Scriptorium

Linked with Sabine Lichtenfels – Portugal, and with IGF Institut für Globale Friedensarbeit.

The Tamera Peace Village is a peace project in Alentejo, southern Portugal, with a project site that comprises 331 acres, 30 km inland from the Atlantic coast. The project was founded by Sabine Lichtenfels and Dieter Duhm and sees itself as a support and training base for the establishment of a global power for peace. The project’s research work deals with new ways of healing both humans and nature. The aim is to develop a cultural model for a non-violent lifestyle: a « Healing Biotope ». With the term ‘healing biotope’, we mean an intentional community of people, animals and plants mutually enhancing each others life-energy – a place where they are no longer restricted by fear or violence. A place for:

• a lively trust between humans and all creatures
• research into the most fundamental of life’s events
• a non-violent technology
• a loving reunion of the genders
• a sensual joy free of fear and humiliation
• re-locating human life within the laws of creation
• global networking.
• A Healing Biotope is also as self-sufficient as possible in the areas of nutrition, ecology, water, energy and medicine.

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Linked with Sabine Lichtenfels – Portugal, and with the Tamera Peace Village.

Das IGF entwickelt und vermittelt Gedanken, Erfahrungen und Konzepte für den Aufbau einer globalen Friedenskraft. Das IGF spannt ein internationales Netz der Kooperation zu Friedensinitiativen und engagierten Einzelpersonen, die am Aufbau einer globalen Friedenskraft beteiligt sind oder sein möchten, zu Vertretern indigener Völker, zu Wissenschaftlern, zu Friedensarbeitern und Friedensarbeiterinnen in vielen verschiedenen Ländern. Eine spezielle Kooperation entwickelte sich u.a. mit FriedensarbeiterInnen aus Israel/Palästina, Kolumbien, Indien, Kroatien und Brasilien. Der Sitz des IGF ist in Tamera in Portugal.

Das IGF arbeitet auf zwei Ebenen:

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Linked with a new post on 2009-12-13: Better World Links.

This site offers you a huge amount of links around the theme ‘better world’. Better World Links, for Peace, Human Rights, Environment, Social Justice, etc.exist also in german language!

Subdivisions:

Conflict Regions, Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, General Info, Health, Human Rights, Military, Men, News, One World, Peace, Politics, Religions, Social Justice, Urgent Actions, Women;
and specific divisions, like: real news & critical comments; important days and events,
and many local specific events. With some clicks you may land  on uruknet, or  Pentagon carrying Al Jazeera English, or on the US SOCIAL SECURITY DEBATE 2005 with 300 links.

Linked with Karl-Henrik Robèrt – Sweden, and with … a way of talking about « systems thinking ».

The Natural Step is a nonprofit organization founded in Sweden in 1989 by Swedish scientist, Karl-Henrik Robèrt. The Natural Step has pioneered a « Backcasting from Principles » approach to effectively advance society towards sustainability, and developed through a consensus process a systematic principle definition of sustainability. Following publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987, Robèrt developed The Natural Step Framework, setting out the system conditions for the sustainability of planet Earth. Robèrt’s four system conditions are derived from the laws of thermodynamics.

As an international non-profit organisation it has been working to accelerate global sustainability, using the internationally endorsed and tested Natural Step framework, which is based on sound science, systems thinking and practical business decision-making, to help companies, non-profit organisations, individuals and communities to lead the transition to an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable future. (Read more on the Homepage).

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CIDA is Canada’s lead development agency. It has a mandate to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world. CIDA works in partnership around the world to support sustainable development in developing countries and to offer humanitarian assistance in areas of need. Since the founding of the United Nations in October 1945 and of specialized agencies following World War II, Canada has been supporting the development efforts of partner countries and organizations around the world. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.

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Linked with Khushi Kabir – Bangladesh.

Nijera Kori is a movement for awareness, from the individual to the collective, relating to life in deep perspective, encompassing all its social, economic and political aspects. It is an awareness of an individuals existence that remains dormant untill awakened by external pressures and forces. The pressures are those of poverty, exploitation and deprivation, of marginalisation and exclusion, of class and gender discrimination and the forces are those of protest, for assertion of rights and privileges, for equality and justice, to which they have a natural claim by law and social norm.

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Linked with Raisa Kadyrova – Kyrgyzstan.

Read: The « Early Warning for Violence Prevention » project.

Read also: FTI in russian.

The Foundation for Tolerance International FTI is a Kyrgyz NGO working to prevent conflict and promote peace and justice in Central Asia. For 10 years, FTI has managed a diverse portfolio of projects on conflict prevention and resolution, as well as community development and advocacy, primarily at the cross-border communities of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the Ferghana valley. To date, FTI is gaining regional and international presence through its dynamic participation in global and regional network initiatives such as the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict.

To coordinate its communication, information and programmatic initiatives, FTI is seeking an innovator in the area of Conflict Prevention and Resolution. The key tasks will be to collect, produce, oversee and manage a wide array of relevant, timely information and analysis. This role supports FTI’s goal of promoting a culture of non-violence and tolerance, and preventing and resolving conflicts in Central Asia.

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Linked with Zainah Anwar – Malaysia, with Sisters in Islam’s battle, with TAM – The American Muslim, and with The Sisters in Islam SIS.

First: Watch a video about the work of Women’s Learning Partnership.

They write about themselves: WLP Women’s Learning Partnership for rights, development and peace is dedicated to women’s leadership and empowerment. At its essence, WLP is a builder of networks, working with 18 autonomous and independent partner organizations in the Global South, particularly in Muslim-majority societies, to empower women to transform their families, communities, and societies.

