We demand from the
persons in power in the European Union, in the spirit of the 2+4
agreement, that it immediately and with the necessary diplomatic
commitment advocate a high-level negotiation initiative, supported by
the UN General Secretariat, to end the escalating war in Ukraine. The
mutual killing and also the massive environmental destruction caused by
war are no longer acceptable by the international community of peoples!
We demand a consistent ecology-policy and a turning away from the
uncritical growth-thinking in order to avert the existential threat to
the future of life on earth with a holistic approach. Accordingly, a
state's military-related emissions at home and abroad must also be
attributed to its national CO2 climate report. We call on the persons
responsible in the involved governments to advocate at international
climate negotiations that there will no longer be any exclusion of
military-related pollution in the documents of international climate
negotiations.
We call for international disarmament coordinated by the UN instead
of rearmament. In particular, we demand an end to nuclear armament,
which endangers the existence of mankind even more severe after the
denunciation of nuclear disarmament treaties and threats of mutual
destruction. Therefore, we also demand the accession of the States in
Europe and in NATO to the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons.
It’s now necessary to negotiate and settle effective diplomatic
initiatives and civil society activities in the international framework!
Peace does not come from more war! Wars do not end in peace!
Only a policy that honestly addresses all potential dangers in a
timely manner can avert the threats to the future of mankind. We expect
from the governments and from all people in power to take a clear
position on this and to act consistently within the framework of
international agreements!
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List of first signatories:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Brunner (Centre for Peace Research and Peace Education, Department of Educational Science, University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Karin Utas Carlsson, PHD (Peace activist, education conflict resolution, Sweden)
Jan Gildemeister (Executive director of Aktionsgemeinschaft Dienst für den Frieden (AGDF), Germany)
Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Hinrichs (Founder of EVAL, peace and environment activist, Austria)
Mayeul Kauffmann, PHD (President, Institut de recherche sur la Résolution Non-violente des Conflits (IRNC), France)
Ulla Klötzer (Peace and environment activist, NGOs Women for Peace, Women Against Nuclear Power, Finland)
Karl-Wilhelm Koch (Journalist and book author, member of the orga group 'Independent Green Left', Germany)
Lea Launokari (activist, Women for Peace, Finland)
May-May Meijer (Founder/ Chair of the NGO Peace SOS, The Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Klaus Moegling (Scientists for Future, Democracy Without Borders, Germany)
Josef Mühlbauer (Political Scientist, Varna Institute for Peace Research, Austria)
David Swanson (Author and Journalist, Executive Director of the NGO World BEYOND War, USA)
Liss Schanke (Member of WILPF Norway, Norway)
Bernhard Trautvetter (Spokesman of the Essen Peace Forum, member of the German Peace Council, Germany)
Prof. Thomas Wallgren PHD (social activist, Finnish philosopher and Director of The von Wright
and Wittgenstein Archives of the University of Helsinki, Finland)
