World at a Turning Point: UN, Red Cross: unprecedented joint warning--impact of conflicts on civilians

Introduction

On October 30, 2015, a joint news conference was held by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer on the subject of the unprecedented impacts of conflicts on civilians.

Below are some of the tweets I’ve made to highlight some of their comments—and links to three sources of those comments.

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research and analysis for critical challenge alerts, and research and support for collaborative problem solving initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation, and accelerate solution-oriented activity.

The CPCS Initiative believes there are unprecedented challenges ahead which will require unprecedented solutions. If there is more recognition of the many unprecedented challenges we face, there will be more sympathy for how much we are going to need all the resources, knowledge, and skills each one of us has, how much we all need to be learning to so that we can be part of the solutions, and how much we really need to be on the same side, helping each other, if we are going to succeed at resolving the challenges ahead of us.

At the end of the tweets related to the joint warnings from the UN and the Red Cross, I have included tweets about the work of the CPCS Initiative. I believe insight and analysis from CPCS Initiative resources can contribute to the kind of unprecedented collaborative problem solving and community education which are needed at this time.

I would urge readers to give special attention to the "List of Ten Critical Challenges" (analysis), and the 5 page "Launching the Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative # (#CPbCSus)” (which provides an introduction to 4 approaches to unprecedented collaborative problem solving).

Tweets about the unprecedented joint warning from UN, Red Cross

UN, Red Cross: unprecedented joint warning--impact of conflicts on civilians/appealed for urgent and concrete action http://bit.ly/1SjN16h

World at turning point: UN,RedCross "Rarely before have we witnessed…so much instability, so much suffering," Maurerhttp://bit.ly/1SjN16h

UN, Red Cross: “grave concern over the brazen and brutal erosion of respect for international humanitarian law” http://bit.ly/1MtD1ST

World at a turning point: UN, Red Cross: “60 million displaced from their homes because of conflict and violence” http://bit.ly/1SjN16h

UN, Red Cross--"blatant inhumanity, (and) the world has responded with disturbing paralysis," Sec-General http://bit.ly/1SjN16h

World at a turning point: UN, Red Cross "This flouts the very raison d'être of the United Nations” Sec-General http://bit.ly/1SjN16h

Tweets about the work of The CPCS Initiative

2p “List of 10 Critical Challenges” http://bit.ly/1RUgpzA more connecting thedots moments p8-19 Summary Paper #CPbCSus

Marginalization WisdomofAges--serious blind spot, w/ implications far from being fully appreciated p20-29 Summary Paper #CPbCSus

Descriptions of 4 approaches to unprecedented collaborative problem solving/CPCS Summary Paper p34-44 #CPbCSus

CPCS Initiative: recalib moral compasses surveys/visioning/neighborhood learning centers/max citizen participation #CPbCSus

Colleges,Universities assisting w/ recalib moral compasses surveys, visioning initiatives=acceleration to positive tipping points #CPbCSus

CPCS Initiative: Colleges,Universities could launch Recalib Our Moral Compasses Survey Project; assist w/ unprecedented transition #CPbCSus

Maximize citizen participation to positive tipping points/Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability #CPbCSus

“Launching Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative # (#CPbCSus)” 5 p http://bit.ly/1jyZLdC