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Bienvenidos!
by Megan Miller
Ecuador
The Power Of One
...We have the Power of One to invest – as follower or leader - in one
line of thought and development as compared with another. The Power of
One begins at home.Then we can choose to make it spread by placing our Power of One at
juncture points of influence, as we would place a small solid rock under
a balance point of a lever. There is nothing wrong with this. It has
been done by good people throughout history – Rosa Parks sitting down,
Martin Luther King standing up, Gandhi marching to the sea.
These people are our heroes, their wisdom and sacrifice seems
over-sized and beyond most of us. Yet, they started somewhere. They
placed their smaller “One-ness” at a juncture point, where others saw
it, understood their vision, and rose, as One, to act for it.
Patricia Smith Welton
From the Peace x Peace website
http://www.peacexpeace.org/peacepapers/powerofone.html
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Dancing Orphans
Nova Maak
Moldova
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From the
UNESCO site
Peace is in Our Hands
Culture of Peace : What
is it ?
New brochure:
"Mainstreaming
the culture of peace"
As defined by the
United Nations, the Culture of Peace is a set of values,
attitudes, modes of behaviour and ways of life that reject
violence and prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to
solve problems through dialogue and negotiation among
individuals, groups and nations (UN Resolutions
A/RES/52/13
: Culture of
Peace and
A/RES/53/243,
Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace). For
peace and non-violence to prevail, we need to:
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foster a
culture of peace through education |
by revising the
educational curricula to promote qualitative values, attitudes
and behaviours of a culture of peace, including peaceful
conflict-resolution, dialogue, consensus-building and active
non-violence. Such an educational approach should be geared
also to:
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promote sustainable
economic and social development |
by reducing
economic and social inequalities, by eradicating poverty and
by assuring sustainable food security , social justice,
durable solutions to debt problems, empowerment of women,
special measures for groups with special needs, environmental
sustainability…
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promote respect for all
human rights |
human rights and
a culture of peace are complementary: whenever war and
violence dominate, there is no possibility to ensure human
rights; at the same time, without human rights, in all their
dimensions, there can be no culture of peace...
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ensure
equality between women and men |
through full
participation of women in economic, social and political
decision-making, elimination of all forms of discrimination
and violence against women, support and assistance to women in
need,…
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foster democratic
participation |
indispensable
foundations for the achievement and maintenance of peace and
security are democratic principles, practices and
participation in all sectors of society, a transparent and
accountable governance and administration, the combat against
terrorism, organized crime, corruption, illicit drugs and
money laundering…
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advance
understanding, tolerance and solidarity |
to abolish war
and violent conflicts we need to transcend and overcome enemy
images with understanding, tolerance and solidarity among all
peoples and cultures. Learning from our differences, through
dialogue and the exchange of information, is an enriching
process…
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support
participatory communication and the free flow of information
and knowledge |
freedom of
information and communication and the sharing of information
and knowledge are indispensable for a culture of peace.
However, measures need to be taken to address the issue of
violence in the media, including new information and
communication technologies…
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promote
international peace and security |
the gains in
human security and disarmament in recent years, including
nuclear weapons treaties and the treaty banning land mines,
should encourage us to increase our efforts in negotiation of
peaceful settlements, elimination of production and traffic of
arms and weapons, humanitarian solutions in conflict
situations, post-conflict initiatives…
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Learning GPS Navigation
by Kristen Evans
Bolivia
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Creating
True Peace
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Ending violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and
The World
“True Peace is always possible. Yet it requires strength and
practice, particularly in times of great difficulty. To some, peace and
nonviolence are synonymous with passivity and weakness. In truth,
practicing peace and nonviolence is far from passive. To practice peace,
to make peace alive in us, is to actively cultivate understanding, love
and compassion, even in the face of misperception and conflict.
Practicing peace, especially in times of war, requires courage.” –from
Creating True Peace
“Among Buddhist leaders influential in the West, Thich Nhat Hanh
ranks second only to the Dalai Lama.”
–The New York Times
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From the Indira Gandhi National Centre
for the Arts - India
Culture Of Peace -
an e-book
Edited
by BAIDYANATH
SARASWATI an anthropologist,
is UNESCO-Professor at the Indira Gandhi
National Centre for the Arts
CONTENTS
PART-I SHARING THE EXPERIENCE OF BEAUTY
AND PEACE
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The Cosmos and Humanity as a
Healing Family (Minoru Kasai)
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The True Meaning of Peace from
the Chinese Literary Perspective (Tan Chung)
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Buddhist Art, The Mission of
Harmonious Culture (Jin Weinuo)
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Satyam, Sivam, Sundaram
(Natalia Kravtchenko & Vladimir Zaitsev)
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Creative Hence a Peaceful
Society (Devi Prasad)
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Peace as Theatrical Experience
(Bharat Gupt)
PART-II EXAMINING THE EMPERICAL REALITY
OF BEAUTY AND PEACE
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A Dehumanized Environment
(Keshav
Malik)
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Modernity and Individual
Responsibility (M M Agrawal)
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The Illusion of Seeking Peace
(S C Malik)
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Man in his becoming : A change
of perspective (Mira Aster Patel)
PART-III WORKING TOWARDS
THE RESTORATION OF PEACE
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Vipassana and the Art of
Peaceful Living ( S N Goenka)
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Buddhist Doctrine and the
culture of peace (Pataraporn Sirikanchana)
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Buddhism as a Contribution to
peace in Vietnam (Cao Xuan Pho)
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Buddhism and Peace: A Personal
view (Sirima K. Goonesinghe)
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The Sufi Paradigm of
Peace-making (Mohammad Reza Rikhtehgaran)
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The Contribution of Indian
Sufis to Peace and Amity (K A Nizami)
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The Call of the Forest (Som
Raj Gupta)
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The Culture of Peace:
Experiment and Expectation (Biswanarayan Shastri)
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Creativity, Pax Mundi and
Gandhi (Ramjee Singh)
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The Culture of Peace versus
Materialism and Consumerism (N. Radhakrishnan)
PART-IV FORMING THE
NETWORK OF ACTORS IN PEACE
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Experiencing Peace while
engaging in experiments based on moral principles (A T Ariyaratne)
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Working together for Peace: The
Asian perspective (M Aram)
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Public opinion and the movement
for Peace (Ali Aksad)
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An Odyssey of Peace
(Angelo Fernandes)
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Bahai principles of Education
and World Peace (Dwight W. Allen)
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The United national and
permanent Peace in the 21st century (A K Merchant)
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An international network of
Peace (M. Ishaq Jamkhanawala)
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Self-Organizing centres and
networks of Peace (Baidyanath Saraswati)
List of Contributors
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