Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Humanity Care--UPGs and SDGs 31

 

Global Integration Updates 
Special News--November 2024
Issue 101
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 Global Integration Updates
Common Ground for the Common Good 
Be the people we need--Build the world we need

Special News--November 2024
The Global Integration Highway
Celebrating and Indexing 101 Issues!
Ten Υears--2015-2024

Bodega Bay, California--along Pacific Coast Highway 1
Being renewed as we journey along GI-101


"A much-traveled person knows many things;
and a person of great experience speaks sense."
Sirach 34:9

"Global Integration (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based)." 

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Overview
In this Update (#101) we are celebrating and indexing our 101 GI issues! The perspectives and diverse materials in these issues reflect our commitment  to encourage us all to work internationally across sectorsto promote common ground for the common good and to be the people we need as we seek to build the world we need.

Global Integration–Highway 101. This is our 101st Update. We are calling it the “Global Integration—Highway 101″ (GI-101). Come and travel with us on this resource highway as we review the GI Updates that we have done over the past 10 years.

Think of this summary Update as a major thoroughfare that is making hundreds of core and cutting edge GI resources accessible to our colleagues around the world. More personally, the GI-101 is also a nostalgic reminder for us of Highway 101 in California, and especially some of its beach routes (joining with Pacific Coast Highway 1) which have been a special part of our lives over the years.  So…welcome to GI-101!


We conclude the Update as usual with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active learning and collaboration with a diversity of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.

Suggested Applications--Making It Personal

  • Review the topic categories below. What themes are the most common? List any other topics that you would like to include.
  • Go deeper by reviewing 1-3 or more GI Updates. How do they help you to connect relationalland contribute relevantlacross sectors and to find common ground for the common good? How does the emphasis on character and virtue help you to be the person you need to be in order to build the world we need? And what kind of world do you want to build?!
  • Share this Update with your friends, colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.
See these Global Integration Updates:

Warm greetings,
Kelly and Michèle

     
MCAresources@gmail.com


Featured Resources
The Global Integration Highway
Celebrating and Indexing 101 Issues!
Ten Υears--2015-2024

"In my own travels I have seen many things
and learned more than I can put into words." 

Sirach 34:11

Global Integration (GI) is a framework, embedded within the missio Dei, for actively integrating our lives (connecting and contributing) with global realities (addressing the major issues facing humanity and promoting wellbeing) in light of our core values....Our international work as psychologists is based in Geneva. It includes regular interactions with personnel/events in the United Nations, World Health Organization, and international NGOs—and hence materials, perspectives, and cutting-edge news that we can share with colleagues.” Global Integrators--1 CORE Member Care (16 January 2015)

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 GI Index--101 Issues (2015-2024)
Arranged by Topic-Theme
Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell

All of our GI Updates are listed HERE and also archived HERE.
Book mark these links!

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GI Overview
--101. November 2024GI 101! Celebrating and Indexing 100 Issues
--100. October 2024Being Global Integrators–Foundational Perspectives to Guide &  Goad
–30. December 2018A Framework for Engaging with Our World
--18December 2017: The Essential Review: Three Year Index of Resources & Reflections 
--15. June 2017: Doomsday: Next Stop, Global Dis-Integration?
--6. December 2015: Staying Current–Navigating the News
--2. GI Update April 2015:  Understanding the Current Global Context 
--1. February 2015: Sustainable Development: Common Ground for the Common Good
 
United Nations and Sustainable Development
--99.
 September 2024: Changing/Charting Our Course–UN Summit & Pact for the Future
--93. March 2024: UN Summit of the Future–Reviewing the Upcoming Summit and Pact
–85. July 2023Halfway into the SDGs: Taking Stock–Taking Action
–79. January 2023Resisting Despair & Disillusion: Getting Worse Before it Gets Worse?
–76. October 2022Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development--Or Destruction?
–68. February 2022Thinking Critically about Sustainable Development
–62. August 2021Sustainable Development Progress Report 2021
–49. July 2020The UN at 75: “We the peoples...”: Engaging in UN International Days
–43. January 2020: Shaping the Future We Want: UN75 Global Conversation
–39. September 2019One Week–Five UN Summits
–38. August 2019Progress Reports–Sustainable Development Goals
–34. April 2019: Keeping Up with the UN
–25. July 2018UN Web TV–Staying Current with United Nations activities
–19. January 2018General: UN Updates, SDG Updates, Multi-Sectoral Reports
--11. October 2016: Global Grids: New Strategies for Staying Informed–SDG Applications
--5. October 2015: Transforming Our World (SDGs)
 
