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Comment by Binod Kumar Bhujel on October 26, 2009 at 3:05am

I also want to join in it.

Comment by Joseph George Slovinec on October 13, 2009 at 3:04pm

Thank you. I would like to join the main group in Peace and Collaborative Development Network that honors the United Nations. I want to congratulate President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize after I attended Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs at the same time he was an undergrad there and I voted for him for United States Senate in 2004 after we were both in Chicago for 20 years. The White House said President Obama was "surprised and humbled" with the honor: it intended to give "momentum to set of causes.". I feel Obama's admirers can say he also deserved the prize with several main activities President Obama did to promote peace during 2009: These include:
- President Obama's popularity at the G-20 summit in London and later in Pittsburgh on cultural links with Europe and the economy
- President Obama deserved excellent ratings at his United Nations speech in September 2009 and during the session he thoroughly enjoyed presiding over the United Nations Security Council with ease: He also talked to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas who urgently needs U.S. economic development assistance after President Bush neglected Palestinian goals in that area, yet it is respected that Bush favored the roadmap.
- The Norwegian Nobel Committee cites arms control as a reason for the prize, and President Obama gave an excellent speech in Prague on nuclear arms control: I am 25% of Czech ancestry and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was of Czech origins.
- President Obama's attendance at the Trinidad summit improved U.S. relations with Latin American countries
- President Obama gave an excellent speech on peace during his Cairo, Egypt visit in June 2009
- Multilateral issues including his popularity in the Pew poll. The Norwegian Nobel Committee used the word "multilateral" in the award, and President Obama increased his support of multilateral diplomacy when he met with the United Nations Security Council after rumors President Bush invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003 to avoid French or Russian vetoes in the Security Council: Bush was too unilatelal and did not prove an Iraqi violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441. I hope President Obama gives encouragement to Columbia students who study the United Nations like I did including a Baruch Fellowship shortly after graduation in 1983 at United Nations Association of U.S.A. where I did editing with UNA inspiration from Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Dean Harvey Picker and his wife Jean, and Fred Eckhard who then edited the Interdependent.
I respect the Alliance of Conflict Transformation with many George Mason U. professors encouraged my interest in your network, and you have an academic duty to encourage a responsible bipartisan debate among Virginia voters: please appeal for a more intellectual approach during a political debate with early insults and unclear concepts and I will praise you to my fellow Democrats. A Pew Global Attitudes survey proved Obama was much more popular in foreign nations than George W. Bush when the question was asked if Obama "Will Do Right Thing in Foreign Affairs?" with 2009 - Britain 86% after 16% under Bush in 2008, France 91% after 13% under Bush in 2008, Brazil 76% with a main negative score for Obama among Palestinians where Pew said 84% had an unfavorable view after Cairo speech and 80% were unfavorable after it. I seldom get questions on my DePaul M.A. in History thesis in recent years, yet it increased in importance in the Obama years along with my DePaul research on U.S. Senator Paul Douglas from Obama's neighborhood: My topic was on President Theodore Roosevelt, who also attended Columbia University, and his work on mediating peace between France and Germany indirectly with diplomats at Algeciras, Spain after the 1905 Morocco crisis in addition to his mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, the main reason the Nobel Academy gave for awarding Theodore Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. Former President Jimmy Carter did similar personal mediation between Israel and Egypt, negotiated the 1979 agreement to favor the United Nations Security Council agreement for giving the Peope's Republic of China a seat and keeping democracy in Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act, and made many Carter Center visits as a former President to encourage democratic elections before he got the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. President Woodrow Wilson received the Nobel Peace Prize for his League of Nations campaign at the Versailles peace conference in 1919. Yet the Nobel Peace Prize was also awarded to a Swiss founder of the Red Cross, refugee organizations, Vice President Dawes from Evanston, Illinois in 1925, Secretaries of State Cordell Hull in 1945 and George Marshall in 1953 after the most successful U.S. war ends of World War II and Korea, and less famous Asian activists. The only example of a totally undeserved award was to North Vietnamese Communist negotiator Le Duc Tho in 1973 who declined it, since North Vietnam disregarded the Jan. 27, 1973 peace treaty with the United States when it invaded and conquered South Vietnam on April 30, 1975.
When I remember my conversations with students at Marist High School in my class if 1976 who said Lyndon Johnson started the Vietnam War and Nixon and Kissinger ended it, I hope President Obama gains advice from U.S. Senator George McGovern who answered my questions on Lincoln's Birthday 2009 on his plan to end the Vietnam War by July 1969 if he became President and discussed desires to see peace in Iraq and Afghanistan, former President Carter, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who deserved a prize at a later time than 1973 for his overall career including influence on Nixon's greatest diplomatic successes in ending the Cold War with visits to the Soviet Union and China in 1972: their generations knew World War II and studied history more passionately than the often apathetic generation of Barack Obama and myself. The world expects Barack Obama to honor his campaign promise to end the Iraq war in 2010 with the prize: yet the U.S. and world should respect the Nobel Peace Prize's awarding to a first-year President with hopes he will continue work for future successes in peace.

