| TOPICS |
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| Panelists and audience will
explore: |
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What should be the role of the UN in Iraq now?
How can the UN help deter future unilateral invasions?
How can UN NGO peace groups worldwide develop a united
action strategy?
What role can the United Nations play in asserting the
authority of international law?
How can the Security Council and other UN institutions
be reformed to react with greater effectiveness to future
crises?
Should the General Assembly have a greater role in security
issues?
What are the lessons for UN disarmament of weapons of
mass destruction - in Iraq and worldwide?
How effective has the world media been in informing
the public of the origins and implications of the Iraq?
Should the UN have a civilian police corps for international
peace and maint aining rule of law?
Could the UN's Military Staff Committee be re-empowered
to deal with Iraq and future conflicts?
Should the UN have a standing volunteer military force?
What can people do now to prevent terrorism and avoid
war?
Should the UN call for a World Court ruling on the legality
of war?
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| PROGRAM PANELS: |
| The Other Superpower A Citizen's Agenda
for World Law |
The US/UK invasion of Iraq has jolted the
world's people into the realization that greater citizen
involvement and participation is needed to reassert the
will of the world's people expressed by the tens of millions
who gather and march world wide, and by the vast majority
of the 187 governments who have signed the Charter of
the UN.
A unilateral preventive war, undertaken without United
Nations approval by a nation armed with a massive arsenal
of weapons of mass destruction, has shattered more than
50 years of UN peace agreements and set a perilous precedent
for other nations and other conflicts.
We invite unified, grass roots strategies toward world
peace under world law. |
Force without firepower - Alternatives
to war Protecting the peace:
A UN stand-by police and rescue force For all victims
war is terror. The obscene levels of death and chaos inevitably
caused by modern weapons of mass destruction have made
war primitive and obsolete.
Orderly, lawful, non-lethal and non-destructive approaches
are needed to deal with the crimes against humanity by
tyrants and terrorists, and the verification of UN agreements
on the dismantling and abolition of weapons of mass destruction.
NGOs and UN experts consider updating and using some of
the neglected procedures in the UN tool box to help prevent
future war, and rescue, protect and rehabilitate victims
of past and present conflicts. |
Steps to a World at Peace
Outlaw war, de-alert, disarm, verify and protect.
The continuing threat of US unilateral "preventive" military
action has given a new urgency to worldwide citizen pressure
for legal action. Options including requesting a Wold
Court Opinion on the legality of war, and insistence on
compliance by all nations in existing disarmament treaties
including full transparency in UN inspection and verification
procedures. |
Follow up and Outreach
Videocopies of the proceedings will be sent to all
major NGOs and peace groups worldwide with an invitation
to participate in a newly launched online service called:
SOLUTION BOX Solution Box is a new weblog (blogs as they
are called) on the World Opinion Forum website to compile
all the best specific proposals from around the world
on how to strengthen the voice and authority of the people
and the United Nations to find agreement on paths to peace
in this time of peril, and help shape a new polity for
an enduring planetary civilization. |
| A final declaration drawing
together the recommendations will be drafted for online
signatures, and published as an open letter to the Secretary
General of the United Nation. |
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