Articles by René Wadlow
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Aimé Césaire: (1913 – 2008) A Black Orpheus
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleW.H. Auden: (1907-1973) Poet of the Age of Anxiety
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleNicholas Roerich (1874-1947) The Highest mountains stand as the witnesses of the Great Reality
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950) The World stands out on either side, no wider than the heart is wide
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleThe NPT Review: Business as Usual Now, Disarmament Perhaps Later
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
The nuclear weapons of Israel and their meaning for Middle East policies have long been “an elephant in the room” of the NPT Reviews — too large not to notice but too dangerous to deal with if anything else in the review process was to be done.
→ read full articleGary Snyder: (1930- ) A Zen View of Nature
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleVelimir Khlebnikov: The Futurian (1895-1922)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleG.W. Russell (1867-1935): “The highest minds building one upon another”
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full article(Castellano) Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 May 2010
La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en resolución A/RES 62/90 ha proclamado al año 2010 como Año Internacional para el Acercamiento de Culturas, “para promover el respeto universal y la observancia y protección de todos los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentales”. Así, nos complacemos en presentar los esfuerzos creativos de personas que han ayudado a crear puentes de comprensión entre culturas.
→ read full articleKenneth Rexroth (1905-1982): The Poetry of Relevance
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleOndra Lysohorsky (1905—1989)
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Thus we are pleased to present the creative efforts of individuals who have helped to create bridges of understanding among cultures.
→ read full articleRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
Rabindranath Tagore was the Renaissance man of modern India — the bridge from an Indian culture dominated on the one hand by a traditionalism that had long ceased to be creative and on the other by English colonial practice whose reforms were self-interested. He was known worldwide as a poet having received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His aim was to combine a renewal of local thought, in particular that of his native Bengal, with an appreciation of the cultures of the world. The motto of the educational center he founded, Visva-Bharati, was “Where the world makes its home in a single nest.”
→ read full articleJALAL AL-DIN RUMI (1207-1273)
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
“I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem. I am not of the East, nor the West, nor the land, nor the sea… My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless.” — Rumi
→ read full articleBANNING CLUSTER BOMBS: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS OF CONFLICTS
Rene Wadlow - Toward Freedom,
18 Mar 2010
In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive States, a strong ban on the use, manufacture, and stocking of cluster bombs will come into force on August 1, 2010 now that 30 States have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The Convention bans the use, production, transfer […]
→ read full articleWORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE: A SENSE OF DIRECTION
Rene Wadlow - Member of the TRANSCEND Network,
20 Feb 2010
On a proposal of the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstzan, the United Nations General Assembly has set 20 February as the World Day of Social Justice. It was observed for the first time in 2009, but is not widely known. As with other UN-designated “Days”, the World Day of Social Justice gives us an opportunity to […]
→ read full article18 DECEMBER: INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY
Rene Wadlow,
13 Dec 2009
The International Migrants Day comes just as the Copenhagen Conference on Climate draws to a close. The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 18 December as International Migrants Day to mark the date in 1990 when the Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of […]
→ read full articleHUMAN RIGHTS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE PERSON
Rene Wadlow, at the UN,
4 Dec 2009
All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated. The international community must treat human rights globally in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing, and with the same emphasis. While the significance of national and regional peculiarities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds must be born in mind, it is […]
→ read full articleWOMEN, UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE HEALING OF NATIONS
Rene Wadlow,
28 Oct 2009
We should begin to develop from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility: a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home. —The Dalai Lama On 31 October 2002, the […]
→ read full articleUN DAY, OCT 24 -THE UNITED NATIONS AS ONE MIND
Rene Wadlow,
20 Oct 2009
Those who observe world events may perceive something higher than human logic at work.Dag Hammarshjold has written that the United Nations was “the beginning of an organic process through which the diversity of peoples and their governments are struggling to find common ground upon which they can live together in the one world which has […]
→ read full articleGUINEA: A WAVE OF HORROR BUT NO UN ACTION
René Wadlow,
15 Oct 2009
A wave of horror spread among the assembled delegates at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva as news of the September 28 shootings of unarmed participants in a political meeting in Conakry was known. It was the last days of the Council session which was then in its final stage of negotiating and […]
→ read full article16 OCTOBER: WORLD FOOD DAY
Rene Wadlow, Member of TRANSCEND,
6 Oct 2009
