My Priorities if I were the New President of the United States of America: Peace (Self-Knowledge), Dignity and Prosperity
“The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates.
By Enrique Suarez
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” John Kenneth Galbraith
“The world would be so different, so incomparably more livable, if anyone in power could hear your words. They can't, but a genuine popular movement might bring them to their ears. It's happened before.” Noam Chomsky´s Comments to Enrique Suarez´s Essay, 2010
“The issue is not whether in this world there needs to be peace. The issue is that in each of our world there needs to be peace.” Enrique Suarez
By: Enrique R. Suarez International Educator, Management Consultant, Political Scientist &Professor Master of Education & International Development Harvard University
Email: deltamodel55@yahoo.com
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” John Kenneth Galbraith
“The world would be so different, so incomparably more livable, if anyone in power could hear your words. They can't, but a genuine popular movement might bring them to their ears. It's happened before.” Noam Chomsky´s Comments to Enrique Suarez´s Essay, 2010
“The issue is not whether in this world there needs to be peace. The issue is that in each of our world there needs to be peace.
By: Enrique R. Suarez International Educator, Management Consultant, Political Scientist &Professor Master of Education & International Development Harvard University
The International Arena
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.” Adam Smith
If I were the new president of the United States in this moment I will immediately examine some of the most important issues that should rank high on the agenda of concern for human welfare and rights which bear so directly on the prospects for decent survival, namely, nuclear war, environmental disaster and U.S. foreign policy which according to many leading analysts is increasing the likelihood of these catastrophes by reminding all of us that we are guests and not a host in this planet. Therefore, I will immediately end the unlawful Iraq and Afghanistan wars, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would freed five trillion American dollars to be used for war reconstruction and reparations to these countries which will also have a dramatic positive spillover effects to the U.S. economy, let alone the beginning of new and more constructive relationship with these countries as well. Freed Furthermore, I will abide by the World Court decision by also paying reparations to Nicaragua and most of the Central American countries for the illegal wars that were conducted against legitimate governments elected in free elections in the Reagan administration years. And, I will not hesitate to acknowledge the crimes committed against Native Americans and to start the reparations and healing process as we did with our African-American brothers in the recent past as well. This is what any decent nation would do for the sanctity of life come first.
I will do all of the above and much more based on the fact that we as human beings share more similarities than differences, and those similarities begin with acknowledging that we are not only human beings, but that we also share a divine part that tie us all together to the same destiny which is to recognize the creator within each of us by experiencing this divine part within us in every moment of our lives. Then and only then would higher level communications will take place among human beings regardless of race, education and culture. This inner and very practical self-realization will be the new foundation of peace, dignity and prosperity in the XXI century. If we had had this understanding of what a human being really is and our real purpose in this planet, then Mahatma Gandhi would have never stated when he was asked about his opinion about the “Western Civilization” that “it would be a good idea.” In addition, armed with this new self-knowledge and as a result of recent U.S. foreign policy projections and efforts to control the world energy resources, as the new president of the United States I will seriously examine the global power dynamics, namely, the role of the three major power systems (the USA, the EU and North East Asia, now joined by India, South Asia and South East Asia), in reshaping the balance of power in the world aimed at having a more constructive relationship with these other power centers based on mutual respect and self-determination and not on traditional American unilateral expansion to enhance our security, for these same policies trigger unintended consequences, responses and distrust by other countries that see American actions as unacceptable threats to their security and national sovereignty.
By the same token, the new strategic system or intergovernmental mutual security organization called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) which was founded in 2001 by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan that many analysts see as a new power block created to counter NATO will be discussed with the American people if I were the president of the United States, namely by asking the American people and the rest of the world whether a peaceful diplomatic resolution of potential conflicts would be favored by my U.S. constituents or as it is currently being done, to resolve conflicts through military threats, invasions and nuclear weapons expansion which violates not only United Nations Charters but makes this fragile world a more dangerous place to live. There is, therefore, a direct correlation between arms sales and human rights violations that should be taught and acknowledged beginning in elementary schools if we really want to create a new cadre of leaders.
