(Toronto Globe & Mail) - Prince Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan I have called on various occasions for a Middle Eastern code of conduct, a "partnership of peace" or an Eastern Mediterranean Treaty Organization. A break-down of the relevant agenda would include: The need for a WMD-free zone; a clear definition of terror (both state and non-state); concrete steps, adequately funded, to redress both manifestations and causes of terror; a humanitarian Marshall Plan; transparency guaranteed by government with a focus on poverty alleviation - to move our policies from "refugee mode," as it were; education, encompassing two themes: balanced and representative material for media broadcast, and an organization such as a Center of Mediterranean Humanities to educate for shared values; interactive citizens' media - whereby we are not talked down to by the elites but can promote our own dialogue, whether through formal or further education; transnational thinking on a Community of Energy and Water, recognizing that state frontiers do not limit a region's potential.
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