{"id":97527,"date":"2023-07-20T04:51:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=97527"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:53:51","slug":"conference-on-the-verge-of-a-new-world-war-european-nations-must-cooperate-with-the-global-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2023\/07\/20\/conference-on-the-verge-of-a-new-world-war-european-nations-must-cooperate-with-the-global-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: On the Verge of a New World War: European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A two-day international conference was held July 8-9 in Strasbourg, France by the Schiller Institute, titled \u201cOn the Verge of a New World War: European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South!\u201d The proceedings were organized into five panels, with three on Day One July 8, featuring 22 speakers, from 14 different countries, ending with an evening concert of classical music. The second day\u2019s two panels, which also included musical offerings, had wide-ranging discussions, involving many of the audience of more than 200 attendees. (See the full program below).This event, and the process of deliberation it represents, stands in sharp contrast to the recently convened Paris \u201cSummit for a New Global Financial Pact,\u201d where leaders of the Global South ridiculed the hypocrisy of their European counterparts. As opposed to the not-so-hidden Malthusian \u201cgreen imperialist\u201d depopulation agenda of the arrogant Paris Summit, the Schiller Institute colloquy is an opportunity for peoples of all continents to gather for the purpose of deliberation on how to bring about a peaceful and prosperous future for the entire human race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Schiller Institute conference is also a timely and necessary intervention against Global NATO\u2019s July 11\u201312 Vilnius, Lithuania summit, where bloodthirsty leaders of the West\u2019s Military-Industrial Complex will be plotting more measures which, unless stopped, will bring about the destruction of humanity through thermonuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Schiller Institute\u2019s panels covered a broad range of critical economic, strategic, and cultural themes. Notable was the fact that due to the Covid-19 pandemic this was the first in-person Schiller Institute conference in three years! The conference opened with the famous Adagio cantabile of Beethoven\u2019s C minor&nbsp;<em>Path\u00e9tique&nbsp;<\/em>piano sonata, performed by Werner Hartmann, of the Schiller Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Strasbourg-Intros-Speeches-Dialogue-1.1.pdf?x67618\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Strasbourg-Intros-Speeches-Dialogue-1.1.pdf?x67618\">Full 158-page conference proceedings now available<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel I: Peace in the World Through a New Security and Development Architecture for Each and Every Country: The Indispensable Strategic Autonomy of European Countries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A New Security &amp; Development Architecture for Peace: The Indispensable Autonomy of EuropeanCountries\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bms8S3HL78g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MODERATOR:  <strong>Harley Schlanger<\/strong><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong>, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute: &#8222;Let a Garden Amidst a Million Gardens Bloom!&#8220;; <strong><a href=\"\/?p=97463\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/11\/let-a-garden-amidst-a-million-gardens-bloom\/\">PREPARED REMARKS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <strong>HE Lu Shaye<\/strong>, Ambassador of the People\u2019s Republic of China in France: \u201cChina\u2019s Role for Peace and Development\u201d; <strong><a href=\"\/?p=97604\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/chinas-role-for-peace-and-development\/\">PREPARED REMARKS<\/a><\/strong><br><br>\u2022 <strong>HE Ilia Subbotin<\/strong>, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in France: \u201cWhat Russia Really Wants in Its Relations with Europe &#8211; Peace or War ?\u201d; <strong><a href=\"\/?p=97616\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/what-russia-really-wants-in-its-relations-with-europe-peace-or-war\/\">PREPARED REMARKS<\/a><\/strong><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Mrutyuanjai Mishra<\/strong>, Author and Journalist, India: \u201cIndia\u2019s role as a Peace Mediator in These Critical Times\u201d<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Michele Geraci<\/strong>, Former Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economic Development ; Prof. of Practice in Economic Policy, Nottingham University, Ningbo; Honorary Professor Peking University, School of Economics; Adjunct Professor of Finance, New York University, Shanghai; En-ROADS Climate Ambassador\u2014Climate Interactive\/MIT, Italy<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Dr. Hans-Joachim Lemke<\/strong>, Colonel (A.d &#8211; retired), Editor Kompass, Magazine of the Association for the Preservation of Traditions of the National Peoples Army and GDR Border Troops (Verband zur Pflege der Traditionen der Nationalen Volksarmee und der Grenztruppen der DDR): \u201cThoughts on Peace from the Perspective of an East German.\u201d<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Alain Corvez<\/strong>, Colonel (retired), consultant in international affairs, former advisor to the French Ministry of the Interior, France: \u201cFollowing Its Military Failure against Russia in Ukraine, Will U.S. One-Upmanship Cross the Nuclear Threshold?