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The UP TO Project is provided by Dr. Charles Tandy and is introduced in this chapter release:
[[File:UP-TO Project.pdf]]

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My “UP-TO” proposal is meant to be a general outline or
approach to achieve world peace, freedom, and prosperity. If “the
devil is in the details,” I leave such details to those more qualified
than I. Nevertheless I have to use words even to suggest the
general proposal such as it is. These words may be easily
misunderstood. Thus herewith below a preliminary note on
terminology. (I suggest consulting The Law of Peoples by John
Rawls if one wishes to attempt to improve on the terminology –
i.e., the meaning of “peoples” and “well-ordered peoples”.)

The UP proposal is a proposal for a terrestrial Union of
Peoples Well-ordered. On today’s Earth, the People of China and
the People of Russia are NOT well-ordered – but the EU Peoples
and the North America Peoples, among many others, do have the
actual substance of cultural norms and working mechanisms
(rather than the mere form of words or documents or elections)
that considerably support the rights of persons and that
considerably tend to prevent war among such like-minded wellordered
peoples. Reminiscent of Kant, this is sometimes referred
to by today’s political scientists as the world’s “zone of peace.”

The TO proposal is a proposal for an extraterrestrial Treaty
Organization Acting for a Better Cosmos. Before I explain the TO
proposal in more detail, let me again point out that although the
UP and the TO are separate entities with separate terrestrial/extraterrestrial
functions, they are nevertheless expected, with help
from the EU and others, to be birthed on the same date and to be
perpetually on speaking terms with each other. Signatories of
peoples to the (terrestrial) UP are members of the UP Voting
Council; signatories of peoples to the (extraterrestrial) TO are
members of the UP Advisory Council. Likewise, signatories of
peoples to the (extraterrestrial) TO are members of the TO Voting
Council; signatories of peoples to the (terrestrial) UP are members
of the TO Advisory Council. Note that the People of China and
the People of Russia may indeed be founding (voting)
members of TO but not of UP; on the one hand, they are
peoples – on the other hand, they are not yet well-ordered. (At
some point in time in the 21st century, perhaps China and Russia
will become well-ordered.)
Previously above I have explained the “Union of Peoples
Well-ordered” (UP) idea. Now I present the TO (“Treaty
Organization Acting for a Better Cosmos”) part of the UP-TO
proposal. 4 I believe that both the UP and TO ideas are desirable
and feasible for today’s world, even more so if implemented
together (UP-TO). These two Concerts, acting more or less in
concert, may have historically unusual (“doubly-synergistic”)
abilities to transmute our outmoded world into a
“transcivilization” of peaceful prosperous societies.

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