A Protocol For World Peace: A Prototype

The existence of The Protocol rests on the assumption that the secret to world peace has not yet been discovered, but is in fact pattern of ideas, and that this pattern is concealed, in whole or in part, in texts of prose and poetry arbitrarily chosen from the millions of available samples written in any of the world’s languages between about CE 1680 and 2000.

The words of this process themselves are conceived of as data for the purpose of analysis; and it follows that since the conceived data array is also of a portion significantly large, the analytic methods to be followed must necessarily involve some form of programmable computerization.

The collection of texts was begun on January 1, 2000, and the finishing work on the final portion of this effort —the Five Governing Protocol Indices (World Introduction , World Table of Contents , World Authors , World Bibliography , and World Archives )—was completed two weeks prior to its official due date (Christmas Day, 2017). (For those interested, between the middle of December and St. Patrick’s Day, 2018, a catalogue of the Library from which much of this array was abstracted has been prepared.)

My part in all this has been to establish the initial sequence of events having to do with the collection of the data itself, setting parameters for the collection of this data in time and space, and determining the nature of its authorship—everything except designing the programs suitable for its execution (which is well beyond my powers).

If any of you are computer programmers, and believe it possible to design a software methodology that could discover the answer to world peace through linguistic analysis, please do not hesitate to make use of the enclosed literature of the World Table of Contents and available in the files accompanying each country. All I ask of you is that you make your findings freely available to anyone involved in similar
research.

A more detailed explanation is available under World Introduction. I should add that all of this was done on my own bat, without the infrastructure of secretarial help, and thus the (probably numerous) grammatical errors, inherent in any literary adventure where one is working completely by oneself, are entirely my responsibility. To all of you, I remain,

With the greatest possible respect
Horace H. Bradley,
Corning, New York,
The United States of America.

 

World Introduction

World Table of Contents

World Authors

World Bibliography

World Archives

 

The separate files of the 196 independent countries (together with those of their respective inhabited dependent territories) are as follows:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Albania
  3. Algeria
  4. Andorra
  5. Angola
  6. Antigua and Barbuda
  7. Argentina
  8. Armenia
  9. Australia
  10. Austria
  11. Azerbaijan
  12. Bahamas, The
  13. Bahrain
  14. Bangladesh, 14a , Bangladesh, 14b
  15. Barbados
  16. Belarus
  17. Belgium
  18. Belize
  19. Benin
  20. Bhutan
  21. Bolivia
  22. Bosnia & Herzegovina
  23. Botswana
  24. Brazil
  25. Brunei
  26. Bulgaria
  27. Burkina Faso
  28. Burundi
  29. Cambodia
  30. Cameroon
  31. Canada
  32. Cape Verde
  33. Central African Republic, The
  34. Chad
  35. Chile
  36. China, 36a , China, 36b , China, 36c , China, 36d , China, 36e , China, 36f , China, 36g, China, 36h
  37. Colombia
  38. Comoros, The
  39. Congo Brazzaville
  40. Congo, Kinshasa
  41. Costa Rica
  42. Cote de Ivory
  43. Croatia
  44. Cuba
  45. Cyprus
  46. Czech Republic, The
  47. Denmark
  48. Djbouti
  49. Dominica
  50. Dominican Republic, The
  51. East Timor
  52. Ecuador
  53. Egypt
  54. El Salvador
  55. Equatorial Guinea
  56. Eritrea
  57. Estonia
  58. Ethiopia
  59. Fiji
  60. Finland
  61. France
  62. Gabon
  63. Gambia, The
  64. Georgia
  65. Germany
  66. Ghana
  67. Greece
  68. Grenada
  69. Guatemala
  70. Guinea
  71. Guinea Bissau
  72. Guyana
  73. Haiti
  74. Honduras
  75. Hungary
  76. Iceland
  77. India, 77a , India, 77b , India, 77c , India, 77d , India, 77e , India, 77f
  78. Indonesia, 78a , Indonesia, 78b , Indonesia, 78c
  79. Iran
  80. Iraq
  81. Ireland
  82. Israel and Palestine
  83. Italy
  84. Jamaica
  85. Japan
  86. Jordan
  87. Kazakhstan
  88. Kenya
  89. Kiribati
  90. Korea North
  91. Korea South
  92. Kosovo
  93. Kuwait
  94. Kyrgyzstan
  95. Laos
  96. Latvia
  97. Lebanon
  98. Lesotho
  99. Liberia
  100. Libya
  101. Liechtenstein
  102. Lithuania
  103. Luxembourg
  104. Macedonia
  105. Madagascar
  106. Malawi
  107. Malaysia
  108. Maldives, The
  109. Mali
  110. Malta
  111. Marshall Islands, The
  112. Mauritania
  113. Mauritius
  114. Mexico
  115. Micronesia
  116. Moldova
  117. Monaco
  118. Mongolia
  119. Montenegro
  120. Morocco
  121. Mozambique
  122. Myanmar
  123. Namibia
  124. Nauru
  125. Nepal
  126. Netherlands, The
  127. New Zealand
  128. Nicaragua
  129. Niger
  130. Nigeria
  131. Norway
  132. Oman
  133. Pakistan
  134. Palau
  135. Panama
  136. Papua New Guinea
  137. Paraguay
  138. Peru
  139. Philippines, The
  140. Poland
  141. Portugal
  142. Qatar
  143. Romania
  144. Russia, 144a , Russia, 144b , Russia, 144c
  145. Rwanda
  146. Samoa
  147. San Marino
  148. Sao Tome y Principe
  149. Saudi Arabia
  150. Senegal
  151. Serbia
  152. Seychelles, The
  153. Sierra Leone
  154. Singapore
  155. Slovakia
  156. Slovenia
  157. Solomon Islands, The
  158. Somalia
  159. South Africa
  160. South Sudan
  161. Spain
  162. Sri Lanka
  163. Saint Kitts and Nevis
  164. Saint Lucia
  165. Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
  166. Sudan
  167. Suriname
  168. Swaziland
  169. Sweden
  170. Switzerland
  171. Syria
  172. Taiwan
  173. Tajikistan
  174. Tanzania
  175. Thailand
  176. Togo
  177. Tonga
  178. Trinidad and Tobago
  179. Tunisia
  180. Turkey
  181. Turkmenistan
  182. Tuvalu
  183. Uganda
  184. Ukraine
  185. United Arab Emirates, The
  186. United Kingdom, The, 186a , United Kingdom, The, 186b , United Kingdom, The, 186c
  187. United States, The, 187a , United States, The, 187b , United States, The, 187c , United States, The, 187d , United States, The, 187e
  188. Uruguay
  189. Uzbekistan
  190. Vanuatu
  191. Vatican City State
  192. Venezuela
  193. Vietnam
  194. Yemen
  195. Zambia
  196. Zimbabwe