Blog
Here we provide a platform for the exchange of information, ideas and analysis on the existential threats that hang over humanity and the planet at this time. The aim is to go beyond the symptoms of our predicament as we try and make sense of the powerful currents that have brought us to the present impasse. Importantly, we explore options for creative policy advocacy and imaginative social action.
Empowering People at a Time of Global Emergency
The unfolding Ukraine War that began in February of last year produced an increased global awareness that the political forces dominating the history of our times are dangerously out of touch. They are not in tune with a set of circumstances threatening the future wellbeing of humanity and the natural habitat of planet earth upon which the survival of the human species depends.
A New Iron Curtain Is Descending across the World: Are We Equal to the Challenge?
On 5 March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill uttered the famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” Those words ushered in the Cold War and framed the geopolitical landscape for the fifty years that followed. Today we stand in the midst of an even greater crisis that is global and multifaceted.
2023: A Make-or-break Year for the Global Order
Many of the accounts we hear of the current Russia-NATO conflict are deeply flawed. and risk degenerating into pure farce – a crude melodrama, in which an upright, democratic Ukrainian government headed by hero Zelensky is pitted against a corrupt and brutal autocracy led by the deluded ogre, Putin. What is really in question, is the unsustainable global security framework.
Coming Together in Pursuit of Peace
How did this initiative come about? Why did the three of us get together to launch a call to our fellow human beings to join hands with us to save humanity’s and the planet’s future? The three of us - Professor Richard Falk, Professor Joseph Camilleri and I - have been close friends for more than 30 years.
Humanity Against War, and for Justice
Good morning from London. It is an honour to join you all on this webinar and to stand with this panel of distinguished and inspiring people. My contribution is in memory of the great Peace campaigner Bruce Kent. Earlier this year after the war on Ukraine began we spoke together in Trafalgar Square in London for peace and opening of talks, as the entire UK political class backed the war enthusiastically.
Three Perspectives on the Human Future
My response to the three excellent and thought-provoking presentations by three wonderful friends Richard Falk, Joseph Camilleri and Chandra Muzaffar could be encapsulated in a single number: 312. But where does this number come from?