connecting to the power of women dr. janet m eaton, co-chair, vow

CONNECTING TO THE POWER OF

WOMENDr. Janet M Eaton, Co-Chair, VOW

Keynote Address: Pugwash Public Forum, July 8th, 2007, Pugwash on the 50th Anniversary

Communicating the Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament:Communicating the Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament:

A NEW CALL FROM CANADIANSA NEW CALL FROM CANADIANS

www.vowpeace.org

Connecting to the Power of Women

OUTLINE

1. 1. Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament:Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament:• Differences in level of threats 1955 - Differences in level of threats 1955 -

2007 2007 • Different paradigm and mindsets Different paradigm and mindsets • Frameworks for paradigm shiftingFrameworks for paradigm shifting

2. 2. The Emergent Power of Women:The Emergent Power of Women:• Evidence Evidence • Examples – VOW, 1325, grandmothers Examples – VOW, 1325, grandmothers

speaking out, third wave movement – speaking out, third wave movement – women as peacemakers, shift in women as peacemakers, shift in psyche of western mindpsyche of western mind

3. 3. How to Connect to the Power of How to Connect to the Power of Women’s Wisdom for Peace and Women’s Wisdom for Peace and DisarmamentDisarmament

ONLINE: VOWPEACE.ORGONLINE: VOWPEACE.ORGCANADIAN VOICE OF WOMEN FOR PEACE

The Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament 1955

We appeal as human beings to human beings:Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise;If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.

The Russel – Einstein Manifesto – Issued London 1955 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Online: www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm

The Threats - Compounded in 2007

The nuclear threat is now compounded by:

• Escalation of uranium mining, DU weapons, star wars, small nukes, bunker busters, reneging on treaties, powerful lobby for nuclear power with its link to nuclear weapons, no safe place for uranium waste, etc

• Global poverty and injustice leading to terrorism, wars, failed states, AIDS, etc.

• Fundamentalist extremism, violence, and terrorism

• Ecosystem collapse and climate change

• End of cheap oil and coming end of civilization as we have known it

The Urgency in 2007

The Signs of Collapse 2007

Plethora of new books and Plethora of new books and writings reveal latest research writings reveal latest research and warn that the present and warn that the present global fossil fuel economy global fossil fuel economy propped up by the military will propped up by the military will lead to:lead to:

1.1. Collapse of oil (peak oil)Collapse of oil (peak oil)2.2. Collapse of US economy Collapse of US economy 3.3. Collapse of the American Collapse of the American

Empire Empire 4.4. Collapse of Corp Collapse of Corp

Globalization Globalization 5.5. Climate Change – Global Climate Change – Global

WarmingWarming6.6. Collapse of Ecosystems Collapse of Ecosystems 7.7. Collapse of Civilization!Collapse of Civilization!

Other Differences Now in 2007

• Danger / Threat compounded

• Dominant paradigm shift – emerging but constrained

• Civil Society shifts

• Gender shifts

• Mind Shifts Crucial – framing, paradigm shifting

• Strategy for advancing concerns must be appropriate to the time

Dominant Paradigm shifting since 60s

The term ‘paradigm’ is commonly used to mean model, theory, perception, assumption, or frame of references. In the more general sense it is "the way we see" the world -- in terms of perceiving, understanding, interpreting.

A simple way to understand “PARADIGNS” is to see them as “MAPS”.

_____________________________________Janet M Eaton. 1996. Paradigms, and Paradigm Shifts as Broad Context for the Transition to "Health Care"

Online: www.chebucto.ns.ca/CommunitySupport/NCC/SCDEFJE.html

Paradigm Shifted Late 60s

… now you’re out there and what you’ve got around your head is a goldfish bowl and there are no boundaries. There are no frames, there are no boundaries!”

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_ - Rusty Schweickart, Apollo Mission in 1969.

Paradigm Shifted Late 60s

• Floating in space, Rusty discovered the first principles of systems thinking.

• Nature (and that includes us) is not made up of parts within wholes. It is made up of wholes within wholes. All boundaries... are fundamentally arbitrary.

• We invent them and then, ironically, we find ourselves trapped within them. _____________________________________________________

- Peter Senge. 1994. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization. Doubleday.

