Dear friends of peace,<\/p>\n
\u201cWorld Without a Compass\u201d is the title of the new Peace Report (FGA) by the four leading peace research institutes. That, at least, appears to be a very accurate analysis. <\/p>\n
It is certainly correct and important to note that the year 2023 recorded a sad record in wars and conflicts, an insane peak of 2.4 trillion dollars in worldwide armaments spending, and was also the climatologically hottest year to date.<\/p>\n
Not enough: On Europe’s doorstep, two senseless, murderous wars are raging in Ukraine and Gaza, in which we are also involved.<\/p>\n
In this situation, shouldn’t peace research provide a clear impetus for an end to violence, an indispensable, clear guide to peace that requires a radical departure from the previous logic of war? Because violence, hatred, and rearmament only ever provoke a spiral of new violence? <\/p>\n
Instead, the report’s recommendations state: \u201cTo enable negotiations in the war in Ukraine, military support for Ukraine must be sustainably guaranteed and increased.<\/em>\u201d And since the USA is expected to reduce its support, the demand is: \u201cEurope must compensate for this decline, and that also means it must rapidly increase its armaments capacities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This reflects the same military security thinking that has been proclaimed for years at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) by the leading representatives of highly armed states. Its head, Christoph Heusgen, sets the tone: \u201cWe must return to a certain logic, as we had in the Cold War,\u201d<\/em> and he believes he must urge Western states to \u201cexpand their military support for Ukraine,\u201d<\/em> stating that the West must \u201cgo all out\u201d<\/em> with its military aid. <\/p>\n This fits into the general political and societal war hysteria of a so-called \u201cZeitenwende<\/em>\u201d (turning point). Sociologist Andreas Reckwitz sees in this an \u201cincreasing friend-foe thinking,\u201d<\/em> \u201ceverywhere there is a new culture of mercilessness.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n Should we still uphold our earlier demand to prominently discuss the FGA’s recommendations at the MSC? Or is it precisely now that we should? <\/p>\n What do you think about this? We look forward to hearing your views!<\/p>\n With peaceful regards Dear friends of peace, \u201cWorld Without a Compass\u201d is the title of the new Peace Report (FGA) by the four leading peace research institutes. That, at least, appears to be a very accurate analysis. It is certainly correct and important to note that the year 2023 recorded a sad record in wars and conflicts, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denkmail","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nErwin Schelbert
\nFounding Member of MSKver\u00e4ndern e.V.
\nStudy Group for Peace Research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"