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Streaming live as long as it’s Peace Day anywhere on the planet
Starts: Sept 20 – 8:00 am EDT
Ends: Sept 22 – 8:00 am EDT
“Peace is a prerequisite for human development.… We all must undertake efforts to inculcate peace in ourselves. We cannot expect the world to change if we do not start first and foremost with changing ourselves — at the individual levels.”
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Bangladeshi diplomat and leading United Nations Culture of Peace emissary
About the Day of Peace, Ambassador Chowdry says:
“the culture of peace should be the most appropriate vehicle to
prepare our world in addressing effectively the complex challenges
of the twenty-first century.”
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, the Honorary Chair of the IDP NGO Committee at the UN since 2008, has devoted many years as an inspirational champion for sustainable peace and development, and to ardently advancing the cause of the global movement for the culture of peace that has energized civil society all over the world.
As a career diplomat, Permanent Representative to United Nations, President of the UN Security Council, President of UNICEF Board, UN Under-Secretary-General, the Senior Special Advisor to the UN General Assembly President, and recipient of the U Thant Peace Award, UNESCO Gandhi Gold Medal for Culture of Peace, Spirit of the UN Award and University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor’s Medal for Global Leadership for Peace, Ambassador Chowdhury has a wealth of experience in the critical issues of our time — peace, sustainable development, and human rights.
Ambassador Chowdhury’s legacy and leadership in advancing the best interest of the global community are boldly imprinted in his pioneering initiative in March 2000 as the President of the Security Council that achieved the political and conceptual breakthrough leading to the adoption of the groundbreaking UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in which the Council recognized for the first time the role and contribution of women in the area of peace and security.
He served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York from 1996 to 2001 and as the Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, responsible for the most vulnerable countries of the world from 2002 to 2007.
He has been the Chair of the International Drafting Committee on the Human Right to Peace; an initiative coordinated from Geneva and was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the New York City Peace Museum.
He is the founder of the New York-based Global Movement for The Culture of Peace, and has been a part of the 12-member Wisdom Council of the Summer of Peace for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, a worldwide participatory initiative to advance the Culture of Peace.
He has been decorated by the Government of Burkina Faso in West Africa with the country’s highest honour “L’Ordre National” in 2007 in Ouagadougou for his championship of the cause of the most vulnerable countries.
The Invest in Peace conference in July 2017 featured a fictive case of a town called Coaltown struggling to find its way out of the extractive fossil-fuel mindset into the regenerative, evergreen paradigm, (See the report from that workshop).
Featured on the PBS.org website, a news item features a West Virginia nonprofit matching displaced workers to sustainable jobs in agriculture or carpentry while helping them pursue associate degrees.
As reported on the website of reliefweb.int, a United nations report issued in May 2016 explains China’s commitment to incorporate Eco-civilization into the “Five-in-One” blueprint of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which outlines “innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development”. This blueprint has given great impetus to the implementation of Eco-civilization with environmental quality at its core aiming at “making the skies bluer, mountains greener, water cleaner, and the ecological environment better.
According to the report, China will be covering nearly a quarter of the country with forests by 2020.
Download the report “Green is Gold” here.(pdf)
We are happy to see how United Nations FAO is tweeting connecting peace and zero hunger together.
A new study from Northeastern University and nonprofit research organization The Organic Center (TOC), though, has reached the conclusion that soils from organic farms have 26 percent more potential for long-term carbon storage than soils from conventional farms, along with 13 percent more soil organic matter (SOM).
As reported in Civil Eats, this study analyzed soil samples from over 700 conventional farms in 48 states. Chemists Elham Ghabbour and Geoffrey Davies made the alarming discovery that these samples contained little to no humic substances. Humic substances are one portion of soil organic matter, which is made up of decomposing plant and animal matter. Humic substances are a major component of healthy, fertile soil, giving it structure and water-holding ability, among other things. Ghabbour and Davies hypothesized that the lack of humic substances was due to the high-input practices inherent to conventional farming, such as tilling and the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
What has coal meant for towns close to deposits? How are residents doing today – should the reserves be exploited more or should we look to alternatives? These are some of the questions explored at the Invest in Peace Forum – part of the Lands Lives and Peace conference held at the Caux Palace in Switzerland during July 2017. Continue reading Conference follow-up: report from Coaltown case study
War cost us $13.6 trillion in 2015. So why do we spend so little on peace? Read more: http://wef.ch/2azrZ7c
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