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LONDON- Someone somewhere in the administrative apparatus of Nato is no doubt paid to watch and worry in case agents of Slobodan Milosevic sneak a weapon of mass destruction into a major western capital. In truth the likelihood, so small is it, doesn’t keep General Wesley Clark awake at night.Terrorism today, although a contingency of warfare, is probably less likely than it was a hundred years ago when loose knit groups of anarchists, in the period 1894 to 1901, managed to assassinate the president of France, the prime minister of Spain, the empress of Austria, the king of Italy and the president of the U.S.. Terrorism is not a subject to be simply extrapolated forward, assuming that it will worsen at an accelerating rate, just because technology is always progressing. Not least the politics that propels terrorism can change incredibly quickly. The worst alien terrorist act in a western city in...
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Recension av Sören Sommelius,TFF konfliktläkare, kulturredaktör Helsingborgs DagbladDet globala kapitalistiska systemet är i upplösning, skriver George Sorosoch fruktar en värre ekonomisk kris nu än efter Wall Street-kraschen. DEN GLOBALA KAPITALISMENS KRISGeorge SorosÖversättning: Stefan LindgrenNorstedts “Jag var i färd med att förklara varför det globala kapitalistiska systemet var osunt och ohållbart, men före den ryska härdsmältan i augusti 1998 insåg jag inte att det faktiskt var i upplösning.” Den som skriver så är George Soros, en av samtidens märkligaste personligheter. Han är i dag en av världens rikaste män, som byggt upp sin förmögenhet genom framförallt internationella valutaspekulationer (också mot den svenska kronan) i en kapitalism av allra värsta slag. Han om någon vet alltså hur den globala kapitalismen fungerar. Soros förebådar ett systemsammanbrott, en global ekonomisk krasch värre än Wall Street, med oförutsägbara konsekvenser. I sin bok “Den globala kapitalismens kris”, som publicerades i USA i december och som nu...
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A Brief Report on on Cross-Cultural Dialogueand Mutual Learning Between Danes and Tibetans and Bjarne JørgensenDanish Centre for Conflict Resolutionhttp://home6.inet.tele.dk/ceko CONTENTSPREFACETHE BACKGROUNDAGREEMENTS ON THE FIRST WORKSHOPWHO ARRANGED AND ATTENDED THE WORKSHOPAIM AND PURPOSEEDUCATIONAL APPROACHCONTENTS AND METHODSWHAT THE PARTICIPANTS FOUND VALUABLESOME CROSS-CULTURAL EXPERIENCESAn integrated philosophy of lifeThe problem of angerFocus on relatedness and communityThe role of the teacher, authority and respectFUTURE PLANS FOR THE PROJECTIN WHAT WAYS ARE OUR WORKSHOPS SUPPORTIVE PREFACE During April – May 1999 we had the great pleasure of conducting the first of a series of workshops in India, the first part of the Dharamsala project, a partnership between Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution and the Tibetan exile community in India. This brief report tells about the contents, the process and the mutual learning experiences. The overall purpose of the project is to support the Tibetan exile community in India to develop democratic processes as dialogue, negotiation,...
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Bidrag istedet til at hjælpe NATO, EU og Balkan væk fra afgrunden I sidste uge fortalte statsminister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen den danske befolkning at vi må vænne hinanden til at NATO måske vil indsætte landtropper i Kosovo/a. De vil sige storkrig. Hans partifælle Jacob Buksti mener ikke at landtropper skal kæmpe sig ind, “men det er ikke sådan, at man nødvendigvis skal have en egentlig fredsaftale eller våbenhvileaftale, skrevet under af Milosevic.” Statsministeren ville ikke afvise, at indsættelse af landtropper kan komme til at koste danske soldater livet. “Det kan ingen spå om. Vi må tale så nøgternt om det som muligt, og vi kan ikke udelukke, at den dag vil komme, hvor der vil være et antal mennesker, som har dansk medborgerskab, som kommer hjem fra Kosovo/a i ikke-levende tilstand.” Krig er for alvorligt til sådan ulden tale. Statsministerens udtalelse blev da også afsporet. Flere politikere mente at det...
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LONDON- As the twentieth century closes it appears more than ever to merit the French sociologist Raymond Aron’s description, “the century of total war”. Just before he died last year the great British philosopher Isaiah Berlin said, “it was the worst century that Europe ever had. Worse, I suspect, even than the days of the Huns”. And why? Because “in our modern age nationalism is not resurgent; it never died. Neither did racism. They are the most powerful movements in the world today cutting across many social systems”. He ended: “I am glad to be as old as I am”. In his book “Pandaemonium”, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, probably the U.S. Senate’s most illustrious intellectual, observes that today “there are just eight states on earth which both existed in 1914 and have not had their form of government changed by violence since then”. These are the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa,...
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LONDON- If Turkey were China there would have been over the years a massive and continuous uproar in the U.S. Congress. With a human rights record that far outranks in the sadistic impulses league anything that goes on in China and with its continuing, unrelenting, uncompromising, suppression of its Kurdish minority, not even allowing instruction in the Kurdish language in schools, it far exceeds the way Beijing treats Tibet. Yet Turkey continues as a member of Nato, a favourite of American military largesse. Turkey now has the largest fleet of F-16 fighter jets outside the U.S., most of them provided either free or on highly subsidised terms. Neither the Clinton administration nor the Republican opposition raises its voice a decibel to criticize Turkey. That seems to be left to the Europeans, but that has its own problems. Led by Helmut Kohl when he was chancellor of Germany, it was a no-holds...
