SHIELD – The elimination of war between sovereign states
In 1996 my good friend and long term business colleague, Paul Stonor,
asked me to help him promote the concept he had conceived known as
Shield. Sadly Paul died in his early eighties in 2004, but not
before considerable progress had been made, although much remains to
be done. Many of the major conflicts of the post 1945 world could
have been avoided if the United Nations, as Lord Callaghan said in
his letter of support in 1995, had been able to achieve what the
founding fathers set out to do, instead of being blown off course by
the Cold War. There would have been no Falklands, no first or second
Gulf War, no 9/11 (in which I had a cousin killed in the Pentagon),
to name but a few. It was Jean Pictet, the lawyer who wrote the
rules of war for the Red Cross, who said in 1999, “I am a
great-grandfather of two days. I think my great-grandson will see an
organised world, with a judicial force backed by a military strength
that outstrips any other. I don’t think there is any other
solution.”
Further information can be found at
www.UN-Shield.Com
* The United Nations would enact a law stating that unauthorised
military violation of a nation's sovereignty is an international
crime
* Shield would be obliged and empowered to act autonomously to
uphold the UN law - Defence Diplomacy in action
* Shield would be a non national law enforcement body, equivalent of
the French Foreign Legion but accountable to the UN.
* The relationship between Shield and the UN would be identical to
the relationship that exists between a nation's Government and its
courts and police force
* Being stateless and without towns and populations to defend,
Shield would enjoy immunity to reciprocal devastation
* The personnel for Shield's armed forces would be recruited on a
strictly voluntary basis, open to the populations of all UN member
nations, thus removing from a nation's government the fear that its
sovereign troops were engaging in activities that it did not agree
with
* Individual governments would be relieved of any political
responsibility resulting from the upholding of the law
* Under Shield each nation would decide if and when it would start
to reduce its own national defences
* Shield involves no loss of sovereignty, nor does it remove from
any nation the right to defend itself
“Think not of the difficulties ………”
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