Sectors—Reports and News
–71. May 2022: Into the Global Fray–Four New Books from Friends
–59. May 2021: Tracking Important News–Issues, Insights, Involvements
–57. March 2021: Global Trends–Perspectives and Priorities from the Sectors
–45. March 2020: Stories from the Sectors: Desperate Journeys and More
–44. February 2020: Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors
–37. July 2019Expanding Our Perspectives
–36. June 2019: Global Action Plans
–35. May 2019: Being Faith-Based–Evidence-Based: The Joint Learning Initiative etc.
–32. February 2019: Seven Sectors–Short Summaries
–21. March 2018Linking Sectors–Online Events: Humanitarian, NCDs, Peace, Psychology
–19. January 2018General: UN Updates, SDG Updates, Multi-Sectoral Reports
--13. February 2017: Connecting Across Sectors; What’s Happening—What’s Harkening 
--10. August 2016: Confronting Global Issues: New Resources from Seven Sectors
--9. June 2016: Global Citizenship: Recent Events and Resources 
--8. April 2016 Global Strides: Special Events for Improving Our World
--7. February 2016: Working Together Well—World Humanitarian Summit & Other Sectors
--6. December 2015: Staying Current–Navigating the News 
--5. October 2015: Transforming Our World—SDGs and News from the Sectors
--3. June 2015: General–Current and Crucial Resources
--2. GI Update April 2015:  Understanding the Current Global Context
 
Being the People We Need—Integrity and Virtue
–98. August 2024Being the People Our World Needs-Reflections on Loving Truth-Peace
–97. July 2024Being the People Our World Needs–Reflections on Living in Peace
–96. June 2024Being the People Our World Needs–Reflections on Living in Truth
–91. January 2024Why the “M” Word Matters–Rethinking Missionaries and Development
–88. October 2023Are You a “Non”? Respecting Colleagues-Balancing Influence
–84. June 2023Parables for Personal Growth–Tales for Your Healing Journey
–81. March 2023Developing Character Strengths–Being the Leaders Our World Needs
–74. August 2022: Repentance and Reconciliation–The Pope’s Pilgrimage of Penance
–53. November 2020Grieving Well-Healing Well: Resources for Growth during Loss
–52. October 2020: Tough Times. Tougher People: Best Selves–Better World
–31. January 2019Global Integrity Day and Moral Health–Video and Resources
--16. August 2017: Everyday Global Heroes: Moral Lives Matter
--14. April 2017: Living in Global Integrity: Moral Wholeness for a More Whole World 
 
Corruption
–86. August 2023Evil Inc.–Trafficking Children for Sex
–80. February 2023: Uprooting Corruption in Our World and Lives–Plenaries from the IACC
–72. June 2022: Moral Health for a More Whole World (Global Integrity Day)
–61. July 2021Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet

Malibu, California--along Pacific Coast Highway 1

Faith-Based Colleagues and Collaboration
–91. January 2024Why the “M” Word Matters–Rethinking Missionaries and Development
–82. April 2023Being InterFaith-Based–Doing Better Together
–74. August 2022: Repentance and Reconciliation–The Pope’s Pilgrimage of Penance
–48. June 2020: Managing Stress and COVID-Distress: Faith-Inclusive Resources
--4. August 2015: Faith-Based Partners in Transformation
 
Humanitarian Sector
–79. January 2023Resisting Despair & Disillusion: Getting Worse Before it Gets Worse?
–78. December 2022: Hurting Humans-Helping Humans: New Humanitarian Resources
–66. December 2021: Global Humanitarian Overview 2022
–41. November 2019: Helping Well in Humanitarian Settings: MHPSS
–29. November 2018Leaving No One Behind–Disasters, Development, etc.
--17. October 2017: Helping the Helpers: 50 Resources for Humanitarian Workers 
--7. February 2016: Working Together Well—World Humanitarian Summit and More

