The mission of the Center for Global Nonkilling is to promote change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world by means open to infinite human creativity. The goal can be reached by globally advancing nonkilling knowledge and skills, incorporating them into education and training, and applying them in individual and social decisions for the well-being of all. The task calls for infinite creativity and mutual support among all individuals, organizations, and institutions whose work contributes to progress toward the goal of a nonkilling world.
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Summary:
In 1950, at the time of the Korean crisis, the UN, under the leadership of the United States was united to counter the aggression of the North. In this situation Russia made it a condition that it would join forces, if the UN started transitioning to genuine collective security, in accordance with the relevant provision in the Charter. What actually was the idea of the transition, and what did the Russians expect, e.g. of the Germans and the French, with regard to the peace clauses that French and German socialists had succeeded to write into the countries’ new constitutions. What were the consequences of the decisions made at the time?
[themify_quote]“Things cannot be forced from the top … The international relinquishing of so- vereignty would have to spring from the people—it would have to be so strong that the elected delegates would be turned out of office if they failed to do it … We must face the truth that the people have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent to force them to go to any extent rather than have another war … War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” (John F. Kennedy as a young journalist attending the San Francisco UN Conference in June 1945)2[/themify_quote]
[themify_quote]“History is, as a rule, about the when and where of what was done by whom and even, sometimes, about the why. Over- whelmingly, focus is on the done … what was (and is) not do- ne tends stalwartly to be considered at best historically uninteresting and at worst not history at all.”3[/themify_quote]
The subject I am presenting is likely to have important consequences for the future of peace. As is well known a- mong peace historians, at the Hague Peace Conferences, 1899 and 1907, when the nations represented voted on the “obligatory arbitration” powers of the international court, Germany twice cast a veto. So, the Conferences failed to achieve their most important objectives, disarmament and an international legal order to secure peace. Some forty years later in the new German constitution the mistake made at The Hague was acknowledged and an obligation entered to submit to the I.C.J.’s compulsory jurisdiction, join a system of collective security and never again take part in aggressive war.
In 1950, at the time of the Korean crisis, when the United Nations under the leadership of the United States were uniting to fend off the aggression of the North, Russia made it a condition that it would join forces only, if and when the Uni- ted Nations started transitioning to genuine collective security, in accordance with the relevant provision in the U.N. Charter. Since Germany had just previously, in May 1949, adopted a new Constitution providing for delegating security sovereignty to the United Nations in favor of “a system of mutual collective security” and disarming to the minimum stipulated in Article 26 of the U.N. Charter, did the Russians speculate that the Germans would take action to initiate the process of the transition? The German Constitution’s Article 24 reads:
[themify_quote][Article 24, Transfer of sovereign powers – System of col- lective security]
(1) The Federation may by a law [passed with a single majority in parliament] transfer sovereign powers to international organizations.4
(1a) [irrelevant]
(2) With a view to maintaining peace, the Federation may enter into a system of mutual collective security; in doing so it shall consent to such limitations upon its sovereign powers as will bring about and secure a lasting peace in Europe and among the nations of the world.
(3) For the settlement of disputes between states, the Federation shall accede to agreements providing for general, comprehensive and compulsory international arbitration.
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It appears that delegating security sovereignty to the U.N. was designed to initiate and facilitate the process of the transition to collective security stipulated in Article 106 of the U.N. Charter which reads (under its Chapter XVII heading: “Transitional Security Arrangements”):
[themify_quote]Pending the coming into force of such special agreements referred to in Article 43 as in the opinion of the Security Council enable it to begin the exercise of its responsibilities under Article 42, the parties to the Four-Nation Declaration, signed at Moscow, 30 October 1943, and France, shall, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5 of that Declaration, consult with one another and as occasion requires with other Members of the United Nations with a view to such joint action on behalf of the Organization as may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.[/themify_quote]
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This was rejected. The Convention Committee maintained that it was “aware that (this meant that) the German people would be called to take the initiative, but it is of the opinion that after the things that have happened in the name of the German people, such an initiative (Vorleistung), which will be followed by corresponding (legislative) action of the other states, is advisable/in order.”
