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berlin declaration
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Maintainer: heiner benking, Version 1, 06.01.2003  Druckversion
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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