Stories from around the globe show how a united world is already in motion. This platform highlights experiences, initiatives, and projects from people and communities working for unity and peace. Explore what’s happening and get inspired.
<p><em>Our appeal for peace on our website goes to war stricken Syria and all the other countries undergoing forgotten conflicts. This is a space for dialogue, for sharing our thoughts and for taking actions that promote peace</em></p> <p><strong>Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan and Congo</strong> are just a few of the war stricken countries that fill up the news headlines. However, there are many other countries undergoing war, of which, we hardly ever hear about and yet they are equally cruel in terms of broken lives, widespread hate and misery that adds upon misery.</p>
<p><em>The clashes of the last days in Israel and other conflicts in the world. On the site of the UWP, our appeal for reconciliation, is a wall: <em style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a space for dialogue, for sharing our thoughts and for taking actions that promote peace.</em></em><em> </em></p> <p><strong>Salt counts of victims in Israel. </strong>But we will not forget this or any other conflicts around the world through a call to reconciliation, this is the "Wall for Peace": open space to converse and share thoughts and actions on peace on the website of the UWP.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><em>Some young peolple tell us about a special dinner campaign in Philippines. How sponsorize one (or more) family’s Noche Buena</em></p> <p><strong>“Christmas is a special season for the Filipinos,</strong> with celebrations lasting for several months. One of the traditions looked forward to is the Christmas dinner feast, called the Noche Buena. Unfortunately, not all families can afford this kind of luxury due to the widespread poverty in the country.
<p><em>50 years after his famous speech, some selected passages of Martin Luther King for "The Protagonists of the fraternity"</em></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>250 thousand people attended the 28 of August 1963</strong> for the "March for work and freedom" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. There, Martin Luther King pronounced his famous speech "I Have a Dream" which still preserves its universal message of freedom and fraternity. <br />For "Protagosnists of fraternity" we selected some passages of this historical speech.
<p><em>At the conclusion of a workshop/meeting, 650 educators from around the world commit to an ‘educational pact.’ Their mission of teaching pathways to peace continues in hundreds of initiatives and projects already underway. During the live streaming: a new presentation for the United World Project</em></p> <p><strong>Education, the privileged pathway for seeking peace.</strong> This was the idea that brought together: families, schools, group animators, educational researchers and also some young and even very young people from many cultural backgrounds who are working daily to face the educational challenges of our times. They met at Castelgandolfo, Italy (September 6, 2013 – September 8, 2013) for a workshop entitled <a href="http://www.new-humanity.org/it/learning-fraternity.html" target="_blank">Learning Fraternity</a>.</p>
<p><em>How would you translate in practical terms: ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’?This is what the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Y4UW.JO?fref=ts" target="_blank">Youth for a United World (Y4UW) - Jordan</a> share on their Facebook page.</em></p> <p>Over 60 thousand persons have signed <a href="http://unitedworldproject.org/en/signatures/sign-up-online.html" target="_blank">their committed to live the Golden Rule</a> and endorse the United World Project: young people, adults and even personalities. There are, in fact, so many ways to put it into practice in our everyday situations or challenges as it entails going “beyond” our way of life and acquire a new lifestyle in which one puts the other person at the centre of attention.
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px;"><em>The 20th of August - humans consume more than planet can produce for the year</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px;">There are only so many natural resources the earth can supply and today we’ve gone over our annual limit. <strong>Earth Overshoot Day</strong> is the point in the year when humans have used as much nature, such as land, trees and fish, as the planet’s ecosystems can regenerate.</p>
Economy & Work
Thirty-five years ago a dream was born: the Economy of Communion. In late May Argentina will host an extraordinary celebration where people of all ages will come together to breathe new life into this project and write the future for a different kind of economy.
Lorna Gold, Executive Director of Laudato Si’ Movement, reflects on ten years of the encyclical, analysing how integral ecology is an essential path to global unity and tackling the climate crisis.
Operation Mato Grosso is working on over 100 missions across Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, all rooted in education, hard work, and solidarity. Jacopo Manara, who has been a volunteer for years, tells us their story.
An interview on communication with Michele Zanzucchi, journalist and writer, former director of Città Nuova, professor of communication at Sophia University Institute and at the Pontifical Gregorian University, and author of around forty books.
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