We strongly believe that women, working in partnership, will learn the skills and implement the strategies needed to secure human rights, contribute to the development of their communities, and ultimately create a more peaceful world.

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Linked with Zainah Anwar – Malaysia, with TAM – The American Muslim, with Women’s learning partnership WLP, and with Sisters in Islam’s battle.

Sisters in Islam SIS is a group of Muslim professional women committed to promoting the rights of women within the framework of Islam. Our efforts to promote the rights of Muslim women are based on the principles of equality, justice and freedom enjoined by the Qur’an as made evident during our study of the holy text.

We uphold the revolutionary spirit of Islam, a religion which uplifted the status of women when it was revealed 1400 years ago. We believe that Islam does not endorse the oppression of women and denial of their basic rights of equality and human dignity.

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Linked with Zainah Anwar – Malaysia, with The Sisters in Islam SIS, with Women’s learning partnership WLP, and with Sisters in Islam’s battle.

TAM, The Original, launched in 1989. It was published as a quarterly print journal from 1989 to 1995. The FOUNDING EDITOR was Sheila Musaji. The journal included an original piece of calligraphy by Mohamed Zakariya as an insert in each issue.

The American Muslim is dedicated to the promotion of peace, justice, and reconciliation for all humanity. We strive to:

• Provide an open forum for the discussion of ideas and issues of concern to Muslims in America from various points of view (based on Qur’an and Sunnah) representing no one school of thought, ethnic group or organization, but to encourage all to be represented in these pages and to speak for themselves;
• Provide a forum for and encourage inter-community dialogue particularly on divisive issues, and to encourage interfaith dialogue to find common ground for cooperation on issues of mutual concern;
• Provide the most comprehensive information possible about individual and group efforts and projects to enable networking and cooperative effort;
• Offer support and encouragement and provide shura (consultation) to those who are speaking publicly on behalf of the Muslim community;
• Help Muslims with a deep personal commitment to Islam and to America to locate each other. Help people of faith (Muslims, Christians and Jews) who share our concern for dialogue, peaceful resolution of problems to find each other so they can work together;
• Provide a balanced, moderate, alternative voice focusing on the spiritual, dimension of Islam rather than the more often heard voice of extreme political Islamism.

(Read more about on all TAM’s websites).

ALTSEAN on Burma is a network of activists, NGOs, academics and politicians who support human rights, democracy and peace in Burma.ALTSEAN-Burma initiates and implements a range of activities to support human rights, democracy and peace in Burma, and ultimately, in the rest of Southeast Asia. Its activities are mainly oriented to campaign work, advocacy, networking and resource production.
Country Focus: BURMA. (See International Rule of Law Directory).

Categories.

Website: ARENA online.

Email.

The Alternative Asean Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-BURMA) is a network of activists, nongovernmental organization, academics, and politicians who support human rights, democracy, and peace in Burma. All of the members are from Southeast Asia. (See Soros.org).

TEXTs on Alternative Asean Network on Burma ALTSEAN

Read last Text: FORCED LABOR IN BURMA, TIME FOR ACTION,

Read also: DRUG-Report November 2004.

See photos on Angelfire.

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Last Newsletter (Fall 2006);

Homepage.

Girl’s Education: A Key to Poverty Eradication, 49th Session of CSW, Bejing+10, NGO Side Event, Presented by: Motoko Sugiyama, Vice President and Director of UN Office, Women’s Federation for World Peace International, United Nations NY, March 1, 2005. (See Girls Education).

The Forum on the Global Perspective to End Racial Discrimination in Commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was held on March 21, 2005 in Conference Room 4, UN HQ, New York and sponsored by the NGO Section of DESA (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) cosponsored and organized by Women’s Federation for World Peace International (WFWPI) and WFWP-USA. (See Forum 2005).

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Linked with Ramesh Jaura – India & Germany.

IPS Europe: (is) … a network of correspondents and stringers in Europe, the Middle East and Maghreb covers the Euro-Mediterranean region. The journalistic and administrative co-ordination is conducted from Berlin in Germany where the European regional centre IPS EUROPA | IPS EUROPE is based.. Most of the copy is edited in London where the regional editor is located. In case of need Berlin jumps in. Some of the hotspots of IPS coverage from the region are: Brussels, Berlin, Bonn, Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, Belgrade, Moscow, Prague, Vienna, Istanbul, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem and Ramallah.

The overall IPS mission, according to the statutes of the International Association, is the following:

• « The Association – which intends to inherit the goals of the former cooperative of journalists « IPS- Inter Press Service » and to carry forward its ideals – shall be a public-benefit organisation for development cooperation. Its main object shall be to contribute to development by promoting free communication and a professional flow of information to reinforce technical and economic co-operation among developing countries;

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Linked with Ramesh Jaura – India & Germany.

DEVELOPMENT WATCH is an Alliance for Monitoring International Cooperation and has been launched by GLOBAL COOPERATION COUNCIL and IPS EUROPE as an independent watchdog to monitor reliable and critical information on international development cooperation. You will agree with me that tax payers in the OECD countries have the right to know what is happening with their hard-earned money. Also peoples in the countries of the South receiving funds must be enabled and empowered to know what their governments are doing with the money they get for them from the North. This objective can be achieved if individuals, institutions and organizations around the world – in North and South – help us and provide DEVELOPMENT WATCH reliable and critical information.

(To be distinguished from: Development Watch Australia.)

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