No democracy exists without a market economy, but achieving such an economy by nations that have long been under totalitarian government (e.g., Russia) represents a major and often failing struggle. If, however, the organizational, governmental and institutional leaders of those nations were intimately connected with their counterparts from the US and other experienced democracies (such as the members of the ILF, augmented by others) in a carefully managed mentoring program on the Internet, it may be possible for them to make much more rapid progress toward democracy, and consequently toward world peace. Democracies do not make war on each other.

Stunning achievements in communication technology will now make it possible for these leaders to communicate by speaking into hand held devices in their own languages. The technology will automatically translate the message into English (and the responses back into the user's own language), transform voice into text, and send it via email to be entered into the group deliberations.