In other words, the simple question I will ask the American people is this: do we rather make war or make love with other countries? Historically, the answer from the American government has been the former and not the latter, this is why we need not a change but a complete transformation of the individual in our society beginning with staffing our U.S. foreign policy personnel, including the presidency of the United States and the Cabinet with people of the highest spiritual, intellectual and moral and ethical caliber that can work together with the American people based on the premises stated in the title of this essay: peace, dignity and prosperity, in that order. A good overriding example of the misplaced priorities of the U.S. government is when the Disarmament Committee of the United Nations voted 147 to 1 in favor of the 2004 Treaty to Ban the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons and Other Nuclear Explosive Devices (the FMCT). Once again, the unilateral vote of the United States is in fact a veto which shows the place that the survival of the species occupies in the list of priorities of Washington planners as Noam Chomsky has vividly pointed out. As the new president of the United States, I will call the attention of the American people to the calls made by Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein fifty years ago: "I am bringing the warning pronounced by the signatories to the notice of all the powerful Governments of the world in the earnest hope that they may agree to allow their citizens to survive." 4 Moreover, I will also examined the role of India, Pakistan, Iran and Mongolia as new members of the SCO, as well as the emerging political and economic integration of South America by asking again the same question to the American people: should we make war or make love to these countries and, do these groups represent a threat to our American security?
In other words, all I would do as the president of the United States is to align our government policy with the rest of the world and the majority of public opinion in the UnitedStates. Likewise, to make this critical review of U.S. foreign policy as wide in scope as possible, including a review of the current financial crisis and its link to the competitiveness of nations, and what the proper role of government should be to fix the financial system, as the new president of the United States I will show and analyze the work of other leading thinkers in the subject, including thinkers on the subject of sociology, economics, political sciences, the Israeli-Palestine conflict (the majority of the American people favour a two-state solution as well as the rest of the world), the non-violence movement, competitiveness and human nature, with the aim of constructively re-examining our current socio-economic and political system in order to improve and optimize them and by making our politicians and the world leaders in charge of these systems more accountable to a wider public opinion constituency.
Another good indicator of the worrisome priorities of our government is the fact that the United States is in the fourteen places of developed countries donating money to the UN Emergency Fund. The biggest donor in 2009 was the United Kingdom, followed by the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Norway. Norway contributed USD 43 million, or 11% of CERF’s 2009 payments. The United States and the United Nations “If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.” Dwight D. Eisenhower. It has been customary for the United States to discard the United Nations when it does not play to the American will. In 2002, for example, the Disarmament and International Security Committee of the UN adopted a resolution that demanded more stringent measures to halt the militarization of the space, and another one that reaffirmed the Geneva Protocol of 1925 against the use of toxic gases and bacteriological warfare. Both resolutions were approved unanimously with two abstentions: the United States and Israel. In practice, the American abstention is equivalent to a veto. 5 Since the 1960s, the United States has been leading in vetoes to UN Security Council resolutions; Great Britain is in second place, and France and Russia much more behind.
In practice, this Washington´s posture leads to the weakening of the resolutions that it disagrees or leaves completely out of the agenda themes of vital importance. Furthermore, in the United States the media usually minimizes the habitual use of the veto from the United States whereas sometimes it is also acclaimed as a matter of principle as though Washington is being attacked by everybody. However, what is not seen and said by the media is that Washington´s posture undermines the legitimacy and credibility of the United Nations, as it is evidently happening. Nonetheless, what is seen as a real problem is the reluctance of other nations to follow Washington´s arrogance and leadership (orders) which does not help to make more friends in the world. Again, the key question is: should we be making war or love with our neighbors?
The Iran-Iraq “Problem” A good example of what I just stated above is the debate in the United Nations about the future of Iraq where Washington has insisted in acting unilaterally by imposing a client state undermining one more time the legitimacy of the world order. As the new president of the United States, I repeat again, I will align the overwhelming will of the American people and of the world with regard to Iraq and many other vital issues to the new foreign policy initiatives I will implement, based on peace (self-knowledge), dignity and prosperity for all, which is the best conduit to regain the respect that the United States once had with the rest of the world.
With regard to Iran, the disaster seems imminent with the United States. Before 1979 when the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlevi was in power, Washington vigorously supported his nuclear programs. Today, the usual affirmation is that Iran does not need nuclear energy and thus they must be developing a secret nuclear weapons program. “For a gas producer of a large scale like Iran, nuclear energy is a wasteful use of its resources”, wrote Henry Kissinger in the Washington Post in 2005. However, thirty years ago as a Secretary of State for president Gerald Ford, he argued that “the introduction of nuclear energy in Iran will provide the increasing resource needs for the Iranian economy and will liberate the gas reserves left over for exports or for its conversion in petrochemical products.” When he was asked about his change of opinion, Kissinger responded “Iran was an ally at that time.”
