''PlanetHood: The Key to Your Survival and Prosperity'' (2nd Ed.: ''PlanetHood: The Key to Your Future'') was written by

Benjamin B. Ferencz Benjamin Berell Ferencz (born March 11, 1920) is an American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the 12 Subsequent Nuremb ...

and

Ken Keyes, Jr. Ken Keyes Jr. (January 19, 1921 – December 20, 1995) was an American personal growth author and lecturer, and the creator of the Living Love method, a self-help system. Keyes wrote fifteen books on personal growth and social consciousness issues ...

in 1988. This non-copyrighted work was written to advance the argument for a system of

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

complete with courts, enforcement, and an international congress. A central theme of the book is the threat to civilization posed by

nuclear weapons A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...

. It was written as sequel to ''The Hundredth Monkey'' (1982).

Dr. Benjamin B. Ferencz

Dr. Benjamin B. Ferencz was a chief prosecutor in the

Nuremberg war crimes trials The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded ...

. A graduate of

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

, he is Adjunct Professor of International Law at

Pace University Pace University is a private university with its main campus in New York City and secondary campuses in Westchester County, New York. It was established in 1906 by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace as a business school. Pac ...

. He is also the founder of the Pace Peace Center and the author of many books on

world peace World peace, or peace on Earth, is the concept of an ideal state of peace within and among all people and nations on Planet Earth. Different cultures, religions, philosophies, and organizations have varying concepts on how such a state would ...

Ken Keyes, Jr.

is the author of The Hundredth Monkey, which awakened millions to our planetary predicament. He is also the author of Handbook to Higher Consciousness, which has over one million in print.

Book

The authors start by highlighting some of the serious global problems facing humanity. They then proceed to show that a system of effective

has been a developing trend historically, beginning with Franciscus de Victoria in 1526 through the establishment of a federalist government in the wake of the

American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...

and continuing to the present day. Optimism is the central tone of the book and it was designed to inspire its readers into replacing what they call the "law of force" with the "force of law."

References

Ferencz, Benjamin B., and Ken Keyes. ''PlanetHood: The Key to Your Survival and Prosperity''. Coos Bay, OR: Vision, 1988. Print. Law books 1988 non-fiction books {{law-book-stub