{"id":246590,"date":"2023-10-23T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=246590"},"modified":"2023-10-21T04:07:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T03:07:39","slug":"struggles-for-a-just-multipolar-world-obstacles-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/struggles-for-a-just-multipolar-world-obstacles-and-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggles for a Just Multipolar World: Obstacles and Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and I have been meeting fortnightly to consider how we can constructively react to a rapidly changing international landscape. With this in mind, we have been planning for some time an international conversation bringing together four leading thinkers from China, Iran, Russia and the United States. <b>See flyer below for full details.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Emeritus Professor Joseph A. Camilleri OAM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****************************************<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SHAPE-29-Oct-23-jpg.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-246592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SHAPE-29-Oct-23-jpg-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SHAPE-29-Oct-23-jpg-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SHAPE-29-Oct-23-jpg-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SHAPE-29-Oct-23-jpg-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SHAPE-29-Oct-23-jpg-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SHAPE-29-Oct-23-jpg.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>Download PDF file: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SHAPE-29-Oct-23.pdf\" >SHAPE 29 Oct 2023<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/shape-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-238110 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/shape-logo-e1697857404735.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a>Dr. Joseph Camilleri is a Professor Emeritus at La Trobe University, Melbourne-Australia and co-convener of SHAPE (Saving Humanity and Planet Earth).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chandra_Muzaffar1-e1495897633676.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chandra_Muzaffar1-e1495897633676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>Dr. Chandra Muzaffar<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i> is a member of the <\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" ><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>, and president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST). He<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i> is the author of the e-book \u2018<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Whither WANA?-Reflections on the Arab Uprisings,\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i> which is accessible through the JUST website, <\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.just-international.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>www.just-international.org<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/richard-falk-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-242497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/richard-falk-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Richard Falk is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><strong><em>TRANSCEND Network<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute. He directed the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director the North American group in the World Order Models Project. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His book,\u00a0<\/em>(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance<em>\u00a0(2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are\u00a0<\/em>Power Shift\u00a0<em>(2016);\u00a0<\/em>Revisiting the Vietnam War<em>\u00a0(2017);\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament<em>\u00a0(2019); and\u00a0<\/em>On Public Imagination: A Political &amp; Ethical Imperative<em>, ed. with Victor Faessel &amp; Michael Curtin (2019).\u00a0He\u00a0is the author or coauthor of other books, including\u00a0<\/em>Religion and Humane Global Governance<em>\u00a0(2001),\u00a0<\/em>Explorations at the Edge of Time<em>\u00a0(1993),\u00a0<\/em>Revolutionaries and Functionaries<em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>The Promise of World Order<em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>Indefensible Weapons<em> (with Robert Jay Lifton, 1983),\u00a0<\/em>A Study of Future Worlds<em>\u00a0(1975), and\u00a0<\/em>This Endangered Planet\u00a0<em>(1972).\u00a0His memoir,\u00a0<\/em>Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim<em>\u00a0was published in March 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as \u2018<strong>the best book of 2021.<\/strong>\u2019 He has been nominated frequently for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and I, in an attempt to constructively react to a changing international landscape, invite you to a conversation with four leading thinkers from China, Iran, Russia and the United States on Sunday, 29 Oct 2023. Please see flyer enclosed for full details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":238110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[2941,3087],"class_list":["post-246590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-multipolar-world-order","tag-saving-humanity-and-planet-earth-shape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246594,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246590\/revisions\/246594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}