A Season of Forgiving
100 Years Since the Birth of
Gandhian Nonviolence
The International Day of Peace
& Call for Global Ceasefire
Eleven Days of Global Unity
A Season for Nonviolence
10th Anniversary
Eleven days to:
Transform
the world's wounds of 2001
Strengthen
partnerships among
grassroots peace builders
Promote
peace and wisdom
through nonviolence
Empower
enlightened leadership
in your local community
Sponsored By
M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Association for Global New Thought / Season for Nonviolence
Pathways to Peace
We the
Peoples Initiative /
We The World
Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, Mumbai, India.
Gandhi Development Trust, Durban, South Africa
Please SIGN IN and request toolkit for participation at www.agnt.org
"Humanity stands at a crossroads between horror and hope. In
choosing hope, we must seed a new consciousness, a radically fresh approach to
life drawing its inspiration from perennial spiritual and moral insights,
intuition and experience. We call this new awareness Interspiritual, implying
not the homogenization of religion, but the recovering of the shared mystic
heart beating in the center of the worldÕs deepest spiritual traditions."
- Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart
You are invited to participate in a worldwide celebration now forming to celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity, Forgiveness, and Nonviolence.
It was on September 11, 1906, that M. K. Gandhi launched the first nonviolent campaign against racial oppression in Johannesburg, South Africa, and later he said "There is no way to peace, Peace is the way." Gandhi concluded that true peace can be achieved only when human society stopped indulging in economic violence, cultural violence, social violence, religious violence, educational violence, moral violence and political violence. Peace is contingent upon each of us becoming "the change we wish to see in the world." http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/
The International Day of Peace & Call for Global Ceasefire
The UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/55/282 fixes the date for the International Day of Peace as 21 September and declares Òthat the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities for the duration of the Day..."
Resolution 55/282 also "Declares that the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be observed as a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence, an invitation to all nations and people to honor a cessation of hostilities for the duration of the Day."
All 191 member countries of the United Nations agreed to honor September 21, The International Day of Peace, as a Global Ceasefire and a day of peace and nonviolence.
For the past 24 years, the International Day of Peace has been a catalyzing opportunity for individuals, nations and civil society to unite in our shared yearning for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. Thousands of events and activities have taken place for the International Day of Peace, coordinated by governments, agencies and a network of more than 800 civil society organizations in over 106 nations. http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/
11 Days of Global Unity
In September 2004, We, The World inaugurated this international promotion of peace and sustainability with more than 120 cities participating worldwide. Supporters of the launch included Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Honorary Co-Chairs Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Irene Khan (Secretary General of Amnesty International), Marianne Williamson, John McConnell (the original Founder of Earth Day), Hazel Henderson, Ervin Laszlo, Jonathan Granoff, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Robert Thurman, Sally Fisher, Riane Eisler, Lynne Twist, Paul Winter, Nina Meyerhof, and NYC Councilman Alan J. Gerson. In 2005, 11 Days included more than 200 events in over 60 countries. http://www.wetheworld.org/wtw2/11days/index.php4
10th Anniversary of the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence
2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the Association for Global New Thought and the M.K. Gandhi InstituteÕs pilot project known widely as the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence. This 10th anniversary is a landmark for putting the impact of community leadership in nonviolence on the map in this decade. A new model for omni-local, spiritually-based peace governance has emerged successfully, igniting entire communities everywhere. The Season for Nonviolence project has evolved through our collective, exemplary leadership in more than 400 cities in the U.S. and 18 other countries during the past ten Seasons, which bookend the memorial anniversaries of Gandhi (Jan 30) and Martin Luther King Jr. (April 4).
Our next decade will usher in the "Perennial Season," in which unwavering nonviolence in thought, emotion, word, and action becomes our chosen way of life. http://www.agnt.org/snv02.htm