Framework for Industrial Militarized Growth Economy

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CLOCK METAPHOR: The universe as a mechanical system, the human body as a machine, etc.

Scientific Mechanistic Paradigm

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ONLINE: www.chebucto.ns.ca/CommunitySupport/NCC/SCDEFJE.html

WHOLE IS SUM OF THE PARTS

•Rational/cerebral superior to

intuitive, spiritual

• Preference for analysis,

reduction and convergent focus

•Problems seen in linear mode-

solutions: quick fix, technical

• Knowledge bureaucratized in

uni-disciplinary approaches

•Humans separate from nature-

control and dominate

The Planet Earth = A Whole System – Gaia – Mother Earth

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Metaphor = Network, Web, Gaia

•Whole more than sum of parts

•Preference of synthesis/wholes

•Creative solutions

•Interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary

•Humans part of world – don’t dominate others or planet

•Intuitive, spiritual in balance with rational

Framework for local, participatory sustainable peaceful economy

Systemic Sustainable Paradigm

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ONLINE: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/CommunitySupport/NCC/SCDEFJE.html

Promotes a globalized market & absentee ownership

Promotes local markets and local ownership

Puts money & corporations first Puts people, nature & communities first

Advances material & financial growth

Advances spiritual , local & intellectual growth

Treats nature as a mine & dump Treats nature as co-producer & source of life

Maximizes material consumption

Maximizes quality of life

Nurtures monoculture Nurtures multiculture - cultural & biological diversity

Promotes global competition & communities vs. community

Promotes global cooperation & planetary consciousness

Global Economy (Scientific Mechanistic)

Local/Planetary Economy(Systemic Sustainable)

Resulting in economic exclusion & inequality

Resulting in economic inclusion & security

SOURCE: David Korten presentation "When Corporations rule the World” at the Alliance for Democracy, Founding Convention 11/21/96

Living Democracy - Participatory Subsidiarity - Essential to sustainable societies Ecological Sustainability Common Heritage - Collective Birth Rights

Three Categories:

1) Natural Resources,

2) Cultural Diversity and,

3) Public Services Human Rights Jobs, Livelihood and Employment Food Security and Safety Equality, Social Justice and Greater Equity Among

Nations, within nations, between classes, men and women = Cornerstones of Sustainable Societies

Precautionary Principle_______________________________________________________________________

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John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander, Eds. 2004. Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible.

Sustainable Economic Paradigm Principles

Culture of War - vs - Culture of Peace !

Culture of WarCulture of War Images of the Enemy Images of the Enemy Armaments & ArmiesArmaments & Armies Authoritarian Authoritarian

Governance Governance Secrecy & Propaganda Secrecy & Propaganda Violence Violence

Structural/Physical Structural/Physical Male Domination Male Domination Education for War Education for War Exploitation of the Weak Exploitation of the Weak

& Environment & Environment

Culture of PeaceCulture of Peace Tolerance/Solidarity Tolerance/Solidarity DisarmamentDisarmament Democratic ParticipationDemocratic Participation Free Flow - Info/KnowledgeFree Flow - Info/Knowledge Respect for ALL Human Respect for ALL Human

Rights Rights Equality - Men & WomenEquality - Men & Women Education for Peace CultureEducation for Peace Culture Sustainable Economic & Sustainable Economic &

Social Development Social Development

Douglas Roche . 2003. Douglas Roche . 2003. The Human right to PeaceThe Human right to Peace. Toronto: Novalis P. . Toronto: Novalis P. 108108..

Power Relationships: Old Paradigm

POWER TYPEPOWER TYPE POWER OVERPOWER OVER Patriarchy Patriarchy Men over Women Men over Women

Racism Racism One Race over Another One Race over Another

Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism Man over Nature Man over Nature

Capitalism Capitalism Capitalists over Workers Capitalists over Workers

Colonialism Colonialism North over South / NeoNorth over South / Neo

Militarism Militarism Military / Gov’t over PeopleMilitary / Gov’t over People

Adapted from Asoka Bandarage. 1997. Women Population and Global Crisis – A Political Economic Analysis. London: ZED

Books.

Paradigm Shift Imperative

“We have to learn to think in a new way.”

ONLINE: www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm

Paradigm Shift Imperative

"No problem can ever be solved by the consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew."

