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World Security Network reporting from London, December 22, 2011

Dear Cavkic Salih,
 

Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, President of the World Security Network Foundation: "There is no massive support of the delicate palm of democracy like several Arab countries do for the Islamic movements. Talking replaces concrete deeds. Let's support the new forces of freedom and human rights in MENA and start a more peaceful 2012."

The year 2011 revealed an unexpected second wave of freedom and democratic values expressing the desire of individuals for dignity and self-determination. Following the dramatic years of liberation in Eastern Europe and the USSR from 1989 to 1991, freedom this time resembled a date palm emerging from the sand in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen.

Colonel Gaddafi, the longest-ruling and shrillest dictator of our time, was toppled within a few months.

Tunisia and Egypt shook off their authoritarian rulers and family clans.

In Asia the military dictatorship of many years in Myanmar (Burma) turned away from its dominant neighbour China setting free hundreds of political prisoners.

Pentagon strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer (see www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer) always firmly believed in the re-generation through an elite comprising few active personalities. This time they included the harassed Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi who set himself on fire December 17, 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and humiliation by officials becoming the catalyst of the revolution in Tunisia and the Arab Spring, the revolutionaries of Benghazi, Egypt´s bloggers as well as the numerous people at Cairo´s Tahrir Square. It is the beginning of a long-term struggle for freedom and stability.

However, there is the danger that the still unfinished young plants of freedom may be torn out again by a few radicals. The first free election in Egypt in November 2011 showed a strong Islamic block of 61 percent with the liberal Egypt Block running only third place with 13,4 percent. Democracy as well as millions of new jobs for young people in North Africa and the Middle East (MENA) cannot be created within a few months. Democracy must be allowed to grow –as is documented by the development in Eastern Europe and Russia.

It will be of crucial importance, if the new freedom elite is capable of activating the two-thirds majority of freedom-loving, but simple-minded masses and in turn eliciting their enthusiasm for courageous leaders. Or alternatively, recalling the sorrowful experiences of Fritz Kraemer and the German nation during the Weimar Republic, radicals hijacking democracy and erecting an even more dreadful Islam extremist dictatorship as was the case in Iran in 1979.

The revolutions in North Africa and the Gulf serve as a crucial litmus test proving if Islam and democracy as well as the common global values are reconcilable; and if the people and moderate Islamist parties there – as was accomplished in all of Europe – are able to create a modern humane, free order. Or produce just another authoritarian regime like so apt described in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell or in the books about the Third Reich and the rise of totalitarism by Bonn professor Karl Dietrich Bracher.

I firmly believe that our world would be safer if we get rid of the remaining dictatorships and the principles of our coexistence, stipulated in the UN Charter of 1949, have been implemented everywhere. Dictatorships employ violence in their domestic and foreign conduct, because they are violent by nature permanently abusing the rights of others.

The predominantly negative experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan show, however, that the U.S. and its allies were not able to implant strong Western-style democracies by military or soft political means from the outside in states without respective traditions.

Our foreign policy must draw lessons from the mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan and take into consideration experiences of the Eastern European and North African revolutions as well.

Until now it has mostly been chasing developments. New adjustments appear appropriate. There is no massive support of the delicate palm of democracy like several Arab countries do for the Islamic movements. Talking replaces concrete deeds.

Let’s support the new forces of freedom and human rights in MENA and start a more peaceful 2012.

The World Security Network wishes you and your families a Merry Christmas and a very Happy Holiday Season !


Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann
President and Founder
World Security Network Foundation

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Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann

President and Founder
World Security Network Foundation


Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann is a German entrepreneur and geostrategist based in London.

His three main focuses as a philanthropist are:

- 'Networking a Safer World', with the largest global elite network in foreign affairs, the independent World Security Network Foundation (www.worldsecuritynetwork.com).

- The Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect - promoting understanding and concrete actions for tolerance towards other religions, races and minorities (www.codesoftolerance.com).

- The promotion of a responsible elite which takes over special obligations and duties in societies around the world (www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer).

