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SUSTAINABILITY AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY

SUSTAINABILITY AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY. David V. J Bell Director, York Centre for Applied Sustainability York University Juniata College Baker Institute Lecture Series September 24, 2001.

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SUSTAINABILITY AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY

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  1. SUSTAINABILITY AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY David V. J Bell Director, York Centre for Applied Sustainability York University Juniata College Baker Institute Lecture Series September 24, 2001

  2. “Canadians have a special mission in this world. They must help Americans understand themselves.” -- James Kurth, Harvard University, 1966

  3. “Si Vis Pacem, Para Pacem”Howdo we “prepare for peace” in the context of international terrorism?Can we achieve a “peaceful world” where terrorism no longer exists?

  4. “We are all New Yorkers” -- Gilles Duceppe, Leader of the Bloc Quebecois

  5. The spectrum of Political Opinion in CanadaRight -- support the Americans completelyLeft -- urge US to take a multilateral approach under UN auspices; rule of law must prevailRadical Left -- turn anti-globalization movement into an anti-war movement

  6. “In a culture that ignores the past, Tuesday’s devastating attacks on the military and financial nerve centers of Western power are portrayed as having emerged out of a void.” -- Erna Paris (author and journalist)“Did U.S. foreign policy create the conditions in which such twisted logic could flourish, a war not so much on U.S. imperialism but on perceived U.S. imperviousness? -- Naomi Klein (author of No Logo)

  7. The Public Debate -- Is there one in the U.S.?“I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.” -- Barbara Lee (D, CA) -- Canadians debate causes, motivations of terrorists; critically examine American foreign policy

  8. Causes of Radical Islamic Terrorism:Worldview: the Religious Rationale Social and Political Conditions: Cultures of DespairMeans: The Enabling Conditions"-- George Lakoff (author of Metaphors We Live By)

  9. Implications for Canada:“Fortress North America” -- common security perimeterShared IntelligenceMilitary support??

  10. Afghanistan: - population 20 million - 5 million facing starvation - half million disabled orphans - 1 million “on the move” - literacy rate 39% (men) 14% (women)

  11. “The Taliban and Bin Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan.”-- Tamim Ansary (San Francisco columnist, born in Afghanistan)

  12. “During the war, I could get a cruise missile with no difficulty at all. After the war, the Americans would not give me even a pencil, so that we could teach our children to write.” --Afghan general in exile

  13. ‘I don't have a solution. But I do believe that suffering and poverty are the soil in which terrorism grows.’-- Tamim Ansary

  14. “Sustainable Development (SD) is development that meets the needs of the present generation without precluding the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”--World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission), Our Common Future

  15. "A world in which poverty and inequity are endemic will always be prone to ecological and other crises."

  16. “Scenarios are not predictions. Rather they help us visualize different possibilities, take account of inherently unpredictable events, challenge our implicit but often deeply held assumptions or worldviews about the future. As such, scenarios can help to free us from the grip of the past and enable us to prepare for a future that will assuredly be different from today.”http://mars3.gps.caltech.edu/whichworld//explore/scenarios.html

  17. “Market World reflects a vision of the future that is widely held today. It assumes that free markets, private enterprise, and global market integration are the best way to increase prosperity and improve human welfare. Economic reform, privatization, and deregulation are, in this view, the key to the future.”

  18. “Fortress World, on the other hand, focuses on the potential of unattended social and environmental problems and the growing gap between rich and poor to diminish social progress and doom hundreds of millions of people to lives of poverty and deprivation. It foresees the likelihood of widepread degradation, social instability, rising conflict--and the possibility of violence and chaos, of a world divided against itself.”

  19. “Transformed World is an optimistic vision of the future, one in which social and political--as well as economic -- reforms create a better life, not just a wealthier one. It assumes that human ingenuity and compassion can extend opportunity to all of humanity. And it points to tentative changes, already underway, that may presage such a transformation.”

  20. Bomb them with butter! -- Kent Madim, Boojum Expeditions (Mongolia)

  21. If you are thinking a year ahead, sow seed,If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree.If you are thinking one hundred years ahead, educate the people.Kuan Tzu Chinese Poet, c. 500 B.C.

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