The main point to be made about the above historical facts is that Iran has been being tormented by the United States and its allies for more than fifty years 6 when a coup d'état by the United States and the United Kingdom overthrew the parliamentarian government and imposed the Shah who governed with an iron fist until he was ousted by a popular rebellion in 1979, not without compiling all the human rights atrocities committed by the Shah that were ignored by the media and supported by Washington. Nevertheless, what it is also known is that Mohammad Khatami proposed “a program for a diplomatic process designed to solve all the bilateral differences between the United States and Iran,” but the Bush administration once again did not accept Iran´s offer.
As the new president of the United States, I will propose to the American people to abide to the proposal made in 2003 by Mohamed ElBaradei, Director of the International Atomic Agency to implement a treaty for the reduction of fissile material (FISSBAN), otherwise in my opinion, the survival of the species will not be brilliant. Today, as far as I know, this proposal has been accepted by only one country: Iran in February of 2006 in an interview with Alí Larijani an Iranian nuclear arms negotiator by a French radio station. Last but not least, a final crucial step would be for the United States to abide by Article IV of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that requires to all the nuclear states to undertake efforts of “good faith” to eliminate nuclear weapons as it was proclaimed by the World Court. So far, none of the nuclear states have abided to this obligation, including the Unites States. As the new president of the United States, I will make sure, with the consent of the American people and the rest of the world, that the only solution regarding Iran is a negotiable solution and not a military one which would be not only unpredictable but unconceivable.
The Domestic Arena: We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands ofa few, but we cannot have both. Louis D. Brandeis, LL.B. 1877, quoted in Labor, October 14, 1941 As the new president of the United States I will analyze with the American people the veracity, relevance, and investigative insights of M.I.T. professor and activist Noam Chomsky, including his statement that states that among the hardest tasks that anyone can undertake is to look honestly in the mirror and recognize that 7 the United States have been sharing some of the characteristics of “failed states” for quite a long time which have had many undesirable effects around the world. A failed state according to Noam Chomsky is a country which is unable or unwilling to protect its citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction. Another is its tendency to regard itself as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and hence to carry out aggression and violence. And if the failed state has a democratic form, the country suffers from a serious “democratic deficit” that deprives its formal democratic institutions of meaningful substance. Moreover, in light of all of the above discussions, as the new president of the United States I will present to the American people my own vision about how the government should interact with other governments of the world, including how we should interact with industry and academia today and in the future if we want to have a more durable peace, dignity and prosperity for all mankind.
Furthermore, as new president of the United States, I will address the most recent economic figures in the United States just released last July of 2010 by economist Emmanuel Saez from the University of California, Department of Economics, which have clearly revealed for example, that 80% of the income created in the U.S. the last 80 years went to the 1% of the population (the super-rich), and that 50% of the U.S. income went to the 5% of the U.S. population. The economic figures also show that from 1993-2008 average income real annual growth was only 1.30%, top 1% income annual growth was 3.94%, bottom 99% income real annual growth was 0.75% and the fraction of total growth (or loss) captured by the top 1% was 52%. Moreover, the ratio of the highest salary to the lowest is 600: 1 in the United States as opposed to the UK 20:1, Japan 15:1, Germany 14:1, France 12:1 and Sweden 11:1.This means that in the United States “raining (economic benefits) is defying the laws of nature”, that is, in the United States is raining from the bottom up.
All these economic and social facts were also recently addressed by Senator Sanders from Vermont in the floor of the Senate as well. Moreover, in a recent poll, 80% of the American people also believe that the American government is not working for the benefit of societyeither. Additionally, there are nearly 44 million people living in poverty in the United States; that's nearly one in every seven Americans. Poverty crosses every barrier— age, race, gender, and family situation—but most Americans in poverty arechildren (20% of the population), elderly, or people unable to work due to illness or disability. Likewise, data released by the Census Bureau show that the number of uninsured Americans stood at a record 46.6 million in 2005, with 15.9 percent of Americans lacking health coverage, primarily because of the erosion of employer-based insurance. Worse, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of all the industrialized countries in the world. The U.S. incarceration rate on December 31, 2008 was 754 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents, or 0.75%. The USA also has 8 the highest total documented prison and jail population in the world.
