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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
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:
Peace Bank Status: Registered, Verified. Learn more about status here
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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”
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”
Name: Eco Preservation Society Ecopreservation.org
Type: incorporated in the US State of Washington as registered non-profit organization with 501c3 tax exempted status with the US Internal Revenue
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to promote research, travel and education programs that advance environmental consciousness and facilitate public awareness with a call to action.
Peace-promoting activities: EPS provides a is a Learning Platform where members and contributors can connect and share information about eco system preservation. The organization encourages and supports individual conservation projects communities, and indeed new initiatives at regional level. By preserving functioning eco-systems EPS lays the basis for local food, fuel and even housing security, one of the foundations of peaceful existence.
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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
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”