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Since the “special agreements referred to in Article 43” have never been concluded, the Security Council has so far de jure not been empowered to function effectively; it has not even ‘begun’ the “exercise of its responsibilities.” In fact, the five Permanent Members of the Security Council (“P5”) can take action even without the ‘mantle of legitimacy’ of the U.N. Charter, and even in a ‘Coalition of the Willing’. Under these circumstances it is argued that Germany, by delegating “security sovereignty” to the U.N. Security Council, could trigger the process of the transition to genuine collective security and disarmament.
It can be said that applying the ‘constitutional law(s) of peace’ (Droit constitutionnel de la paix),5 to put the system of collective security into effect, would be of immense benefit; it enables lawmakers of a single nation to take positive action by law, “which will (then) be followed by corresponding (legislative) action of the other states,”6 entering into a state of contract with the U.N. Security Council to empower the United Nations and give the Security Council a basic law. As far as is discernible this aspect has not received the attention it deserves.
1This essay is base on a Paper presented at the International Peace Research Associati- on Conference, 10-15 August 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
2Quoted in Arthur Meier Schlesinger, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2002 (1965), p. 88-89.
3Antony Adolf, “Preconditional, Didactic and Predictive Histories. An Introduction to Nonkilling History”, in Antony Adolf (ed.), Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past, Honolulu, Center for Global Nonkilling 2010, p. 13. 4At the Constitutional Convention of Herrenchiemsee in August 1948, under the chairmanship of social democrat Carlo Schmid, the issue was discussed whether the German article should also state the condition of reciprocity, like the French article.
5See Boris Mirkine-Guetzévitch, Le droit constitutionnel et l’organisation de la paix (droit constitutionnel de la paix), Recueil des Cours, 3/45 (1933), pp. 676-773, and Mirkine-Guetzévitch, La Renonciation à la Guerre dans le Droit Constitutionnel mod- erne, Revue Héllenique de Droit International, Vol. 4, 1951, pp. 1-16. See also Raphaël Porteilla and Joël Mekhantar (eds.), La Paix et les Constitutions, Dijon, ESKA 2015, who, however, seem not to have covered Mirkine-Guetzévitch and much of the field.
6Der Parlamentarische Rat 1948-1949, Akten und Protokolle (The Parliamentary Council, Acts and Protocols), vol. 2, Der Verfassungskonvent auf Herrenchiemsee (The Constitu- tional Convention of Herrenchiemsee), Boppard am Rhein, Harald Boldt 1981 (August 1948), p. 207. See also Klaus Schlichtmann, Artikel 9 im Normenkontext der Staatsver- fassungen. Souveränitätsbeschränkung und Kriegsverhütung im 20. Jahrhundert (Article 9 in Context, limitations of national sovereignty and the prevention of war in twentieth century constitutional law), Gewollt oder geworden, Referate des 4. Japanologentages der OAG in Tokyo, ed. by Werner Schaumann, Munich, iudicium 1996, pp. 129-150. An English rendering of the German article is available: Article Nine in Context— Limitations of National Sovereignty and the Abolition of War in Constitutional Law, The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 23-6-09 (8 June 2009). (Also online: JAPAN FOCUS)
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Prof Klaus Schlichtmann
Prof. Klaus Schlichtmann
was born in Hamburg, Germany, as the son of a medical doctor, in 1944. As a teenager he developed an interest in philosophy, comparative culture, Buddhism, the arts, literature and politics.
He left Germany at the age of 18, and soon after started his Yatra to India, travelling overland through Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan.
From 1964 to 1966 he was German lecturer at the Sanskrit Viswavidyalaya in Varanasi (Benares). He spent a number of years in India, doing research and ‘going native’.
After returning to Germany he took up studies at Kiel Uni- versity, where Asian history became his major subject, with international law and political science as his two minor sub- jects.
In 1992 he obtained a scholarship to go to Japan to work on his doctoral thesis about the Japanese pacifist dip- lomat and post-World-War II Prime Minister Kijuro Shide- hara (1872-1951) who is credited with having suggested the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution to General Douglas MacArthur in January 1946.
Klaus Schlichtmann has published in German, English and Japanese, among others on the Hague Peace Conferences, Germany and Japan in the interwar period, U.N. Reform, H.G. Wells, Gandhi and related subjects. His original dissertation (Kiel 1997) on Kijuro Shidehara was published in English transla- tion in two volumes in 2009 by Lexington Books, USA with the title Japan in the World. Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism and the Abolition of War.
