By David Swanson and David Hartsough with input from George Lakey, Jan Passion, Mike Ferner, Colleen Kelly, Ruth Benn, Leah Bolger, Nathan Schneider, Hakim, Paul Chappell, Colin Archer, Kathy Kelly, et alia. (none of whom are to blame for shortcomings of this draft). Many groups and individuals are discussing a new project; if you have ideas, let us know.
Jekk tbatija bla bżonn fuq skala enormi għandha tiġi evitata, irridu ineħħu l-gwerra. Xi 180 miljun ruħ mietu fi gwerer fis-seklu 20th u, filwaqt li għadna ma rrepetejtx gwerra fuq l-iskala tat-Tieni Gwerra Dinjija, il-gwerer mhumiex sejrin imorru lil hinn. Il-qerda enormi tagħhom tkompli, imkejla f'termini ta 'mwiet, korrimenti, trawma, miljuni ta' nies li jkollhom jaħarbu minn djarhom, spejjeż finanzjarji, qerda ambjentali, telf ekonomiku, u erożjoni tad-drittijiet ċivili u politiċi.
Jekk l-umanità sejra tgħix, irridu ineħħu l-gwerra. Kull gwerra ġġib magħha kemm qerda massiva kif ukoll ir-riskju ta 'eskalazzjoni mhux ikkontrollata. Qed niffaċċjaw dinja ta 'proliferazzjoni akbar ta' armi, nuqqas ta 'riżorsi, pressjonijiet ambjentali, u l-akbar popolazzjoni umana fid-dinja li rajna. F'dinja turbolenti bħal din, irridu ineħħu l-vjolenza organizzata minn gvernijiet magħrufa bħala gwerra, minħabba li l-kontinwazzjoni tagħha tirriskja l-estinzjoni tagħna.
Jekk inkunu neħħew il-gwerra, l-umanità tista 'mhux biss tgħix u tindirizza aħjar il-kriżi tal-klima u perikli oħra, imma se ssibha iktar faċli li tirnexxi. Ir-riallokazzjoni ta 'riżorsi lil hinn mill-gwerra twiegħed dinja li l-vantaġġi tagħha huma lil hinn mill-immaġinazzjoni faċli. Xi $ 2 triljun fis-sena, bejn wieħed u ieħor nofs mill-Istati Uniti u nofs mill-bqija tad-dinja, hija ddedikata għall-gwerra u l-preparazzjoni tal-gwerra. Dawk il-fondi jistgħu jittrasformaw l-isforzi globali biex jinħolqu sistemi tal-enerġija, agrikoli, ekonomiċi, tas-saħħa u tal-edukazzjoni sostenibbli. Id-direzzjoni mill-ġdid tal-fondi tal-gwerra tista 'ssalva bosta drabi l-ħajjiet li jittieħdu billi tonfoqha fuq il-gwerra.
Hemm il-ħtieġa u l-opportunità għal kampanja / moviment iffukat speċifikament fuq l-edukazzjoni u l-organizzazzjoni u l-iżvilupp tal-momentum għall-abolizzjoni tal-gwerra. Organizzazzjoni kbira kontra gwerer partikolari, atroċitajiet, armi, tattiċi, u nfiq, tista 'tibbenefika mill-eżistenza ta' kampanja ta 'abolizzjoni, li ssir meqjusa bħala passi parzjali raġonevoli, u fil-kuntest ta' oppożizzjoni għall-gwerra kollha aktar milli bħala vjolazzjonijiet ta 'proprji normi tal-gwerra. Xi kampanji jistgħu, fil-fatt, ikunu differenti minn dak li kieku kienu jkunu; nistgħu, pereżempju, nopponu l-aktar armi effettivi li joqtlu l-aktar effiċjenti aktar milli l-aktar armi difettużi li jesponu l-iktar korruzzjoni.
