Tony Watkins

No one noticed that we had created a new UN flag until it was too late. By then our new way of seeing the world had been broadcast every night on TV, and every dignitary had been photographed in front of it. The real UN flag is centred on the big powers. Our new version was centred on New Zealand and the great blue Pacific Ocean.

My deepest apologies. I would love to be with you all to celebrate 25 years since the founding of Arc-Peace, along with all that has been achieved over that time, but sadly it is not possible.

My paper had been accepted for the 1987 UIA Brighton Congress and while it was exciting enough to fly right around the world, retracing a journey which had once taken me a year travelling overland, I was also excited about my academic future opening up.

Two assumptions seem to have been made in deciding that the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), being held in June 1992, should be located in Brazil.

Moving South as the world goes West

The assumption on the one hand that the big differences in the world are between cultures, and the assumption on the other hand that those cultures are territorial.

Following on from the euphoria of the Velvet Revolution Akio invited a few of us to speak in Tokyo.