Peace Ambassador Prem Rawat explains the relationship between poverty, security of food and shelter, and peace.
Without Peace you will always be poor
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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
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
Peace Story: Hope in the city
Historical wounds and ongoing mistrust between people need active engagement or they can persist for generations. Honest conversation, taking responsibility and moving beyond blame and personal pain along with acts of acknowledgment and reconciliation can break the cycle of guilt and anger and allow people to reach understanding and healing.
Richmond, Virginia, in the United States was known as “the great slave market of the South”. Historical divides persisted. In 1990, called to address the need for racial healing, Initiatives of Change launched at program called Hope in the Cities (HIC). Continue reading Peace Story: Hope in the city
Peace Story: Music and cultural events to promote peace
Cultural expressions of peace that look beyond religion to the basic values all humans share can promote peace. Events can be designed to appeal to a wide audience and form a meeting place for people of many different backgrounds to come together.
Retreat director and musician Peter Elmberg (center, vocals) set out to create a music event that would reflect the universal quality of peace and be appropriate to be performed in churches , mosques, synagogues etc. as well as at public halls and at events at his retreat center.
Peter created a concert based on the twelve poems chosen by representatives of the twelve different religions invited to meet in the Franciscan Monastery of Assisi by Pope JOHN PAUL II in 1986, the UN year of peace.
The Peace Concert performs twelve songs and twelve prayers set to music. Each song transforms into a prayer that everyone is invited to join in singing.
The prayers for peace come from sources that are Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Muslim, Baha’i, African traditional, Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Native American Indian and Shinto.
Peter and his musicians have performed the concert many times in packed churches and halls. Concert-goers in Sweden and Norway have appreciated hearing the various strands of the peace message woven from a wide range of cultural sources. One called it “a beautiful manifestation of human goodness expressed by twelve of the world’s most prominent religions”.
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Video Now is the time with Peter Elmberg
The Economics of Happiness: preparing for a transition
These Videos are from talks given at the “The Economics of Happiness: Creating a More Equitable World” event organised by Initiatives of Change and Local Futures.
The session was based around the ideas of Helena Norberg-Hodge that designing an economy on a human scale can bring wealth, happiness and prosperity in an ecological way. She talked of the steps local, national and international, to getting there. Continue reading The Economics of Happiness: preparing for a transition