PRINCE2 Foundation, Isocracy Meeting and Other Meetings

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Three days this week was spent doing almost nothing else but taking an intensive course on PRINCE2 Foundation certification, which included no less than three exams (two trial, one real) on Friday. In two week's time this will be followed up by the Practioner exam which is supposed to come with a modicum of difficulty and is meant to be time-challenging. The week after that is my Project Management exam for the Grad Cert and after that the Advanced Project Management exam. Particularly looking forward to applying some of these techniques in the political world to see if they are sufficiently adaptable.

Next Saturday is an Isocracy general meeting with a speaker from the United Nations Association of Victoria on the Responsibility to Protect. This is probably the most important change to international law in history. It was introduced by the United Nations in 2005 and argues that State-sovereignity is not a privilege, but rather a responsibility. States which cannot, or will not, prevent mass atrocities, will be subject to intervention, including military intervention. Critics argue that it undermines state sovereignty. Supporters argue that it is necessary to stop mass atrocities. The question is posed: How do we best protect civilians against mass atrocities by the State and other agencies?. Register your attendence at the event here (Facebook) or in the comments below.

Further planned meetings this week: Celtic Histories and Mysteries at the Melbourne Interfaith Forum, where I'm presenting, a meeting of the Socialist Left on Sunday, ALP State Conference next Sunday, where I've put up an urgency motion on document disclosure for Timor-Leste, which is certainly a hidden sore in Australian archiving history. The motion was passed at the Kew branch meeting which I attended on Monday (and was seconded by Steve Hurd, the Federal candidate for Kooyong at the last Federal election). Oh, and wasn't that budget a ripper? Unsurprisingly, Dr. No responds with an expected level of competence.

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"How do we best protect civilians against mass atrocities by the State and other agencies?"
That is indeed the question ! I fully agree that intervention is absolutely imperative NOW if the evil bastard is to be stopped from massacring his own people . Russia and China should be ashamed of themselves !

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I certainly agree comrade. However there are some political forces that believe the right to national self-determination transcends universal rights. Of course, they don't prioritise self-determination within the state in question.

Rose Luxemburg pointed out how the ideology of national self-determination can easily become reactionary.