Jul. 11, 2022
The war in Ukraine is continuing, unabated for four months now, causing vast destruction of life and property of the people of Ukraine and enormous damage to the global economy affecting the lives of millions of people the world over due to rising prices and energy crisis, and above all steadily increasing global tensions pushing humanity to the brink of a nuclear war.
The Russian military intervention in Ukraine was an evident response to the measures taken by the Kyiv regime and its armed far-right militias against Russians, Russian speaking population and other citizens of Ukraine, to the non-implementation of the Minsk agreements and to the continuous aggressive expansion of the NATO alliance inside the former USSR.
But even if we dismiss altogether the Russian arguments and if we accept fully the US and NATO’s arguments regarding the Ukrainian crisis, the Western response to the Russian intervention by arming Ukraine massively and by imposing unprecedented sanctions against Russia, is totally disproportionate. This policy, while not helping the peoples of Ukraine, is comporting very high risk of nuclear, ecological and socio-economic global disasters.
The prolongation of the Ukrainian conflict is increasing the risk of a nuclear world war by accident, by miscalculation or by provocation and the subsequent annihilation of humanity.
It is clearly impossible to tackle the burning challenges of our time such as climate change, hunger, and other existential threats to humanity in an atmosphere of international hostility. All the gains achieved since the end of the Second World War seem to be at stake today and the level of cooperation among nations and peoples has reached a stunning low at this moment. The continuation of this conflict gets us closer to the point of a collapse of human civilisation as the recent UN report warned us about (GAR2022: Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction).
The sanctions and counter-sanctions have already had devastating social and economic effects on the majority of the countries of the world.
By now it is clear that all those measures cannot help Ukraine to win a war impossible to win from its very beginning. They are contributing to the killing and migration of the Ukrainian youth and to the destruction of its country.
This is why we consider of utmost urgency to call for immediate ceasefire and start of negotiations accompanied by the lifting of sanctions and a halt to the arming of Ukraine.
We call on the world’s public opinion, all social movements, intellectuals, trade unions, religious communities and governments to act firmly in this direction and to coordinate their efforts.
There is no more important task for humanity now than to stop our descent into open world war and the collapse of Civilisation!
For Bandung Spirit Collective and Delphi Initiative for the Defence of Democracy
https://bandungspirit.org/
Working group:
Isaac Bazié, Burkina Faso/Canada (Professor, Comparative Literature, African Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Beatriz Bissio, Brazil/Uruguay (Professor, History, Political Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Bruno Drweski, France/Poland (Professor, Geopolitics, Central and Eastern European Studies, INALCO National Institute of Languages and Civilisations, France)
Darwis Khudori, Indonesia/France (Professor, History, Oriental/Asian Studies, Université Le Havre Normandie, France)
Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, Greece (Journalist and writer, Defend Democracy Press, Athens, Greece)
Manoranjan Mohanty, India (Former Professor, Political Sciences, Chinese Studies, University of Delhi, India)
Yin Zhiguang, China/UK (Professor, Political Sciences, International Relations, Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Signed by:
Ibro Abdou, Directeur de ISEP, Institut de Stratégie, d’Evaluation et de Prospective, Niamey, Niger
Asvi Warman Adam, Professor, BRIN Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
Shirin Akhter, Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Sayf Alaydrus, Student, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
Annamaria Artner, Habilitated College Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Milton Friedman University and Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Francis Arzalier, Historian, President Collectif Communiste Polex, Saint-Denis, France
Gavriil Avramidis, Journalist, former MP, Member of the Regional Council of Cetral Macedonia, Greece
Ellen Elizabeth Barfield, Full-time Volunteer Justice and Peace Activist, Veterans For Peace, War Resisters League, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
David Barkin, Profesor Distinguido Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana- Unidad Xochimilco, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Fikret Başkaya, Professor, President of the Free University, Istanbul
Anice Benjelloun, Business Professional, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Matyas Benyik, Social Scientist and Activist, ATTAC Hungary Association, Budapest, Hungary
Georges Beriachvili, Professor, Stanislas High School, Paris, Georgia/France
Jean-Louis Bertrand, France, Informaticien, Editor, Casalabriva, France
Françoise Bloch, Socio-anthropologue CNRS (retired), France
Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau (IPB), Germany
Heriberto Cairo, Professor, former Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Yücel Candemir, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Russell Caplan, UCU Trade Union and Labour Party, London, UK
Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Anuradha Chenoy, writer, Professor, former Dean of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, former chairperson and director of the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, India
Francis Combes, poète et éditeur, France
Clare Daly, Member of the European Parliament, Ireland
James De Burghe, Author, Member, Society for Anglo- China Understanding (SACU), Manifesto Group, Great Britain, China
Radhika Desai, Professor, Department of Political Studies, Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Canada
János Debreceni, Activist, Organisers for Left, Budapest, Hungary
Alfred de Zayas, Professor, former (first) UN rapporteur on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Switzerland
Ousmane Diakité, Gestionnaire du Sport, Centre d’Appui à la Scolarisation des filles, Caracas, Mali
Bartłomiej Jarosław Doborzyński, Worker, Bookmark, Gdańsk, Poland
Dr. Francisco Dominguez, Academic specialist on Latin America’s contemporary political economy, London, UK/Chile.