Dr. Hoffmann worked as an advisor in the European Parliament (Office of Prof. Hans-Gert Poettering, former President of the European Parliament), the German Bundestag (State Secretary of Defense Peter Kurt Wuerzbach, MP) and the U.S. Senate (Sam Nunn, Gary Hart) in defense and foreign affairs for many years.

He was Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Georgetown University. Dr. Hoffmann holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with "summa cum laude" (Prof. Karl Dietrich Bracher, University of Bonn, Germany) and is a lawyer as well. He is a reserve officer in the German Army (Field Artillery).

For 13 years he has worked as a successful entrepreneur and investor in different funds. Co-founder of GCG which invested from 2005-2007 Euro 3,3 bn in companies like Volkswagen, BASF, ThyssenKrupp, Lanxess and Siemens. From 1996-2000 he was founder and CEO of InternetMediaHouse AG and a large investor and member of the Executive Board at Loewe TV company, increasing the value of both companies by 24 times in two years to a peak of €600m. Before he worked as a journalist in the White House Press Corps, as an editor for ZDF, the largest TV station in Europe, and as managing director of large German media companies.

Dr. Hoffmann supported NATO's Two Track Decision from 1979 to 1983 to deploy medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe combined with mutual arms reductions on the Russian side, putting him on the target list of the RAF, the German terrorist organization. In 1978 he founded a popular German appeal (Dattelner Appell) to dismantle the new Russian SS-20 missiles and to combine it with the non-deployment of NATO Pershing II and Cruise Missiles, which was signed by more than 100 members of the German Bundestag, U.S. Senators like Edward Kennedy, and others, and on December 12, 1979 was successfully integrated into NATO's Two Track Decision and later into the INF Treaty.

In 1980 he initiated a CDU/CSU resolution and Federal Law of the Bundestag for an Annual Report on Arms Control and Disarmament, which since then has been published by the German Government.

For ten years Dr. Hoffmann was Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Committee for Foreign, Defense, European and Inner-German Affairs in his home state of Lower Saxony in Germany and active in promoting German re-unification and a strong NATO. Elected CDU-Member of the City Council in his home town Goslar (Harz).

In 1984 Dr. Hoffmann organized the exchange program for young reserve officers from the U.S.A. and Germany with the support of then-State Secretary of Defense Peter Kurt Wuerzbach with more than 1000 reserve officers involved from both sides of the Atlantic. He was a German member of the Executive Committee of the NATO Reserve Officers Association CIOR.

He supported the Mujaheddin from 1985-1990 against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, visiting them in the mountains in 1985 and writing the Afghanistan Report for the European Parliament.

In 1989 - during the visit of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl - he initiated and helped to finance the first "Farmers Association of Silesia" - former German homeland of his expelled parents in Poland - which now has more than 3,000 Polish and German members and its own dairy.

In 1992 he was Chairman of the Eesti Committee Report (requested by Estonian President Tunne Kelam) about the Future of the "Baltic Hanseatic Region" (Oblast Kaliningrad; Lithuania; Latvia, and Estonia), which helped to create stable democratic states in the Baltic and the fundament to join the EU and NATO.

In 1981 his home town of Goslar/Harz awarded him its "Förderpreis" for journalistic merits (Laudatio: General (Ret.) Johannes Steinhoff, former Chairman of NATOs Military Committee).

Schitag Ernst & Young, SAP and Manager magazine honored Dr. Hoffmann as "Finalist German Entrepreneur of the Year 1998" for growth and innovation as member of the Board and co-owner of Loewe Opta Holding TV company.

In October 2000 he was awarded the "Federal Cross of Merit" for "innovative business ideas" by German President Johannes Rau in Schloss Bellevue (Berlin).

In 2002 at Friedrichsruh Palace near Hamburg, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck bestowed upon Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann the "Bismarck Medal in Silver with Golden Oak Leaves" for his "patriotic faithfulness and proven Prussian national consciousness".

In 2010 he initiated the first official Progress Report Afghanistan of the German Government supported by the SPD opposition and the CDU/CSU and FDP groups in the Bundestag.

