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• W285992431 abstract "ABSTRACT This article explains the mission of Green Cross International which essentially is committed to a new global culture of peace and sustainability. Such a culture involves more than settling conflicts or minimising pollution for it requires mutual understanding and harmony in the community of life. The article proceeds to outline the major recommendations of the Earth Dialogues organized by GCI and illustrates how they are built on the values expressed in the Earth Charter. Achieving sustainable development should be humankind's number one priority. Yet, fifteen years after the end of the cold war promised to herald a new era of peace, security concerns are once more at the top of the world's agenda. A heightened sense of insecurity is palpable, and nearsighted approaches to addressing it are relentlessly sapping resources and attention away from the serious challenges posed by climate change, crippling poverty and pandemics, and natural resources depletion. Increasing tensions on the world scene, escalating terrorism, religious intolerance, environmental degradation, and the systematic violation of human rights all demonstrate now more than ever the need to understand the diverse roots of conflicts, as well as the links between peace and security, poverty, and the deterioration of our planet's natural riches. Unlike traditional threats emanating from an adversary, however, today's challenges are better understood as shared risks and vulnerabilities. Raising military expenditures or dispatching troops cannot resolve them. Nor can sealing borders or maintaining the status quo in a highly unequal world contain them. These 'problems without passports' are likely to worsen in the years ahead unless the world arrives at a new global vision of common values, which must underlie the enhanced forms of dialogue and cooperation needed among nations and civilisations. It is for precisely this reason that the central mission of Green Cross International is to help ensure a sustainable and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature. Education and awareness raising targeted at all ages and sectors of society, from world leaders to school children, are crucial for changing unsustainable patterns of behaviour and encouraging people to take responsibility for their impact on the environment. Today we are at an uncomfortable impasse, with governments calling for citizens to make sustainable choices without offering adequate incentives or providing clear guidelines, and citizens frustrated by their governments' lack of, and contradictory, action on environmental issues. Green Cross believes strongly that consumers must be more accountable, but also that governments should take the lead and recognise that the environment - both locally and globally - has become a matter of survival. The recent initiative taken by the European Commission in proposing a groundbreaking directive to strengthen the protection of the environment under criminal law will hopefully set a new precedent. Green Cross International has been on the frontline of dealing with the environmental consequences of industrial and military activity for over a decade and welcomes this proposal to more effectively define and penalize environmental crimes, and fully appreciate the devastating impact they can have on human health and livelihoods. It is extremely important that serious offences against the environment are treated as criminal acts. But such changes are just a small piece of the puzzle. We must replace the overriding culture of violence, mistrust and conflict with a new culture of peace. This means more than strengthening and democratising our institutions of peace and security to better respond to and prevent violence, war and conflict. It means developing, at all levels and in all spheres of life, a complex of attitudes, values, beliefs and patterns of behaviour that promote not just the peaceful settlement of conflict, but also the quest for mutual understanding and opportunities for individuals to live harmoniously with each other and the larger community of life. …" @default.
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