ONLINE: www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm

Paradigm Shift Imperative!

Importance of recognizing that the shift demanded is one of whole system change

i.e… SYSTEMIC CHANGE!!

Therefore we recognize the necessity of having frameworks for systemic change

and the importance of knowing about dominant paradigms and paradigm shifts.

Paradigm Shift Imperative !Paradigm frames help us to escape the boundaries and constraints of paradigms & paradigm paralysis, to see the whole, to see the big picture to understand, and engage in systemic paradigm shifts.

BOX CIRCLE

Paradigm

Mechanistic Paradigm (Clock/Box)

Systemic Paradigm

(Network/Web)

How big is your umbrella?

Frameworks Important for Shifting Paradigms

1. Important for getting out of the old mind sets

which have shaped us and for seeing other frames.

2. Coming to grips with our value systems and importance of principle-centred decision-making !

3. Help us to become systemic thinkers !

4. Help us to understand where and how so-called ‘progress’ – has gone awry !

5. Help us in shifting our life styles and policies !!

6. Help us in making imperative and important changes from the personal to the political.

7. Helps everyone to see the role of women as an evolution of the Western Mind – See Tarnas

Sustainable Development Frameworks

"Sustainable development "Sustainable development is development that meets is development that meets the needs of the present the needs of the present generation without generation without compromising the ability of compromising the ability of future generations to meet future generations to meet their own needs.“their own needs.“__________________________________________- - Brundtland Report, Our Common Future , Brundtland Report, Our Common Future , 1986 World 1986 World Commission on Environment and DevelopmentCommission on Environment and Development

Dr. Gro Brundtland

Dr. Gro Brundtland headed up this landmark commission that still informs the world today !

Wangari’s - 3 Legged Stool Framework

Wangari recognized the importance of systemic change with implementation of her Green Belt Movement based on women’s participation, democracy, ecological sustainability without which she knew that peace will not be possible.

“So, together, we have planted over 30 million trees that provide fuel, food, shelter, and income to support the children's education and household needs. The activity also creates employment and improves soils and watersheds. Through their involvement, women gain some degree of power over their lives, especially their social and economic position and relevance in the family.”_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

- Wangari Matthai, March 2005. Speaking at the UN CSW meetings.

Prof. Wangari Matthai

The Great Turning Framework: Joanna Macy

TThe Great Turning is happening he Great Turning is happening in three dimensions that are that are simultaneous and mutually simultaneous and mutually reinforcingreinforcing

1. 1. Actions to slow the damage to Actions to slow the damage to Earth and its beings Earth and its beings –Protests, –Protests, Peace Movement, Global Peace Movement, Global Democracy Movement, WSF, etc.Democracy Movement, WSF, etc.

2. Analysis of structural causes and 2. Analysis of structural causes and the creation of structural the creation of structural

alternativesalternatives

3. Shift in consciousness3. Shift in consciousness__________________________________________________________ONLINE: www.joannamacy.net/html/great.htmlONLINE: www.joannamacy.net/html/great.html

Joanna Macy

Ecoliteracy Framework Fritjof Capra

Ecological Literacy

1. Knowledge of the principles of ecology

2. Systems thinking

3. The practice of ecological values

NEW VALUES

Ecology today isn't only a field of study but also needs to become a way of life grounded in certain values, which we may call ecological values, since they derive from the principles of ecology . They are values of sustainability, cooperation, conservation, diversity, quality, partnership.

The Natural Step (TNS) Framework

The Funnel

System Conditions

A B C D Process

5 LEVEL MODEL5 LEVEL MODELLEVEL 1: The SystemLEVEL 1: The System

LEVEL 2: PrinciplesLEVEL 2: Principles

LEVEL 3: Strategic LEVEL 3: Strategic

LEVEL 4: ActionsLEVEL 4: Actions

LEVEL 5: ToolsLEVEL 5: Tools

TNS Primer: Janet Eaton & Peter Eaton 2007. ONLINE: www.gpiatlantic.org/pdf/TNS/TNS_Primer.pdf

Peak Oil Resource Constraint Framework

We have only a dwindling amount of time to build lifeboats to get us to an alternative economy which needs to be:

• organic

• small-scale

• local

• convivial

• cooperative

• slower paced

• human-oriented rather than machine-oriented

• agrarian

• diverse

• participatory

• culturally rich

• ecologically sustainable

Professor Richard Heinberg

“Beyond the Peak – Peak Oil & Community Solution” Closing Address, First US Conference on Peak Oil.