100 poor boys and girls from the tribal areas (FATA) received a WSN FATA Scholarship to visit schools in Karachi (Pakistan) in 2010.

Dr. Hoffmann is the author of two standard books about nuclear weapons ("Atomkrieg, Atomfrieden: Technik, Strategie, Abrüstung" 1980; "Die Atompartner: Washington - Bonn und die Modernisierung der taktischen Kernwaffen", 1986).

In 2004 he published a book about his mentor of 25 years "Fritz Kraemer On Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist" (with Contributions from Alexander M. Haig Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Madeleine Kraemer Bryant; Sven Kraemer, Wilhelm-Karl von Preussen, Edward L. Rowny and Donald Rumsfeld).

One of his main activities in WSN is The Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect Project, promoting universal rules for parents, educators, journalists, religious leaders and politicians on how to promote respect for other religions, races and ethnic minorities, as important soft factors of peacemaking including best practices from all over the world and the roots of respect and tolerance in the life of the Prophet and Islam (see www.codesoftolerance.com).

Dr. Hoffmann is a frequent speaker and has spoken in the White House Situation Room (Briefing for National Security Advisor Bob McFarlane and his NSC Directors), the U.S. Congress, YPO Europe in Krakow (Poland), MedDays in Tanger (Morocco), Global Women Leader Conference of Zayed University in Dubai (UAE), the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown Universities, Trinity College (Dublin), and the Cambridge Union (UK).

Member of YPO (Rhine Chapter) and IISS (London)
Scholar Konrad Adenauer and Thyssen Foundation
Young Atlantic Leader 1992 (Atlantik-Brücke)

More can be found at www.worldsecuritynetwork.com and www.codesoftolerance.com


Articles by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann

• 7 Bullet Point Plan to defend our Free World

• 9/11 could have been avoided, but only very soon starting 1998 !

• A New NATO Double-Track Decision Against Terror
  Only a new combination of containment and dialog can defeat terrorism

• A Soldiers´ Christmas Surprise in World War I, 1914

• Afghanistan & NATO’s Mission Impossible:
  A Radical New Grand Design Needed or Defeat is Guaranteed

• Afghanistan & Pakistan: A new and comprehensive NATO Double-Track Decision is needed

• Afghanistan: A new Grand Strategy for NATO, EU and the U.S.

• Afghanistan: Germans at the Front

• Afghanistan: Negotiations with the Taliban as the Path to Peace

• Afghanistan: Why the UN via ISAF will win

• Alexander Haig Obituary: A great American General and Patriot

• Assassination Attempt on Pope Benedict XVI?

• Bosnia – Hubertus Hoffmann on building bridges between Moslems, Serbs and Croats and Reconciliation in The Balkans

• Brazil Superstar?

• CDU-Pflüger: Global Responsibilities for Europe

• Change Palestine! Movement and a Double Strategy top priority now

• China & the U.S.: from containment to a harmonious partnership

• China: The new Policy of Harmony and Moral Appeal must prevail

• Christmas & Holiday Season 2008: A Story of Reconciliation from the Holy Land

• Christmas & Holiday Season 2009: Moral Relativism greatest danger for true peace

• Christmas & Holiday Season 2010: Wall Street between greed and values

• Christmas 2007: More hope and light than fear and darkness

• Christmas and Holiday Season 2011: Freedom is a Date Palm Emerging from the Sand

• Christmas Newsletter 2003

• Christmas Newsletter 2004

• Christmas Newsletter 2005: Christian Peace Policy is needed now!

• Christmas Newsletter 2006 - “Let Us Share a Dream of Peace on Earth!”

• Col. Gaddafi killed: What’s next in Libya?

• Dalai Lama WSN Exclusive: Thoughts of Tibet’s Spiritual Leader

• Dalai Lama-Tibet-China: Re-set Buddhist Harmony with Soft Autonomy vs. Cultural Nihilism

• Darfur: Stop the Genocide in Sudan now!

