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The European Union (EU), with its experience in the peaceful integration of diverse nations, is uniquely positioned to lead a reform of the international order. Rather than merely competing in global rearmament, the EU can draw inspiration from its own model of...

In the Name of Humanity Toward a Real and Shared Peace We, as humans, create tools, objects, and means to improve our lives: cars that make us faster, tables that support objects, houses that provide shelter, and so on. These innovations benefit not only individuals...

In my previous post, I explained that the emergence of cosmopolitanism is tied to the death of Socrates, who was condemned by Athenian democracy for “not believing in the gods of the polis and (therefore) corrupting the youth,” as recorded in The Apology, the first...

I have finished reading The Ends of the World. A History of Cosmopolitanism from Antiquity to the 18th Century by Luca Scuccimarra, and it seems to me a demonstration of disorientation or misinformation. As Scuccimarra points out, even before Socrates, there were...

To the attention of: His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN His Excellency Mr. Dennis Francis, President of the UNGA His Excellency Mr. Thomas Bach, IOC President Subject: Letter in Support and Demand of the Olympic Truce Dear Sirs, We humbly...

It is crucial to use our intelligence to understand and recognize what our humanity means, which does not allow for a 'partial or limited peace,' and that is why war is said to be 'absolute.' In the past, human groups were isolated and uncommunicated, and the...

WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE IN BERLIN SINCE THE COLD WAR? I am in Berlin now after 35 years since I studied at the Freie Universität Berlin, FUB. I had been working for peace at the UAM in Madrid at the peak of the Cold War in the early eighties and when I came here for a...

CALL TO RECONCILIATION ON JANUARY 30, 2025 We are getting closer to extinction or, at least, we are flirting with it, while we know what peace is since millenia and the proof of this is that it has been equally understood and seen in the East and in the West without...

DISARM NOW! RECONCILIATION CALL ON JANUARY 30, 2025 Figurations or representations, such as nationalities, political systems as democracy, socialism, liberalism, or religions, or others, cannot be the fundament of peace. Figurations separate and divide us; they are...

INVITATION TO THE FESTIVAL OF THE RECONCILIATION OF HUMANITY ON JANUARY 30, 2025 Of course, this invitation is addressed to everyone, but I propose to those of you who are receiving this document to call it sharing it. We cannot expect from the State, the armed unit,...