ONLINE: www.museletter.com/archive/152.html

We have known for a long time that the status quo,

A SOCIETY THAT IS

• machine-oriented

• competitive

• inequitable

• fast-paced

• globalized

• monocultural

and

• corporate-dominated

IS DEADING TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT AND ECOLOGICALLY UNSUSTAINABLE.


Wise Women’s Participation Requisite Because

1. Compassion from caring for children, their communities, elders, etc. transforms perspective

2. Multitasking comes with the role of managing households & work

3. Relationship leadership paradigm comes naturally to women

4. Women run communities, NGO’s in peace and in war

5. New growing awareness and articulation of the interconnectedness of all the issues - and problems of the disconnect - stemming from dualism, mechanistic paradigm, capitalism, patriarchy

6. UN SC Resolution 1325 and the research in the run up to its landmark passing in year 2000 showed that women are naturals in conflict resolution in their communities, natural peace makers, peace builders and play important roles as peace keepers as well.

7. Women are emerging as leaders in parliaments across the land from war torn failed states to emergence of social democratic states in South America


VOW PIONEERSCanadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW)


VOW PIONEERS

When the Paris summit on disarmament broke up without solutions in 1960, Toronto Star journalist Lotta Dempsey wrote a column calling on women to do something about the threat of imminent nuclear war. Thousands of women responded. A few of them met with Dempsey and from that meeting came a new group called Voice of Women (VOW). Within months, five thousand women across Canada had joined.

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VOW’S ONLINE HISTORY: www.vowpeace.org


VOW PIONEERS

VOW’s members had much in common politically with first-wave feminists, who had fought for women’s suffrage. But Voice of Women was also, as pioneer feminist and scientist Ursula Franklin points out, “the seedbed for the second wave of feminism.” Organizing in the middle of the Cold War, the group courageously stood up to the anti-Soviet hysteria of the time, insisting that women from the Soviet Union and Canada could get together to talk about peace._____________________________________________________________________________________________

– Judy Rebick, 2005. Ten thousand Roses. Penguin.ONLINE: www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143015444,00.html?sym=EXC


VOW PIONEERS

According to VOW founding member Muriel Duckworth: Voice of Women founders had the idea of women as life-givers. That was the basis on which a lot of women joined: accepting that women are life-givers and therefore we cannot go out there killing people.

Voice of Women had our first international conference of women for peace in 1962. Almost as soon as we were founded, we began connecting with women all over the world. One of the chief underlying principles of VOW was that the women of the world were not our enemies, and we were not going to behave as if they were._____________________________________________________________________________________________

ONLINE:www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143015444,00.html?sym=EXC


“As the time nears for my departure from the Senate, I have been reflecting on the most important political developments during the 33 years I have been in public life and what it is that gives me the most hope for the future. The increasingly important role of women in the great issues of our time - peace, security, sustainable development - stands out.”

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- Senator Douglas Roach, March 30, 2004. Brother of another VOW pioneer, Marion Kerans.

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ONLINE: http://home.ca.inter.net/~vow/senRoche.htm


SG Kofi Annan said in his opening address to the UN Beijing + 5 Conference in year 2000:

“If we are to survive in the 21st century it will be imperative to have women in positions of leadership.”


Johan Galtung, in his opening address at the recent Ottawa conference for training peace professionals, stated also that the world needs women in equal numbers in leadership positions now if we are ever to achieve peace.


The Nobel committee recognized the role of women in sustainability, peace and security in 2005 when they awarded Wangari Matthai the Nobel Peace Prize .

