{"id":114310,"date":"2026-01-26T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=114310"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:05:46","slug":"declaration-of-january-12-let-us-create-a-movement-of-world-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ar\/blog\/2026\/01\/26\/declaration-of-january-12-let-us-create-a-movement-of-world-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration of January 12: Let Us Create a Movement of World Citizens!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After convening on January 12, 2026 in an international virtual emergency roundtable dialogue, we the undersigned have issued this appeal to the world community. We join together to catalyze actions we believe must be taken to avert the plunge of human civilization into a potentially fatal catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the beginning of the year 2026, the world has moved into a new phase. International law is being abolished and replaced by the law of the jungle, by the so-called principle that \u201cmight makes right.\u201d This complete breakdown of even the pretense of any adherence to a world order based on real principles of law threatens to escalate various regional conflicts into a new dark age, or even a global nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example: after the repeated commission of acts of piracy against the nation of Venezuela, and the kidnapping of the head of a sovereign country, we now have the announcement of the planned invasions and theft of natural resources of more countries such as Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Iran, and possibly others, and territories such as Greenland. A militarization not seen in approximately 90 years evokes the panorama of a coming new world war, while the Western-dominated financial system, now almost entirely severed from the real economy, is threatened with a systemic meltdown even worse than the crisis of 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fig-leaf of \u201chumanitarian interventions\u201d and defense of the \u201crules-based order\u201d has been entirely dropped in favor of an openly demonstrated aggressive imperialism and neocolonialism. So-called \u201cWestern values\u201d are betrayed in favor of the threadbare illusion that there is any legitimacy left after those values have been buried. The absence of any efficient statecraft, and the use of military and economic force as a replacement of diplomacy as a means of conflict resolution, has led to the failure of post-World War II institutions such as the United Nations Security Council and the UN General Assembly. The failure to enforce the decisions of the highest courts, such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has left genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity unpunished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This deplorable condition of current affairs requires an urgent intervention, both by institutions, and the world\u2019s people of good will. We therefore propose the creation of a World Civil Society Initiative, to work together with religious organizations and other civil groups, and the UN as a central partner, in order to uphold the UN Charter and the 1954 Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. Its immediate foci, among others, must be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The urgent convening of an international conference to discuss the principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The creation of teams to work on aspects of the reconstruction of the world system. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n