I agree – 'there is no path to peace, peace is the path.' It must start here and now, and we must walk our talk, and bring that empathy to our immediate neighborhood and community.
Human beings need an expanding consciousness of our commonalities to help in the forging of the global solidarity and unity needed to tackle, successfully, the challenges.
Unless there is this fundamental transformation, the human species will pass through various phases of turbulence, perhaps in much larger scales, to realize the futility of war and violence, and move towards the ideal human unity.