On July 3rd, Another Development Foundation participated online at the NATO Peace Counter Summit, organized by the No to War – No to NATO Network.
Information on the summit is copied from the homepage of International Peace Burea (IPB) who is supporting the network.
As NATO faces its deepest ever crisis, this counter-summit will focus on the impact of the dramatically changing global situation, and the opportunities this presents for change. The decades-long ideological and political relationship between Europe and the USA is changing beyond all recognition. The US pursues brutal unilateral dominance with vassal status for Europe. Europe pursues greater independence based on insane levels of militarism to the point of risking a nuclear war. The situation is unsustainable and dangerous in the extreme
This new situation presents the peace movement with new challenges and new opportunities. Can NATO be dealt a death blow? What will come in its place? Can we overcome the warmongering ideology that is increasingly dominating our societies? How can we build an alternative security framework that meets people’s needs and guarantees real security for all?
This ‘No to War – No to NATO network’ counter-summit will explore these questions, develop an analysis of NATO in the rapidly changing situation, and look at the implications for our movements.
Content
Part 1: US global strategy – what it means for NATO
Speakers:
- No to NATO Türkiye by Firuze Taner
- US global strategy under Trump: back to universal hegemony? Is war a ‘way out’ for capitalism’s multi-crisis? by Anu Chenoy, Board Member of International Peace Burea
- The new US-Europe relationship: subordination or emancipation? Europe’s crisis, the new militarism and new imperialism and opportunities for a new peace architecture by Reiner Braun, Director of International Peace Burea
Moderator: Kristine Karch, Board Member of International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES)
Part 2: The new international situation: how the elites are reacting
How far will European ‘leaders’ go with rearmament and the militarisation of our societies, our industry, our education systems? What political and economic reorganisation will they pursue? What will result from their ‘war-readiness ideology’ and their construction of China and Russia as enemy stereotypes?
Speakers:
- Michael von der Schulenburg, MEP (Germany) and former Assistant of the Secretary-General of the United Nation
- Laetitia Planche, Contact Person for Mouvement de la Paix, (France)
- Paul Murphy, MP (Ireland)
- Oleg Bodrow, Board Member of International Peace Burea (Russia)
Moderator: Kate Hudson, Vice President of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Great Britain)