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Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Dalai Lama Tells Youths: War Is Outdated: "Associated Press Writer

DENVER (AP) - The Dalai Lama urged thousands of teenagers at a world peace conference Saturday to embrace globalization and accept people from all countries as neighbors and collaborators, not rivals.

``There are no national boundaries. The whole globe is becoming one body,'' he said at the PeaceJam convention. ``In these circumstances, I think war is outdated ... Destruction of your neighbor is actually destruction of yourself.''

War creates environmental problems, trade gaps and humanitarian suffering that everyone must bear, he said, speaking for more than an hour at the convention, which brought together 10 Nobel Peace Prize laureates. He won the honor in 1989."