Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 6. Oktober 2007 / Time Line October 6, 2007
Version 3.55. Oktober 2007, 7. Oktober 2007
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Yom Kippur krigen starter, 1973.
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Modtageren af årets the Right Livelihood
Award offentliggøres i Stockholm.
Right Livelihood Awards highlight solutions to global
challenges
The 2007 Right Livelihood Award of SEK 2 million is shared between
four Recipients, who show that there exist practical solutions to
pressing global challenges:
Christopher Weeramantry (Sri Lanka) is a world-renowned
legal scholar, best known for his landmark International Court
opinion on the threat and use of nuclear weapons. The jury honours
“his lifetime of groundbreaking work to strengthen and expand
the rule of international law”.
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Kenya) has engaged in effective peace
work and conflict resolution in many of the world’s most
divided countries. The Jury commends her “for showing in
diverse ethnic and cultural situations how religious and other
differences can be reconciled, even after violent conflict, and
knitted together through a cooperative process that leads to peace
and development”.
Percy and Louise Schmeiser (Canada) have given the
world a wake-up call about the dangers to farmers and biodiversity
everywhere from the growing dominance and market aggression of
companies engaged in the genetic engineering of crops. The Jury
honours the Schmeisers “for their courage in defending
biodiversity and farmers’ rights, and challenging the
environmental and moral perversity of current interpretations of
patent laws”.
The company Grameen Shakti (Bangladesh) has shown that solar
energy applications can be scaled up massively and rapidly to
provide an affordable and climate-friendly energy option for the
rural poor. The Jury commends Grameen Shakti “for bringing
sustainable light and power to thousands of Bangladeshi villages,
promoting health, education and productivity”.
Quote Jakob von Uexkull: “The 2007 Right Livelihood Award
Recipients highlight existing solutions for today’s world:
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi and Christopher Weeramantry demonstrate how war
and terror can be overcome by peace-building and the rule of
international law. The Schmeisers and Grameen Shakti show us how to
protect two essential services of our global ecosystem: our
agricultural resources and our global climate.”
10/06/2007
Pledge of Non-participation in Counter-insurgency
Network of Concerned Anthropologists; We, the undersigned,
believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and
other activities that contribute to counter-insurgency operations
in Iraq or in related theaters in the “war on terror.”
Furthermore, we believe that anthropologists should refrain from
directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through
torture, interrogation, or tactical advice. US military and
intelligence agencies and military contractors have identified
“cultural knowledge,” “ethnographic
intelligence,” and “human terrain mapping” as
essential to US-led military intervention in Iraq and other parts
of the Middle East. Consequently, these agencies have mounted a
drive to recruit professional anthropologists as employees and
consultants... http://tinyurl.com/2z2o3g
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