Berlin, 7 December 2021 (TDI): On the 50th Anniversary of Willy Brandt, North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, will join the event on “Peace Policy in our time” organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Berlin on the 8th of December 2021.
#NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg will participate in “Peace policy in our time”, an event organised by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Willy Brandt being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize On Wednesday 8 Dec.
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— Oana Lungescu (@NATOpress) December 6, 2021
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General, will participate in global peace and security in a panel discussion along with Helga Schmid, Secretary-General of the OSCE, Ursula Schroder, Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, and Martin Schulz, President of the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung.
Willy Brandt: Peace policy in our time
Willy Brandt’s policies, for the peaceful world, have affected German and international politics. The policy formulates the social-democratic foreign, peace, and development policy to date.
Nobel Peace Prize
Willy Brandt, the German Federal Chancellor, and former Foreign Minister, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize fifty years ago, for his firm commitment to international peace, especially in Europe, in Oslo on the 10th of December 1971.
The tribute was paid for his “Ostpolitik”, domestically controversial, which is based on non-violence and Eastern and Western blocs status quo recognition principles.
Willy Brandt states his opinion in his speech “Peace Policy in our Time”, one day after being awarded:
“War must not be a means of policy. The real task is to eliminate wars, not just to limit them. No national self-interest can still be separated from our collective responsibility for maintaining peace.”
“Social security is the foundation of lasting peace (….) Peace is something more than the absence of war. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunity for all nations.”