Comment by kettemalet Anthony fabrice on June 30, 2009 at 12:08pm

We are facing to train some members of our NGO in peace and development so i request someone to help us to giving addresses of internatinals peace institutes.
Regards

Comment by Frank Palatnick on June 22, 2009 at 12:39am

The key to global community is through ' Conversation ' and
' Compassion '. A=pi r2.....Acknowledgement of Understanding equals the wholistic approach times rigor squared Copyright 2007 Frank Palatnick All rights reserved. In other words, for the world to have ' community ' everybody must converse rigorously and with compassion.

Comment by Nengak Daniel on May 27, 2009 at 10:40am

A landmark? a mere 500 people calling for the democratisation of the organisation that makes decisions about 5 billion people and we call it a landmark? we have a long way to go before we make landmarks.

Comment by ashenafi mamuye on May 27, 2009 at 8:59am

great effort

Comment by Olivier Urbain on May 17, 2009 at 4:22pm

Hi Everybody,

In 2005 Andreas Bummel wrote a paper explaining what the concept of UNPA is all about, entitled "Developing International Democracy." If you would like to discuss this paper, feel free to visit
http://toda.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=53

With best regards,

Olivier

Comment by MARYANGELA KAMENE KIMWELE on May 7, 2009 at 7:54am

just joined......

Comment by GIUSEPPE MARIVO on January 10, 2009 at 7:19am

...ONLY ONE WAY...

...Urantia will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men--mankind government. Internationalism--Leagues of Nations--can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. pp.1489

...World peace cannot be maintained by treaties, diplomacy, foreign policies, alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government--the sovereignty of all mankind. pp.1491

...Global sovereignty will prevent global wars--nothing else can. pp. 1490

...With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and more devastating until they become almost racially suicidal. How many world wars must be fought and how many leagues of nations must fail before men will be willing to establish the government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace and thrive on the tranquillity of good will--world-wide good will--among men? pp.1490

...The political sovereignty of representative mankind government will bring lasting peace on earth, and the spiritual brotherhood of man will forever insure good will among all men. And there is no other way whereby peace on earth and good will among men can be realized. pp.1491

The Urantia Book
http://www.urantia.org/
http://www.globalgovernmenthumanity.org/home.html

Giuseppe Marivo
giuseppemarivo@hotmail.com

Comment by Larry Kazdan on January 10, 2009 at 1:57am

TIME FOR UN TO HEED CALLS FOR PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
Latin-American Parliament joins European Parliament and other assemblies backing parliament for UN

Ottawa, December 15 – The Latin-American Parliament (Parlatino) has passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) to strengthen "the effectiveness, transparency, representativeness, plurality and legitimacy of the international system."

Passed earlier this month in Panamá, the resolution "reinforces an emerging consensus," according to Andreas Bummel, head of the Berlin-based Secretariat of the Campaign for a UNPA. "Parlatino is now the fourth continental parliament to support the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, joining the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Pan-African Parliament," he said.

UN member states should take heed, Bummel suggests.

"Considering the urgent need for more democratic and effective oversight of international institutions - a need made all the more apparent by the global financial crisis - it is high time that the creation of a world body composed of elected representatives be seriously considered by the United Nations and its member states," said Bummel.

For Fernando Iglesias, Deputy of Parlatino and of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, the resolution is a milestone for a region until recently deprived of democracy.

"The continent that few decades ago was the scenario for political genocide and for many of the most terrible military dictatorships, expresses now, through this resolution of its oldest and biggest supranational parliamentary institution, its deep conviction on the virtues of democracy at every level of political decision-making," said Iglesias.

Created in 1964, Parlatino represents 22 Latin American member states. The UNPA resolution by Parlatino this month was preceded by a declaration in June by its Commission on Political Affairs strongly endorsing a UN
Parliamentary Assembly and inviting "all parliamentary organizations to participate actively in the process of its creation." This November, the Senate of Argentina was the first national parliamentary chamber to take up
the offer and voice its unconditional support.

Since its inception in 2007, the international appeal for a UN Parliamentary Assembly (detailed at www.unpacampaign.org) has been endorsed by over 580 current parliamentarians from over 80 countries encompassing all the world's major regions. The Campaign is also supported by many prominent Canadians, including John Turner, Lloyd Axworthy, Flora MacDonald, Ed Broadbent and Elizabeth May, and by the World Federalist Movement-Canada whose President is Warren Allmand, former cabinet minister in the government of Pierre Trudeau.

"One of the most practical ways Canada can create a global culture of democracy is to promote the adoption by fellow UN members of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly," Allmand said.


FOR MEDIA INTERVIEWS

Andreas Bummel (Germany), Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
+49 6131-627 8376, bummel@kdun.org


Fergus Watt (Ottawa), Executive Director, World Federalist Movement-Canada
613 232-0647, wfcnat@web.ca

The Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly is a global network of parliamentarians and non-governmental organizations advocating for citizens' representation at the United Nations.

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