Week of Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns
22-29 October 2010
"The Spirit of the United Nations" : Universal Harmony Through Rapprochement Honoring: 2010 International Year of Rapprochement of Cultures and the Decade of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010)
Together the Culture of Peace, Campus Peace Centers, Women Rising and Universal Ethics Working Groups Jointly Present
The Power of Youth to Promote
the Culture of Peace !
AN INTER-GENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
Friday, 29 October 2010
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Salvation Army Auditorium
221 East 52nd Street
(bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave)
— No UN Pass Necessary for this especial event —
David Adams, Ph.D, Foundation for Culture of Peace Jennifer Ijichi, Seton Hall University MA program in Diplomacy & International Relations Oliver Rizzi Carlson, UN University for Peace graduate & other youth spokespersons ~ Invocation by Swamini Sri Lalitambika Devi ~ Community drumming & music with Michael Mills & friends ~ |
While the Decade for a Culture of Peace is ending, the global movement for a culture of peace is continuing with greater intensity! The focus will be on the role of youth in implementing the landmark 1999 UN Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace (Resolution A/RES/53/243) to make it a meaningful reality.
The 2010 Week of Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns is being sponsored by:
> NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns at the United Nations, NY,
> NGO Alliance on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice,
> NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples,
Committees of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO),
> UNSRC- Enlightenment Society (SEAT)
> UNSRC – Feng Shui Group,
> UNSRC- Friendship Club, —Spiritual Caucus,
> United Religions Initiative-UN (URI-UN)
> UN Women’s Guild
This program has been inspired by the United Nations' International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Because of its mandate, UNESCO has been designated to oversee plans to observe this year. See, for example, the following website:
http://www.unesco.org/en/2010-international-year-for-the-rapprochement-of-cultures/
One of the four designated program themes asks for a focus on "building a framework for commonly shared values." Thus, this program will address the need to promote awareness of universal, transcendental, spiritual values at the United Nations in order to achieve a "Rapprochement of Cultures." It is these spiritual, transcendent and universal values, which represent a more inclusive dimension of consciousness.