{"id":270805,"date":"2024-08-05T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=270805"},"modified":"2024-08-02T05:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:55:51","slug":"draft-for-a-manifesto-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/08\/draft-for-a-manifesto-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft for a Manifesto 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Aug 2024 <\/em>– The previous blog <\/a> proposed taking up the Manifesto 2000 where it left off, renaming it the Manifesto 2025, gathering signatures once again and initiating action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During the United Nations International Year for the Culture of Peace, 75 million people signed the Manifesto 2000, promising to work for a culture of peace and nonviolence in their daily lives.<\/p>\n

The operative paragraphs of a proposed Manifesto 2025, 1 through 6, remain the same as those of the Manifesto 2000. They translate the eight programme areas of the international Programme of Action for a Culture of Peace, adopted by the UN in 1999, into six pledges for actions that can be taken locally by individuals and small groups.<\/p>\n

The preambular paragraphs have been updated to stimulate reflection and discussion about what the culture of peace means for a person\u2019s values, attitudes, traditions and modes of behaviour and ways of life.<\/p>\n

Draft Manifesto 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because I grieve for all those who suffer from violence, whether physical, economic or psychological, whether in our own community or elsewhere around the world,<\/p>\n

and because I am outraged at a culture that consumes the states of the world with wars and preparations for war and at a mass media that searches for stories of violence, ignoring the more frequent human actions of helping and cooperation,<\/p>\n

and because I refuse to believe that violence is inevitable, that might makes right, or that the world must be divided by enemy images into us against them,<\/p>\n

I accept my responsibility for the wellbeing of humanity in solidarity with all those in the past, present or future who dream of and strive for a better world,<\/p>\n

and so I pledge \u2013 in my daily life, in my family, my work, my community, my country and my region \u2013 to:<\/p>\n

1. respect the life and dignity of every person without discrimination or prejudice;<\/p>\n

2. practise active non-violence, rejecting violence in all its forms: physical, sexual, psychological, economical and social, in particular towards the most deprived and vulnerable such as children and adolescents;<\/p>\n

3. share my time and material resources in a spirit of generosity to put an end to exclusion, injustice and political and economic oppression;<\/p>\n

4. defend freedom of expression and cultural diversity, giving preference always to dialogue and listening rather than fanaticism, defamation and the rejection of others;<\/p>\n

5. promote consumer behaviour that is responsible and development practices that respect all forms of life and preserve the balance of nature on the planet;<\/p>\n

6. contribute to the development of my community, with the full participation of women and respect for democratic principles, in order to create together new forms of solidarity.<\/p>\n

Join the discussion, enter your suggestions below.<\/p>\n

_________________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Dr. David Adams is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a> and coordinator of the <\/em>Culture of Peace News Network<\/a>. He retired in 2001 from UNESCO where he was the Director of the Unit for the UN International Year for the Culture of Peace.\u00a0 Previously, at Yale and Wesleyan Universities, he was a specialist on the brain mechanisms of aggressive behavior, the history of the culture of war, and the psychology of peace activists, and he helped to develop and publicize the Seville Statement on Violence. Send him an <\/em>email<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 decade-culture-of-peace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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