As the new president of the United States, I will certainly address all these serious issues, including addressing the shortcomings of our immigration policy (we all are “temporary residents” of this planet), but most importantly, the recurrent pitfalls of our Capitalist System that has not reduced the income inequalities in this country by proposing serious social legislation to address all these socio-economic ills once and for all, which will include a new industrial policy with a new social contract to protect U.S. workers from the negative effects of globalization as well as to propose new company ownership schemes for all workers, including owners and managers so that we feel that we are all winners. Good country case studies to adopt are the socio-economic policies of Japanese and European countries aided by progressive governments being led by the Scandinavian countries who have consistently shown better distribution of wealth among their citizens, low levels of corruption, superior health care and educational systems, low infant mortality rates, etc.
All of the above proposals I would present to the American people are based on what Albert Einstein once said: "we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Once again, one of the most prominent lessons of economic history that I will share with the American people as the new president of the United States is the fact that the loss of control over the economy reduces sensibly the political sovereignty as well as the perspectives for a healthier economic development, therefore, the temptation to resort to violence and repression at home and military expansion abroad is increased, undermining the economy one more time in a vicious circle with no end in sight. Last but not least, one of my first acts as the new president of the United States would be to declare unconstitutional (by referendum) the greater powers given by the Supreme Court to American corporations by having allowed them to give unlimited monetary donations to candidates for the presidency of the United States in a 5-to-4 controversial decision, therefore giving the green light to these corporations to buy the elections, an unacceptable and undemocratic outcome.
My Message to Our EducationalSystem
“Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.” Noam Chomsky
As the new president of the United States, I will completely reform the K-12 educational system in the U.S. by incorporating the teachings of self-knowledge, Multiple Intelligences theory (MI Theory), world history, geography, eco-systems, math and sciences, system dynamics, system thinking and foreign languages so that the new American generations can live up to the new international standards of citizenship, including respecting and even admiring other cultures. I will also propose teaching that military spending and peace and security is an oxymoron and that living in greater harmony with other people as well as with the resources and regenerative capacities of the Earth´s eco-system is imperative in this new economic and social era.
Last but not least, I will propose that business schools in America begin teaching a new profession of enterprise designers of human systems so that the systems (economic and social) better serve the people within them. My Message to the American Industry and the Financial Sector "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greatest good ofeveryone." John Maynard Keynes.
A key question that I will pose to the American people is whether the Capitalist system practiced in America encourages owners, managers and workers to be more human, more cooperative and innovative with each other, and whether this economic system has created a freer spirit and more egalitarian and eco-system society in the United States. The answer is obvious. My message as the new president of the United States to American industry, therefore, is the following: It’s easy to talk about the changes wrought by today’s global economy. But most such discussions fail to address the real impact of business practices in the twenty-first century. The growth of industrial societies during the past 150 years – and particularly the aggressive corporate growth strategies of the past 50 years – have done unprecedented damage to the environment and created unsustainable performance pressures on companies.
The threat to our natural and organizational systems flows from a view of business that most CEOs accept without question, but which is at odds with thousands of years of human economic activity. "The key problem in the American business world today is that we've lost sight of what business is all about," says Portland State University professor Tom Johnson. "We think it's about accumulating financial wealth and shareholder value, but the fundamental purpose of business, going back thousands of years in human experience, is to meet human economic needs by cultivating creative human talent."
Our response to this threat must go beyond anything commonly proposed in policy or regulatory debates. What’s needed is a vision of the future that recognizes the potential and the constraints that govern all natural systems as M.I.T. professor Jay W. Forrester and H. Thomas Johnson, a distinguished professor at Portland State University have insightfully stated. The first glimmerings of that vision, evident in some unlikely places, embody a way of managing that speaks to the higher aspirations of people throughout an enterprise. Such a vision offers a hopeful alternative to the mindless pursuit of growth (greed) for growth’s sake that threatens the health of the planet.
In this new context, we have to first remember that the goal of the economy is to sustainably improve human well-being and quality of life. We have to remember that material consumption and GDP are merely means to that end, not ends in themselves. We have to recognize, as both ancient wisdom and new psychological research tell us, that material consumption beyond real need can actually reduce well-being as professor Robert Costanza from the University of Vermont vividly pointed out in a brilliant article called “Toward a New Sustainable Economy.”
