So it will come to
pass that when women participate fully and equally in the affairs of the world,
when they enter confidently and capably the great arena of laws and politics,
war will cease;...
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, ‘The Promulgation of Universal
Peace’; quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a letter dated 24 December
1980 written on its behalf to an individual believer)
