At a Schiller Institute conference held on November 22, 2022, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche posed this question:
What are the fundamental principles on which a new global security and development architecture must be built?
In her presentation, she laid out ten principles as a basis for further discussion:
“I suggest that the following principles must be discussed, and if agreed upon, be realized,” she said. The principles are as follows.
First: The new International Security and Development Architecture must be a partnership of perfectly sovereign nation states, based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the UN Charter.
Second: The absolute priority must be to alleviate poverty in every nation on the planet, which is easily possible, if existing technologies are used for the benefit of the common good.
Third: The life expectancy of all people must be prolonged to its fullest potential by creating modern health systems in every country on the planet. This is also the only way by which the present and future potential pandemics can be overcome or be prevented.
Fourth: Since mankind is the only creative species known so far in the universe, and given the fact that human creativity is the only source of wealth through the potentially limitless discovery of new universal principles, one of the main aims of the new International Security and Development Architecture must be providing access to universal education for every child and adult person living. The true nature of man is to become a beautiful soul, as Friedrich Schiller discusses this, and the only kind of person who can fulfill that condition is the genius.
Fifth: The international financial system must be reorganized, so that it can provide productive credit to accomplish these aims. Reference points can be the original Bretton Woods system, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt intended it, although Roosevelt’s intention was never fully implemented due to his untimely death, and the Four Laws proposed by Lyndon LaRouche. The primary aim of such a new credit system must be to increase dramatically living standards especially in the nations of the Global South and of the poor in the Global North.
Sixth: The new economic order must focus on creating the conditions for modern industries and agriculture, starting with the infrastructural development of all continents to eventually be connected by tunnels and bridges to become a World Land-Bridge.
Seventh: The new global security architecture must eliminate the concept of geopolitics by ending the division of the world into blocs. The security concerns of every sovereign nation must be taken into account. Nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction must immediately be banned. Through international cooperation, the means must be developed to make nuclear weapons technologically obsolete, as it was originally intended by the proposal which became known as the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), suggested by Lyndon LaRouche, and made as an offer to the Soviet Union by President Reagan.
Eighth: In former times, one civilization at one corner of the world could go under, and the rest of the world would only find out years later, due to the length of distances and the time needed for travel. Now, for the first time, because of nuclear weapons, pandemics, the internet, and other global effects, mankind is sitting in one boat. Therefore, a solution to the existential threat to humanity cannot be found with the help of secondary or partial arrangements; rather, the solution can only be found on the level of that higher One, which is more powerful than the Many. It requires the thinking on the level of the Coincidentia Oppositorum, the Coincidence of Opposites, of Nicholas of Cusa.
Ninth: In order to overcome the conflicts arising out of quarreling opinions, which is how empires have maintained control over their underlings, the economic, social and political order has to be brought into cohesion with the lawfulness of the physical universe. In European philosophy this was discussed as the being in character with natural law, in Indian philosophy as cosmology, and in other cultures appropriate notions can be found. Modern sciences such as space science, biophysics, and thermonuclear fusion science will continuously increase the knowledge of mankind about this lawfulness. A similar cohesion can be found in the great works of classical art in different cultures.
Tenth: The basic assumption for the new paradigm is, that man is fundamentally good, capable of infinitely perfecting the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul, and the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.
A new world economic order is emerging, involving the vast majority of the countries of the Global South. The European nations and the U.S. must not fight this effort, but instead join hands with the developing countries, cooperating to shape the next epoch of the development of the human species to become a renaissance of the highest and most noble expressions of creativity!
Let us therefore create an international movement of World Citizens, who work together to shape the next phase in the evolution of mankind, the new epoch! World Citizens of all countries, unite!