He is presently a professor in the language department of Nihon University, Tokyo. He has two sons and one daughter.
A lot of pages to download. I will keep this on file to read later. A few observations. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Regarding the UN, and also the EU, that is an adage to keep in mind when we advocate for sovereignty to be transferred to international bodies. To effect measures to make a peaceful world, we need wisdom. This is not to disparage the efforts made by any or all who wish and work for a peaceful world, but a fact. The authors of the German Constitution Artikel 24 have not understood the meaning of the word “sovereignty”. First mistake. One may pull the wool over the eyes of a people, the which the German people currently constitute, but there is a price to be paid for doing so sooner or later, and if the mistake is not rectified, the rot continues until such people or peoples as are involved fall out properly and reconstitute as various different sovereign peoples.
Sovereignty is of a people. It cannot be transferred to international bodies. The attempts by EU leaders and their acolytes to federate the EU member states bears this out. To combine several peoples into a sovereign nation organised as a state peacably is not something that just happens. If it does happen, the sovereignty is not transferred to an international body. The sovereignty remains with the merged peoples as a new nation.
The UN is, or was, an admirable attempt at managing international affairs to some extent. It is not without its problems. The main problem is the corruption in all human organisation. The UN has no sovereignty whatever. There is no oversight, no accountability worthy of the name. The people working within any organisation which in principle has good intentions, who themselves have good intentions, tend to get a skewed picture of the world they live in and the organisation they are part of. Again, the good efforts of good people are not necessarily wasted in the long run, but international organisation is an area fraught with downsides without the means and the motivation by the people able to effect control over a slide into irreversible corruption to in fact prevent such an irreversible slide into ignominious adverse consequences. Wisdom is what we need, first of all, to see what we need to understand about human nature and society.
One important new proposal for peace is integration of the various cultural calendars especially the islamic Hijiri and the Christian Gregorian calendars. This is the best way to bring peace presently.The gregorian calenadr is not itself satisfactory. Only instegrating it to the Hijiri calendar can give us a modern version of the luni-solar calendar which is must for world peace and prosperity.
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He has been a radio producer (Earthstar Radio, San Francisco), organized and worked with the homeless, and is an advocate/activist in the nonviolent protest movement for safe energy, human rights, and peaceful solutions.
He is USA Vice President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association whose mission is to build a parallel world body to the United Nations, an emerging Earth Federation with a Provisional World Parliament under the Earth Constitution.
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">Roger Kotila PhD Dr Gary G Kohls MD[/caption]
is a retired physician who practiced holistic, non-drug, mental health care for the last decade of his forty year family practice career. He is a contributor to and an endorser of the efforts of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and was a member of MindFreedom International, the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
While running his independent clinic, he published over 400 issues of his Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter, which was emailed to a variety of subscribers. (They have not been archived at any website.) In the early 2000s, Dr Kohls taught a graduate level psychology course at the University of Minnesota Duluth. It was titled “The Science and Psychology of the Mind-Body Connection”.
Since his retirement, Dr Kohls has been writing a weekly column (titled “Duty to Warn”) for the Duluth Reader, an alternative newsweekly published in Duluth, Minnesota. He offers teaching seminars to the public and to healthcare professionals.
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">Gary G Kohls George Monbiot[/caption]
Studied in Oxford University, columnist with The Guardian newspaper, also the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, No Man’s Land, How Did We Get into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature and other.
Prof Johan Galtung was born in Oslo. He earned the PhD degree in mathematics at the University of Oslo in 1956, and in 1957 a year later completed the PhD degree in sociology at the same university.
Prof Johan Galtung received nine honorary doctorates in the fields of Peace studies, Future studies, Social sciences, Buddhism, Sociology of law, Philosophy, Sociology and Law.
State Councilor of St. Petersburg, Russia. Founding President, Global Harmony Association (GHA) since 2005. Honorary President, GHA since 2016. Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia. Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony. Author of more than 400 scientific publications, including 18 books in 1-12 languages. Author of Tetrism as the unity of Tetraphilosophy and Tetrasociology – science of social harmony, global peace and harmonious civilisation. Director, GHA Web portal “Peace from Harmony”. Initiator, Manager, Coauthor and Editor in Chief of the book project “Global Peace Science” (GPS).
