Adapted from writings in the 1970s,
80s, and 90s. Updated Nov. 2014.
Overview
A Treaty evolved by Unique
People/First Nations people and resonant others towards evolving a new epoch
emerging with self-governance upon planet earth focusing on:
a) social ecology
b) peacefulness and harmony
c) ecological quality and abundance
d) economic wellbeing, and
e) social and political justice
and
also the:
a) equity
b) friendship
c) freedom
d) prosperity, and
e) abundance in the world
that tends to flow from these value
priorities in loving wise action, as is embraced by the term ‘haharusingo’ used
by the Raitaku people of South West Bougainville meaning loving wisdom in action.
PREAMBLE
Towards
evolving our world together wherein all nature and human nature is thriving and
remains so into a beautiful future for our planet and all life upon it.
Whereas recognising that unalienable
rights of all members of the human family are the only foundation for a New
Paradigm (refer Glossary) of:
a) peacefulness and harmony
b) ecological quality and abundance
c) economic wellbeing, and
d) social and political justice
and
the:
a) equity
b) friendship
c) freedom
d) prosperity, and
e) abundance in the world
that
flows from these value priorities in wise action, and
Whereas dominant and Western governance models have failed to achieve the healing, learning, equality, fairness and development objectives; and
Whereas some power elites have sought world domination and
sovereign governments, corporations and other bodies have imposed dominant
governance and development models, programmes and values in their projects
which have contributed to the destruction of the environment and of Unique
Peoples cultures and populations; and
Whereas NGOs respect the evolving declarations, charters and
treaties of Unique Peoples, recognise Unique Peoples' rights to self-determination,
rights to traditional territories, and to cultural, healing, identity and
collective human rights,
Whereas humanity has rejected the current system of injustice and inequity and has called for a system based upon freedom and equity of all in love, and
Whereas it is essential to ensure
relational friendship of all humanity for arriving at a universal understanding
and respecting of the fullness of unalienable rights of women, children, and
men, and
Whereas the Committing Parties have pledged
themselves to carry out in co-operative collaborating with one another, the
promoting of universal respect for, and observance of unalienable rights, and
Whereas sovereign nations have devalued and
imposed their own values and culture on First Peoples, and
Whereas a common understanding of these
unalienable rights and freedoms and their underpinning of humane caring norms
is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
THE UNDERSIGNED PARTIES HEREBY RECOGNISE AND AFFIRM
THE FOLLOWING:
This Unique Peoples Treaty is concluded by and between the Signatories who have come together to nurture abundance, connectivity, equity, friendship, freedom, harmony, justice, love, and prosperity in bringing the people of the world together in lasting peace and harmony.
There is agreement between
all Signatories that restoring and repairing any harm, loss or damage that has
been caused will now be undertaken.
The Signatories to this Treaty are enacting international co-operation and are committed to:
a) love
b) peace and harmony
c) equal and mutual respect
d) integrity
e) ecological quality and abundance
f) economic wellbeing
g) social and political justice
and the:
a) the equity
b) friendship
c) freedom
d) prosperity, and
e) abundance
that flows from these value priorities
in wise action:
a) by the acceptance of obligations of creating:
i.
peace and
harmony;
ii.
a new financial
system that recognizes the current system as fraudulent and responsible for debt-slavery
and usury of the people of the world;
a) by the sustaining of open, just and honourable relations
between nations;
b) by the scrupulous respect of this Treaty;
c) by sovereign nations and people recognising and supporting wellness of earth through drafting, redrafting, repealing,
ratifying, and refreshing
all other laws,
all agree to this covenant of peace and
friendship.
FOR THESE PURPOSES THE
SAID SIGNATORIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
THE UNDERSIGNED
PARTIES HEREBY RECOGNISE AND AFFIRM THE FOLLOWING:
Article 1. Sovereign nations and people recognise that the wellness of earth and people is the Law above all laws, and use this Law as a guiding principle in drafting, redrafting, repealing, and ratifying all laws.
In order to promote international
co-operation and to achieve peacefulness and harmony, ecological quality and
abundance, economic wellbeing, social and political justice, and the equity,
friendship, freedom, prosperity, and
abundance that flows from these
value priorities in wise action:
We sovereign nations and people
undertake to respect and preserve the unalienable rights of all women,
children, and men such as are recognised as inherent to the human condition and
to recognise and protect them by embracing the following Directive Principles
of Nation State Policy (Directive Principles) (refer Glossary) in drafting, redrafting, repealing, and ratifying law and
regulations, as well as in conduct:
Towards
sustaining the Wellness
of Earth, People and all life forms:
a)
Love freely
b)
Give generously
c)
Assist others when help is required
This Treaty recognises, supports, and contributes:
a) towards the emergence of a new geisteswissenschaften
throughout earth - meaning a new spirit
of the social life world,
b) away from the imposing of the economic life world, and imposing of
the political life world, and the imposing of money, and
c) towards more life, joy and wellbeing in our living and raising
conscious and engaging in actions furthering life, joy and wellbeing..
