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Invitation to a family hike toward a bright future for humanity and for all members of our “One Human Family” (OHF-hike)! & to help build the hiking group




We at the International Peace Factory Wanfried are convinced that we must not only criticize something bad, but must also begin to build something better ourselves. Otherwise, we may be able to convince people that the status quo cannot continue. But then they will ask, yes, but what should we replace it with, what is the alternative?


In Germany in particular, we have had the bitter experience that the democratic and social forces in the global economic crisis after 1929 had no convincing plan for overcoming the crisis.


In the end, the project of the German National Socialists seemed to be the only way out for many: a national, ethnically German, Christian future. They sought to achieve this through rearmament (and then war) against other states and the consolidation of the ethnic majority society to discriminate against (and ultimately exterminate) minorities. The core message of the Nazis was that a good life was not possible for everyone, so we could only achieve a good life for ourselves at the expense of others.


In the current multiple crisis, in which nation states, great powers, coalitions, and population groups are once again building up their forces to fight each other, we therefore propose to seek forces for a peaceful and cooperative way out of the crisis. With the following proposal, we want to bring together people who want to contribute to this.


1. Draft.

Invitation to a family hike toward a bright future for us as humanity and for all members of our “One Human Family” (OHF)!


Out of a sense of human responsibility, ethical duty, and rational consideration, we want to start a joint family hike as a movement that sees itself as one human family. We are striving to create the necessary conditions for peace in all our countries, as a basis for equal and fair relations between our countries and for the establishment of a world order in which we work together to ensure that all members of our one human family (OHF) can live in dignity, i.e. live in material comfort with social security, food security, health care, educational opportunities, and the right to work as a basis for the possibility for all to freely and fully develop their personalities. We are beginning our journey by forming hiking groups in our cities, regions, and countries, and we are also beginning the journey in and through institutions, the media, educational institutions, parliaments, governments, and global institutions. We begin by spreading and promoting the idea and forming teams to start the hike and guide it to its destination: the creation of a world fit for human beings.


Our position:

In a world at risk of nuclear war, we humans have only one future, or no future at all.


This insight was behind the project developed by the anti-Hitler coalition during World War II and in 1945/1948: Let us build a common organization of states that prohibits war and helps to avoid it through peaceful conflict resolution. The emerging coalition first enshrined the basic idea in the Atlantic Charter (1). In the UN Charter, the states adopted this as international law and an international obligation in 1945 (2). In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the states went a step further and developed a more concrete positive vision for a world that can make peace possible (3). The core idea was to work together to create a world in which all members of our One Human Family can live without fear and want. It was adopted as an ideal in 1948 and then agreed as internationally binding in the UN Civil and Political Covenant and the UN Social Covenant in 1976 (4,5).


Most of the world's states were disappointed and disillusioned in the years and decades following the adoption of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The world order dominated by the West and the US neither adhered to the UN Charter nor implemented the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Against the backdrop of capitalism, which continued to exist in the industrialized countries but was socially limited by the Roosevelt compromise, living conditions in the industrialized countries improved. This did not happen worldwide, and especially not in the countries of the Global South.

Contrary to the core ideas of the UN Charter, which calls for respect for the equal rights of all states, and the core idea of the Declaration of Human Rights, which states that all people worldwide have the legal right to live in dignity, the Western industrialized countries used their economic and military superiority to further subjugate the countries of the world and exploit them for their own interests.

This realization led weaker states to put forward their claim to self-determination and to shape their own states when drafting and adopting the legal implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the UN Social Covenant and the UN Civil Covenant: UN Social Covenant, “ Article 1, 1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. 2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.

Our human family has already achieved these milestones on paper. We should use them, implement them, and set the next milestones. 




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