TERRAPPA's proposal to the
United Nations :
Recourse to war should be prohibited
all over the world
(We are now in the 21^st century)

Short introduction

TERRAPPA has submitted the following recommendations to the United Nations (hereafter UN) in its capacity as a ridge institution grouping other organizations working towards the achievement and protection of peace in the world.
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Preliminary statement

Violence has always been man's most primitive means to dominate others or to satisfy his instinct of power. Recourse to war, for mankind, is the result of impulses to seize more power within society.
This is why Governments, religious communities, ethnic groups, social groups, protestors' movements and political parties should accept the prohibition of war by conventional weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear in particular - on land, sea and in the air, if this is put to vote and adopted at the UN General Assembly.
The 21^st century should offer an opportunity for the adaptation of the international law currently in force and to encourage specialized UN agencies to develop positive effects created by the interdiction of war worldwide.
The UN Charter of 26 June 1945, signed after several years of a world war which was particularly materially devastating and humanly traumatizing, has supported mankind in its determination to move towards a better future.
The economic and scientific evolution in particular, as well as the increasing democratization of the instruments of knowledge, have greatly contributed to the advancement of society towards new needs which can only be satisfied if peace in the world becomes a legal obligation. However, peace being a condition and not an end in itself, the UN should include in its Charter the general prohibition of the right to make war.
A future for mankind will only exist if useful and urgent conditions are collectively and timely established.
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In practice

It is up to the UN Secretary-General to take all necessary measures, to inform all member states about this claim as quickly as possible and invite them to vote for an ad hoc resolution, aiming at adding to the UN Charter the prohibition to have recourse to war in order to impose one's will, or to affirm one's military superiority. Articles of the Charter relating to the conditions hitherto recommended to limit the devastating effects in terms of human lives and material loss during wars can be adapted as described below.
TERRAPPA specifies that it has chosen an essential goal : to guarantee the objectively indispensable means for the continuation of human life in any circumstances for all our descendants all over the world.
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Provisions of articles proposed

Article 1 :

The right to make war is neither acceptable nor equitable. It is thus prohibited.

Article 2 :

The destruction of lives, habitats, cultivated lands or lands used for grazing, by logistic and technical means conceived for this purpose, results in an irreversible state of the balance necessary for organisms living in nature. It is a reality contrary to the right to live.

Article 3 :

Any conflict likely to lead human groups to use weapons to fight others, irrespective of the reasons put forward, should be settled diplomatically, or by appropriate international pressure groups likely to appease tensions and to protect human lives as well as the legitimate interests of the exposed populations.

Article 4 :

War is a plague which the Homo sapienshave the capacity to control by his intelligence. He distinguishes himself from the primary animal kingdom by the benefits of the civilization acquired over the past centuries. Self-criticism or self-questioning must incite him to dominate any impulsive bestial cruelty in his behavior

Article 5 :

The UN Security Council has the competency to take all the useful precautions in order to prevent any declaration of war as stipulated in article 3.

Article 6 :

The protection of the normal course of life of all people in any circumstances should be a priority.

Article 7 :

The UN Security Council has the responsibility to provide, in collaboration with all the nations in the world, the appropriate means of defence to protect mankind in case of threats from outer space.

Conclusion

TERRAPPA will make it publicly known, via the media, the cogency of its initiative. Moreover, TERRAPPA separately proposes to the International Federation of the Humans Rights in Paris, the addition of subparagraph 3 to art. 13 of the Universal Declaration of Humans Rights of 10 December 1948.
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