Aim for peace
Quote of the moment
On where solutions come from
I don’t believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.
Karl-Henrik Robert
On the role of investors and our need for peace
“The concept of fiduciary duty is organic, not static. It will continue to evolve as society changes, not least in response to the urgent need for us to move towards an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable financial system.”
Paul Watchman (Honorary Professor, School of Law, University of Glasgow)
Fiduciary (fɪˈdjuːʃiːəriː) A legal obligation of one party to act in the best interest of another. The obligated party is typically a fiduciary, that is, someone entrusted with the care of money or property. Also called fiduciary obligation.
On the role of Business in Peace
On the true business of business
On being human
On where change will come to solve our most pressing problems
“Having spent my life as an activist within a civil society organisation, working both in UN corridors and in collaboration with social movements on the ground, I am firmly convinced that substantial change and real solutions to our most pressing problems – food, fuel and climate – will not originate from governments (or from UN agencies), but from civil society/social movements. Institutions will never move far enough or fast enough without the political pressure from demands by peoples and social movements.”
Mooney, P. (2012). Civil society strategies and the Stockholm syndrome. In Hällström, Niclas (ed.), What Next Volume III: Climate, Development and Equity. The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, p.327.
Thanks to Daniel Pergman for finding the quote.
On the role of economics
On Peace and Zero Hunger
We are happy to see how United Nations FAO is tweeting connecting peace and zero hunger together.
Quote of the moment: on how peace underlies prosperity
