Fourteen years after the First World March for Peace and Nonviolence, the reasons that motivated it, far from being reduced, have been strengthened. Today the 3ª World March for Peace and Nonviolence, is more necessary than ever. We live in a world in which dehumanization is growing, where not even the United Nations is a reference in the resolution of international conflicts. A world that is bleeding into dozens of wars, where the clash of “geopolitical plates” between dominant and emerging powers is affecting civilian populations first and foremost. With millions of migrants, refugees and environmentally displaced people who are pushed to challenge borders full of injustice and death. Where they try to justify wars and massacres due to disputes over increasingly scarce resources. A world in which the concentration of economic power in a few hands breaks, even in developed countries, any expectation of a well-being society. In short, a world in which the justification of violence, in the name of “security”, has led to wars of uncontrollable proportions.
For all this, the participants of the 3ª World March for Peace and Nonviolence , “we, the people”, want to raise a great global cry to:
- Ask our governments to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, thus eliminating the possibility of planetary catastrophe and freeing up resources to solve humanity’s basic needs.
- Request the refoundation of the United Nations, giving participation to civil society, democratizing the Security Council to transform it into an authentic World Peace Council and creating a Environmental and Economic Security Council, which reinforce the five priorities: food, water, health, environment and education.
- Request the incorporation of the Earth Charter to the “International Agenda” of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to effectively confront climate change and other fronts of environmental unsustainability.
- Empowering Active Nonviolence in all areas, particularly in education so that it becomes the true transforming force in the world, to move from the culture of imposition, violence and war to a culture of peace, dialogue, collaboration and solidarity in each locality, country and region in a global perspective.
- Claim the right to conscientious objection to have the option of not collaborating with any form of violence.
- Encourage in all areas the declamations of a ethical commitment, in which it is publicly assumed never to use the knowledge received or future learning to oppress, exploit, discriminate or harm other human beings, but to use it for their liberation.
- Design a future where the life of every human being has meaning in harmony with oneself, with other human beings and with nature, in a world without wars and without violence to finally get out of prehistory..
“We are at the end of a dark historical period and nothing will be the same as before. Little by little the dawn of a new day will begin to dawn; cultures will begin to understand each other; People will experience a growing desire for progress for all, understanding that the progress of a few ends in progress for no one. Yes, there will be peace and out of necessity it will be understood that a universal human nation is beginning to take shape.
Meanwhile, those of us who are not heard will work from today in all parts of the world to put pressure on those who decide, to spread the ideals of peace based on the methodology of non-violence, to prepare the way for new times. .”
Silo (2004)
BECAUSE SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!!
I undertake to support this to the best of my ability and on a voluntary basis. 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence that will leave Costa Rica on October 2, 2024 and after circumnavigating the planet will also end in San José de Costa Rica on January 4, 2025, seeking to make visible and empower these movements, communities and
organizations, in a global convergence of efforts in favor of these objectives.