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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen
progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of
action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade? |
Our indicators include: -the
extent to which altruism is embodied in each of the participant leaders
so that whatever or all of the eight keys of a Culture of Peace they
select-- Respect all life, Reject Violence; Share with Others; Listen
to Understand; Preserve the Planet; Rediscover Solidarity; Work for
Women's Equality; Participate in Democracy-- they will bring their
global citizenship, philanthropy, unique calling and public spirit to
that key area. -the extent to which the leader is secure within oneself for a new definition of security. -the
extent to which her/his ideals relate to a sustainable peace for a
focus in a community, institution, government or multilateral entity
that has been affected both socially and politically by the participant
leader. -the extent to which the vocational nature of the participant's work has been re-visioned. --the
extent to which the participant envisions her/his work as reflective of
the largest vision of humanity for a society of compassion, integrity
and excellence. --the extent to which the participant plans to
implement the information gained in the orientation in their role at
the Institute. -the extent to which the information gained in the orientation changed the way the participant will teach another human being
We
have seen some progress as the participant leaders enter into the
course work, vocational support and competency development. We
don't expect the leaders to have completed meeting the indicator
parameters until the end of the third year of training.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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As
a pilot programme, we would like more people to join us. We are
fortunate that key people have committed the resources for many do not
have the resources or the commitment for three years of training.
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ACTIONS: What actions have been
undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?
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The Institute for Global Leadership offers three actions:
1.
The Decade calls forth the evolution of humankind so that security
resides within each human being. The Institute for Global Leadership
provides for the evolution of humankind by training Reconciliation
Leaders™, practical idealists. The leadership arises from the
leader’s vocational calling, skillbuilding, and a commitment to be at
peace in oneself and in service to others for a post-competitive
society.
Our training is for seasoned or emerging
leaders who would like to lead others based on their unique gifts and
special calling. A major change in consciousness about
citizenship is required. We are part of the over six billion
actual citizens of the United Nations which was founded as "We the
people". We are responsible for direct participation in the
challenging processes of emergent governance in the United Nations
itself through our personal mission focus and our tools and techniques
of reconciliation.
We have launched a year-long training
programme (Introduction, Basic and Advanced) in Reconciliation
Leadership™ to train vocationally-called participant leaders who want
to be of service for the Culture of Peace. They learn new skills
and develop their calling with sensitive and skilled guidance. The
programme is unique because it helps leaders tap their internal
strengths to better promote peaceful resolutions to conflict. The
approach has broad applications to family feuds, community and national
disputes and global challenges. The methods learned are useful to
professional and international peacemakers as well as anyone interested
in creating a just, sustainable, multiethnic and intercultural world
community. Participants are welcome from all sectors and may
participate in the full programme or take individual modules on their
own.
This model of leadership is provided to go beyond the
leadership and politics of self agrandizement and self interest to work
for the common good. Our leaders develop a foundation of ego
strength from their unique calling, special gifts and greatness.
A global work ethic is facilitated to face past human
self-defeating destructive behaviors in the new light of their calling.
We must be "spiritually young and creative enough to dream new
dreams, conceive new myths, birth new social systems and nurture an
expanded sense of identity and community to address the spiritual and
systemic lag in human development that perpetuates war (Mische 1995). Our
learning methodology provides personal, interpersonal, systemic and
global competency building. The cycle of violence is addressed from a
larger framework than victim or perpetrator, believing that
perpetrators were once victims without a healing intervention.
This
leadership includes more balance of work and home life, reflection,
meditation and/or prayer time, a methodology to deal with the high
level of stress in people's lives and a vision and broad world view for
the importance of humankind at this important moment in our history.
More of us is needed as well as a higher level of intelligence
and spirituality than that which created our global crises. We
can provide the assistance to change the United Nations from reaction
to prevention by training leaders to be proactive implementing their
mission statement.
The Introductory, Basic and Advance
Programmes follow. In an initial consultation, potential
participants are shown how this programme can enhance their own life
and work challenges. They are encouraged to try one or two
courses before enrolling in the whole programme.
Implementing the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2000-2010) and supporting the Millennium Development Goals Patron:
Mr. Anwarul K. Chowdhury, High Representative and
Under-Secretary-General, Least Developed Countries, Landlocked
Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States.
Director: Virginia Swain
Reconciliation Leadership™ for a Post-September 11th World Introduction, Basic and Advanced Certificate Programs November 2005- November 2006
To be held at the United Nations in New York and CRRC Counseling Center, Tiverton, Rhode Island USA. To
implement the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and
Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) and support the
Millennium Development Goals
Reconciliation Leadership™ is a
systems approach to peace allowing leaders to be practical idealists.
