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Without Peace you will always be poor
Peace Ambassador Prem Rawat explains the relationship between poverty, security of food and shelter, and peace.
Davos goes bottom up in Malaga 2017 April 19-22
900 opinion leaders and social change-makers from more than 60 different regions are coming together to frame the new economy from the bottom-up.
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Peace Promoter: CREATORS OF PEACE ( C o P )
OVERVIEW
Name: Creators of Peace (CoP) www.cop.iofc.org
Type: Initiative under Initiatives of Change. Initiatives of Change is a global NGO.
Mission Statement:
to engage women in their role as creators of peace at every level of society
Peace-promoting activities:
- Creating a transformative space for interpersonal, interethnic and inter-religious dialogues based on the sharing of personal experience and information in a variety of forums, around conference tables, boardroom tables and kitchen tables.
- Workshops for moral and spiritual capacity building to explore the dynamic of a change of heart.
- The practice of deep reflection or listening to the inner voice of truth, or God, as a source of direction.
- Promotion of Peace Circles – small, localized community gatherings of women who together work through material especially designed to deepen their friendship and understanding of each other and their peace creating capabilities. One aim of these Peace Circles is to identify issues in the community with a potential for conflict and then resolve to take common action.
- Locally based initiatives that bring people together in community building activities.
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The personal toolbox of a peacebuilder
Peace Story: Foodshare Nottingham
Everyone is aware that more and more people are accessing food banks in Nottingham, UK and we all know that people go to fetch food from food banks as a last resort.
Whilst traditional food banks provide vital preserved and dried goods, there is a fresh food gap. Continue reading Peace Story: Foodshare Nottingham
Celebrate life events
OVERVIEW
Name: Celebrate Life Events http://www.celebrate-life.co.uk/
Type: Association
Mission Statement:
Celebrate Life organises ultra-friendly, multicultural events with a twist. Each one is carefully crafted to take you on a journey, leaving you in a different frame of mind than when you first walked through the door.
Peace-promoting activities: CLE offers events that promote the feeling and message of peace using
MUSIC ~ DANCE ~ SPOKEN WORD ~ FILM ~ PEACE ~ COMMUNITY
Peace Promoter: The Institute of Swedish Safety and Security
OVERVIEW
Name: The Institute of Swedish Safety and Security ISSS.se
Type: Not-for-profit association under Swedish Law
Mission Statement:
ISSS mission is to ensure preparedness in event of natural, man-made crisis, disasters or act of terrorism through risk analysis and mitigation- helping communities become safer and more secure in the future.
Peace-promoting activities:
The ISSS Program 2014 – 2020 increases local resilience in:
- Local Fuel Security
- Local Energy Security
- Local Community Safety & Security
- Integrity of Critical Infrastructure & Services
- Local Economy
Peace Bank Status: Registered, Verified. Learn more about status here
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On our shared, fundamental need for peace…
Peace Story: Community Building the original way
This guest blog comes from Sanna Hellberg http://www.sannahellberg.com/55-2/ Reproduced with gratitude!
I met Manitonquat, Medicine Story, or simply Story, as he likes to be called, at my first Circle Way Camp at Mundekulla in 2013. At eighty-seven, the Wampanoag elder is still writing books and travelling the world with his wife Ellika, to share the wisdom of his ancestors and teach the art of listening. Continue reading Peace Story: Community Building the original way