We, the people of the world, can make peace. You, superpowers, have run the military show for a century – doing World Wars, Cold Wars, death and destruction everywhere. You have had your turn and it does not work. Move over.

We see through winning wars, threats, scares, massive destruction, new weapons, fear and needing enemies. We back friendship, law, proper democracy and peace. You promise peace with nuclear weapons. You arm dictators and we lose democracy. You waste 5% of the world economy on weapons and war. You push up world CO2 by 5%. We cannot afford you any more. Your way is crap. We quite like other countries, see human life as sacred, and know the way of war does not work.

We are determined democratically – if necessarily against governments, dictators, the militaries and arms firms – to take the world to peace. We show this by having at least four billion people agree to it, across the world. Then, we require governments to disarm, 20% a year for five years, fully policed, rooting out avoiders, until this silly military machine is eradicated from the earth. As citizens have no arms within most states, so multilaterally we fully disarm. Disarming is easier than the arming. It is cheaper, does not destroy, builds trust, ends poverty and refugees and frees up science, technology  and fifty million soldiers. So, we do it across the world through the UN.

We will love supposed enemies, co-operate, and save the planet from the way of death you have charted for us. Making peace costs nothing. Loving one another is a good deal, and the planet needs this blessing. We will disarm the world in five years.

I vote for this as one person of peace.