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Frontiers : a necessity for humanity? | François Chauvancy | TEDxCelsa


Yes
good evening to all borders
they needed to humanity
very interesting question today
I began with the two stories
first spring of 1992 soldiers
French
peacekeepers are observation
an internal border of the former
Yugoslavia
They watch helplessly
the execution of civilians by
Paramilitary do anything if they do
something that is a trigger
hostilities
a few years ago not so
long 2013
our soldiers fight jihadists
in northeastern Mali suddenly
a young boy strapped with explosives
advances towards our soldiers despite the
Stress despite adrenaline
despite the threat our soldiers opens
no fire they talk they get
surrender without damage young
boy
These two examples show the
complexity of the notion of borders
we talk a lot about the border
can effectively manage relationships
between yes states borders can
also manage the operation of a
company in our society we
not kill children and it is also the
moral boundary that is within
each of us face a
complex situation
the border is everywhere so it
raises many questions
the first is that I will remove you
finally what I am
legitimate to talk about
Borders Well yes I am
no legitimate state
Soul general officer for almost
pac 40 years is nearly 40 years
Officer after St. Cyr
all my life I prepared to
defend first against the block
the east and then to cross in
other circumstances border
the first example also been
very young young lieutenant in
southern Lebanon peacekeepers platoon leader
tanks 6 June 1982
Galilee army in the peace process
isralienne with tens of
chariots with me on my side invaded southern
lebanon to walk beirut
I receive the order to do nothing I
must explain especially to my soldiers
why we do not do the mission
is to defend to protect this
border but we receive the order
we obey I long
asked whether we
resisted planes that we would not
prevented this invasion of southern Lebanon in
Given the international context
will is put some four men
tanks 40 men faces dozens of
tanks we might be able to
Something
it was a border was crossed
for many and we have two
not crossed
then this frontier lead
naturally also to other
what matters is what she
it is not going to ask us
also the question of the
world we live
what’s the emotion premium premium
since reason and yet this world
embodies interconnected we see
we hear every day we
we do not need borders
finally a world without borders
this is the future of humanity
Yet here or here present you
well have a family that you protect
you have a house you protect
you have a garden with a pen
a barrier you put rules
to protect your family
border is everywhere even at home
for it exists and you can not
not erase the good that is what we
left to say so now what
a border
how can we define it in a
First joe refutes the border
downturn symbol on itself second time
I also refutes the absence of
borders as future of humanity
so what the border in
border for me it is very simple
this is a lock which allows a filter
take time to think and
Depending on what time of reflection
this will force us to engage
debate on the existence of a border
why is it the first question
or perhaps why there is not and
then the next question is going to be
do I have to defend at all costs
do I have to leave to cross at any price
where do I porous annuity based
criteria conditions that I would
determined and I will address this
notion of border Tafer three
the first areas very simple field
that everything good is he aware of
State inter-Arab Relations
relations hectares
from the first three symbols
symbol is undoubtedly one of the
division
yes this is a border by these
Yet in 1989 we have divided
spoke just now
1989 berlin wall in Berlin
separated the same people
since the Second World War
Finally the people decided
physically destroy the wall
I was courageously few days
after since I was in charge of
communication sent to paris
the French Governor Governor
French military berlin and we
are asked about the
follow-up
what would happen after I
you said that at the time sites
during the Cold War as tanks
Soviet existed and that after all
destroyed the wall perhaps meant
a new world war so the wall
interpellait is least one can
say
he finally nothing happened and we
Germany today have a
reunited but there are other walls
you have these walls that effectively
themselves up in eastern Europe for
other reasons
this time it is to protect or
prohibit migration
you also have the Middle East can
reflect deeply on the wall
between Israel and the authority
Palestinian and other reasons
then of course you naturally
these natural physical walls that mountain
as a Mediterranean sea between
africa and europe
but eventually all those walls are
challenges to humans
you and I know that the human being
anyway like challenges and
lures for a border wall to wall
cross he will try to cross
it may be danger of the concept
border a second symbol
this border is undoubtedly
that of authority
when you put a border somewhere
is that we do not want it to be
crossed without your consent
3 will not need borders
a barrier and I invite you to
reflect
in this year of commemoration of the
WWI our hairy
in their trenches cut news
physical borders on the territory
French far borders
remove right French test
in the trenches say they
not pass by speaking German
knowing that another border was
behind that line between life
death and the death in combat to take
this commitment
and many have given their lives for
the other does not go third
example third symbol the symbol
paradoxically live a whole
border is used to determine a space
