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The Berlin Declaration

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (1) The war on terrorism does not work. Every week, there are new reports of bombings and hostage-taking in different parts of the world - Moscow, Bali, Mombassa…..

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (2) The war on terrorism cannot work. It cannot work because terrorism is a crime, the expression of a new type of global privatised violence. The word 'war' dignifies the terrorist as an 'enemy' instead of a criminal. It polarises the world between 'us' and 'them', which is just what the terrorists want. It inflicts further violence on innocent people and nurtures feelings of hate and revenge that lead to terrorism.

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (3) We are on the verge of an escalating process of world-wide violence, something akin to the Israel-Palestine conflict on a global scale. This impending cycle of destruction might include the possibility of the use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, further genocidal crimes, unpredictable acts of terrorism, not to mention more US 'pre-emptive strikes', which will turn out to be counter-productive strikes.

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (4) There is no such thing as a just war in our interdependent globalised world. But we need legitimate force to contain privatised violence. So there is still a role for military forces, to enforce international law and to protect people, to do what the police ought to do and cannot.

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (5) We call on governments, parliaments, NGO`s, responsible scientists and media, artists, universities, spiritual communities and citizens to oppose war and unilateralism and to mobilise in favour of an alternative strategy for combating terrorism. This strategy has to be multilateralist and co-operative and must aim at the construction of a global legal order. It should include

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (6) 1. The promotion of human values and norms that should underpin international law. Human rights must be applied in a non-selective way, in Iraq as well as in Saudi-Arabia or Iran, in Chechnya and in Russia, n Pakistan as well as in Afghanistan. Human rights watch and women rights are necessary in many countries and in all areas of conflict. There needs to be an authentic dialogue among those who favour democracy so as to find sustainable solutions to the "black holes" of the world, which breed terrorism - Congo, Sudan, Kashmir, Chechnya to name some of the most important.

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (7) 2. The establishment of mechanisms to enforce international law. This International Criminal Court should be established as soon as possible with no exemptions. Human security forces at a European or a global level need to be established especially designed to protect civilians in conflicts and to capture those who commit crimes against them.

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (8) 3. An increase in resources at a global level to finance a global legal order - to fund the global public goods, like eliminating poverty or tackling the environment as well as global legal and policing institutions, needed to extend a global rule of law.

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (9) We do not claim that this strategy can eliminate terrorism. The most, perhaps, that can be done is to contain terrorism, to prevent its spread and escalation. But we do believe that we can no longer preserve democracy and the rule of law only in one part of the world. War will destroy those values that we consider precious. The only hope we have is through the application of those values throughout the world. This is a task for every individual as well as government.

[Alle Kommentare ausblenden] (10) 10. Dezember 2002, in honour of obel laureat Jimmy Carter signed by literature laureat Günter Grass




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