CHALLENGES TO WORLD PEACE

A breakthrough in the field of International Relations has emerged on the world scene with respect to the newly devised master hierarchy of traditional virtues and values based upon behavioral principles, where the moral commonalties across all religious traditions are emphasized encouraging a new era in religious cooperation. This new ethical system eminently qualifies as the long anticipated foundation for a global system of planetary ethics serving a secular constituency, where such moral issues have typically been downplayed due to well-meaning attempts to avoid religious favoritism. This same system further serves as a crucial adjunct to the major religions of the world without favoring any one of them, promoting a new era in peaceful religious coexistence in that it does not preclude the existence of a top-down pattern of influence of a supernatural nature as well. Consequently, this new ethical innovation potentially amounts to the best of all possible worlds