While abolition is a larger demand than partial disarmament, if the case for it is made convincingly it has the potential to create support for serious and even total disarmament among people who would otherwise favor the maintenance of a large military for defense — something that we've learned generates pressure for offensive warmaking. The first step in such a campaign must be persuading people of the possibility of, and the urgent need for, abolishing war. Awareness of the effectiveness of nonviolent action, nonviolent movements, and peaceful resolution of conflicts is growing rapidly, creating the increased possibility of persuading people that there is an alternative to war. Anti-war sentiment, at least in some key parts of the world, is at a high point now, relative to other moments in recent decades. This sentiment should be channeled into an abolition movement that takes steps toward reduced warfare while creating an understanding of those steps, not as reforms to a flawed institution that will continue in an improved state, but as progress towards that institution's elimination.
The reduction and eventual elimination of war and of the military industrial complex could be of great benefit to sectors of the world economy and of public services to which that investment could be transferred. There exists the possibility of creating a broad coalition encompassing civilian industries and advocates for green energy, education, housing, healthcare, and other fields, including civil liberties, environmental protections, children's rights, and all over the world cities, counties, and states that have had to make major cuts in social programs for their people, and more. By making war's elimination imaginable, an abolition movement could develop the allies needed to make it a reality.
Resistance, including by those profiting financially from wars, will be intense. Such interests are, of course, not invincible. Raytheon's stock was soaring in the fall of 2013 as the White House planned to send missiles into Syria — missiles that were not sent. But war abolition will require defeating the propaganda of war promoters and countering the economic interests of war promoters with alternative economic possibilities. A wide variety of support for "humanitarian" and other particular varieties, or imagined varieties, of war will have to be countered with persuasive arguments and alternatives. Creating a resource center that puts the best arguments against various types of war support at people's fingertips will itself be a significant contribution.
Billi norganizzaw internazzjonalment, nistgħu nużaw il-progress li sar f'pajjiż wieħed biex inħeġġu lin-nazzjonijiet l-oħra biex jaqblu jew jaqbżuha mingħajr biża '. Billi nedukaw lin-nies li l-gvernijiet tagħhom jagħmlu gwerra mill-bogħod dwar l-ispejjeż umani tal-gwerra (fil-biċċa l-kbira fuq naħa waħda, ċivili, u fuq skala mhux mifhuma sew) nistgħu nibnu domanda morali fuq bażi wiesgħa għal tmiem il-gwerra. Billi nippreżentaw il-każ li l-militariżmu u l-gwerer jagħmluna kollha inqas sikuri u jnaqqsu l-kwalità tal-ħajja tagħna, nistgħu neħħu l-gwerra ħafna mill-poter tagħha. Billi noħolqu kuxjenza dwar il-kompromessi ekonomiċi, nistgħu nqajmu l-appoġġ għal dividend tal-paċi. Billi nispjegaw l-illegalità, l-immoralità, u l-ispejjeż gravi tal-gwerra u d-disponibbiltà ta 'mezzi legali, mhux vjolenti u aktar effettivi ta' difiża u riżoluzzjoni tal-kunflitti, nistgħu nibnu l-aċċettazzjoni għal dak li sar biss relattivament reċentement fi proposta radikali u għandha titqies bħala inizjattiva ta ’sens komun: l-abolizzjoni tal-gwerra.
While a global movement is needed, this movement cannot ignore or reverse the reality of where the greatest support for war originates. The United States builds, sells, buys, stockpiles, and uses the most weapons, engages in the most conflicts, stations the most troops in the most countries, and carries out the most deadly and destructive wars. By these and other measures, the U.S. government is the world's leading war-maker, and — in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. — the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. Ending U.S. militarism wouldn't eliminate war globally, but it would eliminate the pressure that is driving many other nations to increase their military spending. It would deprive NATO of its leading advocate for and greatest participant in wars. It would cut off the largest supply of weapons to the Middle East and other regions. It would remove the major barrier to a reunification of Korea, and the major barrier to legal consequences for Israeli war-making. It would create U.S. willingness to support arms treaties, join the International Criminal Court, and allow the United Nations to move in the direction of its stated purpose of eliminating war. It would create a world free of nations threatening the first-use of nuclear weaponry, and a world in which nuclear disarmament might proceed more rapidly. Gone would be the last major nation using cluster bombs or refusing to ban land mines. If the United States kicked the war habit, war itself would suffer a major and possibly fatal set-back. For this reason, the war abolition movement around the world will need to be directed at U.S. military bases as well as local governments, and major U.S. wars as much as local militarism.