geographical and human that will bring
Security wellbeing in a population
given
it is also the acceptance of standards that
are administrative standards
political but also a story
shared language of a culture
border is also that it is
still important
So here are three important symbols
on international relations
The second area that I will address
with you and that of the social contract
in a society in any time
all our companies we have a
social contract that puts all
review law rules wolves
custom as they will allow us
live better together
t even need it to be accepted
at no or no say yes these
Using the past rules
these conservatives is obsolete
However
are not they the transmission of this
that was done by those we
preceded allow you to live
today and possibly the facts
gone tomorrow get up when a
elderly person or a pregnant woman
enters a transit is so
obsolete yet it all
days we see it is not done
to say hello to a store that is
like it’s part of this contract
Social game there by the education and
customs but this transmission
also raises indirectly the
notion of transgression any company
Democratic allows transgression
rules
a way too heavy we can
tell if a form of freedom
transgression for different reasons
lack of education system refusal
why not rebellion
speak not of the adolescent crisis
after all when you attend a
Transit always an example
to people who put their feet
on a seat
that’s refusal to respect the codes
in force in society
it is a way to assert yourself
but tell me what it is
not a rejection of the social contract that we
unites more serious freedom manifest
inherent in operation
a democratic society because
that expresses ideas
how to accept today that all
events that we see or
most are manifestations
that end in violence not
not to defend his ideas to
try to physically attack which
represents our company
may represent the Republic and
values ​​such as law enforcement
there is an offset precisely this
social contract
so why talk about it and because
just as any social contract
means what
free acceptance rules
or standards that our societies to
living together for anyway
to develop that sense of respect
This mutual mutual respect is the
cement of a third company
moral border area
I know my morale is still afraid
but it’s nothing moral boundaries
morality border that each of
we must sometimes have to face
in difficult situations
I will of course an example
military there are very specific areas
obedience and disobedience
obey the commands received on the basis of
Missions that also received and know
if at some point we will not
disobey simply because
obedience is not an end in itself
obedience is an instrument for
the goal we want to achieve
you have to be smart to
situation is this sample No.
border disobedience and many a
border frankly need to know
to cross in summer 1992
I leave the celsa in stride as
we say I projected ex
Yugoslavia within a regiment
French in a province
secessionist
the situation is tense we lost
two officers on a mine the
cease-fire is fragile
our colonel is on the ground there
met belligerents to avoid
it degenerates
Suddenly it is night about 23 hours
we are both in the neighborhood pc
General therefore in charge of the regiment
our observation posts reported us
shielded a belligerent who
crossed the ceasefire line without
authorization
it is a violation of both physical
the border was established and
it is also a violation of law
had been set up and can be
also a test of our will to act
making us realize it I know we
said you destroy the tanks remain
well in your area
my camara and I are consulting except
two senior officers
it is 23 hours one is a little one so
we exchange
first point we do not have the mandate
United Nations to use force
except where defense team failure
second point our soldiers are
Full reports relays meaning that
After six months on the ground our
soldiers will be gone by soldiers
in France they are being
routing
it means that the soldiers we
have used the field will
not know the terrain and night
we know that the tank fire
we will have losses
we decide both not
execute the order if we
run and we expect one hour
two o’clock
at some point in our posts we
reports that armored crossed the
line in the other direction the incident
closed
ongoing task but we
never talk about what had
past
let alone our colonel until
years tonight to conclude the border
necessary for humanity go
necessary because it allows him to
progress because allows him to ask
questions and she asks questions
to think before acting and before
make a choice will weigh all
consequences is also a amman
how to regulate the bad
instincts that characterize us
often what we can say
we have a lot of bad instincts
we see every day a border
also serves to regulate the bad
Alain instincts developed this positive
Nevertheless border with a source of
challenges the individual enjoys the challenge and
the individual likes to cross borders
it must be considered but cross
a border
it is also to show that one has
character but not to cross
a boundary it may also be
demonstrate courage
we are not obliged to say that we have
is because we have not reached a
border
maybe not to cross a
border is that we have been courageous
I delivered a saying in conclusion
I definitely have a little
changed and you need to know
that seems to sum up this notion
Border my freedom stops here
where does the other but
always bring him
freedom ends where the other
mine begins and you must
always remember that when we
crossed a boundary and that has
perhaps deceived it will always be there
is often very difficult to go
back I think we should
never forget
Thank you
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