Alfaz, Spain An optimistic prediction held by some; but what does it mean? Let us define that “middle” as thousand years, 250-1250, from the start of…
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2014: there are conflicts old and new crying for solution and conciliation, not violence; with reasonable, realistic ways out. Take the South Sudan conflict between the…
From A Theory of Civilization, TRANSCEND University Press-TUP, forthcoming Spring 2014, followed by Deep Culture * Deep Structure * Deep Nature. Not one or a group…
What a Christmas gift to all of us from that amazing Pope Francis, his first Message for the World Day of Peace, Fraternity, the Foundation and…
Milano There it is, that fantastic duomo, the fourth in size in the Christian world, honoring their God, exuding self-confidence, and the beauty of the marble…
Washington-DC Charles Darwin, in The Voyage of the Beagle, has a passage where he condemns an egalitarian native people on the tip of South America to…
Bogotá, Direcccion de Inteligencia Policial, Ministerio de Defensa Generals, Colonels, Conference Participants, In June 1998 your President’s Office wanted proposals for peace, and I offered peace…
Washington DC It’s anybody’s guess. But something is going on. Look at the two strongest actors: Israel and the USA. Israel autistically locked into becoming the…
Washington, DC The linchpin of an empire is the link between two elites, one in the imperial center and the other in the peripheries. Symmetric alliances…
Keynote, International Confederation of Reserve Officers, Bucharest 9-13 Oct, 2013 60 years of peace theory and peace practice can be summarized in EQUITY X HARMONY…
Manassas, VA, USA Political terrorism failed. The House Republicans used voting in one US chamber to put millions of people inside and outside the US at…
Two basic facts stand out in the world economic development, leaving aside military, political, cultural and social development: — The BRICS–an acronym becoming a social fact–are…
Nobody has brought this simple message to the world like the Perdana Global Peace Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As the leader, Mahathir Mohammad, Malaysia’s fourth…
There seem to be three levels to the Syrian conundrum. On top is the conflict over who is to rule Syria, the Assad minority Shia, 13%,…
With Georgia (4.5 million) a client of the USA (314 million), fighting its war in Afghanistan; Armenia (3.3 million) leaning towards Russia (143 million); and Azerbaijan…
The state, the power unit inside a country also called a state, has been the center of power in the anarchic state system: economic-financial power (state…
Civilization: there are six sources of inspiration today, vying for the attention of a humanity looking for goals and means. Two of them are Western secular,…
[1] The leaks are not about “whistle-blowing, but a nonviolent, civil disobedient, fight against huge social evils. Whistle-blowing, warning, presupposes that somebody can be warned, in…
The TRANSCEND-Peace Development Environment Network started with geopolitical macro and mega conflicts; many well known and dramatic. But conflicts in daily life, at school, in couples-family,…
The Senate, Rome: Your Excellencies, Foreign Affairs, Defense, EU: SYSTEMS: A Reorientation [1] Transarmament: States use armies for defense, and for offense, for wars. Si vis…
“The Secrets to Finland’s Success with School—and Everything”, The Atlantic (11-Jul-2013), has many messages to a US readership from that particular welfare state. One of them…