Gulf Peace Camp: A Memoir and Dream As a former member of the Gulf Peace Camp on Iraqi-Saudi Border, recently I got a letter from the Jordanian based peace team with a request to send donations for the implementation of its future plans. The Peace team in Jordan seems to be a continuation of the former peace camp. It is at this moment I had a reflection about the peace efforts by the Gulf Peace Team. As you know the Gulf Peace Team is considered to be a coordination of the peace activists from all over the world. Now as a Third World citizen, I wish to look into these Peace efforts. While I was in the Peace Camp I came to realise so many painful aspects of War and Peace. In the peace camp, the majority of the members were from Europe with their white blood. Out of the eighty-three members there were only sixteen members who were actually belonging to Third World countries and that only representing two nationalities. At first I thought that this quantitative difference may not influence the quality of the Peace Camp. I was wrong and it is being proved by the latest developments of the peacemakers. Let me come to the point. When I heard about the Peace Team and Peace Camp the important aspect which attracted me to rush to the camp was nothing but Gandhian nonviolence. I heard that the peace effort is basically an integration of the Gandhian concepts about peace. But later I found that Gandhi is being misinterpreted and misused. This is not a single incident connected with Gandhi alone. Of course I don't want to claim to be a monopoly in Gandhian thoughts. But as an Indian I have a strong conviction about Gandhi that he was a man who strongly believed that we could resist the enemy by not using the enemies weapons and strategies. Gandhi insisted on introducing new weapons against the enemy from the people. The real meaning of nonviolence lies in weaving on a spinning wheel and throwing away the computer. The eastern lathis and western guns became impotent before the potentiality of a spinning wheel and its noncooperation. See I am not blaming the peace efforts made in Iraq. But will definitely blame the return of the peace camp to the traditional path. That is to become the enemy's instrument and dressing ourselves up as radical, revolutionary etc. We could use this historical juncture to launch a new method, i.e. an alternative to the conventional means. Instead of that, repeating the so called relief works and charitable activities is really dangerous. War makers always need somebody to treat their victims just because they need their face to be cleaned up. Otherwise the victims of war will recognise them which may in turn affect them badly in future. This is the historical juncture in which peace lovers should convince the people about the War makers and their strategies. By being neutral it is very difficult to identify the enemy. Neutrality itself can be an enemy to a certain extent. In other words we should give to the victims of war an option, for the enemy can be seen only through their eyes. Here comes the crucial question. Who are the real victims of the present Wars? In the peace camp I found that people from the West are generally dominant and aggressive (there were a few exceptions). This I think is because they knowingly or unknowingly share the profits of war. It is the people of the Third World who are suffering War. In order to resist the ugly motivations behind War we have to make a real search for human civilisation among the victims of War. I can see the real portraits of a peaceful society among the tribals and other marginalised sections of our society who are suffering the miseries of War. Peace efforts should evolve out of them and not out of enemy's bribes. Let the victims of Karbala, Basra and Baghdad evolve their own alternatives. The role of a peace lover of the present century is to empower people to set up their own peace initiatives rather than implementing our artificially cooked up peace plans. The war is already declared officially by the declaration for the New World Order. Yes, the present Cease Fire is only an interval for refuelling for the new war for New World Order. U.S.S.R. melodramas and U.N. resolutions are to strengthen the U.S. disease. Babu Mathew CISEC, Kottamukku, Kollam-13, India