International Conference: December 9–10, 2023

If You Want To Stop the Genocide,
Build a New International Security and Development Architecture

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The following is the Schiller Institute’s invitation for the Dec. 9–10, 2023 conference on the New International Security and Development Architecture, sponsored by the Central American and Caribbean Critical Thought (CPCCC) organization. The presentations beginning at 10 a.m. EST on Saturday, Dec. 9 will be available via Zoom, with simultaneous interpretation in English, French, German and Spanish.

Do you believe that Man is fundamentally good and capable of infinitely perfecting the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul? Would you agree that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome?

If you don’t share that philosophical outlook, then you probably don’t have a clue as to why humanity seems to be stuck in a perennial cycle of wars and economic devastation, nor a reasonable hope for how the crisis can be solved.

The terrible war in Ukraine; the carnage and increasingly evident ethnic cleansing and dehumanization underway in Palestine; the physical economic devastation being produced by deadly sanctions and subservience to a $2 quadrillion speculative financial bubble—these are all markers of the death rattle of the entire neo-liberal system engulfing the nations of the so-called West.

Ending the wars and fostering sovereign economic development of all nations is going to require an entirely new international security and development architecture. The nature of that new architecture, the principles on which it should be built, will be the central topic of deliberation at the upcoming Dec. 9–10 conference organized by the Central American and Caribbean Critical Thought organization.

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who will deliver the keynote address at the conference, in Nov. 2022 published a discussion document on precisely that issue, titled “Ten Principles of an International Security and Development Architecture.” Since then, she has stressed that “these ideas are meant to be food for thought and a dialogue among all people concerned to find a basis for a world order guaranteeing the durable existence of the human species.”

The full invitation from the conference sponsors follows.

Conference of Central American and Caribbean Critical Thought (CPCCC)

The New International Security and Development Architecture* from the Standpoint of a Multipolar World

As members of Central American and Caribbean Critical Thought (CPCCC), we call on students, intellectuals, professionals, social organizations, trade unions, men and women of good will, and peoples of the world to participate in this Conference.

Objectives of the International Conference

1. Internationally promote the importance of a New International Security and Development Architecture, to ensure a stable and lasting peace, consistent with the emergence of a multipolar world with social justice.

2. Through the conference’s thematic topics, carry out deliberations and critical analyses intended to coordinate the various contents to obtain results and concrete proposals.

Let us join together to build bridges of human empathy, solidarity, and brotherhood among the fraternal peoples of the Global North and South. We look forward to your valuable participation.

Preliminary Agenda

1. The New International Security and Development Architecture: Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder, Schiller Institute

2. Capitalism and Multipolarity: Luis Guzmán and Rafael Paz Narváez (CPCCC)

3. Economic and Financial Crisis and the Role of the BRICS-PLUS: Dennis Small, Schiller Institute

4. Alternatives to the U.S. System of Unipolar Domination: Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana

5. China’s New Silk Road vs. Netanyahu’s “Silk Road” Proposal to the UN: Ismael Cañas (CPCCC)

6. Military Conflicts, Neo-fascism and Neo-nazism: Fernando Vargas, Nora Vanegas, Jaime Jiménez (CPCCC)

7. Why Central and South America Should Join the BRICS-PLUS: Rubén Guzzetti, Argentine Institute for Geopolitical Studies (IADEG)

8. The Role of Counter-Hegemonic Art in the Birth of a Multi-polar World: José Campos and Jaime Jiménez (CPCCC)

9. The Legal, Political and Diplomatic Framework for the Reorganization or Reform of the UN: José Enrique González, Bolívar Téllez (CPCCC)

For further information, please contact:
Questions@SchillerInstitute.org

Or the conference organizers:

ferva110815@gmail.com Cell: +505 8685 5821

bolivartellezcastellon@gmail.com +505 8864 5434

jcamp_2000@yahoo.com +503 7808 7603