Klaus Dräger, former policy advisor of the GUE/NGL on employment & social affairs, Germany
Aziz Fall, Professor, GRILA, Montreal, Sénégal/Canada
Franklin Frederick, Writer and Environmental Activist, Brazil/Switzerland
Alan Freeman, University of Manitoba, Canada/UK
Leo Gabriel, Journalist and Anthopologist, Member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, Austria
Dr. Gabriel Galice, Président of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute,GIPRI, Switzerland
Maria Gardner, Art Lecturer, UK
Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein, International Relations expert and advisor, fm. Director of International Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, former Ambassador to Nicaragua, Caracas, Venezuela
Philippe Gendrault, Independent Health Professional, San Francisco, USA/France
Fengzhan Geng, postdoc Researcher in the University of Kassel, Germany/China
Dimosthenis Georgopoulos, economist, sociologist, statistician, Greece
Manas Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Raymond McGovern, Journalist, Veterans For Peace, Washington, DC, USA
Harald Grünberg, Activist, Marxistisches Forum Partei Die Linke, Berlin, Germany
Hall Greenland, Writer, Australia
Mamdouh Habashi, Socialist People’s Alliance Party, Politburo member, World Forum for Alternatives, Vice President, Egypt
Asha Hans, Chairperson, Development Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Frances Hasso, Professor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Odile Hélier, Anthropologist, la France d’en bas
Victor Hugo, Comisión por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, CDDH, Ecuador
Magdy Imam, Former Professor, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany/Egypt
Costas Isychos, former alt. Minister of Defense, member of the Network for the Defense of Humanity, Greece
Earl Jackson, Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA/Taiwan
Kostas Kalloniatis, economist, Greece
Karaiskos Kostas , Municipal Councilor, Komotini, Greece
Kwon Keumsang, Suwon Family & Women Center, Suwon, South Korea
Hiiock Kim, Activist, The Alternative Culture, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Soyoung Kim, Professor, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
Peter Koenig, former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland
Lefteris Konstantinidis, Doctor, former MP (PASOK), Greece
Sanoop Sajan Koshy, Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Dmitriy Kovalevitch, Marxist group ‘Borotba’ (Struggle), Ukraine
Tamás Krausz, Professor, Head of the Department of Eastern European Studies, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Marios Kritikos, member of the General Council of ADEDY, the Trade Union of Greek Public Servants, Greece
Andros Kyprianou, Deputy, former General Secretary of the AKEL Party, Cyprus
Annie Lacroix-Riz, Emeritus Professor, Contempory History, Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, France
Dimitri Lascaris, Lawyer, Journalist, Montreal, Canada
Aristidis Lamprou, Worker Greece
Patricia Latour, journaliste, France
Angela Lee, Festival Director, Producer, Film Critic, The Chuncheon SF Film Festival/CCFF, Chuncheon City, South Korea
Mi-Jeong Lee, Lecturer and Artist, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Korea/Canada
Denis Lemercier, Maître de conférences retraité, Université de Caen, France
Lin Chun, Professor, London School of Economics, China/UK
Pierre LeBlanc, Journalist and Activist, Canada
Michèle Leclerc-Olive, honorary researcher CNRS (HDR), member of the laboratoire Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), President of CORENS (Collectif Régional pour la Coopération Nord-Sud – Hauts de France) and of CIBELE ((Collectif Régional pour la Coopération Nord-Sud – Ile de France), France
Jeffrey Lever, Visiting Fellow, Law Department, London South Bank University, UK
María Lois, As. Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Marie Lynam, GMB trade union and Labour Party, London, UK
Rasigan Maharajh, Chief Director, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, Tshwane, South Africa
Birgit Mahnkopf, Professor (Retired) on European Politics, Institute of Political Economy (IPE) at Berlin School of Economy and Law, Berlin, Germany
William Mallinson, writer, former British diplomat, Professsor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Universita degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Greece/UK
Spyros Marchetos, historian, School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Michel Marti, Retired railway worker, CGT trade unionist, Yellow Vest since the beginning, France
Charles McKelvey, Substack Writer, USA/France
Guy Mettan, Journalist & Deputy, Grand Conseil, Geneva, Switzerland
Dragana Mitrovic, Professor, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science, Serbia
Paolo Motta, Architect, Territorial Planner, Private expert & researcher, IASQ International Association Social Quality, Amsterdam, Italy/Spain
Maria Negreponti-Delivanis, Docteur d’Etat ès Sciences Economiques (Sorbonne), three times elected Dean of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
Francisco Nemenzo, Professor Emeritus and former President, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Gerardo Otero, Professor, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, USA
Seema Mehra Parihar, India (Professor, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi) Gerardo Otero, Professor, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Mausoléo Pascal, Nurse (retired) France
John Philpot, senior criminal litigation attorney, specialized in international criminal law, Canada.
