Universal Peace Education for Authentic Democracy, Good Governance and Peace
UNITED NATIONS, 22 Sep 2025
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service
Dedicated to UN International Day of Democracy on 15 October
15 Oct is the International Day of Democracy. I wish for Authentic Democracy world-wide based on perpetual Universal Peace Education for Good Governance and Peace. This day is observed every year on this day to promote and review the state of democracy world-wide.
195 Nation-States are members in the United Nations. Maximum numbers of Nation-States are non-democratic. But people of the all nation-states want to enjoy the fruits of democratic good governance. However, even in democratic nation-states, people are ruled not by themselves but by their representatives elected by them. They are governed by their brokers through proxy. There is reality if we people cannot eat by proxy, drink by proxy, marry by proxy, then why people should be ruled by proxy. They must be masters in their houses for good governance.
But, “Democracy, without education, is the Government of the cattle, by the cattle and for the cattle.” Democracy without proper education always leads to exploitation, injustice, unrest, chaos, violence and war. In democracy, all are rulers; hence, all must be educated. Genuine and authentic democracy can take birth only through universal peace education (that is based on universally inherent five elements, viz. body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit in every man and woman everywhere without any discrimination to be integrally unfolded throughout his and her lives) to be human for perpetual justice and peace.
For more details, one may refer to my contributions towards Universal Peace Education for Authentic Democracy, Good Governance and Peace cited below:
1976 – Minority Group Education in Asia: a Necessity and Self-Determination of Peoples: A Possibility through Democratic Set-up By Surya Nath Prasad presented at the 2nd Asian Convention of the IAEWP held from August 23-25, 1976 at Sendai (Japan).
1978 – Democratic Education for Peace By Surya Nath Prasad delivered a Talk at the All India Radio, Varanasi, India on 19 December, 1978 at 5.30 P. M.
1979 – Democracy and Education for Peace By Surya Nath Prasad written the Editorial for Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. II,, No. 1, March, 1979.
1980 – Democratic Education for One World and Peace By Surya Nath Prasad published in Peace Progress Journal (Thailand), Vol. II, No. 2, 1980.
1999 – Education, Man, Democracy and Peace By Surya Nath Prasad given the Speech at the World Congress of Global Open University, Padova, Italy on 3rd May, 1999.
1999 – Building Democracy and One World: The Role of NGOs in the 21st Century By Surya Nath Prasad delivered the Speech at the 1999 Seoul International Conference of NGOs held from 10-16 October, 1999 at Seoul, Republic of Korea.
2003 – Education for Democracy to build a Global Common Society for Peace By Surya Nath Prasad delivered the Speech at the International Academic Peace Conference held in Manila, the Philippines, September19-20, 2003.
2003 – Democracy, Education and Peace, Edited by Surya Nath Prasad & Suman Shukla, The Associated Publishers, Ambala Cant, 2003
2014 – Peace Education for Genuine Democracy, Good Governance and Nonviolence
By Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D., Transcend Media Service, 21 April 2014.
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2014/04/peace-education-for-genuine-democracy-good-governance-and-nonviolence/
2018 – Essential Requirement of Qualities in the Rulers and the Servants of People for Good Governance – The Role of Universal Peace Education Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 March 2018. https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/03/essential-requirement-of-qualities-in-the-rulers-and-the-servants-of-people-for-good-governance/
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Dr. Surya Nath Prasad, Former President, Executive Vice President & Secretary-General of the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP); associate professor of education emeritus, the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. Founder and editor-in-chief of Peace Education: An International Journal. dr_suryanathprasad@yahoo.co.in
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