Campus Peace Centers
The purpose of the Campus Peace Center project is to foster the development of a global, interconnected peace movement on college campuses. Members of the UN NGO Committee for Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns are exploring the means to encourage autonomous Campus Peace Centers by maintaining a website for the purpose of coordination among various Centers in the United States and worldwide, and will offer the resources available to us at the United Nations to widen the scope of peace-oriented collaboration. For more information, please visit http://www.campuspeacecenters.net.
Contact:
Neil Altman -
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Deborah Moldow -
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Culture of Peace
Mission: To assist the United Nations in fulfilling it's mandate to "eliminate the scourge of war" by working in various ways to cultivate a culture of peace and pursue alternatives to violence at all levels of our existence (inner, inter-personal, national, international). We support structures that will enable nonviolence to become an organizing principle in society, where peace is regarded as a basic human right. Initial areas of focus include:
- U.N. MID-DECADE PROGRESS REPORT ON THE CULTURE OF PEACE: Assist in collecting data necessary for the report being prepared for submission to the Secretary General and General Assembly in 2005 and on worldwide progress towards cultivating a culture of peace.
- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE: Promote enhanced observation of the International Day of Peace (GA Resolution 55/282) and the International Day of Peace Vigil which calls for a full day of spiritual observation on the International Day of Peace 21 September.
- DEPARTMENT OF PEACE: Education about the Bill put forth in the US Congress calling for the creation of a Department of Peace; plus use this as a model for other countries to implement throughout the world.
- SEASON FOR NONVIOLENCE & EARTH CHARTER MOVEMENT: Enhanced participation and deeper networking with these two worldwide campaigns.
Contact:
Anne Creter -
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Eco-Spirituality
The aim of this subcommittee is to explore and promote an "eco-spirituality" that can address the current ecological challenge, and do so in a manner that can potentially overcome the fragmentary character of contemporary life. We define spirituality as a "way of perceiving" or way of being in the world. As such, an eco-spirituality ("eco" is from Greek oikos, "household") is rooted in an ecological vision or an ecological world view that is inclusive, interdependent, relational, communal, and holistic, with special concerns for (environmental) justice and for all life in the universe. Our objectives include:
* To articulate essential components of eco-spirituality that can be shared by all people of good will, including:
- Appreciation of the wonders of nature that is rooted in the awareness of its creativity, diversity, and its wholeness.
- Awareness that humans are an integral part of the interconnected web of all forms of life in the universe.
* To encourage the inclusion of eco-spirituality awareness into the various environmental programs, activities, and strategies at the UN.
Contact:
Michelle Kim, Ph.D. -
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Sacred Transcendental Arts
The Arts have the power to penetrate into the very depths of the soul. Their higher frequencies are invisible codes of communication between our bodies and the truth of the Universe. The Arts enrich our lives by inspiring us and raising our beings into higher states of vibrations, connecting us with our inner divine force. The mission of Working Group on Sacred Transcendental Arts aims to raise our inspirational level and awaken the forces of creativity and consciousness creating Peace, Love, Healing, Widsom, Light and Wholeness within us to Unite the World. Only then when we are able to manifest this state within will we be able to manifest Peace, Love, Healing, Wisdom, Light and Wholessness everywhere and have a global transformation in the world.
Contact:
Sharon Hamilton -
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Spiritual Council for Global Challenges
Dag Hammarskjold, the 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations is often quoted as having said, "We can only succeed in achieving world peace if there is a spiritual renaissance on this planet." Our mission will focus on facilitating the creation of a Spiritual Council for Global Challenges at the United Nations with members of the UN community interested in promoting more universal values, ethics and spirituality in United Nations policies, programs and decision making.
Contact:
Audrey Kitagawa -
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Diane Williams -
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Spiritual Dimensions of Science and Consciousness
Recognizing that a problem cannot be solved at the same level at which it was created and that a higher, more inclusive and synthetic consciousness is required; and, recognizing that violence and hatred are not eliminated by further violence and hatred, but by love, we recognize that the spiritual dimension must be brought to bear on the global problems that the United Nations was created to solve. The spiritual dimension of science and consciousness includes worldviews and information that can help the United Nations and humanity solve today's global problems. Recognizing that "We the peoples of the United Nations [are]...determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom" (from the Preamble of the Charter of the United Nations), we realize that this larger freedom is motivated by and reflected in the more inclusive dimensions of Consciousness and that a scientific steady of these dimensions would allow more people to replicate these dimensions of higher Consciousness.
Contact:
Maria Malaman -
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Ida Urso Ph.D -
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Spiritual History of the United Nations
The mission of this subcommittee is to research the spiritual history of the United Nations.
Contact:
Tom Downes -
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Kathy Newburn -
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Laxmi Shah -
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Universal Ethics and Global Concerns
"To promote peaceful co-existence...it is necessary to extend inter-civilizational encounter to discourses about ethics." (UNU Workshop on "The Contribution of Ethics in the Dialogue of Civilizations", 24-25, May 2001) To this end, the working group on universal ethics and global concerns seeks to promote ethical conversations of the heart within the United Nations framework. These conversations are designed to promote converging awareness about human dignity, justice, freedom, equality, shared responsibility, care of the earth and non-violence. We will highlight all initiatives and strategies that promote both this discourse and convergence. We hold in respect diversity of ethical perspectives.
Promoting conversations includes research into UN documents, presentation of events, and active engagement in all that promotes ethical global engagement including coalition building. We seek to build a bibliography that will include ethical impact studies of institutional behavior. Through networking, we intend to build civil society's ethical working relationship with the UN system.
Contact:
Martha Gallahue -
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Values and Business
Our mission is to empower business leaders to lead with authenticity, integrity and service to others and to help integrate the values and principles stated in the Charter of the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Right into the business community. We will seek to work together with the UN Global Compact Initiative to uphold and promulgate a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards and environmental practice.
We will create initiatives to raise awareness of our shared global responsibility for social, economic and spiritual betterment. This includes environmental sustainability, protection of international human rights, employee empowerment, improving the quality of life in the workplace and throughout the community. We believe businesses can use their influence, products and services to not only increase profitability but also to improve the quality for life for the global community.
Contact:
Sharon Hamilton -
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Week of Spirituality, Values, Ethics and Global Concerns
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Danilo Parmegiani -
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Ichinori Tsumagari -
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