Guidemakers.net wishes to send our congratulations to Riga for hosting this timely conference- some futurehistorian notes on our mapmaking page which most connectes with you work follow; should these explorations matter to people you network with at any time, please do contact chris.Macrae@yahoo.co.uk and we can try and update latest inquiries

Featured events 25/26 November 2006:
Arab University in Jerusalem : Al-Quds meet reconciliation scholars and discuss conditions of Palestine refugees: abstracts, participants At the end of the conference a book which will include the full papers presented by the speakers, recommendations and a summary of the discussions outcome; will be published. The book will be disseminated to all the PNA Ministries, PLC members, Government Offices and Institutions,Universities, UN Agencies and Research Centers


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"We entrepreneurs are truly proud to support the NATO Summit in Riga know, security is essential in promoting the welfare of society, and our joint effort to successfully implement the NATO Summit in Riga gives us an opportunity to realize this goal.
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Source: The Euphrates River is one of the largest rivers of western Asia, about 1700 miles long. In the Bible it is referred to by several names such as the "great river" or just "the river" and is among the four rivers, which flowed from the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:14). It formed the northeastern limit of the Promised Land (Gen 15:18). The river, which receives its waters from the mountains of Armenia, flows through a deep and narrow gorge, but as it descends toward Babylon, the Euphrates and the Tigris take different routes, which form the great broad plain of Mesopotamia. The Euphrates has a very strong current and therefore is navigable only in its lower parts. Along its shores flourished some of the important cities of Mesopotamia. The greatest of which was Babylon. Another, Carchemish, was an important road junction and a river crossing for the caravans coming from the Far East. Throughout periods of history (even to the Roman period) the Euphrates River formed the boundary between east and west.Some of the great battles of history took place on the Euphrates, one of which was the battle between Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon and Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt in 605 BC. (Jer 46:2).
Euphrates : G L /// Babylon: G L info@guidemakers.net -tell us next search to insert
Penpals For Iraq
What can ordinary people around the world do for the people of Iraq? I guess I don't know. But if you have any penpals or email-pals you trust and wish to act as pobox for correspondence to or from them, please tell me at info@worldcitizen.tv . Meanwhile my penpals include:
Callum Macrae, a relative, whose investigative journalism I admire 1
A lady from Wasit province who holds workshops on the peace professes local women want

worldcitizens calling:

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From Clinton Global Initiative 2006:

Mitigating Religious and Ethnic Conflict: Preventing and Resolving Deadly Conflict 101 Don Cheadle, actor and activist, John Prendergast, senior advisor of the international crisis group, and Jeffrey Swartz, President and CEO of The Timberland Company. 100 Hanan Ashwari, The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialog and Democracy, MIFTAH; Eival Gilady, Portland Trust, Tel Aviv; Ghassan Salame, CNRS CERI. r moderator: George Mitchell, DLA Piper.

Musharaf Explains how Terrorism Came About in Pakistan and what Pakistan is Doing About it ... Came About in Pakistan and what Pakistan is Doing About it at Clinton Global Initiative 21 min - Sep 20, 2006

Initiative, Queen Rania Al-Abdullah discusses her opinions on the conflict between Palestine and Israel.

Palestine vs Israel 3 min

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Lebanon 3 min

THE CODE GUIDE CHALLENGE
It's funny how clarifying details sounds boring until you realise that the alternative is to be ruled only by average numbers and no greater contextIronically I learnt this professionally 30 years ago when I started exploring early database software to try to build applications that were halfway between market and society research. I worked for one company for 10 years before it got taken over by Robert Maxwell - he who later jumped ship as his corporation of cards collapsed - that connected millions hours of people's biews of social needs linking 50 countries and hundreds of marketplaces. I say ironically because I have only just woken up to realise that I have not seen an open souce coding guide to all the crisis destials of human sustainability we world citizens debate and prioritise for grassrooots up change.I know the rest of this looks longish. But here's a very short question - what's the most vital code that I have forgotten which you would wnat to add so that the world can see how many beings are suffering from the crisis you most serve or seek to help change

