The Paris Peace Declaration
Everyone is talking about globalisation -
but the globalisation of peace ?
The year 2000 is not only the opening of a new century, a new millenniurn.
It is also 10 years since the end of the Cold War. It is 10 years too
since the IPB last gathered in Paris, at its 1990 conference in Créteil.
This time period gives us sufficient distance perhaps to see the contours
of the new order (or disorder) that is involving. It is clear that we
are in an era where there is one dominant military superpower (USA),
one powerful alliance (NATO), and a number of regional powers. This
in itself is a recipe for serious instability. The global military industry
continues to reap huge profits from death preparations, and its market
is a global one without frontiers.
The last 10 years have seen terrible killing and some serious wars
and acts of genocide: Rwanda, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Afghanistan,
Angola... to name only the worst. But they have also seen 10 years of
peacemaking and progress in certain directions: landmines treaty, criminal
court, World Court decision on nuclear weapons, peace settlements in
South Africa, Ireland, Guatemala... The Pinochet case etc...
The horizons of the peace movement have expanded enormously: not only
covering disarmament and conflict resolution, but also human rights,
sustainable development, justice, democracy, global governance... all
these and more are rightly the subject of reflexion and nonviolent action
of all kinds. We can no longer say we have one peace movement, rather,
we belong to a family of movements and networks.
All the themes mentioned above were woven into the Hague Appeal for
Peace and its historic conference in May 1999, which IPB helped to organize
and which has been its most ambitious project to date. The principal
outcome is the 50 point Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice, a document
that was produced with the participation of hundreds of civil society
groups and has become an official UN document. Our task now is to work
together to implement that vision and those measures.
This will require planning, resources and above all commitment.
The voices of civil society must be heard, and governments must learn
to listen. We offer our full support for the October conference in Paris,
conscious of the magnitude of the tasks ahead but inspired by the knowledge
that thousands, millions even, are working with us.
Key conference themes:
Cultures of Peace
Lay down your Arms
Globalisation and War
Summary Programme:
Thursday pm: opening plenary, workshops
Thursday eve: opening of peace art exhibit, reception, music evening
Friday am: plenary, workshops
Friday pm: plenary, award of MacBride Peace Prize
Friday eve: free in Paris
Saturday am: workshops, plenary
Saturday pm: youth sports event, IPB Assembly
Saturday eve: cultural evening
There will be English-French interpretation in plenaries and hopefully
all workshops.
This conference is a major follow up event to the Hague Appeal for
Peace (May 1999) and also a contribution to the International Year for
the Culture of conference Peace. Suggestions for speakers, interpreters,
cultural presentations etc are welcome, but please be aware that the
budget is a limited one.
Initiators of French national organizing committee:
Appel des Cent pour la paix:
Movement de la paix:
Stop Essais pour l'abolition de l'arme nucleaire:
Local contact in Paris:
Anick Sicart, Appel des Cent pour la paix
17-19 place de l'Argonne
F-75019 Paris
Tel. 33.1.4209.2378, Fax. 33.1.4209.2350
Email:
Intemational Contact:
Colin Archer, Secretary-General, Intemationai Peace Bureau
41 rue de Zurich
1201 Geneva Switzerland
Tel. 41.22.731.6429 Fax. 738-9419
Email: and http://www.ipb.org also
www.haguepeace.org and http://youth.haguepeace.org
IPB is the oldest and the most comprehensive of the intemational peace
federations - covering issues ranging from nuclear weapons and small
arms to conflict resolution and peace education.
REGISTRATION FORM
1) Details Mr/Mrs/Ms (NAME) ...............................................
First name: ................................................................................
Street: ........................................................................................
Zip code: ...................................................................................
Country: ...................................................................................
Tel.: ..........................................................................................
fax: ...........................................................................................
email: .......................................................................................
2) Registration fees
Participant: 80$
Participant from A LOW INCOME COUNTRY: 40 $
Student/Youth : 40$
...... I contribute to expenses of a participant from a developing
country or of a young person
Overall amount of my registration fees: ...............................................................................
MEALS
The cost of lunches on Friday and Saturday are included in the cost
of the mandate
3) Hotel reservations
If needed, you're welcome to ask us for a list of hotels and youth
accommodations in Nanterre and surroundings (look at the
ipb website), as well as in Paris. As Paris is a conference city
and Nanterre is very close to the Exhibition center of CNIT/Paris la
Defense, we would advise you to contact hotels as soon as possible.
For your reservations, please make sure you give the following indications
to the hotel: surname, name, address, zip code, city, country, telephone,
fax or email, your date of arrival, your date of departure.
4) Payment
By bank transfer to the following account:
BNP Agence Villette "CONFERENCE IPB PARIS"
IBAN (International bank account number):
CB FR76 3000 4008 2700 0100 5476 942