Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley delivered his keynote address on the second day of the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, the capital city of Iran.
Presenting his keynote on September 1, PM Thinley said that lasting peace would prevail only when causes of conflicts become nonexistent in the world.
He said, “While peace may be understood as the absence of conflict, lasting peace is possible only when the very causes of conflict are nonexistent.”
Unfortunately, ours is a world where the causes for conflict abound with growing diversity and intensity not because they are inevitable but because we speak more of peace and care less for it, added he.
According to Thinley, there was now a serious search for a more comprehensive set of indicators that should guide development toward human wellbeing and happiness.
“My own country has been sharing its experience of having pursued Gross National Happiness (GNH), over four decades, by balancing material growth with mental and spiritual enrichment within a stable environment,” added he.