CODING GUIDE TO CHANGES HUMANS NEED
I haven't seen a worldwide version of this that world citizen networks can connect in using. If you think there is one that is open for people to collaborate around and suitably diverse please tell me where it is bookmarked. I do not want to reinvent the wheel. Otherwise, why don't we develop a version here and then debate with other world citizen communities?
What codes need to be added to this framework, or what would you suggest is edited. If you have a particular world change concern we particularly need you to come and state it and edit this guide so that it links with how you describe the change needed wherever you network -mail any views you have on this to info@guidemakers.net
100 War and Personal Safety Issues
200 Climate & Scarcity Issues
300 Issues value each child and beings rights integrating basic communal flows such as health, rights to education and future participation
400 Poverty and Unfair system issues
500 Other
I realise that few codes are separate. But the idea is we could profile any individual being to see what risks of degradation they are challenged by at a micro level; then also map how codes cluster and emerge from group contexts, and so on up the scale of local to interlocal to global. I believe that one type of context factor is worth pre-coding because of ample evidence from catalogues of social and sustainability entrepreneur projects that its context is a primary factor:
W Big Cities in Developed Countries
X Other in Developed Countries
Y Big Cities in Developing Countries
Z Rural in Developing Countries
For example, Z Rural will often mean there is no infrastructure reaching these places on basis utilities like water and electricity; no products designed rural-specifically by the world's most knowledgeable corporations (one reason why he no loss company has emerged as one of the most innovative paradigms of micro or social entrepreneurs); no internet infrastructure within reach for representing grassroots questions on most vital needs or advance warning signals of the sort the tsunami coastlines; often not sufficient in-the-community knowledge on very basic health and education needs children require for life to grow. The lack of clean water will often order that girls as soon as they can carry water spend hours a day walking to collect it. And whilst rural communities would naturally be below average waste-makers with carbon and other pollutants, they have their own crises like cutting down more trees than are being grows just to get light or heat.
100 In war zone
101 In a refugee camp that provides no opportunity to develop a family's self-sufficiency
102 Corruption or violence are dominant over any simple code of human rights law
103 Member of an underclass (racial, gender, faith, age...) that the ruling majority are publicly prejudiced against or abusive to
104 Member of an underclass that attracts prejudice or is under-represented in practice even if this isn't explicitly intended by the nation
105 Has lack of access to social or community spaces and becomes part of a non-peaceful extremist group
106 On reaching adolescence gets pulled into a drug-addicted or other communal gang
107 Due to extreme family poverty or other dysfunctional patterns is turned into a sex or work slave
108 Is in an abusive family situation
109 Has no family and is on the streets ...

etc

201 Not enough clean water as a human right to grow/ and live
202 Region-wide contamination or pollution
203 Not enough energy as a human right to grow/live
204 Not enough clean food
205 Consuming in a country or nation that does not openly value sustainability of all future generations
206 Living in a place where knowledge of sustainability's natural ways forward is censored or not being innovated due to lobbying by big vested interests (eg it was as late as 2006 that awareness of addiction to petroleum economics was permitted in many countries media or politics)
207 Failure at all age groups to include sustainability and network systems of system maps in the way that we pro-act how technology's exponentially increasing connections change what long-term or collaboration investments we most need - eg most professions have no idea of biomass models in which system boundary conditions are vital and compound externalisation becomes the greatest risk of global meltdowns.
208 Largest organisations are being governed by rules that value the energies machine needs more than the energies that humans need. Sustainability and other vital human needs are excluded from business case metrics compounding systemic consequences...

