Anishinabe and Mohawk traditional knowledge keepers share their testimony on the crises we are facing today and the choices we need to make for our relationship with Mother Earth. They shed light on traditional principles and prophecies, and on the path towards reconciliation, balance and peace. Grandmother Marie-Josée Tardif, a leader in Anishinabe cultural and spiritual revitalisation talks about restoring the balance with the feminine and our being human. She highlights the role of spiritual traditions and religions in addressing current global challenges. Grandfather T8aminik Rankin, Anishinabe Hereditary Chief and medicine man, who survived the residential schools and led the way towards reconciliation, talks about healing our relationships and walking on the path of reconciliation with ourselves, with other beings and with Mother Earth. Grandfather Ka’nasohon Kevin Deer, a Mohawk faith keeper, leader in Iroquoian cultural and spiritual revitalisation, talks about the necessary change in consciousness to see, to hear and to speak differently, and about the path of the peacemaker.

This chapter looks at how contemporaries understood changes occurring in the structure and practices of the European security regime emerging around 1815, and how we can understand its ordering functions in international society today from a broader historical perspective by applying theoretical notions developed in regime and governance theory. By highlighting not only the innovations but also the deficiencies of the Vienna security regime, this chapter questions its 'model' character. Yet the experiences and practice of the normative order emerging from the Vienna regime contributed to later forms of international governance in the League of Nations, the United Nations and the Security Council.