A Citizens of the World Focus16 October is the UN-designated World Food Day, the date chosen being the anniversary of the creation of the FAO in 1945 with the aim, as stated in its Constitution of “contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger.” Freedom from hunger is not simply a […]
→ read full articleNEW ENERGY FOR A NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE WORLD
Rene Wadlow,
14 Sep 2009
Peace is the only battle worth waging. – Albert Camus Almost from the moment that the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico in July 1945, the menace of the nuclear age inspired visions of a world free of nuclear weapons. However, the efforts of Governments and popular anti-nuclear weapon movements have gone […]
→ read full articleGABON: NOT A MONARCH BUT A VILLAGE CHIEF
Rene Wadlow,
11 Sep 2009
The election this September to the presidency of Gabon of Ali Ben Bongo, son of the late President, Omar Bongo, came as no great surprise. He had been prepared for the office for the last 20 years. Ali Ben Bongo became Foreign Minister when he was 29 and then since 1999 had the key […]
→ read full articleTHE DAY OF INDIGENOUS AND TRIBAL PEOPLES
Rene Wadlow,
10 Sep 2009
While both humanization and dehumanization are real alternatives, only the first is man’s vocation. This vocation is constantly negated. It is thwarted by injustice, exploitation, oppression, and the violence of the oppressors; it is affirmed by the yearning of the oppressed for freedom and justice, and by their struggle to recover their lost humanity. – […]
→ read full articleANYTHING TO KEEP AUNG SAN SUU KYI OUT OF BURMA’S ELECTORAL PROCESS
Rene Wadlow,
28 Aug 2009
The Myanmar military dictatorship currently speaks of “Myanmar’s Road to Democracy.” This is not unlike the earlier slogan of General Ne Win and his Burma Socialist Programme Party’s “Burmese Road to Socialism.” That Road led a relatively prosperous, rice-exporting country to one that is on the UN’s list of the 50 most underdeveloped countries […]
→ read full articleMIDDLE EAST NUCLEAR WEAPON-FREE ZONE: A ROLE FOR ASIAN STATES
Rene Wadlow,
16 Jun 2009
The North Korean nuclear test, instability in nuclear-armed Pakistan, the growth of Iran’s nuclear enrichment and its potential for creating nuclear weapons have come together to make the relation between nuclear arms and security a major concern of all States. Is there a specific role that the States of South-east Asia could play in […]
→ read full articleUN HIGHLIGHTS SRI LANKA CHALLENGES
Rene Wadlow,
31 May 2009
On May 27, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva held a Special Session to analyse the human rights situation in Sri Lanka after the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). A Special Session is the prime method that the Human Rights Council has to attract attention to a country […]
→ read full articleINTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY: DUSTING OFF THE 1954 HAGUE CONVENTION
Rene Wadlow,
19 May 2009
8 May has been designated by UNESCO as the International Day of Museums to highlight the role that museums play in preserving beauty, culture and history. Museums come in all sizes and are often related to institutions of learning and libraries. Increasingly, churches and centers of worship have taken on the character of museums as […]
→ read full articleMOLDOVA: DEMONSTRATIONS COULD LEAD TO ECONOMIC CHANGES
Rene Wadlow,
18 Apr 2009
Parliamentary elections in Moldova on Saturday April 5, 2009 gave the ruling Party of Communists some 50 percent of the popular vote and thus a majority in the Parliament. The opposition was divided primarily into two: the Liberal Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, each receiving about 13 percent of the popular vote, and a […]
→ read full article2009: THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF RECONCILIATION
Rene Wadlow,
25 Jan 2009
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed in Resolution A/61/L22, the year 2009 as the International Year of Reconciliation "recognizing that reconciliation processes are particularly necessary and urgent in countries and regions of the world which have suffered or are suffering situations of conflict that have affected and divided societies in their various internal, national, […]
→ read full articleUNFINISHED TASKS FOR THE PRESIDENT OF EUROPE
Rene Wadlow,
9 Jan 2009
On December 30, the last working day of the French Presidency of the 27-member European Union, the Foreign Ministers met in Paris to analyse the conflict in Gaza and to propose a cease-fire. President Nicolas Sarkozy is now on his way to the Middle East to talk with the officials of Egypt, the Palestinian Authority […]
→ read full articleBANNING CLUSTER BOMBS: THE OUTLAWS
René Wadlow,
6 Dec 2008
In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive states, a strong ban on the use, manufacture, and stocking of cluster bombs was signed in Oslo, Norway on December 3, 2008. However, all bright sunlight casts a dark shadow, and in this case the shadow is the fact […]
→ read full articleEAST CONGO — NEED FOR RECONCILIATION BRIDGE-BUILDERS
Rene Wadlow,
19 Nov 2008
On bridges are stated the limits in tonsof the loads they can bear.But I’ve never yet found one that can bear morethan we do.Although we are not made of roman freestone,nor of steel, nor of concrete. From “Bridges” – Ondra Lysohorsky Translated from the Lachian by Davis Gill Violence is growing in the eastern […]
→ read full articleCOME LATE, LEAVE EARLY: RUSSIA-GEORGIA-ABKHAZIA-SOUTH OSSETIA NEGOTIATIONS
Rene Wadlow,
25 Oct 2008
At the Palais des Nations — the UN’s European headquarters— on October 15, 2008, there was an uneven start to negotiations among Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian and South Ossetian negotiators. The Russian representatives arrived 50 minutes late unsure if the representatives of Abkhazia and South Ossetia would be able to participate as full members. After a […]
→ read full articleNON-VIOLENT PEACE BRIGADES: HOW FAST CAN WE MOVE?
Rene Wadlow,
6 Oct 2008
I envision an international ideal of service awakening in an emerging class of people who are best called evolutionaries. I see them as soldiers, as youth, and as those who have soldier spirit within them. I see them come together in the name of people and planet to create a new environment of support for […]
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