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:
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 to cultivate a culture of peace and pursue alternatives to violence at all levels of our existence (inner, inter-personal, national, international). We promote awareness of the landmark UN Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace adopted on 13 September, 1999 by the UN General Assembly as the Resolution A/RES/53/243. We support structures that will enable nonviolence to become an organizing principle in society, where peace is regarded as a basic human right.
Valuing the essential unity of humanity, and convinced that the Golden Rule, i.e., love your neighbor as yourself; do unto others as you would have them do unto you, is humanity's highest calling the world over, we recognize that Love expressed as goodwill is that which leads to right human relations as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and therefore, that this is the primary prerequisite to peace and creating a Culture of Peace. Initial areas of focus include:
1) Advance understanding of UN Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace
2) Advance UN Peace Infrastructure Project
3) Participate in Week of Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns
4) Continue to support International Day of Peace efforts
5) Increase UN recognition of new 10/2 International Day of Nonviolence
6) Obtain official UN DPI approval for Culture of Peace Pocket Booklet (make it available in its present form in NGO Resource Room)
7) Consider Ways to Participate in the Annual NGO/DPI Conference.
Contact:
Anne Creter-
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Iris Spellings -
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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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Swami Parameshananda -
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Health, Transformation & Spirituality
Throughout the world and history, people have suffered physically, psychologically, ecologically, spiritually from trauma caused by war, genocide, famine, and natural and human-made disasters. Left unhealed, these global traumas have been passed from generation to generation as epidemics, repeating the cycles of violence and suffering.
The mission of this Working Group is to assist individuals and communities in developing their optimal Biopsychosocial and Eco Spiritual health by effectively addressing these global epidemics.
We believe that we can assist the UN in understanding the roots of these global epidemics, healing their causes and offering ways of nurturing and strengthening our innate capacity for cooperation, caring and compassion, we can unlock our spiritual DNA potential. HTS is committed to identifying, integrating and applying the knowledge from science, psychology, philosophy and the spiritual traditions of the world, toward a refreshed worldview and a culture of peace.
"I have seen the secret beauty of our hearts, the person each one of us is in the eyes of the divine. If only we could see each other that way all the time there would be no more need for war, for hatred, for greed, for cruelty." - Thomas Merton
Contact:
Dr. Ani Kalayjian -
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Sacred and 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, Wisdom, 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 Wholeness everywhere and have a global transformation in the world.
Contact:
"Saranagati" - Sharon Hamilton -
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Shomik Chaudhuri -
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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:
Sharon Hamilton Getz - project
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Genie Kagawa -
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Margo LaZaro -
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Rev. Julie Lira -
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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 understand that the spiritual dimension must be brought to bear on the global problems that the United Nations was created to solve.
Further 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 resides in the higher levels of consciousness possible to all who strive to attain them. That is, world transformation is the result of individual transformation. Thus, we encourage personal striving and the daily practice of chosen spiritual disciplines. The greater the number of individuals who strive to thus attain, the more likely we are to attain the planetary vision, as set forth within the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For this we work.
Contact:
Ida Urso Ph.D -
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Danilo Parmegiani -
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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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Swami Parameshananda -
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Universal Ethics and Global Concerns
Our mission is to promote ethical dialogue inclusive of call to action, development and implementation strategies within the United Nations framework. Conversations are designed to foster awareness of convergences in ideas about ethics, accountability and responsibility as they pertain to global concerns such as but not limited to diversity, human dignity, human rights, global governance, social responsibility, and cultural pluralism. We will highlight UN initiatives and strategies that promote awareness and discourse. Support for dialogue includes research into UN documents, presentation of events, building and maintaining a globally accessible bibliography of ethical impact studies, and active engagement in all that promotes ethical global engagement especially between youth, civil society and the United Nations. Additionally, to uphold and promote awareness of the universal ethics that 1) every person is valuable and is capable of valuable contribution, and 2) every person is responsible and accountable for his or her actions and inactions as he or she affects, directly and indirectly, life on planet Earth. We hold in respect diversity of all ethical perspectives.
Contact:
Rev. Julie Lira -
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Mary Rose Engle -
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Spirituality, 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 Rights 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.
For more information on our Joint Effort with Good Business in support of the UN Global Compact, please visit http://www.icfgoodbusiness.org,
Contact:
Sharon Hamilton - project
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Women Rising
Women Rising seeks to bring healing to our world by manifesting universal human values that are often associated with the feminine. Patience. Compassion. Wisdom. Creativity. Nurturing. Strength.
We aim to foster these values as an antidote to war, as a way to encourage global cooperation on issues of sustainable development, and as means to bring harmony among nations in whatever way needed.
The working group is also focused on relieving the struggles of gender inequality. These appear in our world as infanticide, rape, sex trafficking, the glass ceiling, and children around the world who die every day from starvation.
A bird needs both wings to fly. So, male and female energies must unit as awakened consciousness to bring peace, justice and liberation to our world.
Contact:
Swamini Sri Lalitambika Devi -
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