Kriegstüchtig statt friedensfähig?

In the organizer's words:

Contemporary wars and the new world order - A moderated discussion with an impulse by Andreas Zumach - from the series Peace Talks of the Volkshochschule Berlin Mitte

80 years after the end of the Second World War, armed conflicts, armament and the militarization of society with the aim of "war capability" seem to be back on the agenda - currently in 24 countries and regions in addition to the war in Gaza and Russia's war in Ukraine. The international law and human rights norms that were internationally agreed as binding from 1945 onwards in the wake of World War II, the Holocaust and fascism are being violated more and more frequently and on an increasingly massive scale.

Were the decades since the Second World War just a period of fair weather? Just an interwar period? Or is it possible, even under changed geopolitical conditions (in particular the relative decline in power of the USA and the rapid rise of China), to preserve a world order whose binding norms and rules are adhered to by all?

https://www.berlin.de/vhs/volkshochschulen/mitte/aktuelles#frieden