In response to the Schiller Institute petition “Convoke an International Conference to Establish A New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations,” Alessia Ruggeri, spokeswoman of Comitato per la Repubblica, Rome, Italy, issues a clarion call for a peace conference in the spirit of the Treaty of Westphalia that ended 30 years of religious war in the 17th Century. Ms. Ruggeri is one of over 120 prominent signers from around the world to the Schiller Institute’s petition.