Achieving world peace has always been viewed as a distant ideal, something imagined rather than attainable. Yet the groundbreaking book World Peace by Burl Minnis challenges this perception by offering an unconventional but deeply researched explanation for why lasting peace continues to evade humanity. The author attributes the root of global suffering to a single, powerful framework he calls the system of human misery, a structure built on layers of ideology that humanity unknowingly reinforces. According to the text, understanding and dissolving this system is the first step toward real and lasting world harmony.
The first major insight presented is the concept known as the age of the swindle. This refers to a long historical period in which humanity became entangled in collective fictions, such as money, political ideologies, and manufactured divisions. During this period, these fictions gradually replaced natural human reasoning and cooperation. The book argues that these constructs, though widely accepted, are not real in any empirical sense. They are illusions shaped by the collective imagination of societies. And yet, these illusions have governed people’s lives, decisions, relationships, and entire civilizations.
Within this system, money becomes the keystone. The author boldly proposes the idea to abolish money, asserting that it is the foundational tool supporting the system of human misery. Money, he explains, is not a natural element of human existence but an agreed upon fiction that has enabled greed, hierarchy, inequality, and global conflict. When this key element is removed, the system collapses. What remains is a world where resources can be accessed freely, where individuals are no longer enslaved to financial burdens, and where true cooperation may finally emerge.
An important feature of the book is its call for real participation in change. It urges readers to lend their voices to the International Criminal Court and its Prosecutor’s Office, the POICC. Under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, the POICC can hear global submissions, and this provides a pathway for humans worldwide to support this movement collectively. The book presents this as a form of peaceful, non confrontational collective action that can shift global systems from illusion based governance toward truth and unity.
This movement forms the early foundation for what can be described as a global peace movement, pushing back against ideological constraints and encouraging humanity to return to its natural state of rationality and cooperation. It is also a push toward humanitarian justice, where individuals no longer suffer under artificial constructs but instead thrive within a system that honors human dignity. For those who long for real peace, this book proposes that the journey begins not with war, legislation, or negotiation, but by ending ideology itself and removing the fictional structures that limit human potential. World Peace ultimately frames peace as not only possible, but inevitable once humanity chooses reality over fiction.