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel 1 Summary <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, gave the conference keynote, \u201cLet a Garden Amidst a Million Gardens Bloom!\u201d (Full text on this website). She set the tone for the panel by contrasting the tragic consequences of the collapsing trans-Atlantic \u201crules based order\u201d attempting to maintain its hegemony, with the rising nations of the Global South, freeing themselves from centuries of colonial servitude and asserting their right to economic development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche asserted at the beginning of her presentation her commitment: \u201cWe will revive the best of what European culture has produced \u2026 and we will bring that into the shaping of the New Paradigm!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next speaker, H.E. Lu Shaye, Ambassador of the People\u2019s Republic of China in France, delivered his presentation titled \u201cChina\u2019s Role for Peace and Development.\u201d He stated, \u201cAt present, changes unseen for a century are taking place at an accelerated pace, giving rise to unprecedented transformations of our world, our times and history.\u201d He characterized the world as divided into two camps: pro-peace and pro-war. Which camp will prevail? Ambassador Lu detailed the incredible opportunities Western nations would realize were they to cooperate with China and the Global South through participation in the multitude of development initiatives China is leading, such as the Belt and Road Initiative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018The Multipolar World is Emerging\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H.E. Ilia Subbotin, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in France, spoke on the topic, \u201cWhat Russia Really Wants in Its Relations with Europe: Peace or War?\u201d He recounted his own personal perspective of the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent tumultuous transition to the post-Soviet era.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that, contrary to proclamations by President George H.W. Bush that the West had \u201cwon\u201d the Cold War, from the Russian perspective it was President Mikhail Gorbachev who had stopped the Cold War. Most people in the former Soviet Republics looked forward to a new union with a desire to become a part of the \u201cWestern world.\u201d But, despite countless efforts by Russian leaders over a 30-year period, particularly President Vladimir Putin, every attempt at Western integration has been sabotaged.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Minister-Counselor Subbotin asked, will the European nations free themselves from the \u201cshackles of U.S. control\u201d and join with the \u201cnew centers of economic growth\u201d of the Global South? \u201cWhen and if this happens, Russia will be ready for mutually beneficial dialogue of equals, on the basis of our fundamental interests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other panelists addressed the potential that exists for European nations to join with the Global South to create a New Paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel II<\/strong>: <strong><strong>Why It Is in the Strategic Interest of European Nations To Cooperate with the Global South<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Worldwide Peace Movement (Panel 2) -Cooperation with the Global South\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cpcg6kSRWCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MODERATOR: <strong>Elke Fimmen<\/strong><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Jacques Cheminade<\/strong>, President Solidarite &amp; Progres: \u201cThe Rise of the Global South against Geopolitical Blocs\u201d; <strong><a href=\"\/?p=97592\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/the-emergence-of-the-global-south-against-geopolitical-blocs\/\">PREPARED REMARKS<\/a><\/strong><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Julio Miguel de Vido<\/strong>, former Minister of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services<br>(2003-2015) during the governments of both Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, Argentina :<br>\u201cPlanning for Integration, Cooperation and Growth with the BRICS: Missteps and Risks\u201d; <strong><a href=\"\/?p=97631\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/planning-for-integration-cooperation-and-growth-with-the-brics-missteps-and-risks\/\">PREPARED REMARKS<\/a><\/strong><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Dr. Do\u011fu Perin\u00e7ek<\/strong>, Chairman of the Vatan Party, T\u00fcrkiye : \u00ab The decisive Importance of the<br>Alliance between T\u00fcrkiye, Russia, Iran and China at the edge of Entering the Eurasian Era \u00bb<br>Patricia Lalonde, former MEP, associate researcher at Institut Prospective et S\u00e9curit\u00e9 en Europe<br>(IPSE); \u201cSyria, Reasons for Hope\u201d<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Herve Machenaud<\/strong>, former Executive Director of the EDF Group (for engineering and<br>generation) and former Director of the Asia-Pacific branch, France: \u201cThe History of France-China<br>Relations, the Example of Nuclear Power\u201d; <strong><a href=\"\/?p=97644\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/franco-chinese-cooperation-for-peace-the-example-of-nuclear-power\/\">PREPARED REMARKS<\/a><\/strong><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Dora Muanda<\/strong>, Teacher, biologist, scientific director of the Kinshasa Science and Technology<br>Week, Democratic Republic of Congo, RDC: &#8222;Humanity and Africa need science&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <strong>Dr Andrews Nkansah<\/strong>, Undersecretary General of the African Diaspora Congress (USA), Ghana:<br>\u201cStrategic Partnership for the Rapid Development of Africa\u201d<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Alain Gachet<\/strong>, water specialist, president of Radar Technologies International (RTI), inventor of<br>the Watex (Water Exploration) process for locating aquifer resources by satellite \u2013 Introduction by<br>Jacques Cheminade: \u201cWater for Peace and Development\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel 2 Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacques Cheminade, President of the Schiller Institute co-thinker organization&nbsp;<em>Solidarit\u00e9 et Progr\u00e8s<\/em>&nbsp;political party in France, gave the Panel 2 keynote, titled \u201cThe Rise of the Global South against Geopolitical Blocs.