• Einstein’s Lessons for Today’s Foreign Policy: “Imagination Is More Important than Knowledge.” Therefore We Need a New Creative Strategy for More Freedom in the World

• ESTONIA: Alice in Foreign Affairs Wonderland

• Estonia: From Soviet Occupation to EU Role Model

• Ethnic Displacements: Suggestions for Containment and Proscription

• EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on the future of European Energy Security

• European intelligence chief believes Osama Bin Laden harboured by Pakistan's ISI
  -World Exclusive for the www.worldsecuritynetwork.com-

• FATA - Pakistan - Afghanistan: Fresh Proposals and Action Plan

• Fidel! It's time to say "Goodbye!"

• First German 'Progress Report Afghanistan': A Successful Initiative of the World Security Network Foundation

• Former EU Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering MEP on Democracy in Libya and the Arab World

• Former NATO General Klaus Naumann: Impressions from Afghanistan and What NATO Should Do Now

• Former Pakistani Chief of Staff and ISI Director Gen. Ehsan ul Haq on Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Former Pakistani ISI Director Gen. Hamid Gul on Negotiations with the Taliban

• Fritz Kraemer book parties in Washington and New York: Wolfowitz, Schmitz, Rowny and more

• Fritz Kraemer bookparties in Berlin and Munich

• Fritz Kraemer’s World of Values, Principles, and Ideals

• Germany: Wind of change with Angela Merkel and the Liberals

• Get Karzai out of the line of fire in Afghanistan now!

• Good bye, Col. Dr. Fritz Kraemer !

• Good News from Afghanistan

• Greater Efforts for Human Codes of Tolerance Needed

• Habib Malik Orakzai: "Education is key for development of FATA in Pakistan"

• Hiroshima: Hubertus Hoffmann meets the only U.S. Officer on both A-Missions and one of his Victims

• Hubertus Hoffmann Cambridge Union Address about Rules of Soft Power

• Hubertus Hoffmann, President and Founder, World Security Network Foundation: "The execution of the three Catholics would be a slap in the face to all those who have helped Indonesia after the tsunami!"

• Implosion in Egypt: What to do now?

• India: Hubertus Hoffmann Meets a Miracle of Tolerance and an Economic Boom

• Individuals Have the Natural Right to Resist Dictatorships

• Indonesia: Save the Catholics sentenced to death!

• Injustice Indonesian Style: Christians Executed – but Mildness toward Islamic Bali Bombers – Support their families with a donation now !

• Inside Jordan: Hubertus Hoffmann meets the Islamic Rose and a Prince of Wisdom and Tolerance

• Iraq: Hubertus Hoffmann on Plan B for the U.S. and stabilizing the region

• Iraq: U.S. Senate supports Sen. Joe Biden Plan for a Federal System

• Iraqi Kurdistan as Golden Key for Peace and the U.S. in Iraq

• Iraqi Kurdistan: Hubertus Hoffmann meets Fear and a Lighthouse of Hope

• Iraqi Kurdistan: Hubertus Hoffmann on the Heaven for Christians and Tolerance Near Hell

• Is Islam tolerant ?

• Islam and Totalitarianism

• Islamic Renaissance Is Needed!

• Israel at 60: Hubertus Hoffmann on a new Double Strategy of Power and Reconciliation

• Israel needs reconciliation with the Palestinians or will lose the battle for its existence

• Israel, Lebanon and Palestine: Cornerstones for Peace

• Israel-Palestine: Hubertus Hoffmann on a New Peace Strategy combining Hawk & Dove, Uzi & Olive Branch

• Japan & Globalization: Hubertus Hoffmann reports from Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima

• Kremlin security adviser is as strong as he is weak

• Let us promote the Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect now !

• Letter from Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann to U.S. Senator Joe Biden on the bipartisan vote promoting a Federal Structure for Iraq

• Libya: Action Plan needed

• Moral Relativism

• Mumbai: Hubertus Hoffmann's Lessons Learned

• Muslims & killing Christians: Defend the Prophet & Punish the Sinners!

• Nelson Mandela at 90 - Soweto and South Africa - Hubertus Hoffmann on a Tour of Africa's Values and Chances

• No Hate for Children, please !

