Dr. Muller on Peace & War & the UN

[Guest guest]

This is a WONDERFUL ARTICLE!

Jan

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" merakel " <merakel

 

Dear friends: I just received this from another special friend and felt

like it is definitely worth sharing with you. It is not a political " stand "

for or against war... it is comments on a perspective from a special man...

Dr. Robert Muller. I have met Dr. Muller several times in the past,

actually went to the USSR with him in 1990, and have followed his work for

years. He is a special visionary who has grounded his visions in actions.

I pay attention to what he has to say. He sees the global picture in an

a-political way. The following may be a different way for you to see the

world's events at this time. Love, Anne

 

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From my friend Judi Richardson in Canada -

 

 

Dr. Robert Muller, former assistant secretary general of the United

Nations, now Chancellor emeritus of the University of Peace in Costa

Rica was

one of the people who witnessed the founding of the U.N. and has worked

in

support of or inside the U.N. ever since. Recently he was in San

Francisco to be honored for his service to the world through the U.N.

and through his writings and teachings for peace.

 

At age eighty, Dr. Muller surprised,

even stunned, many in the audience that day with his most positive

assessment of where the world stands now regarding war and peace.

I was there at the gathering and I myself was stunned by his remarks.

What he said turned my head around and offered me a new way to see what

is going

on in the world. My synopsis of his remarks is below:

 

" I'm so honored to be here, " he said. " I'm so honored to be alive at

such a miraculous time in history. I'm so moved by what's going on in

our

world today. "

 

(I was shocked. I thought -- Where has he been? What has he been

reading? Has he seen the newspapers? Is he senile? Has he lost it?

What is he

talking about?)

 

Dr. Muller proceeded to say, " Never before in the history of the world

has there been a global, visible, public, viable, open dialogue and

conversation about the very legitimacy of war. "

 

The whole world is in now having this critical and historic

dialogue--listening to all kinds of points of view and positions about

going to war or not going to war. In a huge global public conversation

the

world is asking -- " Is war legitimate? Is it illegitimate? Is there

enough

evidence to warrant an attack? Is there not enough evidence to warrant

an

attack?

 

What will be the consequences? The costs? What will happen after a war?

How

will this set off other conflicts? What might be peaceful alternatives?

 

What kind of negotiations are we not thinking of? What are the real

intentions

for declaring war? "

 

All of this, he noted, is taking place in the context of the United

Nations Security Council, the body that was established in 1949 for

exactly

this purpose. He pointed out that it has taken us more than fifty

years to realize that function, the real function of the U.N. And at

this moment in

history--the United Nations is at the center of the stage. It is the

place

where these conversations are happening, and it has become in these

last months

and weeks, the most powerful governing body on earth, the most

powerful container for the world's effort to wage peace rather than

war.

 

Dr. Muller was almost in tears in recognition of the fulfillment of

this dream.

 

" We are not at war, " he kept saying. We, the world community, are

WAGING peace. It is difficult, hard work. It is constant and we must

not let up.

 

It is working and it is an historic milestone of immense proportions.

It has never happened before -- never in human history -- and it is

happening

now, every day, every hour, waging peace through a global conversation.

He

pointed out that the conversation questioning the validity of going to

war has

gone on for hours, days, weeks, months and now more than a year, and it

may

go on and on.

 

" We're in peacetime, " he kept saying. " Yes, troops are being moved.

Yes, warheads are being lined up. Yes, the aggressor is angry and

upset and spending a billion dollars a day preparing to attack. But

not one shot has been fired. Not one life has been lost. There is no

war. It's all a conversation. "

 

It is tense, it is tough, it is challenging, AND we are in the most

significant and potent global conversation and public dialogue in the

history of the world. This has not happened before on this scale ever

before--not before WWI or WWII, not before Vietnam or Korea, this is

new and it is a stunning new era of Global listening, speaking, and

responsibility.

 

In the process, he pointed out, new alliances are being formed. Russia

and China on the same side of an issue is an unprecedented outcome.

France and Germany working together to wake up the world to a new way

of seeing the situation. The largest peace demonstrations in the

history of the world are taking place--and we are not at war!

 

Most peace demonstrations in recent history took place when a war was

already waging, sometimes for years, as in the case of Vietnam.

 

" So this, " he said, " is a miracle. This is what " waging peace " looks

like. "

 

No matter what happens, history will record that this is a new era,

And that the 21st century has been initiated with the world in a global

dialogue looking deeply, profoundly and responsibly as a global

community at the legitimacy of the actions of a nation that is

desperate to go to war.

 

Through these global peace-waging efforts, the leaders of that nation

are being engaged in further dialogue, forcing them to rethink, and

allowing all nations to participate in the serious and horrific

decision to go to

war or not.

 

Dr. Muller also made reference to a recent New York Times article that

pointed out that up until now there has been just one superpower--the

United

States, and that that has created a kind of blindness in the vision of

the U.S. But now, Dr. Muller asserts, there are two superpowers: the

United States

and the merging, surging voice of the people of the world.

 

All around the world, people are waging peace. To Robert Muller, one

Of the great advocates of the United Nations, it is nothing short of a

Miracle and it is working.

 

 

Judith Richardson

Pono Consultants International

Facilitating the Flow

of Inspired Collaboration

www.ponoconsultants.com <http://www.ponoconsultants.com>

(902) 435-0308

 

 

I commit to inspire and enlighten myself and others to cooperate,

communicate, and love as we all evolve toward self-actualization and raise

the frequency on the planet to vibrate with peace and love.