301 Children are dying due to lack of in-community basic health knowhow or failure by a place's government to adopt Gandhian view of democracy as prioritising in public service those with most vital needs and smallest voices
302 The right to primary education for all is not accessible or not made practical here
303 There is a lack of grassroots up contextual support because of too much standard, male or top-down planning (and too little encouragement of eg social entrepreneurship) whether by government, charities or partnerships
304 Children and youth are not involved in vocational or other education prioritised around local contexts and/or are being digitally divided or disenfranchised from participating in what globalisation our next generations need
305 Trust and other emotional literacies are not being valued sufficiently nor openly mapped by educational systems to collaborate in cross-cultural innovations of the sort that "death of distance future" histories will compound around.
306 Economics of scarcity and big gets bigger is still ruling here compounding ever greater dissonance with value multiplying abundances that true knowledge and deep social networking could liberate
401 Lack of microfinance - lending the poor the first dollar - around here
402 Lack of innovation system design needed to contextually sustain the poorest or those in geographically-disadvantaged places over time. This includes places whose natural resources have been historically "raped or ruined" by outsiders
403 Continuing Global Externalisation onto this society of a compound risk that was not transparently informed or which society's laws had not be fast enough to protect human lives from
404 Lack of consistent scaling and entrepreneurial energy on the contextually most valuable social projects
405 Peoples and youth's next generation are being chained to global debt to corruptions or hostilities that a handful of past leaders -not the whole nation - were responsible for
406 Rich regions agricultural or other trade policies discriminate against sustainable evolution of this places peoples, however entrepreneurially locals apply themselves
407 The mix of global and national economics and market/media practices (eg expensive lobbying) is not free in the sense that Adam Smith's economics (or other Hippocratic oath professions originally intended). The great mistake of the ruling maths and audits is to compound ever greater divides of richer and richer versus poorer and poorer
408 There is a lack of trust and cooperation needed for boundary transparency between systems which is the primary explainer of what compound consequences a highly networked world will spin. Failure to address at every level of global village media and social network meetings the 7 greatest crises for winning or losing irreversible species sustainability during the generation 1984-2024
...
500?

Places that host too many worldchanging meetings need to share with those that host too few -eg 1 Riga (Nov06 -NATO) 2 ahmedabad (Oct07 - a Gandhi centenary in the ashram that conceived his peace revolution against the British)
Club of City: Apology Strategy of Player 1 - Loves Iraq and Muslim east; is in London and DC; is Scottish in internationalist and entrepreneurial system beliefs of how sustainability of network economics maps; cannot get to Washington state any time soon though recognises its home to the world's greatest givers
please don't get me wrong I love billanthropists and I am sure theSeattle region means well with its billions for worldwide health end education, but all my favourite charities are gravitated by being in the field; the UK has at least 50 years of studies showing that the further a charity or NGO's HQ gets from the place of most desperate need it uniquely claims to serve, the more waste compounds over time - unless it is audited in mathematicially and systematically the opposite goodill way than tangible accounting measure efiiciency in the pre networking age -a goverance monopoly way of spereading numbgers which also brain conditions wickedly unsustainable pattern rules - eg investing in machines matters and people are costs to cut every quarter

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NATO Off the Wire - Spokesman's video blog
The Riga agenda previewed Martin Erdmann
New capabilites for NATO - Mr. Marshall Billingslea
Transforming NATO at Riga - Mr. Colston


Pentagon briefing by Gen. Jones on ISAF (Courtesy of Pentagon)
20 Sept 2006







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by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

