It has been rightly observed that all violence is born in the mind and that it can be terminated in the mind itself. For instance, during the Second World War, Japan was burning to revenge itself on America. Japanese said that America had devastated their town of Hiroshima, so they would devastate America. Although Japan’s air force had been badly hit, its army was still intact, and its officers were bent on vengeance. At that juncture ,certain intellectuals in Japan pointed out that if America had destroyed Hiroshima, they had already destroyed America’s Pearl Harbour. In this way, they were at par. The score was even.

Due to this timely guidance, the Japanese came to rethink their position, and, abandoning the path of confrontation with America, opted instead for the path of adjustment with it. In so doing, they were tremendously successful.

An individual is always governed by his thinking. That is why, if we have to make a nonviolent world for a peaceful society, there is only one way, and that is by using educative methods to convert people’s thinking from violence to nonviolence and to enable them to seek a solution to matters of controversy through peaceful means. We must learn to understand the value of tolerance and avoidance as opposed to intolerance and confrontation. It is from such intellectual awareness alone that a nonviolent world and a peaceful society can be constructed.