Vermelles British Cemetery in the Pas de Calais, northern France which the Sponsor visited on 31 March 2016, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death in action of his great uncle, Francis Whitwell Owen. He was a private in the Royal Fusiliers 18th Battalion. Photo by Peter M. Southwood.
The Education of Nations… in Securing Peace and Avoiding War
January 2020 onwards
Peter M. Southwood (Dr)
Law Officer for Public Benefit in England and Wales
(de jure by the Court of history from 24 February 2022)
(‘Law PB’)
The Education of Nations (on the centenary of the founding of the League of Nations in 1920) is intended as a barometer of the prospects for peace or war in the world today. In reverse order, the following documents have been published by me:
28 June 2023 - An open letter to the English Attorney General entitled ‘Re: Sleepwalking into the Third Nuclear Detonation in War: Why?’ available here.
This letter concerns the mounting dangers of nuclear escalation from the war in Ukraine and who is to be trusted to tell the truth about the conditions which led to it. Law PB’s case rests on Re: Project on Demilitarisation (Prodem) [1998 and 2000] and the theological principles which motivated and sustained it then and ever since.
28 June 2022 - An open letter to the UK Parliament entitled ‘Re: Court of History v UK Parliament and Its Allies – verdict of 24 February 2022’ available here. A signed original of this letter (but without URL links) is also provided here.
This letter concerns the Russian invasion of Ukraine on that ‘verdict’ date and my issue of a ‘Nuclear Crisis – Red Alert’ on 28 June 2022 to replace the previous Amber Alert published by me on 11 September 2014, which is available here.
23 July 2021 – Open letter to the Chair of Trustees of The International Institute for Strategic Studies available here concerning The Fraud Act 2006, s. 1(2)(a) – (fraud by false representation) in connection with my previous letter to IISS of 27 January 2021.
27 January 2021 – Open letter to the Director-General and Chief Executive of The International Institute for Strategic Studies available here concerning their Strategic Dossier ‘Russia’s Military Modernisation: An Assessment’ (IISS, September 2020).
11 September 2020 – ‘Who Governs in England and Gaza? A Rule of Law Compared’ available here .
24 July 2020 – Peace Games 2020 commence. IPP poster available here .
28 June 2020 – Website published for the Peace Games 2020 on the authority of the Trustees of the International Peace Project (reg. charity no. 1101966) at: www.ipp2000.uk
10 April 2020 – ‘The Charity Commission for England and Wales: An Indictment’ available here .
27 January 2020 – ‘The Education of Nations: An Indictment’ available here .
The background to the Education of Nations and these documents is given below and on the ‘About’ page.
The Paris Peace Conference 1919 Remembered… 100 Years on
18 January to 28 June 2019
Sponsor: Peter M. Southwood (Dr)
Background
1. The Great War, 1914-1918, was not ‘the war to end all wars.’
2. The Paris Peace Conference 1919 did not secure a state of peace; instead it contributed, unintentionally, to another Great Power war in 1939.
3. The post-Cold War peace settlement in 1990 can be expected to do the same unless education plays its role in competition with political methods of peacemaking.
Purpose
To illustrate the strategic importance of putting into operation an ‘irenical perspective’, as defined in English law on 9 October 1998, to avert another Great Power war – and another betrayal of our war dead.
Note: ‘irenical’ is from a Greek term meaning aiming or aimed at [a state of] peace. For references see Article no. 1 on the ‘Open Letters & Articles’ page.
Timetable of Seven Open Letters & Articles
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18 January 2019
Letter to: Members of the former Iraq Inquiry Committee
Re: 100th anniversary of the opening of the Paris Peace Conference 1919
– why does it matter? (as much as remembering 1914 – 1918)
6 March 2019
Letter to: H.M. Attorneys General (10 Mar 2000 to 11 Nov 2018)
Re: Rule of law or rule by political expediency in the English civil courts?
– the implications for peace or war
14 April 2019
Letter to: Editors or controllers of newspapers, radio & TV in England
Re: Are the political media powerless… over the long term?
– 1919 and 2019
19 April 2019
Letter to: Justice Committee of the UK House of Commons
Re: The Work of the Attorney General
Can public benefit from an ‘irenical perspective’ make a difference in 2019, as it could not in 1919?
30 May 2019
Letter to: The Charity Regulator for England and Wales
Re: Would a new regulator not be at the cutting edge of peace-building in 2019?
(as it could not be in 1919)
9 June 2019
Letter to: Leaders of the Church of England
Re: Can a genuine ‘peace movement’ ever be political?
If not, what is the theological basis for a state of peace?
(a comparison of 1930s, 1980s & 2019ff)
28 June 2019
Letter to: The public in the Cathedral City of Salisbury
Re: Need a political assassination lead to war?
What is the public benefit of a state of peace, compared to war?
What is your choice?
(1919 and 2019 compared, again)
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