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Prolonging War is a Crime against Peace – and Against Humanity

by Alfred de Zayas,* Geneva

(9 August 2022) The Nuremberg Trials and the Nuremberg Principles have not entirely lost their relevance. Notwithstanding the multiple violations of the Nuremberg norms by many countries since 1946, they are even more crucial today in the light of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, which endanger the survival of all of humanity. The United Nations is called upon to develop preventative strategies and to ensure the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

Declines in performance among elementary school students

Study in Germany shows serious decline in competency

by Marita Brune-Koch

(9 August 2022) The proportion of children who fail to meet the educational standards set by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany1 has risen sharply. This was revealed by the Institute for Quality Development in a study.2

The Nuclear Race Accelerates

by Manlio Dinucci*

(9 August 2022) At the Redzikowo base in Poland, work has begun on the installation of the “Aegis Ashore” system, at a cost of more than $180 million. It will be the second U.S. missile base in Europe, after that of Deveselu in Romania became operational in 2015.

Ukraine: implementing pacifying measures

by Gabriel Galice, President of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI)

(9 August 2022) Even and particularly in times of war, the GIPRI pursues its work of dispelling clichés with determination. In their masterful book “Unristricted warfare” [published in French and English],1 Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui explain that “non-military war operations” characterise the wars of the 21st century. Such types of operations are economic, technological and communicative.
Book review

“Common security” rather than nuclear overkill

Bernd Greiner’s sobering look on American realpolitik since 1945

by Robert Seidel

(9 August 2022) Anyone wishing to take a step back from the current global conflict situation and consider how Switzerland, and the EU states too, can “protect” themselves from the Ukrainian conflict, should read the book “Made in Washington. What the US did to the world since 1945” by Bernd Greiner.

India-Russia-Iran: Eurasia’s new transportation powerhouses

by Matthew Ehret*

(29 July 2022) No longer just an “alternative route” on a drawing board, the “International North South Transportation Corridor” (INSTC) is paying dividends in a time of global crisis. And Moscow, Tehran and New Delhi are now leading players in the Eurasian competition for transportation routes.