Hence, this Treaty:
a) recognises
b) supports, and
c) contributes
towards transformational consciousness raising that has been extensively happening at the
margins for ages:
a) Consciousness raising and behaviour change – Transition One (T1)
b) Mobilising (T2), and
c) Transforming (T3)
starting in human relating in the relational social spheres of life (mutual-help) and spreading through the many
and varied economic and political spheres of life throughout
earth.
Signatory
sovereign nations will follow this Article 1 when drafting, redrafting,
repealing, and ratifying legislation and regulation, and in their conduct.
Particularly will they reflect these three principles in any law and
behaviour relating to maintaining conduct and correcting deviancy processes
when individuals breach Article 1 within their respective nation states, with
an emphasis on evolving humane caring
residential and non-residential Therapeutic Communities (Glossary) and Well Living Processes and Places (Glossary)
as alternatives to criminal and psychiatric incarceration.
These Directive
Principles shall not be
enforceable by any court, but they are nevertheless fundamental in the
governance of nation states.
It
shall be the duty of the nation state Signatories to always apply these
Directive Principles of Nation State Policy in drafting, redrafting,
repealing, and ratifying all laws and
regulations at all levels of government and governance within said sovereign
nations, and to apply these Directive Principles in all their conduct.
In
recognising unalienable rights, the Undersigned pledge to embrace and follow
the above principles.
Sovereign nations in drafting, redrafting, repealing, and ratifying law and regulations, and in the delivery of services (doing things for people), will actively support and establish a climate for a New Paradigm to emerge that includes people respecting earth and all life forms, doing things for themselves in self-help and mutual-help in exercising their un-alienable rights.
This
Treaty towards a New Paradigm throughout earth, though binding upon the
Signatories to this Treaty, is a Transitional Treaty that may, along with the Directive Principles be further evolved in
Treaty Event Celebrations and other forums, without compromising its integrity,
by people of earth exercising their unalienable rights.
Article 2. The sovereign nations and people who ratify the terms of
this Treaty entered into this Treaty to deliberate, determine, and act to
fulfil the aforementioned purposes.
Our Unique Peoples Treaty is hereby
established in recognition of the primacy of consciousness, the holistic
interconnectedness of all life, the recognition and acceptance of the
individual sovereign condition, and towards the wellness of earth, all people
and all other life forms on earth.
Another fundamental under-standing is that there is
difference in humanity and this difference profoundly enriches our individual,
communal, and collective experience. There is separateness in our unity, and
unity in our separateness. There is recognition of the evolutionary
value of cultural variety’; the rich and potent pattern of variety-in-unity.
Towards
harmony, friendship, and peace, sovereign nations and people in conduct as well
as in law and regulations support the evolving of humanity away from homo
aggressans (aggressive people) and towards homo amans (loving people).
Processes that work in supporting this evolving will be
freely shared between all sovereign nations, and people that may use or adapt
them to their local contexts.
Article
3. As Members of this Covenant of Friendship, harmony and
peace we the sovereign nations and people by our own free will, undertake to:
a)
Live
in accordance with the Treaty Directive Principles set out in Article 1 and to
not prevent others from doing the same
b) Love freely
c)
Give generously
d)
Assist others when help is required
Article 4. We the sovereign nations and people undertake to uphold
the Treaty and always apply the Directive Principles in drafting, redrafting repealing, and ratifying
all laws and regulations.
Article 5. We the sovereign nations and people undertake to respect
and preserve planet earth in all its richness ensuring abundance and prosperity
for future generations.
the above
statements are hereby agreed to and affirmed.
Signed at:
On:
By the following parties to this Treaty:
Directive Principles of
Nation State Policy
A concept
adapted from the Indian Constitution and the Burmese Constitution.
Extegrity
Having extensive
integrity
Geisteswissenschaften
A German term meaning the spirit
of the social life world.
Haharusingo
a term used by the Raitaku people of
South West Bougainville meaning loving
wisdom in action.
Paradigm
A term introduced
by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions suggesting
that certain scientific works provide an open-ended resource: a framework of
concepts, results, and procedures within which subsequent work is structured.
Normal
science proceeds within such a framework or paradigm. The Merriam-Webster
Online dictionary defines this usage as ‘a philosophical and theoretical
framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and
generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are
formulated; broadly: a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind.
Therapeutic community
A
therapeutic community is a process in which the community itself, through
self-help and mutual-support is the principal means for promoting personal
change.
In a
therapeutic community residents and staff participate in running the community,
contributing to a psychologically and physically safe learning environment
where change can occur.
Refer Therapeutic
Community Pioneers – Dr. Neville Yeomans. Internet source sighted
Oct 2014.
Wellbeing well and wellness
Wellbeing
implies wholeness - being well. Enriching well being is a generative action.
Wellbeing includes well being in all its forms including but not limited
to:
§ communal
§ connecting
with and to place
§ economic
§ emotional
§ environmental
§ family
§ habitat
§ inter-cultural
§ inter-personal
§ physical
§ psycho-social
§ spiritual
and
includes merging with the well being of the Earth and all life forms. General
wellbeing may be a function of the interaction of some, or all of the above
forms of wellbeing.
Resonant Links:
o Declaration of Governance and Law
o
Government and
Facilitating Grassroots Action
o Recognising and
Evolving Local-lateral Links Between Various Support Processes
o The Fastest
Growing New Social Movement on the Planet