\u201d He characterized the current historical period as \u201cthe battle between the Malthusian, domineering financial oligarchy that occupies our Western countries and those who believe that the human species has a right to development.\u201d He noted that the first signs of a potential \u201cconflagration\u201d are everywhere evident in Europe, particularly in his own country of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the midst of this gathering storm, nations of the Global South see the Russia-China alliance as reflected in their <a href=\"http:\/\/[http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/supplement\/5770\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"[http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/supplement\/5770\">joint statement<\/a> of February 4, 2022, as a \u201cpositive option and chance to escape the trans-Atlantic straightjacket\u201d\u2014a path to realize what President Xi Jinping calls \u201cthe common future of mankind.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Cheminade highlighted the crucial role of the late U.S. statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche, husband of Schiller institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in discovering the principles of physical economy critical for a New Paradigm of development. This was stated explicitly by the famous Russian economist Sergei Glazyev, Minister in charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Union, who said Sept. 8, 2022: \u201cIt is the principles of physical economics championed by Lyndon LaRouche that underpin the Chinese economic miracle today, and that are the basis of India\u2019s economic development policy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panelists from many other nations provided a stirring crossfire of ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel III<\/strong>: <strong>The Peace Movement Worldwide Above Party Lines; The Special Case of the United States; The Role of the Vatican and the Global South<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Worldwide Peace Movement (Panel 3) \u2014 A New Security &amp; Development Architecture for Peace\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GhvQjfhiY3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MODERATOR: <strong>Claudio Celani<\/strong><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Harley Schlanger<\/strong>, Vice Chairman of the Board of directors, Schiller Institute, USA:<br>\u201cKennedy&#8217;s Vision of Peace\u201d<br><br>\u2022 <strong>H. E. M. Donald Ramotar<\/strong>, former president of Guyana (2011-2015), Former Member of Parliament (1992-2011) and General Secretary of the People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP), trade-unionist:\u201cThe World\u2019s People Must Make Their Voices Heard\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <strong>Diane Sare<\/strong>, Candidate for US Senate, USA:\u201cMake the US a Force for the Good\u201d; <a href=\"\/?p=97656\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/make-the-u-s-a-force-for-the-good\/\"><strong>PREPARED REMARKS<\/strong><\/a><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Hussein Askary<\/strong>, Vice-president BRIX Instittut, Soutwest Asia Coordinator Schiller Institute,<br>Sweden:\u201cThe Revolutionary Changes in Southwest Asia\u201d<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Alessia Ruggeri<\/strong>, Trade Unionist, Member of the International Coalition for Peace, Italy<br>\u201cItaly and the War: an Important Referendum to Stop Sending Weapons to Ukraine\u201d<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Jens J\u00f8rgen Nielsen<\/strong>, historian, author, former Moscow correspondent of the Danish newspaper<br>Politiken, representative of the Russian-Danish Dialogue, Denmark: \u201cThe Lack of Strategy by the Western Countries to avoid Nuclear War\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panel 3 Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harley Schlanger, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Schiller Institute U.S.A., gave the Panel 3 keynote, opening with a video clip of the first four minutes of President John F. Kennedy\u2019s June 10, 1963 American University \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/[https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fA_kjj2c0Qc\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"[https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fA_kjj2c0Qc\">Peace Speech<\/a>\u201d Mr. Schlanger then gave a brief history of Kennedy\u2019s Presidency, from his battle with the U.S. Senate to ratify the Nuclear Test Ban treaty with the Soviet Union, to his efforts to extricate the United States from the war in Vietnam and end the Cold War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although constantly having to discover ways of out flanking the war hawks within his administration\u2014dead set on escalating the Cold War\u2014just as big a challenge was overcoming the mass brainwashing of the American population who believed that it was \u201cbetter dead than red.