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">Leo M SemashkoRobert C Koehler[/caption]
writes for the Huffington Post, Common Dreams, OpEd News and TruthOut. He considers himself a “peace journalist.” He has been an editor at Tribune Media Services and a reporter, columnist and copy desk chief at Lerner Newspapers, Chicago. Koehler launched his column in 1999. Robert Koehler has received numerous writing and journalism awards over a 30-year career in USA. He writes about values and meaning with reverence for life. He is praised as “blatantly relevant” and “a hero of democracy”.
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First published at :
">Robert C KoehlerRobert J Burrowes PhD[/caption]
has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘
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">Robert J BurrowesProf Richard Falk[/caption]
an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.
Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies, and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is Achieving Human Rights (2009).
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First published at :
">Richard FalkDr Gray Corseri, PhD[/caption]
is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. He has published and posted articles, fiction and poems at hundreds of venues, including, TMS, The New York Times, Village Voice, Redbook Magazine and Counterpunch.
He has published 2 novels and 2 collections of poetry, and his dramas have been produced on PBS-Atlanta and elsewhere. He has performed his poems at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum and has taught in universities in the US and Japan, and in US public schools and prisons.
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First published at :
">Gary CorseriAntonio Carlos Silva Rosa, Editor, TMS[/caption]
born 1946, is the editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung, and Secretary of the International Board of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
He completed the required coursework for a Ph.D. in Political Science-Peace Studies (1994), has a Masters in Political Science-International Relations (1990), and a B.A. in Communication (1988) from the University of Hawai’i.
Originally from Brazil, he lives presently in Porto, Portugal. Antonio was educated in the USA where he lived for 20 years; in Europe/India since 1994.
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">Antonio Carlos Silva Rosa
John Scales Avery is a theoretical chemist, Associate Professor Emeritus, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is noted for his books and research publications in quantum chemistry, thermodynamics, evolution, and history of science. His 2003 book Information Theory and Evolution set forth the view that the phenomenon of life, including its origin, evolution, as well as human cultural evolution, has its background situated in the fields of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory.
He is an Indian citizen & permanent resident of Australia and a scholar, an author, a social-policy critic, a frequent social wayfarer, a social entrepreneur and a journalist;He has been exploring, understanding and implementing the ideas of social-economy, participatory local governance, education, citizen-media, ground-journalism, rural-journalism, freedom of expression, bureaucratic accountability, tribal development, village development, reliefs & rehabilitation, village revival and other.
For Ground Report India editions, Vivek had been organising national or semi-national tours for exploring ground realities covering 5000 to 15000 kilometres in one or two months to establish Ground Report India, a constructive ground journalism platform with social accountability.
He has written a book “मानसिक, सामाजिक, आर्थिक स्वराज्य की ओर”on various social issues, development community practices, water, agriculture, his ground works & efforts and conditioning of thoughts & mind. Reviewers say it is a practical book which answers “What” “Why” “How” practically for the development and social solution in India.
worked as a mediator for the church in Belfast; as faculty at The School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, and as Executive Director, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation. He has founded several Indian NGOs, is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
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">Vithal RajanRene Wadlow[/caption]
is the President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation on and problem-solving in economic and social issues.
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">Rene WadlowBaher Kamal[/caption]
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Baher Kamal
Egyptian-born, Spanish-national secular journalist. He is founder and publisher of Human Wrongs Watch. Kamal is a pro-peace, non-violence, human rights, coexistence defender, with more than 45 years of professional experience. With these issues in sight, he covered practically all professional posts, from correspondent to chief editor of dailies and international news agencies.
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Credits :
">Baher KamalRosa Dalmiglio with Lama Mongolia[/caption]
She is a member of the China Council Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe (special art, culture and humanity), which touches the hearts of all people and portrays the strong willpower so encouraging to 60 million Chinese disabled persons.
Ms. Dalmiglio is Intermediary Agent of CICE, Centre International Cultural Exchange, a direct subsidiary of the Ministry of Culture, People’s Republic of China. CICE is a comprehensive institution engaged in cultural exchange programs, professional publication and presentation of cultural art works such as exhibits, receiving foreign art troupes and artists, holding international cultural research programs, and producing intercultural and interreligious documentary films.