L-istruttura u l-finanzjament ta 'din il-kampanja biex titneħħa l-gwerra għad iridu jiġu ddeterminati. Jista 'jkun indipendenti jew allinjat ma' jew taħt l-awspiċji ta 'organizzazzjoni jew grupp ta' organizzazzjonijiet eżistenti. Aħna nistennuha li tistabbilixxi netwerk deċentralizzat ta 'organizzazzjonijiet varji wara strateġija komuni u kkoordinata. Fil-parti l-kbira dan ikun jikkonsisti fl-aġġustament u l-appoġġ ta 'xogħol li l-gruppi huma diġà impenjati biex jiffurmaw parti minn front magħqud li javvanza l-abolizzjoni tal-gwerra filwaqt li javvanza passi iżgħar fit-tnaqqis tal-gwerra jew it-titjib, il-konverżjoni ekonomika jew ir-reklutaġġ, ir-riżoluzzjoni ta' konflitt mhux vjolenti prevenzjoni jew twaqqif ta ’gwerer partikolari.
The establishment of this campaign would begin by exploring possibilities with key people and organizations, a process that might include conference calls and possibly in-person gathering(s). The goal would be to begin the work of building this movement immediately, and to plan an international conference to publicly launch the campaign on or around August 27th, the anniversary of the Kellogg-Briand Pact's signing. There are major peace gatherings planned for Sarajevo in June and South Africa in July that this campaign might soon want to propose to take part in. There is also the date of July 28, 2014, marking 100 years since the launch of the war that was to end all wars and instead brought more of them, a date that this campaign might want to make use of in some way.
Il-kampanja tkun teħtieġ isem, websajt, bord konsultattiv internazzjonali, persunal, u - b'xi mod jew ieħor - membri organizzattivi u individwali. Tali membri jistgħu jaqblu ma 'wegħda li jaħdmu għall-abolizzjoni tal-gwerra u li qatt ma jappoġġjaw it-twettiq tal-gwerra. Fl-iżvilupp tal-isem u l-islogan għall-kampanja, ħsieb bir-reqqa u riċerka tal-kummerċ ikunu meħtieġa.
Online u off, il-kampanja tiżviluppa ċentru ta 'riżorsi dwar l-abolizzjoni tal-gwerra - li jfisser, mhux kull aspett tal-gwerra, iżda speċifikament il-każ (morali, legali, ekonomiku, ambjentali, eċċ.) Għall-abolizzjoni totali, inkluż kif passi parzjali fit-tnaqqis tal-gwerra jew it-titjib jista 'jwassal lejn l-abolizzjoni u mhux' il bogħod minnha, inkluż kif il-gwerer tal-passat jistgħu jinftiehmu l-aħjar, u inklużi alternattivi paċifiċi effettivi għall-gwerra u viżjoni paċifika ta 'dinja ta' wara l-gwerra. Dan iċ-ċentru tar-riżorsi eventwalment jinkludi wkoll għodod għall-ġbir ta ’petizzjonijiet, riżoluzzjonijiet lokali u organizzattivi, leġiżlazzjoni, materjali għal avvenimenti edukattivi inklużi kotba u films, bureau tal-kelliema, ġranet ikkoordinati ta’ azzjoni, flyers, fuljetti, posters, ideat ta ’azzjoni kreattiva, eċċ.
Il-moviment ta 'abolizzjoni jiżviluppa programmi ta' volontarjat u ta 'taħriġ biex iħarrġu lill-organizzaturi biex jibnu u jsaħħu l-kampanja.
