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A global Iran peace proposal:
Roadmap for implementing urgent ideals
Proposed by: Peace-seeking Iranian Veterans (PIV)
CONTACTS
Moji Agha (Iranian-American author) *** moji.agha@gmail.com
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Paul Croce (American advisor) *** pcroce2@outlook.com
PROJECT SUMMARY
Pillar One:
OUR PAPAL "SPECIAL INTERMEDIARY" INVITATION
As summarized below, given how dire the current situation is, our proposed Roadmap hopes and prays that the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, would kindly accept our humble invitation for Him to become a "special intermediary" in the increasingly dangerous conflict between Iran and the U.S. (and its Global North allies, including Israel).
Pillar Two:
WE PROPOSE THIS INNOVATIVE PILLAR OF PEACE:
A Globally Collaborative Nuclear Fuel Bank (GCNFB)
Please see below.
VISION: Our Roadmap begins with a portrait of cultural and political differences as resources to bring more win-win resolutions to conflicts.
GOAL: This Roadmap will cultivate peace-oriented communities in each hostile nation, then expand into consultation with the people of government and civil society to build sustainable peace structures.
PROJECT SYNOPSIS
In the below-outlined "Roadmap to Peace" project we strive to achieve the following overall objectives:
To nonviolently challenge incentives for violence and to make dreams of peace part of lived realities, our proposed project is built around the following 5 steps:
1- Strengthen the political will for peace addressing the incentives for conflict in fear, suffering, and patriotic sentiments;
2-Work with advocates for peace, especially in each nation hostile to each other, as toeholds for more constructive possibilities;
3-Address technical challenges facing those possibilities so that peace breaks through the habits for violence to become a viable practical alternative;
4-Communicate the peaceful alternative in concentric circles from the hostile nations to immediate neighbors, powerful nations, regional stakeholders, and then all nations of the world;
5- Establish a nuclear fuel bank to serve as a gatekeeper to enable fuel (primarily) for power generation and eliminate the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and to serve as a guarantor to reduce fears of all parties.
At a time when peace is in retreats, we urge all lovers of stability and sustained peace to join us in applying those feelings to the practical steps that can make peaceful coexistence more possible.
IN OTHER WORDS
Our proposed Roadmap in a Capsule
a) Strengthened multilateral peace-oriented collaborations and especially innovative structures that promote sustainable peace and stability, that
b) would serve as realistic alternatives to the current dysfunctional structures and systems, with their destructive incentives for ever increasing militarism, and for responding to differences with hostility and war; so in other words,
c) Our Roadmap simply renders violence unnecessary.
SUMMARY PROJECT DESCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
Especially currently, the dire state of relations between Iran and the United States (along with its ally Israel), are very fragile, very dangerous.
Any further sanctions-poisoned breakdown and turn toward war, especially with nuclear weapons, would be catastrophic for the region and the world.
Our herein-summarized Global Iran Peace Plan (GIPP), also known as the Roadmap Toward a Global Iran Peace Agreement (GIPA--linked above) presents a realistic prospect for improving paths that would take us away from further disasters, leading to durable stability and peace.
MORAL FOUNDATIONS
In our world (and especially in the Persian Gulf / Middle East region) peace is often regarded as an ideal dream. We say that "peace IS possible," but moving toward this goal requires practical cultivation of peace-centered people-powered relations to serve as viable alternatives to the current violence-dominated political realism that incentivises interests and assumptions that make moves toward war seem inevitable.
We believe that increased (and caring) attention to existing problems can reduce choices for systemic hostility, sanctions, and war, in contrast with the existing dynamics that have amplified chronic conflicts--and associated burdens and suffering. Our Roadmap proposes an achievable alternative.
We say that with steps toward this goal, an empowered United Nations (UN) could increase its role as facilitator of debate and, when dialogue breaks down (which often it does--especially in the Middle East), as monitor of conflict.
The goals of our Roadmap coincide with the goals of all nations for the prosperity and enjoyment of peace. How? With peace-enabling greater caring attention to the challenges and opportunities each face in their corner of our wounded Mother Earth.
APPROACH
Our Roadmap involves continuing and initiating organized peace-building activities, including:
1- Establishing collaborations among members of organizations seeking peaceful relations, using their dreams as toeholds toward practical steps, with participation in each country on the front line of hostility (primarily Iran and U.S./Israel) while each peace-building collaboration is expressed in its own cultural accent;
Our Roadmap obviously includes the Peace-Seeking Iranian Veterans (with members and associates both inside and outside Iran) and we seek the participation of peace-seeking members of the American (and Israeli) civil society, such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR);
2- We continue to develop effective ties that would provide technical consultations and review of international laws and rights, and would point out pertinent political, economic, ecological, etc. impediments to peace-building;
3- We continue the circulation of our proposed peaceful steps with the many affected stake-holders, including the countries in the Middle East and Western Asia region, with powerful nations around the world, and especially with the moral voices of the Global South AND of The Vatican--and with other peace-seeking religious groups, as appropriate;
4- Such circulations of peace-building steps would spread more broadly, in concentric circles of outreach, with stakeholders nations beyond the frontline, continually seeking global engagement, including these countries:
a- The UN Security Council members: China, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom, and also Germany and Italy;
b- Other "BRICS" nations: Brazil, India, and South Africa;
c- Other Islamic-majority nations: Algeria, Indonesia, Morocco, and Pakistan, and Turkeye; and
d- Eventually, open dialogue with all nations, near Western Asia and further afield, developed and developing, all potentially touched by the disasters of global warfare.
