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The ABCs of Human Survival ABCs final.indd 1 03/03/10 4:49 PM Global Peace Studies Series Editor: George Melnyk global peace studies is an interdisciplinary series that publishes works dealing with the discourses of war and peace, conflict and post- conflict studies, human rights, international development, human security, and peace building. The series is global in perspective, and includes works on militarism, structural violence, post-war resconstruction, and reconciliation in divided societies. The series encourages contributors from a wide variety of disciplines and professions including health, law, social work, education, and the social sciences and humanities. ————————————————— series titles “Bomb Canada” and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media by Chantal Allan The ABCs of Human Survival: A Paradigm for Global Citizenship by Arthur Clark ABCs final.indd 2 03/03/10 4:49 PM The ABCs of Human Survival A Paradigm for Global Citizenship arthur clark Published by Athabasca University Press in conjunction with the Consortium for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary. ABCs final.indd 3 03/03/10 4:49 PM © 2010 Arthur Clark Published by AU Press, Athabasca University 1200, 10011 – 109 Street Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Clark, Arthur, 1943– The ABCs of human survival : a paradigm for global citizenship / Arthur Clark. (Global peace studies, ISSN 1921-4022) Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic format (978-1-897425-69-5). ISBN 978-1-897425-68-8 1. World citizenship. 2. Political participation. 3. Civil society. I. Title. II. Series: Global peace studies JZ1320.4.C53 2010 323.6 C2010-901184-8 Cover design by Rod Michalchuk, General Idea. Book design by Laura Brady, Brady Typesetting & Design. Printed and bound in Canada by Marquis Book Printing. This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons License, Attribution- Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada, see www.creativecommons. org. The text may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, provided that credit is given to the original author. Please contact AU Press, Athabasca University at [email protected] for permission beyond the usage outlined in the Creative Commons license. A volume in the Global Peace Studies series: ISSN 1921-4022 (Print) ISSN 1921-4030 (Online) ABCs final.indd 4 03/03/10 4:49 PM In respect and gratitude for the life and love of irene marie petzinger October 1948–July 2008 Into the darkness I will reflect your light. ABCs final.indd 5 03/03/10 4:49 PM ABCs final.indd 6 03/03/10 4:49 PM c o n t e n t s Acknowledgements . xi Foreword ............................................ xiii Introduction and Overview . 1 The pathology of nationalism ......................... 3 Choosing the future . 4 The necessity of democracy and law .................... 7 The personal is political .............................. 8 War is a disease: The case of Vietnam .................. 10 The practice of medicine and the practice of citizenship . 12 A personal journey ................................. 13 About this book . 15 Principles of global community and global citizenship: A synopsis ............................ 20 Chapter One: Choosing the Future . 27 Where are we going? ................................ 28 Where do we want to go? ............................ 30 The practice of medicine and the practice of global citizenship . 33 ABCs final.indd 7 03/03/10 4:49 PM Pathogenesis: Why are we so self-destructive? . 35 Pathogenesis: Nationalism and warfare . 40 Democracy and international law ..................... 48 The rabbi’s son from Krakow . 51 Choosing the future: Summary ....................... 53 Chapter Two: Axioms . 57 First Axiom: The map is not the territory . 58 Second Axiom: The map changes the territory . 60 Third Axiom: We choose our maps .................... 63 Fourth Axiom: Good, bad, evil, important, and unimportant are in the eye of the beholder ........... 63 Fifth Axiom: Political leaders are not competent to determine the value of a human life ................. 65 Chapter Three: Paradigm Shift . 70 Who are we? . 73 Pathology of the old paradigm . 76 The new paradigm and human options ................ 79 Chapter Four: Principles of Global Community . 81 Principle 1 ........................................ 83 Principle 2 ........................................ 86 Principle 3 ........................................ 87 Principle 4 ........................................ 89 Principle 5 ........................................ 90 Principle 6 ........................................ 95 Principle 7 ........................................ 96 Principle 8 ....................................... 100 Principle 9 ....................................... 