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>A huge flood submerged almost half of the city of La Plata, some parts of Buenos Aires and various towns round about. The solidarity it provoked was greater than any expectations.</em></p> <p>La Plata, 54 km from Buenos Aires, 750,000 inhabitants. On 2nd and 3rd April 2013 about 400 millimetres of rain led to a greater flood than had ever been seen before. More than half the city was submerged – in some places it was more than 2 metres deep. The previous day something similar, though on a smaller scale, struck Buenos Aires and some of the surrounding towns. The 59 deaths (6 in Buenos Aires, 2 in the surrounding towns and 51 in the city of La Plata) still trouble people and make them fear for the future. Despite all this, people’s solidarity swung into action yet again, meeting the victims’ the urgent needs.</p>
<p><em>On 25th March, a delegation of Youth for a United World (Y4UW) and New Humanity visited the MERCOSUR head office in Montevideo, Uruguay to meet Maria Paz Echeverriarza, the Education programme officer at the UNESCO Representation for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay</em></p> <p>On 25th March, a delegation of <a href="giovaniperunmondounito.blogspot." target="_blank">Youth for a United World (Y4UW) </a>and <a href="http://www.new-humanity.org/it/" target="_blank">New Humanity</a> of Uruguay was received by María Paz Echeverriarza, ethnologist and responsible for the area of Education at the UNESCO Representation to the governments of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.</p> <p>The members of the delegation were welcomed in the beautiful meeting room overlooking the Río de la Plata at the MERCOSUR office, home to the UNESCO commission for Uruguay. In this informal meeting, María Paz Echeverriarza explained what are the current priorities of UNESCO in the world – “gender equality (among males and females)” and Africa – and at the regional level – to improve the educational level of the teaching staff and the removal of inequality in the distribution of incomes and opportunities.</p>
<p><em>On 21st March 2013, the Genfest and the United World Project were presented at the European Information Centre in Lisbon</em></p> <p><br />During a high level European Union meeting focused on the “Europe for citizens” programme, around one hundred participants belonging to associations, civil and state institutions, and two <a href="http://giovaniperunmondounito.blogspot.it/" target="_blank">Youth for a United World (Y4UW)</a> shared about the <a href="http://www.genfest.org/" target="_blank">Genfest 2012</a> in Budapest (supported by the European Union) and the United World Project as a whole and in its implementation in Portugal. This took place on 21st March in the Portuguese capital during a Conference organized by the Representation of the European Commission in Portugal and the Secretary of State for Culture.</p>
<p><em>UNESCO - Panafrican Forum for a culture of peace in Luanda, Angola</em></p> <p>A Pan-African Forum jointly organized by UNESCO, the African Union Commission and the Government of the Republic of Angola will gather more than 300 experts. The goal of this Pan-African Forum is to harness Africa’s sources of inspiration and cultural, natural and human resources to establish concrete proposals for building and developing a sustainable peace. The Forum will examine the cultural, natural and human resources of Africa, taking into account that these three components are essential to creating an inclusive and holistic approach to the culture of peace. Peace being the cornerstone of endogenous development and Pan-Africanism.</p>
<p><em>EXPO 2013 in Chicago will be a laboratory for positive change</em></p> <p>A renewed humanity? Sounds like a big project. You’ll need a lot of people, and it will take some time, and probably you will need a few miracles along the way – especially if you think you have to change the whole world at once, and if you think you are alone. But you don’t. And you are not.Mary, a school nurse in Brooklyn, found some of her co-workers attracted to her commitment to building unity in their school. After three years working together, her group proposed an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to conflict resolution among staff members, encouraging them to listen more to one another and to consider the ideas and opinions of one another with respect. The proposal was accepted by their director and shared with the school’s whole staff.</p>
<p><em>On 23rd March at 08:00 pm an event will be held at Deliceto, Foggia on universal fraternity. The title of this event is “YOUth4Syria” and it will be presented by a young Syrian journalist, Wael Salibe</em></p> <p><br />The Youth for a United World (Y4UW) are working on a worldwide project: United World Project (UWP). This project was launched for the first time at the Genfest, an international event held in Budapest last September. Confronted by the emergency situation in Syria, an idea emerged: to organize concert-performance for the war refugees in that country. The “keyword” that underlies the whole event recalls the very title of the Genfest: “Let’s Bridge”, with the ardent desire to build relationships with all. The organizers of this event are the Youth for a United World and the UNESCO Club “Deliceto nei Monti Dauni”, a member of the Italian Federation of UNESCO Clubs and Centres.</p>
<p>On the global level, the ‘fragments of fraternity’ consist of timely interventions in order to assist victims of earthquakes, floods, famines, wars. On the local level, they include a wide range of micro-projects, all aimed at building fraternity in our own cities, neighbourhoods, schools, universities.</p> <p>There is a flurry of initiatives across the five continents: activities in favour of street children, homeless persons, abandoned elderly, handicapped people, prisoners and immigrants, according to the most urgent needs of the area. <br />These are the visible ‘fragments of fraternity’ that help overcoming evident problems, thus representing only the tip of the iceberg. There is, however, the submerged part of the iceberg: a fraternity built on daily basis, when we love one another and live as brothers and sisters.</p> <p>“Why don’t you share with us a ‘fragment of the fraternity’ from your everyday life?”</p>
Health, Sport & Ecology
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Dialogue & Interculture
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Economy & Work
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Art & Social Commitment
Celebrated Marvel and DC artist Gabriele Dell’Otto invites us to consider the people who are working to build peace as the real superheroes of our world. A profound discussion on responsibility, citizenship, and the challenge of doing the extraordinary in our everyday lives.
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