A sustainable Jerusalem in 2050 would fulfill the lofty expectations suggested in the respective virtues of justice and peace: a crucial virtuous pairing that invokes mutual expectations amongst all of the cultures of the world. A professed international capital such as Jerusalem should exemplify these virtuous ideals to an enhanced degree, its truest potential realized in terms of such virtuous symbolic attributes. Here, peace and justice are revered by all of the major religious traditions; whether Christian, Jewish, or Islamic. Along these lines of reasoning, the most logical outcome for the political status of Jerusalem would be as an international city (corpus separatum). Such an unprecedented unified style of virtuous tradition is endowed with a timeless appeal, ensuring that such a political arrangement would be sustainable over very long time frames. The conceptual track “Projects that Build Civil Society” was selected to outline the newly devised mediation technology that I have developed uniting all the various major virtues, values, and vices into a unified ethical hierarchy. This innovative new feature should prove exceedingly effective towards mediating the various civic and religious conflicts spanning the region. This hierarchy necessarily includes the respective virtue of justice (and its opposing vice of vengeance), as well as peace (along with its corresponding opposite in belligerence). This new mediation technology would generate increased social capital by drawing together the various warring social factions: whereby instituting a neutral mediation context with the attendant advantages of not favoring any single partisan or religious tradition. This would further embrace cultural diversity and respect for such traditions while simultaneously rallying around the commonalties shared with respect to a common grounding in a mutual virtuous perspective.
This also serves as the basis for the recently issued U.S. patent concerning ethical artificial intelligence #6,587,846 issued July 2003.
