One Just World
"A Scientific Vision of Social
Justice"
"A More Just Perspective of
Democracy"
"Freedom to Think Critically"
One Just World is a non-profit
organization founded in 2002 by Dr. Karo
Michaelian with the purpose of promoting a non-corporate, international and
scientific vision of social democracy and social justice. The organization is
intended to be completely open and will consider all aspects of international
politics concerning social justice and democracy. The emphasis at the
organization is on a scientific foundation for social justice, taking into
account the complexities of human nature. Views based on religion, race, or
creed are not supported by the organization. Active participation of social and
physical scientists and critical thinkers alike is solicited.
"War is good for the economy like cannibalism is
nutritious."
--George
Bernard Shaw
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Introduction
Intelligence, combined with the essentially individualistic nature
of the human species has made it the most adaptive of all the
species on the globe. This is surely the reason why humans have
come to dominate the biosphere, but also why humans have tremendous
difficulty living in societies. The formation of human society was,
without a doubt, a most important factor in the recent increase in
adaptation of humans to a hostile environment (as demonstrated by the recent
dramatic increase in the human population). This innovation for the
human species is still in its infantile stage of development. Humans
know why they should behave in a certain manner so as to maintain cohesion
of society, but their individual instinct still provides an irresistible
calling. So strong is this calling, and so destructive to the society is its
effects that humans have invented many societal institutions to castigate
rebels. Religion, ethics, a police state and a scientific education enforce
good social behavior. Every so often these institutions must be replaced by
stronger more appropriate institutions or the very existence of society will
be questioned. In other species, the society is not a recent invention and
societal behavioral characteristics have been selected and are programmed
into instinct, dissenters are simply mutations. Given that human society has
been founded on human intelligence and not through natural selection, the
need for an objective, scientific understanding
of society, social democracy and social justice is critically important. At
this stage in our societal development, technology and a market
oriented economic system have created a global system of privileged
and abused. Justice in most countries is commonly bought. Reason
and "being right" are the monopoly of the economically or
militarily powerful. If an objective sense of social
justice based on science is not promoted, the world runs again the risk of heading down
the same treacherous path of ignorance, bigotry and arrogance. One
nation again rising to singular military and economic superpower status.
This state of affairs is even more dangerous today than it was in
the past since a tremendous amount of weapons of mass destruction
have been stockpiled in many countries of the world. These weapons and the
technology which can be employed to deliver them is also inequitably
distributed among only the economically powerful nations, meaning the limited
possibility of retaliation, and hence the greater the temptation to use them.
At the same
time, the divide between the rich and poor nations is increasing at an
alarming rate. On all fronts, from technology to health, the poorest
nations are regressing, or at best are stagnant, while the richest
nations use the present economic system to increase their expression at the
expense of the rest of the world. The marginalization of the poor countries
in the world politic means that this situation may become the status quo for
many years in the future, translating into endless wars and suffering for a
large segment of the worlds population. There is only one possible
escape from this scenario; that the progressive and critically thinking
people of this world unite in an effort to promote social justice from a
scientific perspective. The principle objective of the
organization One
Just world (OJW) is to sponsor a
scientific view of social justice stripped of all the prerogatives and biases
of the existing economic or ideological dictatorships. Such a view should be
based on science and independent of religion, race, or creed. Articles sponsored by
OJW always appear in format article.pdf. Works
sponsored by OJW are normally by invitation although
unsolicited works may be accepted after review by sending a .pdf version of the work to the e-mail given
below. Direct criticism of the
sponsored works by the public and professional alike will be
published at the OJW as long as it is written in a respectful and
scientifically sound manner. To criticize a work, send an e-mail with a
.pdf version of the criticism to the address given
below. To, read the criticism of others and the corresponding
response of the authors, simply click on the
corresponding comments link. All material sponsored by
the organization is freely available for downloads and distribution. The
only stipulation being that the author of the work is duly cited. The
correct way to cite a scientific article published at OJW will depend on
where the article was first published; information which can be found by
clicking on the .pdf version of the article. The
correct way to cite a new article published at the OJW is, eg., To send an article, or to
criticize an article at OJW, send the work as an attach in a .pdf format to e-mail: karo@fisica.unam.mx
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Some
of the most recent works.. .
The Tale of Two Tsunamis, The Monster Fears its
Shadow, A Call for the Scientific
Investigation of Destruction of
Societal Diversity and Sections;
War Works
of some of the great thinkers: Why Socialism? Albert Einstein, Monthly Review, May 1949. article To send an article, or to
criticize an article published at OJW, simply send an e-mail with the work as
an attach in .pdf format to karo@fisica.unam.mx |
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