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Showing posts with label moral health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moral health. Show all posts
Sunday, 29 May 2022
Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 19
Monday, 29 June 2015
Global Integrators--12
Transforming the World
A Call for Personal Transformation
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“Gradually it was disclosed to me that
the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between
classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human
heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it
oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one
small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there
remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil. "
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
(more quotes here)
*****Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
(more quotes here)
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We think that the time is coming for a
diversity of colleagues to come together intentionally, visibly, and
practically on behalf of global integration (GI).
GI put simply is how we skillfully integrate our lives and values on behalf of
the issues facing humanity. Likewise we think that the time is coming for
colleagues to carefully reflect and act on what it means to
be good global learners-practitioners--to seriously consider
what it means to be what we are calling global integrators (GI-People).
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This is the latest high-level UN
document for the intergovernmental negotiations for the Post 2015 development
agenda (2 June 2015). It is a crucial source of synthesized
thinking-experience as we head towards the UN Assembly in September 2015. We
think that the excerpts below will inspire you to read more and to consider how
to further leverage your competencies and character in the efforts to help transform
our globalizing world.
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One very important point from the GI
perspective is that personal transformation is also essential for world
transformation. Without it can we realistically make serious progress in the
sustainable development of people, planet, and peace? This assertion was indeed
one of our points in a recent presentation we did on the global context for
global mental health (GMH); namely, that even as there is “no health without
mental health” (a watchword for GMH advocates) there can also be no health—or
development—without moral health. (GMH:
Tracking and Trekking Across Sectors, inaugural conference, Center for
Multicultural and Global Mental Health, William James College, USA, 26 June
2015).
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The success of this 'developing agenda
for sustainable development' therefore does not come only from it being
developed “by and for the people” as paragraph 48 states below. It also comes
from it being developed and implemented by transformed people whose character
and moral courage—personal transformation—promote the global transformation
being heralded. Global integrators can surely model this perspective in their
lives and work.
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“28. Sustainable development cannot be
realized without peace. The new Agenda recognizes the need to build peaceful,
just and inclusive societies, based on respect for human rights (including the
right to development), the rule of law and effective and accountable
institutions. These are fundamental requirements for the achievement of
sustainable development. Factors which give rise to violence, insecurity and
injustice, such as corruption and poor governance, are addressed in the Agenda.
We must redouble our efforts to resolve or prevent conflict and to support
countries emerging from conflict situations so as to lay the foundations for
sustainable development. We commit to remove the obstacles to the full
realization of the right of self-determination of peoples living under colonial
and foreign occupation, which continue to adversely affect their economic and
social development as well as their environment....
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43. “We the Peoples” are the celebrated
opening words of the UN Charter. It is “We the Peoples” who are embarking today
on the road to 2030. Our journey will involve Governments, Parliaments, local
authorities, business and the private sector, the scientific and academic
community, civil society – and ordinary citizens. Millions have already engaged
with, and will own, this agenda. It is an agenda by and for the people – and
this, we believe, will ensure its success.
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44. The future of humanity and of our
planet lies in our hands. It lies also in the hands of today’s younger
generation, who will pass the torch to future generations. We have mapped the
road to sustainable development; it will be for all of us to ensure that the
journey is irreversible.”
Friday, 10 October 2014
Loving Truth and Peace--10
What Would Judas Do?
I've been thinking--the next time I have a moral decision to make, the next time I am wondering if I am loving truth and peace, to ask myself: What Would Judas Do? Perhaps asking ourselves this question is even more effective than asking ourselves the other one made somewhat famous by the WWJD wristbands: What Would Jesus Do?
As for Judas:
He would betray vulnerable people through silence, neutrality, passivity.
He would betray by distorting the truth for his own advantage: slanting important information, its interpretation, and its implementation.
He would betray by preserving peace for his own interests (pseudo-peace) at the expense of the truth--and vulnerable others.
He would betray by telling half-truths.
He would betray by telling half-truths.
He'd kiss you privately and kill you openly
He'd kiss you openly and kill you privately.
He would feign truth and peace.
He might even rather die than ask forgiveness for having made a "mistake."
Judas--and the Judas dimension in us--is both a foul-weather fiend and a fair-weather "friend."
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Loving Truth and Peace--6
Why Can't Grace Go to School?
EXPOSED Campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autlpiy2kE8
"Corruption isn't as straightforward as you may think..."
and..
Confronting corruption isn't as straightforward as you may think...
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