- Moojan Momen. Apocalyptic Thinking and Process Thinking: A Bahá'í Contribution to Religious Thought (2012). The process of change in religious thinking and how it manifests in expectations about the Lesser Peace, both from Bahá'í texts and within the community. Includes discussions of "the calamity," and of non-Bahá'í political evolution in the 20th century.
- Universal House of Justice. Attainment of the Unity of Nations and the Lesser Peace (2001-04-19). Letter sent to all NSAs and later broadcast to the Bahá'í world to explain the process through which the Lesser Peace will be created and its relation to the Most Great Peace.
- William P. Collins. Catastrophe, Armageddon and Millennium: Some Aspects of the Bábí-Bahá'í Exegesis of Apocalyptic Symbolism, by Stephen Lambden: Commentary, "The Apocalyptic Upheaval Completed?" (2001). Commentary on earlier article by Stephen Lambden.
- Wm. Keith Bookwalter. Comments on "Infallible Institutions?" by Udo Shaefer and "Response" by Peter Terry (2020/2023). Thoughts on infallibility of the Universal House of Justice through a case study of predictions regarding the "unity of nations" and the Lesser Peace by the year 2000.
- Jack McLean. Did Prophecy Fail? The Lesser Peace and the Year 2000 (2003-08). Prior to the 2010s, there was widespread belief in the Bahá'í community that the Lesser Peace would be established by the year 2000, following some catastrophic event. Yet the Scriptures do not make this claim. Prophecy is interpreted in retrospect.
- Universal House of Justice. Peace, Activism for (1987-06-17). Bahá'ís may be actively involved in peace processes but may not interfere excessively, since Bahá'í institutions will not be directly involved in effecting the political unity of nations.
- Stanwood Cobb. Unity of Nations, The (1938). A look six decades into the future (from 1938) to envision the Lesser Peace.
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