As the new president of the United States I will make sure that the American people better understand what really does contribute to sustainable human well-being, and recognize the substantial contributions of natural and social capital, which are now the limiting factors in many countries. We have to be able to distinguish between real poverty in terms of low quality of life, and merely low monetary income. Ultimately we have to create a new model of the economy and development that acknowledges this new full world context and vision. Furthermore, according to Robert Costanza, this new model of development would be based clearly on the goal of sustainable human well-being. It would use measures of progress that clearly acknowledge this goal. It would acknowledge the importance of ecological sustainability, social fairness, and real economic efficiency. Ecological sustainability implies recognizing that natural and social capital are not infinitely substitutable for built and human capital, and that real biophysical limits exist to the expansion of the marketeconomy. Social fairness implies recognizing that the distribution of wealth is an important determinant of social capital and quality of life.
The conventional model has bought into the assumption that the best way to improve welfare is through growth in marketed consumption as measured by GDP. This focus on growth has not improved overall societal welfare and explicit attention to distribution issues is sorely needed.
Real economic efficiency implies including all resources that affect sustainable human well-being in the allocation system, not just marketed goods and services. Our current market allocation system excludes most non-marketed natural and social capital assets and services that are critical contributors to human well-being. The current economic model ignores this and therefore does not achieve real economic efficiency. A new, sustainable ecological economic model would measure and include the contributions of natural and social capital and could better approximate real economic efficiency. The new model would also acknowledge that a complex range of property rights regimes are necessary to adequately manage the full range of resources that contribute to human well-being.
For example, most natural and social capital assets are public goods. Making them private property does not work well. On the other hand, leaving them as open access resources (with no property rights) does not work well either. What is needed is a third way to propertize these resources without privatizing them as professor Costanza pointed out. As the new president of the United States, I will make sure that several new (and old) common property rights systems that have been proposed to achieve this goal, including various forms of common property trusts be given a chance to be heard.
Last but not least, the role of government also needs to be reinvented. In addition to government’s role in regulating and policing the private market economy, it has a significant role to play in expanding the “commons sector” that can propertize and manage non-marketed natural and social capital assets. It also has a major role as facilitator of societal development of a shared vision of what a sustainable and desirable future would look like. As the new president of the United States I will encourage the adoption of these natural system principles to the operation of modern businessorganizations.
The Financial Sector “It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of thecountry.” Adam Smith.
With regard to the financial sector as professor Clive Dilnot from the New School, USA, has insightfully pointed out, the events of Summer and Fall of 2008 have shown with stark clarity that the modes of accumulation pursued across the banking industries —not only, but particularly those of the US and UK—were so deeply flawed, so toxic in their consequences, that they call into question the fundamentals of the economics on which they were based. Yet to date there is precious little evidence of any fundamental rethinking, either in the industry or by the economics profession,—much of which still seems in denial about the character and gravity of the present crisis. With few exceptions, the argument from all sides—and from most in politics too—is for a return to business as usual as quickly as possible.
As the new president of the United States I will make sure that crises of this scale will not result in two contradictory impulses. The first is towards action. What was unthinkable may suddenly become, in heat of the moment, the applauded, bold and essential action of government. Such was, briefly, the response of the U.S. government to the threat of a complete collapse of the banking system. But hard on the heels of the impulse to act comes reaction, the adamant re-assertion that everything must, in the end—and preferably as quickly as possible—be just as it was before as Mr. Dilnot insightfully pointed out. This was the surely the sentiment that lay behind the open letter sent to Congress by 166 economists in late September of 2008. Labeling the crisis as merely a “short-run” disruption, the impulse to preserve what-is at all costs was captured in its central premise, that “for all their recent troubles, America's dynamic and innovativeprivate capital markets have brought the nation un-paralleled prosperity.
Fundamentally weakening those markets in order to calm short-run disruptions is desperately short sighted.” What was sharply evident in this letter, as well as in the series of statements by a number of economists across the fall that followed this line according to professor Dilnot, was that denial of the depth of the crisis was not based on an analysis of what was occurring but was rather introduced a priori as defense against change—on the obvious grounds that if you can deny that there is anything rotten in the United States then you obviate the need for action. As the new president of the United States I will highlight the fact that our financial crisis is not operational but intrinsically systemic by having emphasized financial manipulation as opposed to using financial resources to generate more productive enterprises to serve human needs.
