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- Title
To Establish a Congress of Nations and States (CNS).
- Authors
Rÿser, Rudolph C.
- Abstract
In my book entitled, Biodiversity Wars: Coexistence of Biocultural Collapse in the 21st Century (DayKeeper Press, 2019)[1] I discuss at length the need for a renewed effort to identify and advance an analysis and proposals for new mechanisms to bridge the economic, social, political and cultural gap between Fourth World nations and the world's 203 states. I point to the ultimate necessity of establishing constructive mechanisms for cooperation between nations and states with an urgency that responds to the global emergency that is the impending environmental collapse threatening sustainable biodiversity and the diversity of Fourth World peoples. The threat I maintain is in no small measure the result of human waste and the promotion of unrestrained development and consumption that destroys life-supporting plants and animals and radically alters the global climate. Central to all of this is a needed shift in international policy toward the respect and acceptance of Fourth World self-determination--the right of Fourth World peoples to exist--by states, corporations, trans-state religions, and non-governmental organizations. I propose the convening of a permanent Congress of Nations and States--an innovative international relations solution to long-standing disputes between Fourth World nations and the internationally recognized states. And further, I propose that this Congress authorize the establishment of an International Criminal Court on Genocide for Fourth World nations. These are central topics in my book, but here I wish to share an extract from a chapter focused on the development of the Congress of Nations and States. The following extract from Chapter 4 of my book summarizes the process in 1992 of organizing and implementing a plan to establish the Congress of Nations and States with the newly formed government of the Russian Federation serving as the host. The Preparatory Committee had the states of Germany, Japan, and the United States as participants and the six Fourth World participating nations: Lummi Nations, San Blas Kuna, Saami, Tibet, Yakut-Sakah, and Maasai.
- Subjects
DEVELOPING countries; INTERNATIONAL criminal courts; NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations; COUNTRIES
- Publication
Fourth World Journal, 2024, Vol 24, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
1090-5251
- Publication type
Article