needed is:
A shift in consciousness.
You cannot solve the problems that plague humanity through governmental or political means. You have tried for thousands of years. Change must, and can, only occur in the hearts of people.
When Walsch asks what must be done, and whether it can be expressed in one sentence, he receives this answer:
You must stop seeing God as something outside yourselves, and yourselves as separate from one another.
The only solution is the ultimate truth: nothing in the universe exists separate from anything else. Everything is intricately connected, irreversibly interdependent, interacting, woven together in the fabric of all life.
All governance, all politics, must be grounded in this truth. All laws must be rooted in it. This is the hope for the future of the human species, and the only hope for the planet.