AIMS AND OBJECTIVES FOR HEALING OUR PLANET
- To support ideas and proposals on developing and putting into practice a new informational and educational policy based on the new scientific and intellectual paradigm to develop and establish new educational programs for different national social and, age groups. Such programs would be established under the aegis of the UN or its institutions or Governments aimed at implementing the major proposals formulated below. Such an educational program would integrate healing issues looking at the importance of lifestyle, nutrition, relaxation, nutritional supplementation, meditation and exercise for the prevention of the major scourges of illness and deprivation in our global community. This activity would be facilitated by outstanding world leaders and key humanist individuals.
- To establish educational programs for teachers and for different social and age groups.
- To involve key representatives of politics, business, culture and the arts.
- To elaborate and enhance the conception of eco-settlements understanding the profound connection between dwellings and the environment in which they exist and to provide support to eco-settlements from international, governmental and non governmental entities.
To call all the World's scientists to take part in developing the intellectual basis for forming a sustainable civilization.
A substantially new manner of thinking is required integrating all sciences and creating a holistic approach which takes into account the inextricable relationship between life and all phenomena. Such a science needs to integrate scientific materialism and consciousness and requires a profound change in human values and attitudes.
To ask all educational organisations of teachers of all levels and professors to support our ideas and aims in order to create educational programs based on new paradigm for distribution among families, schools and universities which has at its highest priority, the integration of the human being with the family of humanity, civilization, planet earth, and the cosmos. In this respect, we particularly wish to study and understand the role of ecology, consciousness and systems theory in economics, psychosocial issues and cross cultural issues in order to enhance relationships between nations, cultures, creeds and religions.
To ask all medical doctors and health professionals to support a form of medicine which is integrative, health giving and gives individuals the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives and the opportunity to arrest the development of degenerative disease or prevent it altogether.
To ask business and community groups to consider our proposals in developing a new sector in the market: on ecologically sound production, primarily in food and medicine, placing emphasis on organic foods, sustainable agricultural practices and cellular and herbal medicines.
A new sector for the solution of our global problems would also include education (training courses), publications, centres designed specifically for health promotion, preventative health, self care, ecological education and spiritual development. Our children need oxygen, water, food, trees and grass and sustainable environment more than material possessions in order to thrive.
To appeal to the young people of the world to seek unity within diversity, cohesion where there is fragmentation and resolution where there is conflict. We ask them to take on the responsibility for this brilliant jewel of our planet and seek to acquire a deep and abiding passion and knowledge for life itself. A profound cultivation of true civilization requires a broad and deep understanding of the nature of humanity, earth, the cosmos and the culture of their nation and all nations. It requires a profound love and respect for all peoples and the living biodiversity of nature itself.
To ask governments to support our concerns and ideas and to establish MINISTRIES FOR PEACE, to initiate programmes aimed at focusing on scientific activities as a matter of urgency on:
- New ways of thinking about our place on Earth and the ways in which we relate to the functioning of natural systems if we are to find a better way to live in harmony with nature.
- Formulating new ways in industry and agriculture, making a possible a sustainable world.
- Developing alternative energy strategies
- Reforming educational systems based on the new paradigm
- National strategies to create the conditions for
- Human and social development
- Environmentally friendly economies
- Poverty reduction
SUMMARY
The Global Citizens For Peace will re-appraise what is means to be a human being in positive terms, which recognize being needs - e.g., being creative, whole, alive, self-sufficient - as well as deficiency needs - e.g., for food, clean water, primary health care and shelter. In a world so dangerous, we believe that the only way to be is open, constructive, peace-loving and responsible and rejects the idea that the human being is inherently evil, destructive and untrustworthy.
The Global Citizens For Peace will study and promote a genuinely holistic approach to social, economic, political, health and ecological problems. GCFP will study and promote ancient and universal wisdoms concerning the meaning of life and the nature of humanity .It will promulgate a new human agenda, including the humanization of educational systems, the fair distribution of medical resources throughout the world and the abolition of poverty. It will also promote the safeguarding of personal freedoms, the creation of an open, caring society and the encouragement of scientific, cultural and citizen exchanges between all countries, East and West, North and South. It will call for the creation of the conditions necessary for a sustainable peace and health for all in the third millennium, including the establishment of a steady state eco-relationship with planetary resources, the protection of species diversity and populations, the removal of all toxins, waste and radiation hazards from the environment that threaten the health of the planet, and the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
The Global Citizens For Peace will show no political bias, but will support all plans, from whatever quarter, for implementing its aims. People of all political and religious persuasions will be welcomed to The Global Citizens for Peace's deliberations.
GCFP will serve as a catalyst group of "think-tank" for all other sympathetic groups and encourage an openness of dialogue irrespective of class, race, politics or philosophy.
GCFP will offer a resource centre (and later, local resource centres) where it will share relevant skills, information about new thinking and about the activities and opportunities offered by other groups concerned with the peace and health of the world.
GCFP is in agreement with the World Social Forum (held in Porta Alegre, Brazil, 2002) that the "Global Commons" should be public common property protected in perpetuity from privatization and commodification. Such areas include the world's genetic and biological heritage, basic needs like water, the atmosphere (to prevent carbon trading to tackle climatic change), public services (particularly health and education), the airwaves and the land.
We feel that if these major principles and directions are instigated we may be able to prevent the global catastrophe to which we are currently headed.
The core objectives are to promote:
- Development of Global Citizens For Peace
- Development of Global Ministries For Peace
- Renewal of the United Nations where the UN truly represents the people of the World
- A culture of peace through education, sports, arts, media and service
- Development of a Health System which is based on a holistic mind body and spirit approach, uses multiple modalities and based on true healing rather than the band aid allopathic approach
- A framework for inter religious cooperation
- Conflict prevention and resolution
- Integrative, cooperative , learning and caring Communities as a local contribution to peace
- Education for life in schools, universities and communities which is integrative, empathic and wholistic and is an ongoing process
- HIV/AIDS prevention
- Humanitarian relief partnerships which are based on a true understanding of the cultures who are being aided working in conjunction with the Centre For Human Emergence
All governments devote attention to, for example, debating their "defence capacities" - but there is very little attention (let alone equal attention) to debating "peace capacities". The idea for peace cadets or a peace force for Australia was suggested by Dr Stella Cornelius and Dr Keith Suter over 20 years ago in their Peace Book.
There is a real need for people (Ambassadors for Peace) to be able to express an integral approach to humanity and to be trained in this approach which can be called the Art of Peace craft as they deliver goods and services to the needy and impoverished in the developing world.
Ambassadors for Peace also serve on the national, regional and global peace councils. They stand on the common ground of shared values, promoting reconciliation, overcoming barriers, and building peace.