Neuroscience serving geopolitics Rapprochement AmericaRussia A Balkan based

Neuroscience serving geopolitics Rapprochement: America-Russia A Balkan based Initiative Jeffrey Levett Professor Health Diplomacy, United Nations University for Peace, Serbia

ECPD NEW VENTURE • RAPPRROCHMENT-RECONCILIATION AERICA-RUSSIA; BASED ON BRAIN RESEARCH HISTORY BELGRADE

ECPD BELGRADE 1985 NM OHRID NSPH, 1925

BALKAN BACKGROUND Negative Outcomes AUSTERITY [A] Humanitarian Catastrophe ● Increases Vulnerability - Inequality Damages: Health Sector Environment Sanitary Shield, Internal and External Encourages Economic Plunder Complexity Diversity Varying magnitudes & time constants • Planetry Health • Global Inequality • Nuclear Threat • POLITICAL DEFICIT MIGRATION [M] INFECTIOUS DISEASE Work Insurance Development p(A) >>p (M) >>>p (Τ) TERRORISM [Τ] • Weak International Community • Economic rip off • Cultural adulteration • Social dementia +ve Positive Outcomes P (HD) = ƒ (Hnat+Hmm)x (RH)x (Vnat+a 1+a 2+b 1+b 2)

Change, Better Connections, Brain Rapprochement Washington Moscow Washington Diplomacy; International Community; Moscow Cultural exchanges; Scientific programs CHANGE? Belgrade; History Neurosciences; Brain research ECPD

WEST EAST

ECPD old & NEW VENTURES USSR Moscow Belgrade Washington BALKANS Cradle of Europe Occupation / Civil Wars: Yugoslavia/ Greece Athens EUROPEAN UNION

Balkan Troubles [1900 -2000] ars W g ansin e l C c i Environmental degradation Ethn Civil Wars Displaced persons Economic refugees Immigrants WWII Mental & physical Disabilities Older & Younger Populations Dictatorships enza Spanish Influ REFUGEES W/E – E/W WWI Balkan Wars BALKANS Shell shock Nerve gas

Blind spots, fake news, worlds on conflict and wellbeing

Descriptions of Basic Societal Functions

Human Security Balkan Background Conflict, Refugees Landmines, Terrorism Reconciliation & Human Security Peace Precarious Freedom from FEAR Freedom from WANT Poverty, Infectious Disease, Environment DIPLOMACY Development Limited Human Rights Questionable Right to Live with Dignity United Nations Violence, Intimidation Discrimination

Military Psychiatry Russian Japanese War 1904/5 • Russia established independent psychiatric services to diagnose mental casualties of warpsychological and emotional disorders from acute stress in combat…invisible wounds and emotional • Funded by state controlled alcohol industry

Dimitri Mendeleev

Periodic table, which charts the chemical elements by tomic number and valence shell electron configuration.

Alexander Luria 1902 -1977 • There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty realms of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach of the phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to go outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of the mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary to seek the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social history of humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it.

Upcoming Related ECPD Activities XV ECPD International Conference THE UN AGENDA 2030 TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD (Belgrade City Hall, 25 October 2019) VII ECPD Global Youth Forum YOUTH POWER FOR THE COMMON FUTURE With the main topic YOUTH MOBILIZATION TO REDRESS THE PRESENT WORLDTRENDS (Belgrade / Novi Sad, 26 - 27 October 2019) ECPD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TOWARDS US/NATO-EU-RUSSIAN RECONCILIATION Ohrid, 29 - 30 May 2020 Republic of Northern Macedonia DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT Chairman of the Conference H. E. Prof. Dr. Federico Mayor, President of the ECPD Council

From Pre- to Post EVENT Pre-Event Status of Society Societal Trauma Temporary Instability External Aid Needed Outcome Uncertain New Equilibrium Violence EVENT Structural Damage Infrastructure - Water Economic Disruption Agriculture Law and Order Violence Health Disturbance Political Issues! After Moran Post-Event Status