As you know, NATO will hold a Summit this November in Riga. For NATO, Summits are not regular events. When they happen, they are important transformational moments. Which is why I believe we need to work, in NATO, from now until Riga to make progress in a few key areas.
First: the NATO Response Force. The NRF is a critical military asset. We used it to deliver aid fast to Pakistan after the earthquake, and we saw its potential. It also raises the standards of all NATO militaries – it is the high tide that floats all the NATO boats. We are going to test its operational capability this summer. I will push hard to ensure that we get it, and that by Riga, we can announce Full Operational Capability.
The NRF deployment to Pakistan highlighted a second area where we need to make progress by Riga: funding. Now, I know that using the word “funding” is not the best way to make an audience prick up their ears. But modernising the way we pay for things in NATO is critical, because it will make it easier to do what we need to do: project stability.
Right now, participation in the NRF is something like a reverse lottery: if your numbers come up, you actually lose money. If the NRF deploys while you happen to be in the rotation, you pay the full costs of the deployment of your forces. This can be a disincentive to countries to commit to participation in the NRF. And that is something that the Alliance can’t afford.
That is why we need more solidarity in the way we pay for our operations. We need to share the costs more fairly. When Turkey had to ship some helicopters to Afghanistan, Luxembourg paid for their transport. That was solidarity. In the case of the NRF, I believe we should aim for the common funding of at least the initial deployment.
I think we also need to increase our collective capabilities. Let me give you an example: AWACS. In a few weeks, NATO AWACS will help protect the Olympic Games in Turin. This summer, NATO AWACS will patrol over the World Cup here in Germany. This model works. It puts a critical capability at the disposal of all Allies, including the smaller ones; it allows everyone to share the costs; and it helps to keep our people safe.
I believe this is a good example of our potential if we do more together. A NATO Air-to-Ground Surveillance capability, for example, makes sense. Commonly operated strategic lift makes sense as well, because it is crystal clear that we need more lift at our disposal, including at times of crisis when leasing is not an easy option. And we need to make progress on joint logistics, because it is a waste of time and effort to have ten supply chains for ten national contingents in the same NATO operation. I think that by Riga, we should make progress on all these fronts.
I mentioned already that, in Afghanistan, NATO’s partners are playing a critical role. I saw myself the Swedish C-130 parked on the tarmac in Kabul, alongside the Danish and UK aircraft. Interestingly, I noticed that the Swedish plane said “Royal Swedish Air Force, and the Danish one said “Royal Danish Air Force”, but the UK Hercules simply said “Royal Air Force”. I won’t comment on what this might imply about UK self-image…
Afghanistan illustrates a new reality – in the new security environment, our Partners make a critical contribution to our shared objectives. That is why the links with our partner countries – from Austria to Finland and from Armenia to Kazakhstan -- are a true strategic asset. We need to ensure that we have the closest possible partnership with those countries that can, and are willing to, help defend our shared values.
To my mind, that means also building closer links with other likeminded nations beyond Europe – nations such as Australia, New Zealand, South Korea or Japan. NATO is not a global policeman, but we have increasingly global partnerships.
In Europe, NATO’s partnership policy has been a major success. But for some nations, partnership is only a step towards the ultimate goal of NATO membership. The prospect of joining NATO has been a major incentive for many countries to tackle the challenge of reform. It has helped to foster stability and democracy. This logic of integration remains as valid as ever, especially in the Balkans. But it also means that when nations have performed, when they have done what NATO asked them to do, the Alliance cannot hold out on accession. When aspirant countries are ready, we must let them enter NATO’s open door. I expect Riga to bring that message home – loud and clear.
One final point: transatlantic security dialogue. That was the theme of last year’s meeting, and as I mentioned, we have definitely deepened our political discussions within NATO on issues of concern to all 26 Allies. Everyone can agree that this makes sense.
I believe that there are more issues that we should consider bringing to the NATO table. And one that leaps to mind is energy security. NATO’s Strategic Concept includes the protection of vital supply lines as one area critical to the security of Allies. Today, for reasons that are obvious – including the potential of terrorists targeting our energy supplies – it makes sense to me that the Allies should discuss this issue.
But deeper transatlantic dialogue within NATO isn’t enough. We also have to build a pragmatic, strategic partnership with the EU. Because I will say bluntly: we are not doing nearly enough.
It is obvious that NATO and the EU share common strategic interests. Look at Afghanistan, where both NATO and the EU are heavily committed. Look at Kosovo, where the same is true. Look at the Middle East, to which both NATO and the EU are reaching out. Look at defence procurement, which costs billions of Euros. 19 countries belong to both organisations. One would think that they would all insist on the highest degree of complementarity and cooperation.
But we have not achieved this goal. To be sure, there are institutional, political and technical reasons with which we are all familiar. This means that we are working past each other. It means that we are duplicating each other’s efforts. And that we are wasting taxpayers’ money.
I want to see a strong and vibrant European Union. I want it to grow in partnership with NATO as a major security actor. This is in all of our interests. We have to put pragmatism above dogmatism. We must build a true strategic partnership between NATO and the EU. I will work hard to help make that happen as soon as possible.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today’s security environment bears no resemblance to the Cold War – when deterrence took care of our security needs, and when our solidarity was never tested in operations. This era has gone for good. Today’s challenges are very different. They require us to act – sometimes in faraway regions; where we know our soldiers’ lives will be at risk; where the costs can be high; and where the engagements can seem long.
In this new world, solidarity is the key: political, military and financial solidarity. NATO has always embodied solidarity between Europe and North America. We are demonstrating it today, including in Afghanistan. I think we can do better – in the way we operate, in the way we pay for what we do, and in the way we work with the wider world. And I believe that the Summit Riga will prove it.
Thank you.

