John Hagelin Presents Four-Point Plan to Resolve Kosovo Crisis during
Washington Press Conference Speaking at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C., last Friday before a packed audience of reporters,
international government dignitaries, and local Natural Law Party
supporters, NLP presidential candidate John Hagelin outlined his
"four-point action plan for immediate resolution to the Kosovo crisis."
Dr. Hagelin presented published scientific research showing that a
peace-keeping force of 7000 advanced meditators in the vicinity of Kosovo
"would accomplish what the airstrikes have failed miserably to do--quickly
calm the tensions, end the bloodshed, and create lasting peace in the
region."
Dr. Haglelin called his offer "a proven, humane, cost-effective solution to
the Bosnian conflict." He said that the force would eliminate the
underlying cause of the conflict, which is high levels of stress and ethnic
hatred and tensions. "With bombs you can destroy the people, you can
destroy the land, but you cannot destroy the hatred that fuels these
conflicts."
Hagelin said that the cost of his peace-keeping project, compared to the
current military campaign, would be negligible. "Less than the cost of a
wing and tail fin of a B-2 Bomber," he said.
Dr. Hagelin was joined at the conference by John Davies, Ph.D., Research
Director of the Center of International Development and Conflict Management
at the University of Maryland.
Press coverage of the offer was excellent, and included reporters from
Time, CBS, CNN, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit News, and a national radio
news service. International press included reporters from London's
Financial Times, as well as from major newspapers in India, Spain,
Argentina, Brazil, Japan, and China.
Dr. Hagelin's four-point plan includes:
Step 1 . (30 days duration)
Within 48 hours, establish a "coherence-creating group" in the geographic
vicinity of Kosovo. This group would be composed of approximately 7000
civilian volunteers from Europe and throughout the world who are already
experienced in advanced forms of meditation known to have a powerful
peaceful influence in the social environment (e.g., the Transcendental
Meditation and TM-Sidhi program).
This would produce an immediate, powerful calming influence throughout the
region, and a rapid cessation of the hostilities towards the Kosovo
Albanians, which are fueled by collective stress and deep-seated ethnic and
religious tensions.
Cost to NATO of housing and sustaining 7000 volunteers for one month:
approximately $15 million.
Step 2 . (simultaneous with step 1)
Begin training a permanent group of 1000 Kosovar Albanians in the
peace-keeping technologies of collective meditation. In addition to
preserving the peace, the individual participants would directly benefit by
increased autonomic stability, resistance to stress, and ability to recover
from the ravages of the war.
Cost to NATO for training and adequate follow-up: approximately $3 million.
Step 3 . (60 days duration)
During the second 60 days, the 7000 volunteers would be progressively
supplanted by the Kosovar Albanians.
Cost to NATO for housing and sustaining a decreasing number of outside
volunteers: approximately $15 million.
Step 4 . (ongoing)
As a preventive strategy, and as a means to protect against violence,
terrorism, and outside aggression, countries throughout the world are
encouraged to establish their own coherence-creating groups, either within
the military, among the youth, or among the unemployed.
Total cost to NATO for permanent peaceful resolution of Kosovo Crisis:
$33 million
Total cost of a single B-2 Stealth Bomber:
$750 million