FACTORS TO INITIATE AND MAINTAIN PEACE
The ideals of peace often founder without support. The goals for sustained peace involve full reckoning with the legitimate concerns of those agitating for conflict. Without attention to their issues, the calls for peace will be repeatedly ignored or stifled--or sabotaged.
Thus, we propose attention to factors that will make peace more likely and encourage its continuation, with recognition that without these safeguards for peace, the growth of problems will instead become drivers for conflict:
1- Address fundamental security needs and threat perceptions in each nation, and at its borders;
2-Support sovereignty and territorial integrity, including recognition of past colonial legacies and recent sanctions for each nation;
3-Strengthen legitimate governance issues, including environmental protection;
4-Safeguard economic and human needs for a healthy quality of life;
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5-Promote democracy through respect for citizenship and human rights, including protection of diverse populations within nations and across regions.
A CENTRAL PILLAR OF OUR PROPSED PEACE PLAN:
Globally Collaborative Nuclear Fuel Bank (GCNFB)
Currently there is legitimate global concern, doubt, and fear, surrounding the peacefulness of Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities. Therefore, a nuclear fuel bank is needed to monitor globally and enlist the collaboration of Iran and its allies. This would bring under one multilateral carefully monitored framework the production and distribution of the kind of enriched and processed uranium (low-enriched nuclear fuel rods) that can only be used for peaceful purposes, mainly in nuclear power plants.
Our proposed Globally Collaborative Nuclear Fuel Bank (GCNFB) would include Iran and its adversaries and operate under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as augmented by UN General Assembly approval and a Security Council resolution.
The GCNFB (with IAEA monitoring) would be incorporated into the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or the NPT) and all other related treaties and agreements that aim to generate and preserve peace in similar win-win ways.
Final Words
We believe that the central challenge blocking peaceful relations is that current politics and economics include incentives for conflict. While respecting the fears and patriotic sentiments that sustain these political dynamics, our Roadmap will provide paths to strengthen the political will for peace, an ideal that most people want but despair of reaching. Our Plan will include assembling core advocates, addressing technical challenges, working with the international complexities of nations near and far, and most centrally, establishing our proposed (hopefully Papally endorsed) "nuclear fuel bank" that would provide a bedrock for peaceful co-existence and act as a guarantor of incentives to maintain peace as a CRITICAL priority.
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Directors:
Moji Agha (in the U.S.), Founding Co-Director, Peace-Seeking Iranian Veterans (PIV)
Naser Alijani (inside-Iran), PIV Co-Director
Mohammad Mehrabi (inside-Iran), PIV Assistant Director
Peace-Building Assistant:
Oonaugh (Oona Bill) Foster-Bill (in the U.S.), Volunteer Assistant to Moji Agha
Advisors, a developing list, in alphabetical order:
General Advisors:
Amy Antonucci (Board President, New Hampshire Peace Action);
Dada Ghasemi (PIV’s Iranian-Canadian Assistant Director);
Will Hopkins (American Veterans for Peace, former Infantryman in Iraq, and former Executive Director of New Hampshire Peace Action);
Paul Shannon (Chair, Massachusetts Peace Action’s Middle East Working Group, and seasoned intersectional scholar and peace activist).
Strategy Advisors:
Greg Coleridge (Co-Director, National Move to Amend Campaign in the U.S./Past Principal, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy)
Prof. Patrick Manning (Retired Professor of World History, University of Pittsburgh, and Past President, American Historical Association)
Prof. Paul Croce (Professor Emeritus of History and former Chair of the American Studies Department, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida)
Technical Advisor:
Rev. Weldon Nisely (Community Peacemaker Teams leader in Palestine and Iraqi Kurdistan, and 30 years of service, peace and poverty ministries, Mennonite Church)
Artistic Advisor:
Eliza Gera (Art Instruction School graduate and former Middle School Art Teacher; experienced painter, graphic artist, and illustrator; dedicated activist for peace and justice, and the creator of the Roadmap logo)
CONTACTS
Moji Agha (Iranian-American author) *** moji.agha@gmail.com
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Paul Croce (American advisor) *** pcroce2@outlook.com
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