quotes originally collated by Coalition for Democratic World Government





"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

–President Dwight D. Eisenhower


"The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law."
–President Dwight D. Eisenhower


"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace."
–President Woodrow Wilson


"Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up...the prospects for peace and human progress are dark.... If...it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share."
–Winston Churchill


"There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government."
–Albert Einstein


"... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak."
–President Dwight D. Eisenhower


"We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons"
–President John F. Kennedy


"There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government."
–Mikhail Gorbachev


"There is enough bad in people to make law necessary, and enough good in people to make it workable."
–Source unknown


"The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order."
–Pope John Paul II


"World federalism is an idea that will not die.More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a product of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world."
–U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas


"We shall live together as brothers or die together as fools"
–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


"A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive."
–Albert Einstein


"... the emergency committee of atomic scientists, having explored for two years all means other than world government for making responsible the control of atomic energy, has become convinced that no other method than world government can be expected to prove effective, and that the attainment of world government is therefore the most urgent problem now facing mankind."
–1948 Resolution


"The abolition of war is no longer an ethical question to be pondered solely by learned philosophers and ecclesiastics, but a hard core one for the decision of the masses whose survival is the issue. Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream - that it is the vague imagining of a visionary. But we must go on or we will go under ... We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts. We must break out of the straightjacket of the past. We must sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace–which is rapidly becoming a necessity–into actuality."
–General Douglas MacArthur, July 5, 1961


"World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order. The heart of their program - a world under law - is realistic and attainable."
–U.N. Secretary General U Thant


"Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, wher conflict would give way to freedom from violence."
–President Ronald Reagan
Address to the U.N. General Assembly, Sept 26, 1983


"It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. Now when Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas river they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally."
–President Harry S. Truman


"Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action."
–Thor Hyerdahl


"It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it."
–Carl Van Doren


"A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice to ensure health, educaion, and a rough equality of opportunity, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open up a new phase in human history."
–H.G. Wells

Munich 4 Feb

Speech
by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Schefferat the 42nd Munich Conference on Security Policy
Multimedia
Speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (MP3/2777Kb)

I always participate in the Munich Security Conference because this is one of the best places to take the pulse of the transatlantic relationship.

Today, I want to focus on a few key areas:

the broader and more intense political consultations at NATO on issues ranging from the Balkans and Afghanistan to Africa and the Middle East, and now also energy security;
our growing operational commitments, in particular expansion in Afghanistan but also new categories of missions, such as support for the AU in Darfur and a major humanitarian mission in Pakistan.
progress on transformation, to meet both old and new demands on the Alliance, including achieving full operational capability for the NRF, strengthening our access to strategic lift, and better funding mechanisms;
the need to work more effectively with current partners and reach out to new ones, and in particular the importance of building in a pragmatic, strategic partnership with the European Union. This is essential for both organizations; and
bringing these various themes together at the NATO summit in Riga next November.
All of the above issues are of keen transatlantic interest. Of course, as NATO Secretary General, it’s my job to have one foot in Europe and one in North America. This is not always a comfortable position, and, as you can imagine, I am very sensitive to continental drift! This year, I’m happy to say that the state of the transatlantic union is good.

In fact, more than ever, NATO is in demand and NATO is delivering.

In the past few days, some of you might have had some doubts about NATO would continue to deliver in Afghanistan. I had no such doubts. This Alliance has made a long-term commitment to the Afghan people, and to the UN. We will meet those commitments, for as long as necessary. Because Afghanistan is making progress. It is a success. And we will reinforce that success.

Afghanistan is not just a success story. It also illustrates how far NATO’s transformation has come – even if a lot remains to be done, and I will come to that in a moment.

