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Abdul Aziz Said |
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| Abdul Aziz Said is the senior ranking professor at American University and the first occupant of the endowed Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the American University Center for Global Peace which undertakes a wide range of activities domestically and internationally aimed at advancing our understanding of world peace. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 09:11 AM |
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Adam Bucko |
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| Adam Bucko is an activist, karma yogi and spiritual director to many of New York’s homeless youth. Read Bio |
01-May-2013 06:36 AM |
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Adam Bucko and Rory McEntee |
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| Adam Bucko and Rory McEntee co-wrote the article New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Life in the 21st Century for the Spring|Summer 2013 issue of Kosmos Journal. Read Bio |
01-May-2013 06:45 AM |
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Adam Parsons |
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| Adam Parsons is the editor at Share The World's Resources, (STWR) a London-based NGO campaigning for essential resources - such as land, energy, water and the atmosphere - to be shared internationally and sustainably in order to secure basic human needs. Read Bio |
27-Mar-2013 12:46 PM |
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Alain Ruche |
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| Alain Ruche has worked most of his life, mainly for the European Union, in various countries around the world. A decade ago, he decided to settle down in Brussels at the Asia Directorate. He is dedicated to out-of-the-box thinking and policy making in the field of international relations. Read Bio |
04-May-2013 07:32 AM |
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Alexa Bradley and Julie Ristau |
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| Alexa Bradley (left) is a Program Director at On The Commons. Julie Ristau (right)is Co-Director at On The Commons. Read Bio |
19-Oct-2012 09:07 AM |
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Alfredo Sfeir-Younis |
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| Alfredo Sfeir-Younis PhD is a Chilean economist, spiritual leader and healer, Founder and President of the Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation. He retired after 29 years of service from the World Bank where he was the focal point for human rights. His last position was Senior Advisor to the managing directors, and the Institutional Focal Point on human rights. Read Bio |
06-May-2013 10:18 AM |
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Amber Chand |
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| Visionary leader, social entrepreneur, gifted writer and inspirational speaker, Amber Chand is a global woman with roots in India, Africa, Europe and America. Her mission to celebrate women as a force for peace and prosperity has shaped her compassionate global voice. Read Bio |
06-Mar-2012 05:31 PM |
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Anita Kelleher |
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| Anita Kelleher is a professional futurist with a passion for helping organisations and communities realise their potential. Read Bio |
09-Jan-2013 11:50 AM |
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Ann Florini |
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| Ann Florini is Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings
Institution and director of the World Economic Forum’s Global Governance Initiative.
From 1997 to 2002, she was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 12:47 PM |
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Anne Hillman |
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| Teilhard’s biographer cites Anne's Awakening the Energies of Love: “a pioneering work . . . extraordinary inspiration for learning to love in new ways.” Brian Swimme calls it “an experiential pathway into that necessary transformation.” Her retreats are inclusive and offer experiences of the kind of love that unites differences. www.annehillman.net Read Bio |
18-Sep-2012 10:28 AM |
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Anne-Marie Pochat |
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| Anne-Marie Pochat, artist and scientist, was actively involved in the arts and science research think tank known as GLACS, which belongs to the prestigious College de France, from 1988 until 1991. In addition to many exhibits in Paris and in French counties since 1978, she has produced important pieces of work such as The Origins of Life, The Aquacosmos and the Heart of the Stars. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 06:18 PM |
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Arthur Zajonc |
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| Arthur Zajonc is president of the Mind & Life Institute, former director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, and a professor of physics at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1978. Read Bio |
29-Apr-2013 01:49 PM |
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Ashok Gangadean |
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| Ashok Gangadean is Co-Convenor of the World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality, which brings eminent world leaders together in sustained deep dialogue to cultivate global vision and wisdom for the new millennium. Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute, host of an Emmy-nominated live call-in television show on global issues, he has published several books on global reason, global philosophy, and dialogue. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 12:48 PM |
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Avon Mattison |
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| Avon Mattison is a Peacebuilding and Organizational Consultant with over three decades' experience. She works with innovative leaders, groups and organizations committed to cooperatively building Cultures of Peace inter-generationally and inter-culturally for the children of this and future generations. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 06:08 PM |
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Barbara Fields |
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| Dr. Barbara Fields is Executive Director of The Association for Global New Thought and co-founder and Project Director of The Gandhi King Chavez Season for Nonviolence. Among many other roles, she serves as co-founder and Project Director of the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 12:45 PM |
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Barbara Valocore |
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| Barbara Valocore spent most of her life as a performing artist in New York and Los Angeles until the early 1990's when she had the opportunity in 1992 to found The Lifebridge Foundation with her father, Paul Hancock, an early cable television pioneer. Since then, Lifebridge has funded cutting edge and visionary projects untouched by most small family foundations. Read Bio |
01-Jun-2011 11:46 PM |
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Barrett C. Brown |
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| Barrett specializes in leader development and organizational and systems change. For 20 years he has supported individuals and organizations to navigate complex challenges and unlock deep capacities. His recent work has involved engaging entire sectors to undergo system-wide sustainable development. Read Bio |
30-Apr-2012 09:32 PM |
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Benjamin Quinto |
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| Benjamin Quinto is the executive director of the Global Youth Action Network, a leading alliance of youth organizations in over 180 countries. Mr. Quinto is also associate director for Youth in Action, a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to improving youth civic engagement, and he acts as international co-coordinator for Global Youth Service Day, the largest annual celebration of young people making a difference. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 09:04 AM |
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Bert Parlee |
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| Bert Parlee, PhD serves as senior advisor at STAGEN in Dallas, complementing a private practice as Executive Coach, Leadership Trainer, OD Consultant and Mediator. His areas of expertise are training individuals, teams and organizations on how to bridge opposing perspectives, principles and worldviews, and thus to communicate more effectively in situations of difference, disagreement and conflict. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 06:15 PM |
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Brian Swimme |
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| Brian Swimme Ph.D. is on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies where he teaches courses on the evolutionary cosmology. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 06:28 PM |
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Bruce L. Gibb |
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| Bruce L. Gibb is an organizational psychologist in private practice and an adjunct professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Michigan. He is currently active in the Sustainability Consortium of Society for Organizational Learning and the Washtenaw Homeless Alliance. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 12:50 PM |
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Burns Weston |
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| Burns Weston is a part-time faculty member at The University of Iowa College of Law. He has also served as Visiting Professor at numerous universities, including the Vermont Law School where he served as Director of the VLS Human Rights Initiative, and Director of the VLS Climate Legacy Initiative. Since 2009, he has served as Co-Director of the Commons Law Project, which will feature his latest book (with David Bollier of Amherst, MA) titled Greenkeeping Governance: Toward A Law of the Ecological Commons. Read Bio |
06-Mar-2012 05:17 PM |
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C. Otto Scharmer |
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| Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Sectors), an innovation platform that links twenty leading global institutions across the three sectors of business, government, and civil society, in order to prototype profound system innovations for a more sustainable world. Read Bio |
02-Jun-2011 04:57 PM |
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Cameron Davis |
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| Cameron Davis' paintings, installations and community art projects explore issues of the environment and living consciously at this Earth-time. Read Bio |
02-Nov-2011 10:17 AM |