Peacebuilding

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Thich Nhat Hanh’s Code of Global Ethics

Article

At the turning of the Millennium, the United Nations chose Thich Nhat Hanh's code of global ethics, the Five Mindfulness Trainings, as the foundation for a non-sectarian ethical path for humanity.

Published in Fall 2019 By Gary Gach

Inner Work Makes Our Outer Work Massively More Effective

Article

If you are already on the path of your own inner work, you will know how a regular practice of self-reflection can be incredibly useful—not just to you, but to the communities around you, as well as to the wider world.

Published in Fall 2019 By Scilla Elworthy, PhD

Sacred Diplomacy in the Emerging Ecozoic Era

Essay

International diplomats are worn out from the toxic politics, overriding militarism, and positional bargaining for land, money, and power that define present negotiations.

Published in Winter 2018 By Merle Lefkoff

Unlearning Together

Keynote

...We’ve entered the era that the Hopis predicted in their prophecies of the “great purification,” the unstoppable entropy of not only our external political, economic and ecological systems, but above all the unexamined assumptions underlying those systems.

Published in Summer 2018 By Martin Winiecki

Thomas Hübl’s The Pocket Project: Facilitating the Integration of Collective Trauma

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Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2017 By Julie Jordan Avritt, Thomas Hübl

New Approaches to Healing Collective Conflict and Trauma: Our Responsibility as Global Citizens*

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Thomas Hübl and William Ury "This is the beginning of what we need, a vocabulary for how we talk about a process that we don’t even have words yet to describe—what actually is happening at the biochemical, genetic, psychological, and spiritual levels as the process of peace is being made." -Ury

Published in Spring | Summer 2017 By William Ury, Thomas Hübl