The ultimate aims of my Agenda as the new president of the United States is thus seven-fold:
(1) to constructively examine with the American people the effectiveness and fairness of U.S. foreign policy, as well as the role and the “power dynamics” being played by the three major world power centers;
(2) to provide solutions to the American people to deal with the crisis that reach to the level of survival. A few examples of the solutions include for the United States to accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and the World Court; accepting the Kyoto and Cancun protocols (developed countries have to adopt a new eco- system business model); let the UN take the lead in international crises; rely on diplomatic and economic measures rather than military ones in confronting terror; keep to the traditional interpretation of the UN Charter; give up the Security Council veto by showing more respect for the opinion of mankind as the Declaration of Independence advises; and cut back sharply on military spending and sharply increase social spending as the American people have amply favored in polls after polls.
(3) to examine more closely with the American people the inner nature and flawed, but consistent decision- making process of the United States government for the last 50 years in foreign affairs (the “Grand Area”) in order to propose different foreign policy initiatives and deeper philosophical, political, and socio-economic alternatives that can offer better prospects for addressing the fears and aspirations of all people, including the legitimate fears and aspirations of governments. Likewise, the future of government will be discussed;
(4) to discuss with the American people (a) the seminal work on the competitiveness of nations and regions done by Harvard´s Michael Porter which requires extensive and unusual collaboration among nations-members of industry, government and academia which the United States has failed to undertake according to Porter, and (b) to discuss the monumental work done by Dr. Edwards W. Deming in the industrial transformation of Japan after World War II which has had extraordinary quality and productivity effects not only in Japan but in businesses and societies all over the world. The purpose of these discussions with the American people are two-fold: to explain some of the main reasons (and the consequences) why Dr. Deming´s quality and productivity philosophy was never applied to the workings of governments, certainly of the United States government, and to examine the link between understanding the main determinants of economic prosperity (and the proper role of the home nation in the globalization process), and the reduction of poverty in a nation.
(5) to completely reform the K-12 educational system in the U.S. by incorporating the teachings of self-knowledge, Multiple Intelligences theory (MI Theory), world history, geography, eco-systems, math and sciences, system thinking and foreign languages so that the new American generations can live up to the new international standards of citizenship, including respecting and even admiring other cultures. I will also propose teaching that military spending and peace and security is an oxymoron and that living in greater harmony with other people as well as with the resources and regenerative capacities of the Earth´s eco-system is imperative in this new economic and social era. Last but not least, I will propose that business schools in America begin teaching a new profession of enterprise designers of human systems so that the 14 systems (economic and social) better serve the people within them. Moreover, the problems of cause (greed) and consequence (widespread economic crisis in the real economy) triggered by the financial sector will certainly be addressed and corrected.
(6) to show to the American people the work and peace message of leading figures of the non-violence movement such as Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the main lessons that can be applied to end the Israeli-Palestine conflict and all the other armed conflicts around the world, including showing the nonviolence versus capitalism work from professor Brian Martin from Australia.
(7) to show to the American people and to the world the work and peace message of Enrique Suarez around the world that addresses directly the search for meaning and fulfilment that has been a fundamental endeavor for people throughout the ages. Expressions of this search can be found in the arts, architecture, science and exploration, philosophy and religion, and yet for many, the attainment of lasting peace and fulfilment has been elusive. As the new president of the United States, I will explain to the American people and to the world why the search for peace and fulfilment has been elusive and what our real options for finding peace are, for I strongly believe that peace which is within our reach, should supersede prosperity and not vice versa (prosperity without peace is just chaos).
In other words, the issue is not whether in this world there needs to be peace. The issue is that in each of our world there needs to be peace and understanding first. Consequently, to address all these issues and aims, as the new president of the United States, I will examine with the American people and the citizens of the world the content of the International Seminar: “Understanding U.S. and EU Foreign Policy, Global Power Dynamics, Globalization, Poverty, Human Nature, the Future of Government, and the Foundations for Lasting Peace, Dignity and Prosperity in the XXI Century” which will be given to anyone upon request.
Sincerely yours,
Enrique Suarez
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