\u201d His efforts were cut short on November 22, 1963, when the President was murdered in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Schlanger then delivered a short discussion of the anti-imperialist history of the United States\u2014from the American Founding Fathers to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon LaRouche. Exemplary of that tradition is the famous July 4, 1821 speech by then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in which he declares: \u201cBut she [the United States] goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy\u2026.\u201d This anti-imperialist tradition contrasts sharply with today\u2019s defenders of the militaristic \u201cRules-Based Order,\u201d such as the hapless Sec. of State Antony J. Blinken.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other speakers on Panel III included H.E. Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, and Diane Sare, Candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, both of whom have been actively collaborating with people from many nations, in the newly formed International Peace Coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel IV:<\/strong> <strong><strong>A Culture To Emancipate and Expand the Creative Capacities of Every Human Being; A Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Dialogue Among Cultures and Civilizations (Panel 4)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4XxaKdG_-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MODERATOR: Karel Vereycken<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Prof. Luc Reychler<\/strong>, (PhD Harvard, 1976), professor emeritus of international relations at the<br>University of Louvain and former director of the Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies<br>(CPRS), Belgium: \u201cEuropean Humanist Values versus War Culture, What would Erasmus say<br>about peace in Ukraine?\u201d; <a href=\"\/?p=97729\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/what-would-erasmus-say-about-peace-in-ukraine\/\"><strong>PREPARED REMARKS<\/strong><\/a><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Liliana Gorini<\/strong>, chairwoman of Movisol, Italy; \u201cPacem in Terris and Civilization of Love\u201d<br><br>\u2022 <strong>Maurizio Abbate<\/strong>, Italy National Institute for Cultural Activities connected to the Ministry of<br>Culture, Italy:\u201cCulture, the Key to Peace\u201d; <a href=\"\/?p=97741\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/culture-is-the-key-for-peace\/\"><strong>PREPARED REMARKS<\/strong><\/a><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Tatjana Zdanoka<\/strong>, MEP, member of the Russian Union of Latvia, Latvia<br>\u201cOn Demonization of Russian Culture\u201d; <a href=\"\/?p=97753\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/on-demonization-of-russian-culture\/\"><strong>PREPARED REMARKS<\/strong><\/a><br><br>\u2022 <strong>Liz Augustat<\/strong>, President of the International Association \u201cPeace through Culture. Europe\u201d: &#8222;World<br>Peace based on common ethics and values\u201d, Germany; <a href=\"\/?p=97765\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/world-peace-based-on-universal-ethics\/\"><strong>PREPARED REMARKS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panel 4 Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Luc Reychler, Professor Emeritus at Louvain University and former Director of the Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies in Belgium, gave the Panel 4 keynote, on the provocative question, \u201cEuropean Humanist Values versus War Culture: What Would Erasmus Say about Peace in Ukraine?\u201d He reviewed today\u2019s Ukraine \u201cproxy war\u201d\u2014as he termed it\u2014against Russia, from the eyes of the great Dutch Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466\u20131536). Famous for works such as&nbsp;<em>In Praise of Folly<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Complaint of Peace<\/em>, Erasmus warned that those who have not experienced war are often its greatest proponents, that sentiment being well expressed in a quote from his book&nbsp;<em>Against War<\/em>:&nbsp;<em>Dulce bellum inexpertis,<\/em>&nbsp;or \u201cWar is sweet for the inexperienced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were Erasmus here today, he \u201cwould criticize and satirize the excuses for ongoing war; for example, the misrepresentation of the war as the defense of democracy and of the democratic world\u201d and \u201cwould also be a whistleblower and name the princes and kings, and the war profiteers who are responsible for the war.\u201d But importantly, Erasmus would seek a process of \u201cpeace building\u201d through promotion of economic development and education\u2014particularly for youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next speaker, Liliana Gorini, chairwoman of the Schiller Institute affiliated&nbsp;<em>Movisol<\/em>&nbsp;political party in Italy, invoked the wisdom of another great figure, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813\u20131901). To hear U.S. President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speak of \u201cpeace,\u201d as they did at the G7 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan last month, Gorini said, reminds one of the way Verdi in his opera&nbsp;<em>Don Carlos<\/em>\u2014inspired by Friedrich Schiller\u2014has Don Rodrigo telling King Philip of Spain that his so-called militarist \u201cpeace\u201d for Flanders is a \u201chorrible, horrible peace, the peace of graves.\u201d She called on conference attendees to take inspiration from Verdi, and from Pope John XXIII, and President John F. Kennedy, \u201cto fight for a true peace, which only comes from respecting and developing the rest of the world.\u201d (Ms. Gorini\u2019s remarks were read, as she was unable to attend).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other panelists stressed the tremendous importance of culture as a key foundation for lasting, durable peace among nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel V: Scientific Ecology and Assessing the Climate Challenge: Eradicating Poverty and Hunger in the World is the Priority<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scientific Ecology &amp; Assessing the Climate Challenge: Eradicating Poverty and Hunger is the Priority\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YCS8y1KDssY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Moderator<strong>: Stephan Ossenkopp<\/strong>, the Schiller Institute, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <strong>Christian L\u00e9v\u00eaque<\/strong>, Emeritus Research Director,&nbsp;<em>Institut de Recherche<\/em>&nbsp;<em>pour le D\u00e9veloppement<\/em>&nbsp;(IRD) and specialist in aquatic ecosystems; Honorary President,&nbsp;<em>Acad\u00e9mie d\u2019agriculture<\/em>&nbsp;<em>de France;<\/em>&nbsp;Member,&nbsp;<em>Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences d\u2019Outre-mer<\/em>, France:&nbsp;<em>\u201cScientific Ecology Is Being Instrumentalized by Magical Thinking\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <strong>Dr.-Ing. Hans-Bernd Pillkahn<\/strong>, engineer, CEO of PROASSORT, metallurgy, Germany:&nbsp;<em>\u201cEU Climate Policy: A Disaster for Energy-Intensive Production\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <strong>Frank Bornschein<\/strong><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>co-initiator of the Initiative \u201cPeace, Freedom and Sovereignty\u201d; City Councilor, Schwedt\/Oder, Germany:&nbsp;<em>\u201cDeindustrialization\u2014Not by Chance but by Design; The Example of the PCK Oil Refinery of Schwedt\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <strong>Prof. Alberto Prestininzi<\/strong>, geologist, Sapienza University of Rome; Director, CERI Research Center, Italy:&nbsp;<em>\u201cClimate: Between Emergency and Knowledge\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <strong>Prof. Carl-Otto Weiss<\/strong>, Advisor to the European Climate and Energy Institute (EIKE); Professor and Director, German Federal Institute of Metrology, Braunschweig, Germany:&nbsp;<em>\u201cHow Solar Cycles Determine Earth\u2019s Climate\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian L\u00e9v\u00eaque, Emeritus Research Director at the&nbsp;<em>Institut de Recherche pour le D\u00e9veloppement<\/em>&nbsp;of France, gave the Panel 5 keynote, \u201cScientific Ecology Is Being Instrumentalized by Magical Thinking.\u201d He scored the Malthusian agenda of what he termed \u201cthe wealthy urban bourgeois\u201d and their affiliated NGOs such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) who have adopted \u201cnature worship\u201d as their religion. Their axiomatic foundation is \u201cthat God created a perfect, harmonious and balanced world\u201d\u2014a paradise\u2014and that man, through development and overpopulation, is destroying that world. He denounced their \u201cfear tactics\u201d and how they impose their agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WWF and other environmentalist NGOs, using the UN to push their pseudo-religious dogma, are behind the infamous \u201c30 by 30\u201d agenda, promoted at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal, Canada, to \u201cprotect\u201d 30% of the Earth\u2019s land and water by the year 2030 from the aggressions of man.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other panelists debunked the fraud of \u201cman-made climate change,\u201d and called for a stop to the deindustrialization and economic destruction underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Classical Beauty<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first day\u2019s proceedings were capped off by a wonderful Classical music concert, featuring Albanian pianist Dhurata Lazo and Swedish Soprano Leena Malkki. Ms. Lazo began with four compositions for solo piano including a romance by Albanian composer Tonin Harapi (1926\u20131992) and three pieces by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin: the Muzurkas Op. 67; the Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31; and the Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante Op. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was then accompanied Ms. Malkki on five songs: a piece from Mozart\u2019s opera&nbsp;<em>La Clemenza di Tito<\/em>; Schubert\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Nacht und Tr\u04d3ume<\/em>&nbsp;Op. 43 No. 2 and&nbsp;<em>Auf dem Wasser zu singen<\/em>&nbsp;Op. 72; Verdi\u2019s Ave Maria from&nbsp;<em>Otello<\/em>&nbsp;and Pace, pace mio Dio from&nbsp;<em>La forza del destino<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-day international conference was held July 8-9 in Strasbourg, France by the Schiller Institute, titled \u201cOn the Verge of a New World War: European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South!\u201d The proceedings were organized into five panels, with three on Day One July 8, featuring 22 speakers, from 14 different countries, ending with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":98082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97527"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98416,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97527\/revisions\/98416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}