Mazin Qumsiyeh, Professor, Bethlehem University, Palestine
Jean-Luc Rallo, Maître de Conférence Senior, Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Kostas Raptis, Linguist, Journalist, Greece
Magda Refaa, Researcher and Activist, University Paris 8, Paris, Egypt/France
Marta Restivo, Front Office, Un’altra storia, Florence, Italy
Lee Rhiannon, former Senator, Australia
Pamela Richard, Office Manager, Peace Action WI, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
John Riddell, essayist, historian, editor, translator and activist, Canada
Giorgio Riolo, Journalist, Rete delle Alternative, Milan, Italy
Rityusha Mani Tiwary, Assistant Professor, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Danielle Riva, Utopie Critique, France
Florien Rochat, former Director of the Centre d’étude, de recherche et d’information sur les mécanismes à l’origine du maldéveloppement (CETIM), Switzerland
Louis Roussel, Psychoanalyst, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA
C. Saratchand, Professor, Satyawati College, University of Delhi, India
Dr. Ulrich Schneider, Secretary General of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR), Germany
Scarpalezos Dimitris, fr. Professor of Mathematics, University Paris VII, member of SYRIZA, France/Greece
Eddy Sebahi, Teacher, UDL, Lyon, France
John Sharkey, Retired Worker, Activist, Member, Bain Apartments Housing Co-operative, Inc., Toronto, UK/Canada
Masaki Sakiyama, Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Helena Sheehan, Emeritus Professor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Mahendra Singh, Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India
Marinos Sizopoulos, MP, President of the Socialist Party, Cyprus
Stéphane Soejoso, Retired Manager, France
Yunus Soner, political scientist /journalist, Turkey
Rodolfo Milhomem de Sousa, Lawyer, Researcher, Universidade Autonóma de Lisboa, Ministério da Economia, Brasília, Brazil
Jeffrey Surovell, Writer, Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE, Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, USA
Eka Swadiansa, Architect, Practitioner & Researcher, Office of Strategic Architecture/OSA, Surabaya, Indonesia
Yanuardi Syukur, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Universitas Khairun, Ternate, and President of Rumah Produktif Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
Narender Thakur, Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India
Pantelis Tzavellas, Doctor, Greece
Dr. Themis Tzimas, adjunct lecturer, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Dr. Oscar Ugarteche, SNI III/CONACYT, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM, México DF, Mexico
Nisar Ul-Haq, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Social Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos, historian and environmental strategist (at the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years), Greece/USA
Jean-Paul Vanhoove, Activist, Agenda des Actions Africaines, Courbevoie, France
Bruno Vitale, former research fellow at Cern and at the Princeton Advanced Studies, former Professor of Quantum Mechanics at the University of Naples, Italy/USA
Professor George Vithoulkas, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (the “alternative Nobel prize”), Director of the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy (Greece), Honorary Professor of the University of the Aegean (Greece), of the State University of Chuvash Republic (Russia), of the Kyiv Medical University (Ukraine), of the Pontifical Javeriana Medical University (Colombia), of the Kyiv Medical Academy (Ukraine), of the Dnipro Medical Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Ukraine), of the National Educational Centre for Traditional and Complementary Medicine (Russia), of the All-Russia Scientific Research Center for Restorative and Resort Medicine (Russia), senior associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), Greece
Mick Wallace, Member of the European Parliament, Ireland
Wang Hui, China, Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Marguerite Warner, Canada (Member, Peace Alliance Winnipeg)
John Webster, Labour Party, member, UK
Fernando Ximenes, editor of Delinking Magazine, member of Komite Esperansa, Timor Leste
Tatjiana Zdanoka, Member of the European Parliament, Latvia
Xueping Zhong, Professor, Tufts University, Medford, USA
Siphamaandla Zondi, Director, Institute for Pan-African Thought & Conversation, co-Director, Institute for Global African Affairs, Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
