Fall | Winter 2014

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Guest Editorial

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Sometimes we meet a young person who continues to hold a deep place in our minds and hearts long afterwards. […]

My Experience Running a Spiritually-Based Political Campaign

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Politics and Spirituality Come Together I was a candidate for the presidency of Chile. Was it a dream or a […]

A Great Transition? Where We Stand

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The following was delivered as a keynote address at the biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) […]

Does the Human Species Wish to Survive?

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The title question is deliberately provocative, yet relevant to reflections on the future of humanity. The question is framed to […]

Why the Will Matters Now

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We are living at a time when the vision of wholeness is seeping into consciousness, upsetting all sorts of established […]

Watershed

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I work in nature because we are nature… My materials come from the earth to which they return… Learning to […]

Economics for the Anthropocene

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A talk given at the Schumacher Center for New Economics, Great Barrington, MA, USA, July 27, 2014 I’m so happy […]

Towards a New Activism to Effectively Support a Transition to a Post-Growth Economy

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The Broken Stories of Mainstream Activism To this day, few civil society organisations are promoting the much-needed transition to a […]

Setting Context for the New Story Summit

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Kosmos: Please tell us a little about the Findhorn community. Yvonne Cuneo: The Findhorn Foundation is a community of about […]

The New Story Summit: Voice of the Elders

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Kosmos: Satish, what is your perspective on the New Story? Satish Kumar: The New Story will be a story of […]

New Story Summit: Africa

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Kosmos: You came a long way, Neema. Why did you come to the New Story Summit? Neema Namadamu: I came […]

The New Story Summit: Voices of Youth

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Kosmos: When you were sharing with the group, you said, “I grew up too fast and didn’t know who I […]

Connecting for Change: Insights from an Emerging Global Transformation Movement

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“The present convergence of crises–in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more–is a birth crisis, […]

Reflections on Transformative Education: Toward Peace Learning Systems

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Global Transformation through Peace Learning Systems Over the past 15 years, I have worked on peace education programs in communities […]

Transformational Education

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Consider the problems today’s young people will have to face: global warming and other changes in climate, disastrous ups and […]

Roadmap: A Movement of Movements

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We in the progressive movement have been aware for some time that we tend to be ‘siloed’ in our respective […]

Planting Seeds of Peace in Liberia

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The story I want to share with you is a story of determination, courage, and collective action begun by the […]

Emerge! The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East

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Introduction Why have democracy and the one person, one-vote system become so dysfunctional? How can an electoral process based on […]

Connecting the We-in-the-I: Global Responsibility Rising Within and Without

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Even if it’s true that humanity has never created a problem that it couldn’t solve, let’s not bet our future […]

UN High Level Forum on the Culture of Peace

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A talk given at the United Nations High Level Forum on Peacebuilding and Global Citizenship. September 9, 2014. I want […]

Unleashing Our Potential to Create A Whole New World

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If the unrealized potential of humanity had a sound, it would blare like a sound cannon used to scatter unruly […]

Awakening the Divine Spark in the Spirit of Humanity

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The Fuji Declaration Read the Declaration Almost a decade ago, the Goi Peace Foundation, together with our partners including Kosmos […]

The Fuji Declaration

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A new phase in the evolution of human civilization is on the horizon. With deepening states of crisis bringing unrest […]