NATO’s operation in Afghanistan shows that the Alliance has already made huge changes to meet the security challenges of the 21st century. We have broadened our strategic horizon far beyond Europe. We have begun tackling terrorism as a main mission – indeed, in Afghanistan, we are engaging terrorism at the source. We are projecting and sustaining forces well beyond our traditional area of operations. We are working at the core of a team that includes the UN, the EU, the G-8 and non-NATO countries as well. And we are taking on tasks across the military spectrum, from soft to hard power.

That is the new, transforming NATO. But I say “transforming”, rather that “transformed”, because there is still unfinished business. We need to make more changes to the way NATO works, if this Alliance is to maximise its potential as the place where Europe and North America come together to project stability.

As you know, NATO will hold a Summit this November in Riga. For NATO, Summits are not regular events. When they happen, they are important transformational moments. Which is why I believe we need to work, in NATO, from now until Riga to make progress in a few key areas.

First: the NATO Response Force. The NRF is a critical military asset. We used it to deliver aid fast to Pakistan after the earthquake, and we saw its potential. It also raises the standards of all NATO militaries – it is the high tide that floats all the NATO boats. We are going to test its operational capability this summer. I will push hard to ensure that we get it, and that by Riga, we can announce Full Operational Capability.

The NRF deployment to Pakistan highlighted a second area where we need to make progress by Riga: funding. Now, I know that using the word “funding” is not the best way to make an audience prick up their ears. But modernising the way we pay for things in NATO is critical, because it will make it easier to do what we need to do: project stability.

Right now, participation in the NRF is something like a reverse lottery: if your numbers come up, you actually lose money. If the NRF deploys while you happen to be in the rotation, you pay the full costs of the deployment of your forces. This can be a disincentive to countries to commit to participation in the NRF. And that is something that the Alliance can’t afford.

That is why we need more solidarity in the way we pay for our operations. We need to share the costs more fairly. When Turkey had to ship some helicopters to Afghanistan, Luxembourg paid for their transport. That was solidarity. In the case of the NRF, I believe we should aim for the common funding of at least the initial deployment.

I think we also need to increase our collective capabilities. Let me give you an example: AWACS. In a few weeks, NATO AWACS will help protect the Olympic Games in Turin. This summer, NATO AWACS will patrol over the World Cup here in Germany. This model works. It puts a critical capability at the disposal of all Allies, including the smaller ones; it allows everyone to share the costs; and it helps to keep our people safe.

I believe this is a good example of our potential if we do more together. A NATO Air-to-Ground Surveillance capability, for example, makes sense. Commonly operated strategic lift makes sense as well, because it is crystal clear that we need more lift at our disposal, including at times of crisis when leasing is not an easy option. And we need to make progress on joint logistics, because it is a waste of time and effort to have ten supply chains for ten national contingents in the same NATO operation. I think that by Riga, we should make progress on all these fronts.

I mentioned already that, in Afghanistan, NATO’s partners are playing a critical role. I saw myself the Swedish C-130 parked on the tarmac in Kabul, alongside the Danish and UK aircraft. Interestingly, I noticed that the Swedish plane said “Royal Swedish Air Force, and the Danish one said “Royal Danish Air Force”, but the UK Hercules simply said “Royal Air Force”. I won’t comment on what this might imply about UK self-image…

Afghanistan illustrates a new reality – in the new security environment, our Partners make a critical contribution to our shared objectives. That is why the links with our partner countries – from Austria to Finland and from Armenia to Kazakhstan -- are a true strategic asset. We need to ensure that we have the closest possible partnership with those countries that can, and are willing to, help defend our shared values.

To my mind, that means also building closer links with other likeminded nations beyond Europe – nations such as Australia, New Zealand, South Korea or Japan. NATO is not a global policeman, but we have increasingly global partnerships.

In Europe, NATO’s partnership policy has been a major success. But for some nations, partnership is only a step towards the ultimate goal of NATO membership. The prospect of joining NATO has been a major incentive for many countries to tackle the challenge of reform. It has helped to foster stability and democracy. This logic of integration remains as valid as ever, especially in the Balkans. But it also means that when nations have performed, when they have done what NATO asked them to do, the Alliance cannot hold out on accession. When aspirant countries are ready, we must let them enter NATO’s open door. I expect Riga to bring that message home – loud and clear.

