The Schiller Institute today released a list of 60 names of prominent individuals from 20 countries who have endorsed the March 8, 2025 call from the Institute’s founder, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, “Instead of Rearming for the Great War, We Need to Create a Global Security Architecture!” It is being issued at a time when Europe is at an historic crossroads, where a difference alternative must be urgently put on the table if a catastrophe is to be avoided.

The statement begins, “The European Union (EU) and most European governments are in the grips of a war hysteria that can only be compared to the warmongering madness that broke out before World War One.”

It concludes, “Europe has reacted to Trump’s sudden signals for an end to the Ukraine war and a resumption of diplomacy with Rusia with great panic – and cries for war. But there is still time to currect this potentially fatal course. If Europe wants to overcome its current economic misery, the way out lies in cooperation with the nations of the Global South, which has long since become the Global Majority.

“Humanity has reached the point where it must overcome the old patterns of thought steeped in geopolitics and the Cold War, and replace them with a new global security and development architecture that takes into account the interests of all nations on this planet. A positive example for this is provided by the Peace of Westphalia, which came about because the warring parties came to the conclusion that if the war continued, no one would be able to enjoy victory, since there would be no survivors. How much more convincing this argument is in times of thermonuclear weapons which, if used, would lead to the extinction of all mankind!”

For the full text of the statement, which has been endorsed by many others worldwide, see Instead of Rearming for the Great War, We Need to Create a Global Security Architecture! The text includes a link for new endorsements, and the Schiller Institute urges all individuals in agreement with the statement to add their names, and circulate the statement as widely as possible.

List of prominent endorsers as of April 24, organized alphabetically by country, and alphabetically by last name within country. Affiliation/background for identification purposes only.

Daud Azimi, Afghanistan/Germany, Engineer; Board Member, Peace National
Front of Afghanistan

Ute Kollies, Austria, Former Deputy Regional Director for West Africa, UN
Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Gen. Edwin Alfonso De La Fuente Jeria, Bolivia, Former Commander-in-Chief of
the Bolivian Armed Forces

Tom Gillesberg, Denmark, President, Schiller Institute in Denmark; former
independent candidate for parliament

Ramón Emilio Concepción, Dominican Republic, Attorney-at-law; Presidential
Pre-candidate, PRM party (2020)

Mariano Nguema Esono Medja, Equatorial Guinea, Focal Point in Equatorial
Guinea, United Nations Regional Center for Peace and Disarmament in Africa

Jacques Cheminade, France, President, Solidarité et Progrès; former
presidential candidate

Col. (Ret.) Alain Corvez, France, consultant on international strategic
affairs

Col. (Ret.) Jacques Hogard, France, INF-LE, Land Army

Jérôme Ravenet, France, Doctor of Letters and Associate Professor of
Philosophy

Ali Rastbeen, France, President, Académie de Géopolitique de Paris

Dr. Jur. Wolfgang Bittner, Germany, Author

Joachim Bonatz, Germany, Vice President, East German Board of Trustees of
Associations (Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden e.V.), Berlin

Margret Bonin, Germany, Global Women for Peace United Against NATO

Frank Bornschein, Germany, City Councilor, Schwedt; Friends of Peace Schwedt
e.V.

Karl Cammann, Germany, Prof. (em.) Dr.

Holger Hüttel, Germany, Chairman, local branch of Die Linke, Sangerhausen

 Dr. (med.)  Helmut Käss, Germany, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War (IPPNW)

Harald Koch, Germany, former member, Bundestag; founding member,
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW)

Wolfgang Lieberknecht, Germany, Internationale FriedensFabrik Wanfried, (IFFW)

Ulrich Leonhardt, Germany, Aufstehen Schwerin (Rise Up Schwerin)

Dr. Cornelia Nenz, Germany

Stephan Ossenkopp, Germany, Vice Chairman, BüSo; journalist, “Die
Multipolare Welt”

Karin Pflug, Germany, Honorary City Councilor, Quedlinburg

Dr. Andrey Redlich, Germany, Founding member, Society for Human Rights
(German section), (ISHR).

Thomas Rehm, Germany, Head of workers council, Saale Energie GmbH

Dr. Rainer Sandau, Germany, Technical Director, Satellites and Space
Applications, International Academy of Aeronautics (IAA)

Jan Veil, Germany, Freie Linke, South Hesse

Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, Greece, Ambassador ad honorem; Secretary General,
Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC), 2006-2012

Raúl Aníbal Marroquín Casasola, Guatemala, Coordinator, Citizen Observatory
for Peace “La Pupila del Cielo”, San Cristóbal

Maurizio Abbate, Italy, Chairman, ENAC (Italian Institute for Cultural
Activities)

Vincenzo Romanello, Ph.D., Italy/Czech Republic, Nuclear engineer; founder,
Italian chapter, Atoms for Peace.

Bruno Romano, Italy, Movisol

Alessia Ruggeri, Italy, trade union leader

Marino Savina, Italy, National President, ANDICOSI (National Association of
Security Employees)

Daisuke Kotegawa, Japan, Former IMF Executive Director for Japan; former
Japan Ministry of Finance official

Pigbin Odimwengu, Kenya, Accountability and Transparency Party, 2022
Presidential Candidate

Rafael Nava y Uribe, Mexico, President, Mexico-Colombia Chamber of Commerce

Celeste Sáenz de Miera, Mexico, Director, Journalists Club of Mexico A.C.

Alberto Vizcarra Osuna, Mexico, Member of Coordinating Committee, National
Front for the Rescue of Mexican Farmland

Prof. Driss Larafi, Morocco, Professor of Political Science and
International Relations, University Ibn Tofail

Kees le Pair, Ph.D., Netherlands, Physicist, Univ. of Leiden; former Ass’t
Professor, American University of Beirut; Science Advisor, Dutch Military
Research

Adewale Aiyedun, Ph.D., Nigeria, Forensic Investigator, Audit and Security
Consultant

David Ajetunmobi, Nigeria, Trade union leader-auto sector

Adeshola Kukoyi, Nigeria, Founder, Equilibrium Perspectives, University of
Lagos

Julia Vellila Laconich, Paraguay, Former ambassador from Paraguay to
Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru, and UNESCO (Paris)

Kjell Lundqvist, Sweden, Chairman, European Labor Party

Ulf Sandmark, Sweden, Chairman, Schiller Institute in Sweden

Father Harry Bury, United States, Minneapolis/St. Paul Non-Violent; U.S.
Priests Association

Carroll Childers, United States, Major General (ret.), U.S. Army; retired
weapons developer, U.S. Dep’t. of the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps

Graham Fuller, United States/Canada, Former U.S. diplomat and CIA official;
former Vice-Chair, National Intelligence Council

Jack Gilroy, United States, Veterans for Peace; Pax Christi-Upstate New
York; Pax Christi International

Martin Melkonian, United States, Treasurer, Long Island (NY) Alliance for
Peace and Justice

Lorin Peters, United States, Pax Christi, Northern California Chapter

Earl Rasmussen, United States, Lt. Col. (ret.), U.S. Army; international
consultant

John Shanahan, United States, Civil engineer; president, Go Nuclear Inc.;
editor, website: allaboutenergy.net

Steven Starr, United States, Professor, University of Missouri; nuclear
warfare expert

John Steinbach, United States, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee, National
Capital Area

J. Kirk Wiebe, United States, Retired analyst, National Security Agency; NSA
Whistleblower

Jim Wohlgemuth, United States, Veterans for Peace, Nashville (TN) chapter;
radio host