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Chapter 1
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In the 21st century it has become necessary to abolish war itself as an accepted means of settling international disputes, much in the same way as we have abolished slavery in the 19th century and colonialism in the 20th century.
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“Reaffirming further that the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and of this Protocol must be fully applied in all circumstances to all persons who are protected by those instruments…” |
Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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... the uncertain combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons carries a high risk of a potential catastrophe. Is there a military justification to accept that risk? The answer is no. |
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The technological revolution applied to information technology, has been diffusing power away from governments and empowering individuals and groups to play roles in world politics — including wreaking massive destruction — that were once reserved for the governments of states... |
Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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The 20th Century will go down as the bloodiest century in all of human history. We will have lost 160 million people, killed at conflict... If we want to avoid repeting this tragedy in the 21st Century, it is high time to start... |
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Do not bombard Buenos Aires, we cannot defend ourselves. |
Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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The possibility of integrating all the countries in the region to advance on the declaration “LATIN AMERICA: REGION OF CITIES FOR PEACE” is based on the search of consensus with a view to decide on a regional policy to banish war, terrorism and armed conflicts of any origin whatsoever from the continent. |
Chapter 5 - The Project
The 20th Century will go down as the bloodiest century in all of human history.
We will have lost 160 million people, killed at conflict...
If we want to avoid repeting this tragedy in the 21st Century, it is high time to start...
Robert S. Mc Namara
Notwithstanding the fact that fighting against war and terrorism has failed to be successful, giving up such an effort does not constitute an option for humankind: abandoning the search for valid strategies to preserve our own species, would be equivalent to direct ourselves towards massive suicide which, like any other kind of self-destructive behaviour, it would not be the result of legitimate alternatives.
Anyway, probably the time has come to develop diverse strategies from a qualitative perspective, to face enemies who, during the last decade, have modified their modus operandi to a large extent.
Nowadays, war does not coincide with the definition -the first one adjusted to rules of reasoning –which Jean Jacques Rousseau gave to Modernity in his Social Contract: “...a State-with-State relationship in which individuals are enemies only in an incidental manner, not as men, not even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of their Nation, but as its defenders ”.
During the 20th Century and up to the present, there have been numerous belligerent encounters between blocks of nations and ethnic groups which have transcended political barriers, as is the case in Rwanda, Liberia or other African countries.
Terrorism does not respond either to traditional definitions nor mechanisms. A terrorist is not, as defined by the French philosopher André Gluksmann, simply “the man who takes weapons (whatever his national flag might be) to attack other disarmed human beings deliberately” but one who, in addition, employs all the means information society provides with the object to produce high impact on strategic points, not only political but also civilian.
The 11-S attacks, the subsequent assaults to Atocha station in Madrid (11-M) and the London public transport net (7-J) , in the same way as the Iraq War have all marked a turning point in the fight against war and international terrorism: humanity was forced, surprisingly and brutally, to become aware of the need to respond with global strategic policies to enemies who, for the first time in history, have started acting on a world scenario. A scenario with new rules of the game, imposed by the shortening of distances due to the advance of telecommunications and new technologies, where events happening in Iraq or Afghanistan have a strong impact on the population of other cities, like Madrid or London, with extremely tragic results upon thousands of lives.
