I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, I came to the US in 1966. From 1966 -1980, I served on the Executive of the North American Branch of the Zimbabwe Liberation Movement, ZAPU, helping to win support for Zimbabwe in the US and Canada. I became a US citizen in 1990. I have had leadership roles in the Massachusetts state government, in secondary and university levels, and in international organizations. I have taught mathematics and physics in high school and university. I studied in Zimbabwe and the US, completing a PhD at Northeastern University, Boston. I have written on a variety of su... View More »
I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, I came to the US in 1966. From 1966 -1980, I served on the Executive of the North American Branch of the Zimbabwe Liberation Movement, ZAPU, helping to win support for Zimbabwe in the US and Canada. I became a US citizen in 1990. I have had leadership roles in the Massachusetts state government, in secondary and university levels, and in international organizations. I have taught mathematics and physics in high school and university. I studied in Zimbabwe and the US, completing a PhD at Northeastern University, Boston. I have written on a variety of subjects, both for US and overseas publications. I have two books out, and am completing a third entitled: SEIZE THE MOMENT:World Stability Through Shared Values. My wife Nancy and I have four grown daughters. «View Less
I am looking for a publisher for a completed book that, I hope, has international political appeal. The message of the book and its title are shown belo:
SEIZE THE MOMENT
World Stability through Shared Values
By
Sondlo Leonard Mhlaba, PhD
The Message
What is generally denoted by International Norms today are Anglo-American and Western values that were generalized for the world through the United Nations mechanism. These norms were not sufficiently vetted across non-Western cultures. Many of the non-Western nations that were part of the UN at its inception, such as India and Egypt, had limited influence on the course of events.
The world now faces a changing geopolitical environment, one in which the values that had been universalized by the West may soon be questioned, revised, or ignored by an incre... View More »
I am looking for a publisher for a completed book that, I hope, has international political appeal. The message of the book and its title are shown belo:
SEIZE THE MOMENT
World Stability through Shared Values
By
Sondlo Leonard Mhlaba, PhD
The Message
What is generally denoted by International Norms today are Anglo-American and Western values that were generalized for the world through the United Nations mechanism. These norms were not sufficiently vetted across non-Western cultures. Many of the non-Western nations that were part of the UN at its inception, such as India and Egypt, had limited influence on the course of events.
The world now faces a changing geopolitical environment, one in which the values that had been universalized by the West may soon be questioned, revised, or ignored by an increasingly assertive non-Western world community.
Unlike 1945 when Britain could call on its American cousins to pick up the baton of world leadership, with the assurance that Western values would be sustained, we now face a world with no Western cousins to pick up the slack. America and the West are not powerless, but our influence is diminishing.
There is still time to manage the vetting and the change, if the West and other democracies will seize this moment to build i) a consensus on a range of values that are acceptable to the new international environment, and ii) acceptable ways in which these new values are experienced by ordinary citizens in each UN member state.
This book argues in favor of these changes and provides a mechanism by which these changes may be negotiated, implemented, and assessed. «View Less
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