The main prerequisite and condition for the fulfilment of the worlds many different potentials is peace. As democracy supports peaceful relations between states, economic prosperity and fuller development of people, peace makes possible the development of stable...
50 ways to build World Peace
50 Ways to build World Peace: Take your share of responsibility for the world, Promote Unity, Talk about peace, Help those in need, Welcome a stranger, Mediate a conflict, Seek mutual understanding, Aim so everyone wins, Aid the starving, Participate, Be friendly with...
World Peace Army – Wereld Vredesleger toelichting voor DDK-leden
2004 Beste collega DDK-leden (De Derde Kamer), Graag willen de indieners van het onderwerp Wereldvredesleger het de plaats in jullie hoofden geven die het verdient door jullie aandacht te vragen voor onderstaande toelichting. Let wel: het gaat hier om het meest...
Nuclear Disarmament – Toward a world free of nuclear weapons
The Wall Street Journal Mission Nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. U.S. leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage — to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a...
Nuclear Disarmament – Toward a nuclear-free world
The Wall Street Journal Mission The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a nuclear tipping point. We face a very real possibility that the deadliest weapons ever invented could fall into dangerous hands. The...
World Peace Army – The dream of every child
‘EVERY CHILD IS A POTENTIAL GENIUS…’ Future for all Let us for one moment forget what we know, what we believe, the opinions we have. It has never been our ideas, our beliefs, our opinions that have directly shaped our world. The world has its own future. There are...
Uncommon Opportunities – Executive summary
The report examines the global issues of international security, employment, food and transition in Eastern Europe and identifies a range of `uncommon opportunities' that have arisen since the end of the Cold War to evolve lasting solutions to these problems. It...
Uncommon Opportunities – A call for leadership in thought that leads to action
The vision of opportunity presented in this report is based neither on blind hope nor on scientific projection. Mere wishing has no power to accomplish and science has not evolved far enough for projections with regard to the complex processes that govern global...
Uncommon Opportunities – Developing Human Resourcefulness
In the preceding chapters we have tried to draw attention to the uncommon opportunities that the world presents at the dawn of a new millennium for the abolition of war and the eradication of poverty. None will question the desirability of achieving peace, democratic...
Uncommon Opportunites – Transition Towards What?
The pace of human development continues to accelerate. The world has changed more during the present century than in the previous nineteen centuries combined economically, socially, politically, scientifically and technologically. In recent decades humankind has been...
Uncommon Opportunities – Food for All
The production of more food to meet the needs of a burgeoning population has been one of the outstanding global achievements of the post-war period. It has demonstrated the extraordinary capacity of humankind to meet a collective challenge of monumental proportions....
Uncommon Opportunities – Full Employment
Peace and democracy can provide only the foundation for stable and productive social life, not its fulfilment. For that, political security has to be complemented by economic security and a blossoming of individual and cultural potentials. Yet here our optimism seems...
Uncommon Opportunities – The Peace Imperative
The main prerequisite and condition for the fulfilment of the worlds many different potentials is peace. As democracy supports peaceful relations between states, economic prosperity and fuller development of people, peace makes possible the development of stable...
Uncommon Opportunities – The Next Millennium
The Next Millennium We are on the threshold of a new millennium. All civilizations have recognized the special significance of new beginnings the dawn of a new day, a new year, a new century. These are moments of new birth when fresh vision and greater energy are...
Uncommon Opportunities – The Origin and Context of ICPF’s Work
Looking back, it is astonishing how much the world has changed since the idea of establishing the International Commission on Peace and Food was first conceived in 1987. Who had the foresight to imagine the monumental changes which have so radically altered the...
Nuclear Disarmament – Obama speech
This morning in Prague, President Obama announced in the new nuclear weapons policy and strategy of the United States in significant detail. If any of us at the Zagreb General Assembly in October 2005 (or even October 2008 in Hyderabad) had even dreamed that an...