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More than 100 delegates, including heads of state, Nobel Prize winners, Olympic gold medallists, global CEOs and the most influential thought-leaders will gather in New York City on September 23-25, 2007 at the second annual Global Creative Leadership Summit. Organized by the Louise T Blouin Foundation, an international non-profit organization, the conference will provide a new globalization platform from which to develop solutions in areas such as international trade, foreign policy, education, Africa and the environment. The event will be held at the Metropolitan Club (1 East 60th Street at Fifth Avenue, Manhattan).

Can we really find a solution for world peace through a summit like this? After all, the bottom line for any summit is that participants want to “get their own way” in a peaceful manner. But is that even possible anymore? I suspect that this summit will be a rather happy, lukewarm meeting, but in general - has peace become an afterthought for our political leaders?

Or are we simply working for submission? Wars have always been about power and money, but they have also been about morals and values. They underlying strategy was to find a peaceful way to “win” the war. Look at the Revolutionary War, for example. Britain lost. In the history of the world, it wasn’t that long ago when they lost. Are they still mad about it? Nah. There was a clear winner and clear loser to that war of power, but the leaders from both sides came together to find a peaceful situation for everyone.

I don’t think there can be a peaceful end to any of the wars happening today, because peace isn’t really the main goal of both sides. The goal is power and money, and if peace happens good. If submission happens, well, we’ll take that too.

And that’s sad to me. It’s why I don’t support the War in Iraq. I 100% support our troops, because I think that they are trying to fight with peace in mind. But I don’t support the administration. Bottom line? THEY DON”T WANT US THERE. They don’t want to work out a peace for the world. They just want to rebuild and, in 10, 20, 100 years whatever, try to take us down again.

Can being more religious help this? I don’t know. But we are a country that is more atheist than not. I mean, even your typical Christian family…how often do they pray before dinner? How often do they go to church? How often to they read their Bible? Power and money have become more important that religion, and thus, more important than peace.