Ref: A Peace Education Inquiry
Dear Klaus,
First of all, thank you for sharing your valuable paper with me. I will certainly read it and send my comments to you, in the next days.
My inmediate response without having yet read your paper, just commenting on some topics you include in your mail:
1) I increasingly regard the so-called "Security Council" as an "insecurity council," as Evo Morales calls it - for reasons that you likely understand.
2) India with Modi and the growing influence of Hindu Nationalism/Fundamentalism, at the expense of secular India, does not appeal to me in the in-security (assuming China does not veto this idea, which is unlikely)
3) Gandhi's idea of a world federation does not change the basic problem of the UN project, namely, that most members of this world club of national-states are not democratic, namely, if the base is undemocratic how to expect that the UN or the world-federation of undemocratic national-states to be "democratic"??? In this respect, we should maybe support the efforts to democratize local governments as a way to help "democratize democracy" as Boaventura de Souza Santos proposes.
4) The political will of the de facto powers in the insecurity council is to profit from the death industry, and noticeable not to support a world of justice, peace and solidarity.
5) Perpetual peace in the spirit of Kant will come about, when "we, the peoples of the world" have a say on the matter.
Warm regards
Azril