SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF THE WORLD, SUNDAY 16 MAY, 2021 (1)

In this talk Daffern discuses the launch of the new INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE AETIOLOGY OF COVID 19; he reports on the recent Galileo Commission meeting on new paradigms of scientific research; he discusses how we can help advance equity, justice and peace between Israel and Palestine and advance properly towards a two state solution, and discusses the recent speeches in the Security Council at the UN all stating they favor a Palestinian State coming into being - so what needs to be done to make this happen? Daffern then explains how scholarship can help here and what duty academics have to support a Palestinian state coming into being. The suffering of bombardments on both sides must stop immediately. he then discusses the prospects of an independent Scottish state emerging post brexit and compares this to the Palestinian problem. He mentions his work on UK constitutional reforms necessary, and the proposal for a European Union Mediation Service. He closes with a reading from Volume 2 of h