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31st
January 2012
The
silent revolution for a Peaceful Caribbean
 The
source and application of power has not always
been the show of force. Of equal importance
is the ability to shape events and regions that
pull potential bloc based on shared values.
In today’s economy and world view, the
United Nation, European Union and the International
Monetary Fund are using the size of its market
and its diplomacy to develop a different kind
of power.
This has lead to creating a community that is
using its market size in reshaping societies
from within.
The evidence is such that they achieve this
by creating an integrated market through constitutional,
regulatory frameworks and legal frameworks that
have transformed countries it comes into contract
with.
Evidently, there is urgent need locally and
regionally to involve citizens in an integrated
dialogue about the future direction of the Caribbean
region as a whole.
This illumination is necessary either through
traditional structures, law, and civil service,
in order to influence societal change.
It is my view that the Peaceful Caribbean Conference
scheduled for April 20th 2012 in Barbados, is
one such initiative with the ability to serve
more than an action plan for the establishment
of a Peaceful Caribbean.
The timing is brilliant: the theme is inspiring
for actionable dialogue in order to unlock these
untapped bloc of the Diaspora into building
networks that connect people within a market
such as the Caribbean basin - thus creating
common institutions, common standards and a
renewed emphasis to regional priorities.
This remarkable ability to harness such a regional
resource base, may very well contribute to expanding
the regions reach to mature politically and
economically as an active partner to perpetual
peace, justice and freedom in the region and
beyond.
One may ask why this is important.
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Consider
for a moment that the USA have demonstrated
that it may change regimes but Europe is changing
society from its economic policies, property
laws and treaties, and what gets served on the
nation tables, this brings to mind Windward
Islands bananas.
It is evident that North America prefers to
offer the Caribbean region temporary assistance
of military training missions and aid, security
initiatives and the crude freedom of free trade
in US markets.
These examples come out at an important moment
to help address present day realities that require
a new focus on regional priorities such as which
relationship to keep and whether new relationships
should be harnessed in the best interest of
the region’s future.
Either way, this is a vital discourse to have
towards a new collaborative perspective on the
Caribbean region’s future without becoming
a target for hostility.
However, all of this is happening at a time
when the predicament facing regional governments
is to engage with their citizens, an enlargement
process that had never been properly debated
previously.
Notable, by coming together and pooling resources
to achieve common goals, such as the Peaceful
Caribbean Conference - it is very possible,
that a renewed grasp of transformative power,
social democracy and the energy and freedom
that come from open-mindedness, could become
irresistible.
Published on January 26, 2012.
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