Statement on Common Security

Statement-AEPF

AEPF, IPB conference, Berlin, 23-24 September, 2019. We in the Europe Asia peace movements, resolutely recommend  commitment to the idea of a Common Security. Earlier developed by the Palme Commission (1982), we are re-imagining and proposing Common Security as a peace and justice  instrument as part of a people’s agendaaccepted by all 57 OSCE countries … Read more

After the Post-Cold War

US-China-Cold-War

January 18, 2019 Burlington, Vermont Joseph Gerson We have entered uncharted territory. The world is changing radically as the post-Cold War order and the 75 years of nearly unrivaled U.S. economic and military dominance are over. The interregnum between the dying order and the new one struggling to be born is a period of uncertainty, … Read more

After the Post-Cold War Era: Geo-strategic Dynamics of the Interregnum &: A Vision for Eurasian Common Security Diplomacy

Joseph Gerson

Eurasia Common Security Workshop Berlin, September 23, 2019 I want to thank Cora Fabros, Reiner Braun and other Workshop organizers, for the opportunity to be joining this gathering.  As challenging as these times are, I trust that what I learn from you will prove helpful as with partners in Europe, the U.S., Russia and Asia … Read more

74 years after Hiroshima, are Americans addicted to nuclear weapons?

Hiroshima damage

Jerald Ross Today is Hiroshima Day. Seventy-four years ago, August 6th, the US ushered in the reality ofatomic warfare with the annihilation of that city and 100,000 of its inhabitants. Given the grislyfact ours was the country that dropped the bomb, and the possibility nuclear apocalypse ismore likely today than at any time since,[i] how … Read more

2015 Peace & Planet Conference

Connecting the Struggles

May 12, 2015 Opening Plenary: Connecting the Struggles for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just, & Sustainable World Addresses by: Zia Mian (Director of the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia at the Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University) Walden Bello (Founding and Executive Director of Focus on the Global South; Professor at University … Read more