• Nobel Peace Prize: Who deserves it ?

• Norway Continue!

• Nuclear Arms in Iran, Wolfowitz, Stürmer and "Provocative Weakness"

• Obama's 20 Secrets of Success and what you can learn from him

• Obama's new Foreign Policy needs a Double Strategy of Power and Diplomacy - a mix of creativity, imagination, excellency, brilliant strategies & power - to be better than Bush

• Obama: Paradigm Change for Russia needed

• Obituary Hans Janitschek: An Austrian Idealist and Journalist in New York

• Otto von Habsburg: A Noble European with Christian Values

• Pakistan: Land in the Line of Fire

• Palestine’s young elite should have a look at German history

• Poland: Hubertus Hoffmann Meets Two Icons of Moral Values

• Pope John Paul II. : Thank you for your contributions for a better world !

• President Putin, let us start a Common Vision for a democratic Future of Russia in the EU now !

• Progress in Afghanistan: Two German Generals analyse

• Progressive Patriotism or "I Love My Country!"

• Proposals for innovative Actions in Syria

• Punish terrorists according to Sharia as they offend the Prophet and Allah

• Riaz Khokhar, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, on Extremism, Terror, Afghanistan, and India

• Russia & Putin: A Grand Strategy for a Better Partnership with the EU and the U.S.

• Sheikh Yassin, Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler: Appeasement and Provocative Weakness

• Support the Proposals of the Afghanistan Peace Jirga!

• Support the WSN "Education for Tolerance in the Islamic World Report" !

• The Christian Message of Peace, Reconciliation and Tolerance

• The Globalization of Foreign Policy

• The Misleading Iraq Study Group Report and What President Bush Should Do Now

• The New Art of Peacemaking: Let's Make Friends First — Use Arms only as an Ultima Ratio Regis

• The Pope and Beijing

• The West needs Holistic Formulas for Peace on the basis of Diplomacy plus Power plus Reconciliation

• Three Strong Federal States Comprised of Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis Are Needed Now in Iraq with a Division of Oil Income – or a Bloody Civil War Is Unavoidable

• Tribal Areas (FATA): U.S. Air Strikes Counterproductive - Smart Power is better than Hard Power

• U.S. Foreign Policy: Dangerous - Destructive? Hubertus Hoffmann speech at Trinity College Dublin

• U.S. General David Petraeus ISAF Commander about Progress in Afghanistan

• Werner Weidenfeld: "EU needs minimum of five Years for Economic Government"

• World Security Network: Why you should join as a prominent supporter now !

• WSN Scholarship Program for young men and women of excellence

Articles by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann in cooperation with Edward L. Rowny

• A New NATO Double-Track Decision on Terrorism and Dialogue with Islam Is Needed

Articles by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann in cooperation with Dieter Farwick

• Munich Conference: Rumsfeld: "Freedom Prevails!" - Merkel: "NATO first!"

• Munich Conference on Security Policy 2008 - Lack of Strategies - 25 exclusive WSN TV interviews

Articles by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann in cooperation with Dieter Farwick and Benedikt Franke

• Putin, McCain, Lieberman & Iranian National Security Advisor Larijani on Peacemaking and A-Bombs

Articles by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann in cooperation with Dieter Farwick, Benedikt Franke, Ian Walker and Benedikt Wahler

• Otto von Habsburg: Europe at 50 – An exclusive WSN TV interview

Articles by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann in cooperation with Dieter Farwick

• Pakistan: A new GCC-EU FATA Friendship Fund and Double Strategy to Contain Terrorism and the Taliban

Articles by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann in cooperation with Dieter Farwick, Dr. Benedikt Franke and Benedikt Wahler

• U.S. Vice President Joe Biden: America needs the world as the world needs America

Articles by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann in cooperation with Dieter Farwick, Dr. Michael Kueppers and Philipp Hauenstein

• Munich Security Conference: "2010 should be a year of action and implementation- no more excuses for delays"

• Munich Security Conference: Smart Power World 3.0 Needed
  
   

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