Role of family in promoting peace

AS WE CELEBRATE the International Day of Families on May 15, let us look at the role and influence of family in building a social order based on justice and peace.

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A unified, happy, and spiritually motivated family can make vital contributions to the development and transformation of its members, to the advancement of society, and to the establishment of a just, prosperous, and peaceful global order.

According to the Bahá'í International Community, "If one considers the family as the basic unit of society, and by inference, of a world society, strengthening the family by providing its members with appropriate vision, values, and virtues, that is, an adequate spiritual/moral as well as social/cultural/economic dimension, would represent... strengthening international security at the root level by forging harmonious ties between members of the human race, and contributing decisively towards the building of world peace".