Call for Round Tables for Peace and a Department of Peace in Governments the Global Round Table for Peace Initiative
Dr Michael Ellis

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Our Global Round table for peace initiative is a response to the deteriorating situation in the World. Conflict is occurring at an unprecedented level as we are confronted with the seeds of change.

On social, environmental and health fronts, we are confronting a critical transition. We are facing the results of an epistemology which focuses on material and rational values, human supremacy and competition for domination. Will this transition be into chaos and destruction or will it be into a new paradigm based on spiritual, ecological connectedness and co-operation?

We are a planet in crisis. In 1995, NASA space photographer, Richard Underwood, noted enormous changes in planetary degradation seen from space in a period of 10 years.

Dr C G Jung in The Undiscovered Self said ‘The psyche is endowed with dignity, which philosophically gives it a dignity equal to a human being. Consciousness must be granted this status of human existence and the individual, who is only the source of consciousness, must be allowed a corresponding significance in society. Institutions of ideology and religion permit individuality only in so far as the individual does not oppose their dogmas, otherwise he is condemned as a heretic and/or eccentric".

Similarly the modern state with its industrial, military complex in the hands of a comparatively few people has a tendency to dictate the course of society and to suppress any full expression of individuality amongst the mass of the population. It is a dangerous habit of our age to think only in large numbers, mass organizations and mega deaths.
In order to resolve international conflict and understand our place in the universe, we require a renaissance in consciousness, ethics and values and a new epistemology if we are to sustainably survive.

The largest gathering of heads of state in history was held at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in June of 1992. In November 1992, the following statement was issued by 1,600 senior scientists:

No more than one or a few decades remain … We the undersigned, senior members of the world’s scientific community hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the Earth and life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided, and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably damaged.

World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity signed by 1,600 senior scientists including half of all Nobel Prize Winners and representing 71 countries, 18 November 1992.

The aim of The Centre For Change is to establish Round Tables For Peace of Distinguished Human Beings from all over the Planet as a Global ‘think tank’, bringing together all aspects of world thinking, from scientific to spiritual in order to look for and debate solutions at this critical time through an openness of dialogue

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DR MICHAEL ELLIS MBBS MRCP DCH MACNEM NPAA BA (Hons) Dip Grad (Nutr Med)
Dr Michael Ellis is an English trained Doctor with over 20 years of General Practice experience both in the UK and in Australia. He has higher qualifications in general medicine and Paediatrics. He has a special interest in mind/ body medicine and in optimising the physical, mental and emotional health of the individual.

As well as his medical qualifications, Dr Ellis also has an Honours Degree in Literature, Arts, Philosophy and Social Psychology. He also has Naturopathic qualifications.

He is Founder of The Centre For Change www.centreforchange.org and Co Founder of The Medical Renaissance Movement www.medicalrenaissance.org.  He is Chief Editor, Co Publisher and Creative vision behind The New Paradigm Journal www.newparadigmjournal.com