One final point: transatlantic security dialogue. That was the theme of last year’s meeting, and as I mentioned, we have definitely deepened our political discussions within NATO on issues of concern to all 26 Allies. Everyone can agree that this makes sense.

I believe that there are more issues that we should consider bringing to the NATO table. And one that leaps to mind is energy security. NATO’s Strategic Concept includes the protection of vital supply lines as one area critical to the security of Allies. Today, for reasons that are obvious – including the potential of terrorists targeting our energy supplies – it makes sense to me that the Allies should discuss this issue.

But deeper transatlantic dialogue within NATO isn’t enough. We also have to build a pragmatic, strategic partnership with the EU. Because I will say bluntly: we are not doing nearly enough.

It is obvious that NATO and the EU share common strategic interests. Look at Afghanistan, where both NATO and the EU are heavily committed. Look at Kosovo, where the same is true. Look at the Middle East, to which both NATO and the EU are reaching out. Look at defence procurement, which costs billions of Euros. 19 countries belong to both organisations. One would think that they would all insist on the highest degree of complementarity and cooperation.

But we have not achieved this goal. To be sure, there are institutional, political and technical reasons with which we are all familiar. This means that we are working past each other. It means that we are duplicating each other’s efforts. And that we are wasting taxpayers’ money.

I want to see a strong and vibrant European Union. I want it to grow in partnership with NATO as a major security actor. This is in all of our interests. We have to put pragmatism above dogmatism. We must build a true strategic partnership between NATO and the EU. I will work hard to help make that happen as soon as possible.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today’s security environment bears no resemblance to the Cold War – when deterrence took care of our security needs, and when our solidarity was never tested in operations. This era has gone for good. Today’s challenges are very different. They require us to act – sometimes in faraway regions; where we know our soldiers’ lives will be at risk; where the costs can be high; and where the engagements can seem long.

In this new world, solidarity is the key: political, military and financial solidarity. NATO has always embodied solidarity between Europe and North America. We are demonstrating it today, including in Afghanistan. I think we can do better – in the way we operate, in the way we pay for what we do, and in the way we work with the wider world. And I believe that the Summit Riga will prove it.

What's the most relevant question connecting this blog's vision that I could be posting round my linkin friends? Chris Macrae

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Thursday, December 02, 2004

Professor Ikujiro Nonaka
Dialog on Leadership: Ikujiro Nonaka Interview
KNOWLEDGE HAS TO DO WITH TRUTH, GOODNESS, AND BEAUTY Conversation with Professor Ikujiro NonakaTokyo, JapanFebruary 23, 1996Claus Otto Scharmer
origin of post by Arturs Puga

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Knowledge is that which liberates us- Gandhi, Mission Statement founding University at Ahmedabad

Opening Spaces for Civil Society

conversation extract, source Andy Carvin omidyar debate Sept 04:
(Accoding as the )UN is engaged within a country, the more likely that international civil society will be able to penetrate it as well.

For example, there's been a lot of criticism about the UN deciding to host the next World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia, which has an abysmal record on human rights, free speech and free press. I even felt this way when I arrived in Tunis last June for the most recent UN planning meeting for the event: let's move the meeting to South Africa or Sweden or something. But here's a conversation that changed my mind.

It took place between a group of us from the civil society delegation with Janis Karklins, the chairman of the summit. Several in our group asked about the paradox of having the event in such a restrictive, information-controlled country. Karklins described what it was like growing up in Latvia during the Soviet era, and how the UN's decision to host several conferences in Latvia paved the way for international civil society groups to meet with nacent civil society groups in Latvia. These, in turn, led to the growth of civil society within Latvia, helping pave the way for independence.

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Join world leading networek for civil society here- Community of World Citizens

Sept 04 : One of Europe's largest knowledge entrpreneur conferences Baltic Dynamics (over 20 downloadable ppt presentations) was hosted this month in Riga by the Latvian Technological Center

Contribution from "Our Man in Riga" to Vilnius conference http://arturspuga.blogspot.com/2004/09/conference-in-vilnius.html