“I feel very strongly that as women we have been challenged to provide the leadership .. that is visionary; to provide the leadership that is going to see the linkage between democracy, peace, and the environment. To see the need to share our resources equitably. To see the need to manage our resources responsibly. I believe that the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and the world through that committee, expects us women to provide that vision, because we have demonstrated it in all these years of our struggle.”___________________________________________________________

- Wangari Matthai, March 2005


1000 WOMEN for the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Canadian women, including VOW women were chosen including:

Muriel Duckworth

Maude Barlow

Akua Benjamin

Marjorie Phyllis Hodgeson

Julia Morton-Marr

Landon Pearson

Doreen Spence

Kama Steliga


VOW praised the organizers of “The Association for 1000 PeaceWomen” for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, for their foresight and dedication to this lengthy and highly significant joint nomination process of peace women, each worthy of the honour in their own right, while symbolically representing millions of women worldwide who are beacons of hope for their local people and the world.



The UN under SG Kofi Annan acknowledged that women are essential for peace, security & sustainability!

• It is reflected in UN Security Council Resolution 1325

• It is written in the ancient prophecies of our aboriginal, indigenous and first nation sisters.

• It is reflected in the new third wave of the women’s movement emerging women as peacemakers.

• It is reflected in the emergence of this new awareness in the psyche of humankind !

The Power of Women is Emergent

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Women, Peace and Security

“…“…women, who know the price of women, who know the price of conflict so well, are also often conflict so well, are also often better equipped than men to better equipped than men to prevent or resolve it. For prevent or resolve it. For generations, women have served generations, women have served as peace educators, both in their as peace educators, both in their families and in their societies. families and in their societies. They have proved instrumental in They have proved instrumental in building bridges rather than building bridges rather than walls. They have been crucial in walls. They have been crucial in preserving social order when preserving social order when communities have collapsed.communities have collapsed.

__________________________-- Kofi Annan, SG United Nations Kofi Annan, SG United Nations

Kofi Annan, SG, UN Kofi Annan, SG, UN

UN Security Council Resolution 1325Women, Peace and Security

Historic resolution Historic resolution with critical with critical implications:implications:

A.A. Protection of Protection of women in armed women in armed conflict;conflict;

B.B. Participation of Participation of women and civil women and civil society in conflict society in conflict prevention, prevention, resolution and resolution and reconstruction.reconstruction.

UN Security CouncilUN Security Council


NGO’s WORKING ON 1325

WILPF

IWTC

UN Security CouncilUN Security Council

Women & Peace Process Landmark Actions: Year 2000

March, 2000: UN Security Council Statement 6816 on International Women’s Day acknowledging that peace is inextricably linked to equality between men and women;

May 31, 2000: Windhoek Declaration and Namibian Plan of Action on Mainstreaming Gender;

June, 2000: UN Beijing + 5 Conference (SG Chair). Major focus on Women and Armed Conflict with emphasis on women, peace and security as well;


August 23, 2000: Release of Brahimi Report;

September, 2000: DPO / DAW /Angela King's Office Report "Mainstreaming A Gender Perspective in Multidimensional PKO;

October 24, 2000: UN Security Council Discussion on Women, Peace and Security;

October 31, 2000: UN Security Council Resolution Discussion on Women, Peace and Security.

ANGELA KING:ANGELA KING: • Women encouraged local women Women encouraged local women to become involved in the peace to become involved in the peace process;process;• Women were found to be less Women were found to be less hierarchical in dealing with local hierarchical in dealing with local communities;communities;• Women were more likely to Women were more likely to confide in women peacekeepers confide in women peacekeepers about emotional and social issues. about emotional and social issues.

Angela King: “Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Operations“.



““When it comes to the involvement of When it comes to the involvement of women, I must say that it took several women, I must say that it took several years of robust debate, resistance and years of robust debate, resistance and determination by women themselves, determination by women themselves, before they were included in the peace before they were included in the peace process. Oppressor and oppressed had to process. Oppressor and oppressed had to sit and look each other in the eye and move sit and look each other in the eye and move beyond anger, fears, bitterness, frustration. beyond anger, fears, bitterness, frustration. We had to do this in order to negotiate on We had to do this in order to negotiate on behalf of the people of South Africabehalf of the people of South Africa.”.”

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- - Baleka Mbete, Deputy Speaker of the South African Parliament, Baleka Mbete, Deputy Speaker of the South African Parliament, address to the 19 negotiating parties of the Burundi Peace address to the 19 negotiating parties of the Burundi Peace Process, Arusha, 23 June 2000.Process, Arusha, 23 June 2000.

