Peacebuilding
Civility and its Discontents
Article
Dialogue across the political divide often replicates the Eurocentric cycle of harm and revenge, but it doesn’t have to.
Vision for a City of Hope Near Auschwitz
Article
It embraces peace that goes beyond the mere absence of conflict and war, to bring about a change of heart that embraces our common humanity. Peace in this sense is a dynamic concept that facilitates the full development of the human potential.
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.
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.
A Vision for the World
Essay
The gift hidden in our unprecedented world crisis is an equally unprecedented opportunity. My vision of the world? My hope for the future? This topic sounds a bit big. Allow me to start small—say, with crows. They are my special friends.
Caring for the Soul of Humanity
Essay
I was 25 years old when I witnessed human misery for the first time. It was 2008, and I had moved to a remote city in the underprivileged state of Maranhão, in Northeast Brazil. Despite moving with the illusion of building a new life, the harsh realities of extreme poverty and structural violence expanded my worldview in ways I couldn’t imagine.
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.
Statement on the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Document
"The destructive capacity of nuclear weapons is beyond imagination, poisoning the Earth forever. These horrific devices place before us every day the decision whether we will be the last human generation. The power to unleash this destruction is in the hands of a small number of people. No one should be holding such power over the very creation, which we regard as a sacred gift for all today and for future generations."
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.
Thomas Hübl’s The Pocket Project: Facilitating the Integration of Collective Trauma
Article
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous […]