Alongside climate change this I believe has to be our top priority. The ideas of the Dalai Lama in creating peace zones and disarmament are also well worth reading! https://www.dalailama.com/messages/world-peace/disarmament
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.” (The Dalai Lama)
Personally I believe that allowing individual nations to have nuclear weapons as a means of keeping the peace is like allowing kids to carry guns to prevent fist fights at school. It’s time for the United Nations to become the headmaster and for our consciousness to evolve allowing our wisdom to catch up with our technology.
“Our scientific evolution has outrun our spiritual evolution. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” (Martin Luther King)
Presently we have enough problems to face, let’s all play our role in making sure that collectively we can at least get this one thing right by helping wisdom to triumph over cleverness by dismantling these terrible things and forever banning them. Success goes to the mug who has the bottle to say “I can.”
”You have a unique chance to contribute to something that will be remembered by coming generations – making nuclear weapons illegal.”
You may also wish to donate to some of the following groups or just see the extremely valuable work they are doing:
UK based
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND – UK), donation page: https://cnduk.org/donate/
Scottish CND: https://www.banthebomb.org/donate/
Quaker Peace Witness: https://www.quaker.org.uk/give
Acronym Institute: https://www.acronym.org.uk/contact
US based
- Ploughshares Fund: https:www.ploughshares.org
- Funds dozens of disarmament initiatives globally.
- Focuses on reducing the risks of nuclear conflict through policy reform, diplomacy, and grants.
- Strong U.S. advocacy, which is critical since the U.S. has a large nuclear arsenal.
- Long track record; trusted by philanthropists and policy experts alike.
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: https:www.wagingpeace.org
- Focus on education, youth engagement, and legal efforts to promote global denuclearization.
- They also support international legal efforts to define nuclear weapons as a violation of humanitarian law and raise public awareness.
- Reaching Critical Will (a program of WILPF – Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: https:www.reachingcriticalwill.org
- Provides critical analysis and policy tools to disarmament diplomats and activists.
- Works from a feminist, anti-militarist perspective and does important behind-the-scenes work at the UN level.
- Peace Action: https:www.peaceaction.org
- Oldest and largest U.S. grassroots peace network.
- Mobilizes public opposition to nuclear weapons and lobbies Congress to reduce spending on them so has real legislative influence.
A mindmap summary of my own ideas on how to create a system of lasting peace (made in 2021):
The Peacemaker Foundation 