She is a member of China Disabled Person’s Federation, CDPF. She is also a member of the International Women Federation, which is concerned with the financial ethics of women s enterprises in underdeveloped areas.
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credits:
">Rosa Dalmiglio
Director, Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies.
A recipient of Cultural Doctorate of Philosophy of Economics from USA. He is an active member of various professional bodies, namely -
He participated and presented papers in various International/national/regional seminars, conferences etc.. He remained member of the Academic Council of Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar. An unwearied researcher has about 200 research papers published in various international and national journals of repute and 15 research monographs to his kitty. Besides, he has authored/co-authored /edited 15 books which have been well received and highly acclaimed during his three decades of professional career. He was honoured by various national and international awards, namely, Guru Draunacharya Samman, Vijay Rattan Award and so on.
Dr Ron Paul served in U.S. House of Representatives three different periods: first from 1976 to 1977, after he won a special election, then from 1979 to 1985, and finally from 1997 to 2013.
During his first term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Paul founded the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE), a non-profit think tank dedicated to promoting principles of limited government and free-market economics. In 1984, Paul became the first chairman of the Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a conservative political group founded by Charles Koch and David Koch 'to fight for less government, lower taxes, and less regulation.' CSE started a Tea Party protest against high taxes in 2002. In 2004, Citizens for a Sound Economy split into two new organizations, with Citizens for a Sound Economy being renamed as FreedomWorks, and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation becoming Americans for Prosperity. The two organizations would become key players in the Tea Party movement from 2009 onward.
Dr Paul proposed term-limit legislation multiple times, while himself serving a few terms in the House of Representatives. In 1984, he decided to retire from the House in order to run for the U.S. Senate, complaining in his House farewell address that 'Special interests have replaced the concern that the Founders had for general welfare.... It's difficult for one who loves true liberty and utterly detests the power of the state to come to Washington for a period of time and not leave a true cynic.'
He is known nationally and internationally as a pioneer figure in the study of culture and psychopathology who challenged the ethnocentrism and racial biases of many assumptions, theories, and practices in psychology and psychiatry.
In more recent years, he has been writing and lecturing on peace and social justice. He has published 15 edited books, and more than 250 articles, chapters, book reviews, and popular pieces.
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Credits:
">Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D.Jason Hickel[/caption]
He is international consultant of the UN – FAO and international consultant for sustainable development and sustainable future of humankind of Universal State of the Earth - USE.
On 8th October 2016 he was appointed as The Chairman of the Humanity, Nature, Space and Environment protection Committee of the USE, the Supreme Council of Humanity - SCH from Athens, Greece and London, UK.
He is researcher working on: Nature; the Nature, Space and Environment protection; the Climate change system; System thinking; Globalization and global studies; Networking, Complexity and Swarm research: Sustainable Development and Sustainable Future of Humankind. He was among the pioneers researchers (1986 – 1994) to apply nature, space, and environment protection in a local community by activities we call today Local Agenda 21 Processes – a holistic program for survival of our civilization under new challenges of the third millennium.“Commencing from Local Community Sustainable Future and moving towards Sustainable Future of the Global Community of Humankind”.
He is independent researchers with many domestic and international publications and talks. Together with many researchers in co-operation worldwide within philosophy, operational research, global studies, case studies and complex problem solving research, system thinking, requisitely holism, networking and complexity, swarm research, integration and disintegration of matter and energy and universal upbringing, education and lifelong learning. He is contributing a systemic, requisitely holistic and a better understanding of the present. His latest research within the system theory, system thinking, networking, complexity and swarm research may provide a possible answer enabling people to better understand our world of humans.
During 2014 he completed 50 years of research work (1964 - 2014). This year he completed 50 years of been Dr. Vet. Med. Since 1986 he worked on the protection of Humanity, Nature, Space and Environment and completed 30 years of research.