Il-moviment jaħdem fuq strateġiji għal sensibilizzazzjoni ma ’varjetà wiesgħa ta’ kostitwenzi globalment. *
The campaign would develop and coordinate with its allies and members a communications strategy including our own media production, efforts to gain coverage by media outlets, and possibly advertising, school text-book reform, and other means of communication and education. We would work to see our media productions used as educational tools. We would advance a vision of a transition to a renewable energy world in which there would be no "need" for wars over oil and in which we could end the danger of global warming and create a good life for every person on the planet.
The movement would work to coordinate with its members partial steps (and movement-building victories) toward abolition, including possibly such approaches as: economic conversion, disarmament, base closures, bans on particular weapons or tactics, promotion of diplomacy including possibly new structures such as Departments of Peace and reform and strengthening of the United Nations, expanding the development of peace teams and human shields into a global nonviolent peaceforce, promotion of nonmilitary foreign aid and crisis prevention, placing restrictions on military recruitment and providing potential soldiers with alternatives, legislation to redirect war taxes into peace work and meeting human needs, and/or promotion of international law. The campaign might work with key allies to develop concrete proposals for how to spend funding redirected from wars and militarism. All of these steps would be presented to the world, not as improvements in war or steps toward "smart wars" or "humanitarian wars" but as key steps in the direction of the end of all wars.
Steps in the direction of abolition that the movement might support include the development of a peace conversion taskforce to help communities make the transition from war making to working to meet human and environmental needs, and expanding the global nonviolent peaceforce of civilian, trained, international, nonviolent peacekeepers and peacemakers who could be available to protect civilians endangered by conflicts in all parts of the world and to help build peace where there is or has been violent conflict. These efforts would help the world to see that there are alternatives to war-making.
Il-moviment jaħdem mal-alleati jew mal-membri tiegħu biex joħloq strateġija għall-abolizzjoni legali tal-gwerra, possibilment inklużi l-Patt Kellogg-Briand u l-Prinċipji ta 'Nuremberg.
Il-moviment jaħdem mal-membri rilevanti biex jiżviluppa strateġiji ta 'azzjoni diretta, inklużi viġilanzi, imblokk, dimostrazzjonijiet, eċċ., B'koordinazzjoni globali.
Each step along the way cannot be foreseen in any detail, but progress will be somewhat measurable in victories against particular war proposals, in the creation of particular educational or counter-recruitment programs, in disarmament, etc., and in the extent to which these measures are presented and understood as steps toward abolition, as well is in any measurable shifts in public opinion, and in the growth of the campaign, the signers of its pledge or petition, the readers and viewers of its materials, etc. There are always victories and set-backs in the struggle against militarism. Viewing them as part of a process toward abolition may better allow us to see the forest for the trees and determine whether in fact the victories are outpacing the defeats.
*Such constituencies might include people in many parts of the world, key organizers, well-known leaders, peace groups, peace and justice groups, environmental groups, human rights groups, activist coalitions, lawyers, philosophers/moralists/ethicists, doctors, psychologists, religious groups, economists, labor unions, diplomats, towns and cities and states or provinces or regions, nations, international organizations, the United Nations, civil liberties groups, media reform groups, business groups and leaders, billionaires, teachers groups, student groups, education reform groups, government reform groups, journalists, historians, women's groups, senior citizens, immigrant and refugee rights groups, libertarians, socialists, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, conservatives, veterans, student- and cultural-exchange groups, sister-cities groups, sports enthusiasts, and advocates for investment in children and healthcare and in human needs of every sort, as well as those working to oppose contributors to militarism in their societies, such as xenophobia, racism, machismo, extreme materialism, all forms of violence, lack of community, and war profiteering.
Il-ktieb il-ġdid ta’ David Swanson huwa Nru tal-Gwerra Aktar: Il-Każ għall-Abolizzjoni. Huwa blogs fuq http://davidswanson.org u, http://warisacrime.org u jaħdem għal http://rootsaction.org. Jospita Radio Nazzjon Tkellem. Segwi miegħu fuq Twitter: @davidcnswanson u, Facebook.
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