[GMW #1121] World Cities & University of World Thinking
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What I still miss in the world of today is a University of World Thinking. We do not even have a universal city or world city.
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The whole world stops and listens when someone comes with the right new vision at the right time.
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| My Testament to the UN
-A Contribution to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, 1995, Chapter 10 |
So much more can be done by a considerably strengthened United Nations and its agencies. I am thinking for example of the University for Peace in demilitarized Costa Rica, one of the most beautiful creations of the UN. It was proposed by the President of Costa Rica in the fall of 1979 and entered into existence in April of 1981. Yet eleven years later, only 32 out of 179 governments have ratified it and only a handful have given it any finance.
The first University for Peace on this planet is the smallest and poorest university in existence, while thousands of military academies are thriving. It almost seems that governments are afraid of peace. Yet the time has come when the world needs the same science of peace, strategy of peace and methodology for peace which were developed by Napoleon and Clausewitz for war and which are taught in military academies. Thirty years later the rust curriculum I proposed for the University for Peace amounts only to two Masters Programs in International Relations and in Ecology for Peace taught to a total of sixty students. I tell the students that Jesus did wonders with only twelve apostles and that each of them should at least become a head of state. Governments should be ashamed for their scandalous lack of support of the first University for Peace on this planet.
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