This leadership arises from the leader’s vocational calling,
skillbuilding, and a commitment to be at peace in oneself and in
service to others for a post-competitive society.
The
Reconciliation Leadership™ Certificate Programs are offered to emerging
and existing leaders called to create a just, multiethnic,
intercultural sustainable peace –in their community, institution,
national or global setting of their choice. More of our humanity is
needed now to address the world leadership vacuum.
People may
not have thought of yourself as a traditional leader or seasoned
leaders may have an unexplored calling to leadership and the resolution
of local and/or global challenges. If your understanding of
leadership is about influencing others in a deeply respectful and
empowering way; if you do not not know how to achieve your goal, we
hope you will call to see if trust can emerge between us so we may be
of assistance.
Being effective leaders in the current
global reality requires different values, skills and experience than
what leaders have brought to a September 10th world. For
information, www.global-leader.org call Virginia Swain, Director,
Institute for Global Leadership, for application, tuition information
& interview at 508-753-4172, ext. 3.
Introduction to Reconciliation Leadership™ (Four Courses)
Work, Purpose, Place and Peace Friday-Sunday, November 18-20, Tiverton
The Practice of Reconciliation Leadership™ Friday-Monday, December 9-12, New York
Reconciliation of Polarities and Certificate Ceremony, Friday-Sunday, January 20-22, Tiverton
Writing
a personal mission statement for the International Decade for a Culture
of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) 15
hours of individual mentoring with Virginia Swain at the convenience of
the participant leader
Basic Reconciliation Leadership™ Program (Five Courses)
Sustainability Aspects of Reconciliation Leadership February 10-12, Tiverton
Anger and Conflict Management Friday-Sunday, March 10-12, Tiverton
Re-visioning the Relationship between Man and Woman Friday-and Certificate Ceremony, Sunday, April 7-9, Tiverton
Mentoring
Module Participant leaders will receive 20 hours of mentoring
with Virginia Swain, Director, throughout the Modules to integrate the
teachings, skills, and the leader's vocational calling into one's life,
work, and relationships.
Advanced Reconciliation Leadership™ Program (Six courses)
Designing
and Implementing Interventions for Community, Institutional, Systemic,
National and Global Change Monday-Friday, June 5-9, 2006, New York
The United Nations and the Harmonization of Nations: An Evolving Process Monday-Friday, July 10-14, New York
The Practice of Reconciliation Leadership™ August 14-18, New York.
Practicum September-November
Integration Module and Certificate Ceremony Saturday-Monday, November 17-19, Tiverton
Mentoring
Module; Participant leaders will receive 20 hours of mentoring with
Virginia Swain, Director, throughout the Modules to integrate the
teachings, skills, and the leader's vocational calling into one's life,
work, and relationships. Included in the course is a group dedication of mission to the United Nations at the end of the program.
The Purpose of the Reconciliation Leadership™ Certificate Programs:
• To educate people, communities, institutions, nations to build trust and healthy relationships as a basis for leadership • To provide an experience of leadership based on vocational service • To motivate and support the work of reconciliation by men and women. •
To serve and provide renewal and resources for emerging and seasoned
vocationally-called leaders in institutions, organizations,
communities, nations and international affairs. • To educate leaders
in the philosophy and techniques of creating reconciling environments,
combining visionary, historic and pragmatic approaches. • To provide
leaders with new thinking for prevention, post-conflict and protracted,
historic, organizational, community, and global social, environmental
and economic conflicts. • To provide Reconciliation Leaders for a
global mediation and reconciliation service for pacific settlement of
disputes (Chapter 33, UN Charter) internationally. • To provide an
academic curriculum combined with vocational, spiritual and
psychological education for healthy multiethnic communities,
institutions, nations and global situations.
Contact Virginia Swain, Director for tuition information. Room and board the responsibility of participants.
The
patron of the leadership programme is Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury,
UN High Representative and Under-Secretary-General, Least Developed
Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing
States. The program is dedicated to the International Decade for a
Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World
(2001-2010). Ambassador Chowdhury played a key role in implementing the
General Assembly intergovernmental resolution for the Decade.
To
prepare for the launch of the Certificate Programme, in 2002, Ms. Swain
and Under-Secretary-General Chowdhury successfully launched a pilot
programme at UN Headquarters, Designing and Implementing Interventions
for Global Change. In five presentations, 75 participants from 15
countries attended. Speakers in the program have included diplomats,
international civil servants and non-governmental organization
representatives.
