{"id":109163,"date":"2025-05-04T11:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=109163"},"modified":"2025-05-04T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:52:54","slug":"wielding-development-as-the-weapon-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/wielding-development-as-the-weapon-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Wielding Development As the \u2018Weapon of Peace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 2, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014For nearly two years, the International Peace Coalition, which was organized to unite peace movements from around the world without regard to ideology, has been holding weekly online conferences with over 55 nations represented and thousands of participants. <strong><em>On May 2, the Coalition celebrated a milestone with its 100th consecutive meeting.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\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=\"IPC at 100: To &amp;apos;Bear Witness Unto the Truth&amp;apos; Means to Act to Stop the Genocide \u2014 IPC #100\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pGF9ICnrpVM?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\"><strong>Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong>, Founder of the Schiller Institute, presented a sobering progress report. Despite the growing influence of the Coalition, \u201cWe are seeing a very disturbing increase in conflicts.\u201d Though there may be regional causes to these conflicts, the underlying basis is the tension created by the decline of the old, colonial system, and the emergence of the new one. She addressed the new outbreak of hostilities between India and Pakistan, calling for an independent investigation of the terror incident which sparked it. The situation there is escalating. The use of nuclear weapons is being discussed on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new deal was announced in Ukraine, where the U.S. can exploit raw materials and some U.S. troops will remain in Ukraine, which may be \u201cnot to the liking of the Russians.\u201d Unfortunately, \u201csome crazy Europeans are committed to keep this war going.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the trade war front, she warned that tariffs could trigger a default by developing nations and\/or collapse of the financial system. President Trump has not thought this through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since March 2, Israel has blockaded Gaza, and using food as a weapon of war is a war crime. We have called for an international mobilization to put the\u00a0<a href=\"\/?page_id=107685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LaRouche Oasis Plan<\/a>\u00a0on the agenda of a high-level conference which the UN has scheduled on the two state solution, to take place on June 2-4, 2025 in New York. The late Pope Francis called development \u201cthe weapon of peace,\u201d making him an implicit supporter of the Oasis Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As important as regional measures may be, we need to end geopolitics for a lasting solution. We need a new paradigm that puts the one humanity first. We continue to call for the\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=93184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Col. Richard H. Black<\/strong> (ret.), former head of the U.S. Army\u2019s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and former Virginia State Senator, warned that \u201cduring the Biden administration, the U.S. became wildly provocative toward China.\u201d He offered a timeline of provocative acts, such as the visit by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and others to Taiwan for the express purpose of provoking China. \u201cConsider the enormity of a possible war with China, and compare that to Vietnam,\u201d said Black. The Vietnam War was costly to the U.S. and ended in defeat. China is 29 times the size of Vietnam, with a vastly larger population and far more advanced technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ambassador Hossein Mousavian<\/strong>, former ambassador from Iran to Germany, described how Iran had endeavored to compromise with the West; they agreed to cooperate with the IAEA, and to export uranium enriched to 60% to Russia, in order to allay fears that they intended to develop nuclear weapons. The Trump administration had made some progress with negotiations, but then the U.S. technical team that was to be sent to Oman was canceled, apparently due to an intervention by Netanyahu, who said that Israel would only accept the \u201cLibya model\u201d (which culminated in the utter destruction of Libya.) U.S. Secretary of State Rubio claims that the only use of uranium enrichment is for bombs, which is a ridiculous untruth. Mousavian offered a long list of states that have enrichment programs but no nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ofer Bronchtein<\/strong>, a former advisor of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and President of the Paris-based International Peace Forum, is presently an advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron on the Israeli situation. He believes that the French\/Saudi initiative for a two-state solution can succeed, and is trying to build a coalition to support it. Zepp-LaRouche asked him to join the mobilization for the Oasis Plan. He replied that Rabin understood the importance of water: \u201cWithout water, there won\u2019t be peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>International Law Under Threat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jonathan Kuttab<\/strong>, International Human Rights Lawyer, Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America and Co-Founder of Nonviolence International, spoke on the problem of Israel\u2019s \u201cutter impunity of ignoring international law,\u201d no longer even bothering to offer \u201cthe excuse of military targets.\u201d More than 230 journalists have been killed by the IDF, more than in any previous conflict. \u201cWe now see a deliberate attack on international institutions, on international courts, and on international law itself.\u201d This has implications that go far beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excerpts were shown of a video interview by\u00a0<em>EIR<\/em>\u2019s Gerald Belsky with <strong>Maoz Inon<\/strong>, an Israeli peace activist and leader of the peace demo in Jerusalem May 8-9, the People\u2019s Peace Summit. He said that \u201cthe only way to change reality is in the field of dream.\u201d We need to shout it, dance it, sing about it, to legitimize the dream. We need diplomacy, dialogue and negotiation. The current wildfires in Israel are a consequence of investment that should have gone into water management being diverted to military use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LaRouche activist <strong>Robert Castle<\/strong> gave a youth outreach report. He has been working with the Jose Vega congressional campaign in the Bronx, intersecting students on the way to classes and \u201cchallenging the young citizens of our republic to ask themselves whether they have a moral responsibility to intervene in this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche fully agreed with Kutab: it\u2019s not just about Gaza, the larger issue is the non-response of the world community to the Gaza genocide, which can lead to a complete collapse of international law and descent into barbarism. International law did not exist before the Peace of Westphalia, which made it necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche answered a question on the India-Pakistan conflict by asking,&nbsp;<em>cui bono<\/em>? Many nations that aspire to join BRICS have been targeted with economic\/financial warfare or violent destabilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kutab was asked, what can civil society do when governments fail to take action? He endorsed BDS, and said we should organize football and cultural organizations (which played a big role in ending apartheid in South Africa.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A German participant renewed his plea that solar energy be used in place of nuclear energy for the Oasis Plan. He was invited to participate in the upcoming conference, where that topic will be discussed. Co-moderator Dennis Small reminded him that energy flux-density is the metric for evaluating energy sources. Because the Iberian Peninsula went entirely for solar and wind, there was a complete collapse of their energy grid last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A question was posed: Was the November 1995 assassination of Rabin the tipping point for the current crisis? Kutab responded, \u201cThere\u2019s no question that Rabin himself was trying to deal with that situation in a new way.\u201d But there were problems both before and after Rabin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moderator Anastasia Battle reported that there has been an attack on the Freedom Flotilla in international waters, which some IPC participants have been on board the flotilla. We hope for their safety and well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to a question from the Chinese Media Group on the trade war, Zepp-LaRouche said, \u201cPresident Trump is presently vacillating and responding to pressure.\u201d She cited Nicholas of Cusa, who said that if you have a systemic problem, you cannot solve it by addressing side issues. The human creative mind always has the capacity to resolve the problem on a higher level than the level on which the problem arose. In conclusion, she renewed her plea for people to join forces with us in working to put the Oasis Plan and Ten Principles on the agenda for the upcoming conference in June. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>eir<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014For nearly two years, the International Peace Coalition, which was organized to unite peace movements from around the world without regard to ideology, has been holding weekly online conferences with over 55 nations represented and thousands of participants. On May 2, the Coalition celebrated a milestone with its 100th consecutive meeting. 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