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TV-bilderna från provisoriska flyktingläger i Makedonien och Albanien slår med chockerande kraft in i människors vardagsrum, också i Västeuropa och USA. Alltfler börjar försiktigt tala om risken för ett tredje världskrig. Vi ser de flyende människorna vid gränsstationerna. Men rapporterna om det som skett och sker inne i Kosovo är ännu ytterst knapphändiga. USA och Nato vet förstås med hjälp av bilder från spionsatelliterna. Men de bilderna är hemligstämplade. Hela sanningen om detta vidriga krigs omfattning lär vi få vänta på. Flyktingkatastrofen har fått EU att anslå över två miljarder till hjälpåtgärder. Natos militära insatser har hittills kostat betydligt mer än så, räknat i dollar. Om västvärlden i stället för att bomba anslagit fem miljarder kronor till åtgärder för att stärka demokrati, garantera mänskliga rättigheter och initiera ekonomisk utveckling för alla folkgrupper i det fattiga Kosovo, då kunde man ha åstadkommit under. Men den sortens ekvationer ställer ingen upp. Krigets...
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LONDON- By one of those quirks of opportunity I was able to spend most of the morning of Good Friday talking with Jose Saramago, last year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, near neighbour to my daughter’s home in the Canary Islands. The writer, who left his native country, Portugal, because of the outcry over his book, “The Gospel according to Jesus Christ”, was outraged at the bombing of Yugoslavia, angry in particular at those who tried to put a moral gloss on it. “We are in the hands of inconsequential people. Sensible people have little influence in the world. We do what we can, we can’t do much”. “What irony”, I replied, “that an anti-Vietnam war protestor who went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship should have re-ignited the Cold War”. As usual in war time, the anti-war faction is in a minority. It is painful to see...
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Mediebilderna av flyktingarna från Kosovo har sänt chockvågor över världen. Allt fler amerikanska politiker från både det demokratiska och det republikanska partiet förordar nu att marktrupper sätts in. Men vad händer i så fall sedan? Kommer marktrupper att kunna garantera civilbefolkningens säkerhet &endash; eller tvärtom? I veckan lät amerikanska CNN experter jämföra kriget i Vietnam med det som händer nu på Balkan. Det perspektivet är fasaväckande, ett mångårigt blodigt krig i Europa skulle sprida död och förstörelse över miljoner människor. Och Europas stater skulle förändras krisartat under ansvaret att ta hand om miljoner flyktingar. Allt fler börjar nu fundera över om det vi upplever skulle kunna vara en inledande fas till ett tredje världskrig.  Massmedierna satsar stort på att skildra kriget på Balkan. Men är det en trovärdig bild av kriget vi får? Tyvärr inte. I radions massmediemagasin “Vår grundade mening” intervjuades häromdagen den engelske journalisten Phillip Knightley, författare till...
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Eliter i länder där två tredjedelar av världens befolkning bor ser i dag USA som det största hotet mot deras samhällen. Recension av Sören Sommelius,TFF konfliktläkare och kulturredaktör på Helsingborg Dagblad FOREIGN AFFAIRSMarch/April 1999 The Lonely SuperpowerSamuel P. Huntington. USA är enda supermakt efter det kalla krigets slut. Men är det så enkelt att det kalla krigets världsordning med rivalitet mellan två supermakter har ersatts av ny med enbart USA i den globala maktordningens topp? Harvardprofessorn Samuel P. Huntington, författare till “The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of World Order”, menar i “The Lonely Superpower” (Den ensamma supermakten), en artikel i nya numret av tidskriften Foreign Affairs, att USA visserligen är samtidens enda supermakt men att den nya världsordningen är en hybrid, ett “en-mulitipolärt” system, med en supermakt och många länder som fungerar som regionala stormakter och därtill åter andra länder i en position som andrarangens regionala stormakter. USA...
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TFF’s conflict-mitigation progresses in Eastern Slavonia Between March 22 and April 1, TFF brought Serb and Croat students together for the first time since the civil war of Autumn 1991. This is our report: EASTERN SLAVONIA – GENERAL BACKGROUND The mission of the UN in Eastern Slavonia, UNTAES, was the peaceful reintegration of the region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium into the Republic of Croatia. Until January 15, 1998, UNTAES exercised authority over this region through a basic agreement of 12 November 1995 and through UN Security Council resolutions 1037 of 15 January 1996 and 1120 of 11 July 1997. The follow-up consists of only a small group of UN Civil Police and Civil Affairs staff. OSCE has less than 200 personnel in place. There are also some European military monitors (ECMM, the white suited brigade) who continue to be in the region. All executive power has been handed...
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LONDON- It took too many years of bombing before America discovered its limitations in Vietnam. In Britain, people still today argue over the mass bombing that brought on the firestorm that destroyed the magnificent German city of Dresden. Did it break the will of the people or unite them in loathing–as it seems to be doing now in Belgrade–for the perpetuators. There are at least four ways of looking at Yugoslavia, and each gives its own pointers to policy. The first is that of the periscope. We should have seen what was coming and acted–invaded/bombed or whatever–earlier. It would have avoided Bosnia and certainly Kosovo. Perhaps there is some truth to this. But I prefer to remember the few voices who argued, long before local war-making span out of control, that UN peacekeepers could have been on the ground cooling and separating things off before tempers and the sour spirit of...
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