2. In 1999, at the Hague Appeal
for Peace, we proposed a Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service™
for the United Nations itself. Innovative approaches to diplomacy
need to be integrated into the United Nations system to help them
reconcile their own conflicts first before they can offer assistance to
others. We have researched the Truth and Reconciliation
Commissions in the light of the United Nations Charter and have found
that a provision for a mediation and conciliation service under the
guidance of the Security Council approved by the General Assembly in
Article 22 was never implemented. At present Good Offices,
conciliation, mediation are used to address conflicts. Tools and
techniques of reconciliation are offered through the Institute
for Global Leadership as support for the Good Offices of the
Secretary-General.
We provided a proposal that implements
the General Assembly Reoslution 39/11 stating that the "Peoples of this
Planet have a Sacred right to Peace" has to start within the
Secretariat and the Member States first before they can offer it to
those in need. We believe our services will address those who have
forgotten their higher calling and who have become disrespectful,
denigrating and even corrupted. We believe in every person's potential
for transformation in the light of new knowledge of resources and
special calling. We offer our services for that process to occur.
The Service is based on a theoretical and practical approach to
reconciliation as three starting points: relationship building,
encounter activities to express grief, loss and the anger that
accompanies injustice, and innovative reconciliation techniques that
exist outside the mainstream of international political traditions
(Lederach 1998). A historic, visionary and restorative framework
is always present to provide resources for a just, sustainable,
ethical, non-violent and humane society.
Successful
graduates of the leadership programme are eligible to be facilitators
in the proposed Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service™. The
Eight Keys of A Culture of Peace are at the Heart of the Ideals of this
Service.
As part of the Culture of Peace and the Global
Mediation and Reconciliation Service preparation, there has been a
five-year effort to train and support 22 teen peer mediators to
reconcile student, teacher and administrator conflicts in an inner city
high school in Worcester, MA. Children and adults from 30
cultures make up the population of this educational community,
including recent immigrants from war-torn countries and child soldiers.
Other
consultation case studies include a UNDP invited reconciliation project
in Mindanao, Philippines, with refugees from the genocide in Rwanda and
ex-Yugoslavia which can be viewed at www.global-leader.org. Also,
A Peacebuilding Process of Reconciliation to Develop Political
Will, developed over fourteen years after Celebration of the Children
of the World: A Model for Building Global Community, has evolved to be
at the ready for post-conflict peacebuilding and restoration after
crises (even at the United Nations itself).
3. A Mantle of
Roses: A Woman's Journey Home to Peace (Xlibris 2004), a personal
memoir by Virginia Swain, is offered as a resource as one
Reconciliation Leader's™ personal journey from the business world to
the United Nations.
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ADVICE: What advice would you like to
give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a
culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade? |
In
Davos in 2002, The Secretary-General asked for a soft infrastructure to
address the ills of the global economy. The ills of the global
economy have created a leadership vacuum that requires excellence,
commitment, integrity and a deep personal commitment to the ideals of
the UN Charter. We have answered that call for a soft infrastructure in
a learning methodology that acknowledges unique calling, competency
building (personal, interpersonal, systemic and global) and a desire to
be at peace in oneself and in service to others for a post-competitive
institution and society.
We believe that the UN is still a cold
war system: the divisions of the world are not able to be reconciled;
systemic efforts to change the system fail as they cannot be sustained;
the way to affect sustained change is through historicizing and
parallel development, among other models we use in our change
interventions.
The Secretary-General is invited to encourage
staff and member state delegates to undertake our training for the
Culture of Peace. In these dark days of 2005-06, we need the
light of people who will claim their calling and gifts as a foundation
upon which to face their limitations. This is such a program.
We also offer our reconciliation processes as a resource to the Secretary-General for the UN reform effort.
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
We
are a member of the Global Compact , the Academic Council of the UnIted
Nations, and many networks of peace scholars and practitioners. We
participant in too many groups to list here. Let it be said that we
believe in that power of coalition building and did so quite
effectively in our cornerstone peacebuilding process for the UN in
1992, Celebration of the Children of the World: A Model for
Building Global Community. We built such a strong coalition of
United Nations Agencies, Member States, Secretariat Departments and
NGOs that the then SG Boutros Boutros Ghali provided all the resources
from the weight of his Office to help us implement the Celebration
programme. The programme was designed to help UN community members to
forget their titles and roles for a day to join in our common humanity
to work for the common good.
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PLANS: What new engagements are
planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)? |
Continuation of our 12-course program for the first year of three years of training
Our second and third years will be announced in January of 2006.
The
availability of the Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service for the
Secretary-General's personal resource in the UN reform effort.
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Postal address of organization
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Box 20044, Worcester, MA 01602
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E-mail address of organization
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vswain@global-leader.org
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Website address of organization
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www.global-leader.org
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Education for a culture of peace
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Understanding, tolerance, solidarity
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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International
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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United States
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