Baleka Mbete, Deputy Baleka Mbete, Deputy Speaker South African Speaker South African Parliament .Parliament .


Even in the worst and most dangerous of Even in the worst and most dangerous of circumstances, women have shown their circumstances, women have shown their courage and leadership as problem courage and leadership as problem solvers and peacemakers, reaching solvers and peacemakers, reaching across the conflict divide to seek across the conflict divide to seek resolution and common ground. resolution and common ground.

In Mali and Liberia, women rallied In Mali and Liberia, women rallied together to call for disarmament. They together to call for disarmament. They stood at armed deposition stations stood at armed deposition stations across their countries, taking away the across their countries, taking away the deadly kalashnikovs and M-16s from the deadly kalashnikovs and M-16s from the men and boys engaged in the conflict. men and boys engaged in the conflict.

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NGO Statement read at the ARRIA FORMULA Meeting of the NGO Statement read at the ARRIA FORMULA Meeting of the UNSC October 23rd 2000.UNSC October 23rd 2000.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ONLINE: www.gdnonline.org/resources/reliefweb1.htm

In the Philippines In the Philippines women ran peace women ran peace zones around villages zones around villages protecting their protecting their children. children. ____________________________________________________________ONLINE: www.gdnonline.org/resources/reliefweb1.htmONLINE: www.gdnonline.org/resources/reliefweb1.htm

MAP ONLINE: www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/south_east_asia/philippines/philippines.htm


In In BosniaBosnia women women from across ethnic from across ethnic lines worked in lines worked in parliament to rebuild parliament to rebuild their communities.their communities.

2007- President2007- President Borjana Kristo, The Borjana Kristo, The Federation of Bosnia Federation of Bosnia (Bosnia-Hercegovina)(Bosnia-Hercegovina)


It is written in the ancient prophecies of our aboriginal, indigenous and first nation sisters around the world that at this time in history the grandmothers would

come forward to save Mother Earth from unprecedented destruction !

MORE ONLINE: GrandmothersCouncil.comMORE ONLINE: GrandmothersCouncil.com


Connecting the Power of Women

WE, THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WE, THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS, THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS, represent a global alliance of prayer, education and represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, allhealing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the the children, and for the next seven generations to come. children, and for the next seven generations to come.

We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of

indigenous ways of life.indigenous ways of life.

New third wave women’s movement emerging based on Women as

Peacemakers !

www.millionthcircle.org www.5wwc.org/1.html


Richard Tarnas – Epilogue from The Passion of the Western Mind

“But why has the pervasive masculinity of the Western intellectual and spiritual tradition suddenly become so apparent to us today, while it remained so invisible to almost every previous generation? I believe this is occurring only now because, as Hegel suggested, a civilization cannot become conscious of itself, cannot recognize its own significance, until it is so mature that it is approaching its own death.”


Richard Tarnas – Epilogue from The Passion of the Western Mind

“Today we are experiencing something that looks very much like the death of modern man, indeed that looks very much like the death of Western man. Perhaps the end of "man" himself is at hand. But man is not a goal. Man is something that must be overcome--and fulfilled, in the embrace of the feminine.”

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ONLINE: www.gaiamind.com/Tarnas.html


Appendix

How to Connect to The Power of Women

• Educate for active participatory citizenship within today’s context of compounded interconnected threats - as noted herein.

• Training for peace and anti-nuclear advocacy must be within the political-economic context and a paradigm shift framework. We must never forget history and context.

• It is imperative to recognize the impact of continental integration on capacity to make our own decisions, policies and the impact

of the Security and Prosperity Partnership on sovereignty.

Appendix

How to Connect to The Power of Women

• Ensure that today’s problems are no longer addressed with old paradigm solutions.

• Think in a new way - Systemic Thinking !

• Engage wise women, mothers and grandmothers in a renewed call to stop nuclear escalation

• VOW’s 1325 project on Women, Peace and Security will be a vanguard call to women in Canada and can take the Pugwash call to action forward as part of its educational and advocacy agenda for engaging women in 1325 and our work to delegitimize and abolish war !

CONNECTING TO THE POWER OF

WOMENDr. Janet M Eaton, Co-Chair, VOW

www.vowpeace.org

Communicating the Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament:

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