For research on the climate change system and the book “System Thinking and Climate Change System (Against a big “Tragedy of Commons” of all of us), Ecimovic, Mayur, Mulej and co-authors, 2002, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 2003. His work on “The Information Theory of Nature” was his second nomination for The Nobel Prize during 2007 in Physics. His third nomination for The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was for “The Environment Theory of the Nature”, published in the book “Three Applications of the System Thinking”, Ecimovic, 2010. Within last 10 years he has contributed trilogies: “The Nature”, “The Sustainable Future of Mankind” and “The Life 2017” – please see at: www.institut-climatechange.si
I grew up in Chile, got my medical degree there, began an academic career in 1970, and left for the USA due to the military coup in early 1974. My first job in the USA was working as a public nutrition professor in the international programme of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
I started to travel to Africa in 1975, and worked a year in Cameroun in 1980 helping to prepare their five-year nutrition plan. I then moved to New Orleans, to Tulane University’s School of Public Health, and taught in the department of nutrition for ten years, before moving to Nairobi where I was an advisor in the Ministry of Health. Seven years there got me into extensive consulting in Africa, often on nutritional issues. In 1995 moved to Vietnam where I worked for two and a half years in the Ministry of Health as a senior primary health care advisor.
Many years of touching the reality on the ground, in Latin America, then the USA, then Africa and Asia, has made me understand that the real challenge is in the social and political determinants of malnutrition. I have devoted my writings and teaching to that. Over the years, I have found an important shift in my colleagues’ attitude and understanding towards acknowledging the basic causes of malnutrition. But yet I see little happening as a result. I submit that it is our guild’s lack of experience in the political arena that explains this dichotomy. I devote much of my energy to bridge this gap, and am a fervent advocate of empowering claim holders to demand needed changes from duty bearers. Nutrition is a perfect port of entry for that. Equity, social justice and people’s empowerment in a human rights sense is what really will make a difference.
There is no alternative but to deal with nutrition problems as indivisibly linked to social, political and environmental problems. We need to address them as such. The question is: are we all prepared to do that? The answer, in my view, decides whether we are part of the solution or part of the problem. Travelling and living in different parts of the world has reinforced my conviction that we need to get down from our academic ivory towers, and need to change the curricula of our young and upcoming colleagues, to give them the tools to act in such a context. To me, public health nutrition cannot be anything but that.
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">Claudio Schuftan Dr MDProf. Ram Puniyani[/caption]
Jacob Jonker
July 5, 2017 @ 9:32 AM
A lot of pages to download. I will keep this on file to read later. A few observations. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Regarding the UN, and also the EU, that is an adage to keep in mind when we advocate for sovereignty to be transferred to international bodies. To effect measures to make a peaceful world, we need wisdom. This is not to disparage the efforts made by any or all who wish and work for a peaceful world, but a fact. The authors of the German Constitution Artikel 24 have not understood the meaning of the word “sovereignty”. First mistake. One may pull the wool over the eyes of a people, the which the German people currently constitute, but there is a price to be paid for doing so sooner or later, and if the mistake is not rectified, the rot continues until such people or peoples as are involved fall out properly and reconstitute as various different sovereign peoples.
Sovereignty is of a people. It cannot be transferred to international bodies. The attempts by EU leaders and their acolytes to federate the EU member states bears this out. To combine several peoples into a sovereign nation organised as a state peacably is not something that just happens. If it does happen, the sovereignty is not transferred to an international body. The sovereignty remains with the merged peoples as a new nation.
The UN is, or was, an admirable attempt at managing international affairs to some extent. It is not without its problems. The main problem is the corruption in all human organisation. The UN has no sovereignty whatever. There is no oversight, no accountability worthy of the name. The people working within any organisation which in principle has good intentions, who themselves have good intentions, tend to get a skewed picture of the world they live in and the organisation they are part of. Again, the good efforts of good people are not necessarily wasted in the long run, but international organisation is an area fraught with downsides without the means and the motivation by the people able to effect control over a slide into irreversible corruption to in fact prevent such an irreversible slide into ignominious adverse consequences. Wisdom is what we need, first of all, to see what we need to understand about human nature and society.
Pesi Padshah
July 5, 2017 @ 4:37 PM
I am completely in agreement with the need for a strategy to prevent future wars, and the killing of fellow humans.
hari malla
July 6, 2017 @ 11:10 PM
One important new proposal for peace is integration of the various cultural calendars especially the islamic Hijiri and the Christian Gregorian calendars. This is the best way to bring peace presently.The gregorian calenadr is not itself satisfactory. Only instegrating it to the Hijiri calendar can give us a modern version of the luni-solar calendar which is must for world peace and prosperity.