An interdisciplinary group of scholars and diplomats gathered in Vatican City on June 6-7 to explore how the international community might best achieve a positive, rather than merely a negative peace to end the conflict in Ukraine.
This “Science and Ethics of Happiness Study Group on Peacemaking” meeting was organized by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and charged with focusing on the current conflict in Ukraine. Longtime STI expert and Academic Director Ana Marta González was among the participants.
The group produced a final statement, “Reaching a Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine,” signed by its individual participants in a personal capacity, under the auspices of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The statement, which can be downloaded here, suggests specific benchmarks for a ceasefire and a positive peace agreement, and responds to potential counter-arguments in an addendum.