101 Principle 10 ...................................... 103 Principle 11 ...................................... 105 Principle 12 ...................................... 107 Principle 13 ...................................... 108 ABCs final.indd 8 03/03/10 4:49 PM Principle 14 . 110 Principle 15 ...................................... 122 Principle 16 ...................................... 125 Principle 17 ...................................... 127 Principle 18 ...................................... 129 Principle 19 ...................................... 131 Principle 20 ...................................... 133 Chapter Five: The Case of Iraq . 135 Saddam Hussein and the U.S. government before and after August 1990 . 137 The U.S. invasion of Panama, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, and the 1991 Gulf War .................... 143 Communication, scholars, the media, and propaganda for war . 148 Economic sanctions and weapons of mass destruction . 151 The U.S.-UK invasion of Iraq, March 2003 . 157 Democracy, the occupation, and the ongoing violence in Iraq ................................. 160 Terrorism and the destruction of Iraq . 166 Responsibility for the destruction of Iraq . 167 A way forward .................................... 169 Conclusion . 179 Chapter Six: Principles of Global Citizenship . 181 Principle 21 ...................................... 184 Principle 22 ...................................... 185 Principle 23 ...................................... 187 Principle 24 .......................................188 Principle 25 ...................................... 191 Principle 26 ...................................... 193 Principle 27 ...................................... 194 Principle 28 ...................................... 197 Principle 29 ...................................... 199 ABCs final.indd 9 03/03/10 4:49 PM Principle 30 . 200 Winds of change .................................. 203 The power of one . 204 Civil disobedience ................................. 206 Chapter Seven: Practicing Citizenship . 212 The global citizen as hero for our time ................ 213 Awareness . 214 Imagination and knowledge . 217 A 35 percent solution and the game of global citizenship ..................................... 222 The basic building block of democracy . 224 The Parkhill Pulse ................................. 227 The city as microcosm of the global community ........ 230 A Calgary Centre for Global Community . 234 The genius of citizenship ........................... 238 Chapter Eight: Prognosis . 241 Your choice . 251 Bibliography . 253 ABCs final.indd 10 03/03/10 4:49 PM acknowledgements I wish to thank George Melnyk and the Consortium for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary for their support in publication of this book, and Paul William Roberts for reading the manuscript and urging me to move it forward to publication. I am grateful for help from Scott Anderson in editing and from Joyce Hildebrand in copyediting the manuscript. As always, it is the author who is responsible for any failures of the final text. I also thank all those at Athabasca University Press who patiently guided me through the process of getting the manuscript ready for publication. This book is about practicing citizenship. Practicing citizenship involves working with others toward outcomes you couldn’t have achieved without them. The work I describe in this book depended on contributions from so many others that I would not know how to list them by name, but I should express thanks to several individuals whose contributions were particularly important to my own efforts: Julie Hrdlicka, David Swann, Dijla Al-Rekabi, Donn Lovett, and Tareq Ismael for work related to Iraq; Kelly [xi] ABCs final.indd 11 03/03/10 4:49 PM The abcs of Human Survival Dowdell and other program managers of the Parhad programs at the University of Calgary for the achievements of those programs; Marc Boutin, Mike Robinson, Kelly Dowdell, and members of the Board of Directors for the Calgary Centre for Global Community — Mary-Wynne Ashford, Michael and Judie Bopp, Naushad Dada, Gail Davidson, and Yasmin Kanji — for their help in moving the vision of the Centre forward; and Tom Hanrahan for his work in hosting the Parkhill Pulse. [xii] ABCs final.indd 12 03/03/10 4:49 PM f o r e w o r d When I became active in the nuclear disarmament movement in 1984 I thought the only way to bring about change was to protest with placards. I quickly learned that issues of social justice, women’s rights, violence prevention, and peace education were all interlinked and that nuclear weapons were a symptom of a dysfunctional global society. Governments and the military- industrial complex had become so enmeshed they were no longer able to fulfill their responsibilities for
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