Peace and Security
–87. September 2023Peace and Security–Staying Alive in Our World
–75. September 2022: Arming the World–Promoting Positive Peace 
–70. April 2022: Staring War in the Face
–67. January 2022New Year’s YearningsPeace on Earth–Sharing our Stories-Strategies
–61. July 2021Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet
–54. December 2020Genocide: Bearing Witness…
–42. December 2019: Peace, Justice, Inclusion and Strong Institutions: SDG 16+
–23. May 2018Peace Psychology/Sustaining Peace–Resources from Two Events
--12. December 2016: Peace and Security: Resources from Geneva Peace Week
 
Creation Care—Climate and Environment
–92. 
February 2024Creation Care–Contemplating Laudate Deum and  COP28
–65. November 2021: Planet SOS: The UN Climate Conference
–63. September 2021: Code Red for Humanity: The UN Climate Report
–61. July 2021Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet
–55. January 2021State of the Planet: Our Suicidal War on Nature
--4. August 2015: Faith-Based Partners in Transformation
 
Poverty
–94. 
April 2024Inequality, Inc.–Exploring Our Poverty-Prosperity Divides
–89. November 2023Multidimensional Poverty–Ending All Forms of Poverty Everywhere
 
Human Rights
–90. 
December 2023 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (75 years) 
–79. January 2023Resisting Despair & Disillusion: Getting Worse Before it Gets Worse?
 
Staff Care
–60. June 2021: Staff Wellbeing: Getting it Right!
--17. October 2017Helping the Helpers: 50 Resources for Humanitarian Workers 

Children
–77. 
November 2022World Children’s Day–Love Them All!
–27. September 2018Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age–film, blog, etc.
 
Education
–95. May 2024: Collaborating for SDG 4–Quality Education and Lifelong Learning for All
--9. June 2016: Global Citizenship: Education and Recent Events and Resources 
 
Global Mental Health and Global Psychology
–83. May 2023Crucial Contributions from Global Psychological-Behavioral-Social Sciences
–64. October 2021: Mental Health and Wellbeing for All
–73. July 2022: Transforming Mental Health for All (WHO World Mental Health Report)
–53. November 2020Grieving Well-Healing Well: Resources for Growth During Loss
–52. October 2020: Tough Times. Tougher People: Best Selves–Better World
–48. June 2020: Managing Stress and COVID-Distress: Faith-Inclusive Resources
–47. May 2020: Staying Sane during COVID-19: Mental Health Resources
–41. November 2019: Helping Well in Humanitarian Settings: MHPSS
–40. October 2019: Mental Health for All–Me Too!
–28. October 2018Wellbeing and Mental Health–New Materials and Milestones
–26. August 2018Where There Is No Psychiatrist–Book and Related Resources
–23. May 2018Peace Psychology/Sustaining Peace–Resources from Two Events

Global Health, Wellbeing, COVID
–69. March 2022: Global Hearing Health–Hearing for Life
–60. June 2021: Staff Wellbeing: Getting it Right!
–58. April 2021World Health Day: Building a Fairer, Healthier World
–56. February 2021: Covid Care: Reflections and Resources for Wellbeing 
–51. September 2020: Solidarity for Covid-Care: Being Real-Life Heroes
–50. August 2020: Keep Persevering: Stories and Strategies in the Pandemic
–48. June 2020: Managing Stress and COVID-Distress: Faith-Inclusive Resources
–47. May 2020: Staying Sane during COVID-19: Mental Health Resources
–46. April 2020: Confronting COVID-19: “Be smart. Be safe. Be kind.”
–33. March 2019: Universal Health Coverage
–24. June 2018The End of Epidemics—Book and Related Resources
–22. April 2018Enough Campaign–Combating Non-Communicable Diseases
–20. February 2018:  Event: Compassion in Health Webinar, WHO Global Learning Lab

 




Personal Reflections
Being People of Faith-Hope-Love
 

California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and © ENOD 2016

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964

"Not all of us can do great things,
but we can do small things with great love.”

Mother Teresa

As people of faith who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in hope for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical love for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves, etc.)

We do not want to further problematize our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as people of integrity find common ground for the common good.

Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like climate, conflicts, poverty, and corruption can also be quite positiveThey can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. 

The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction? (Global Integration Update, October 2022).



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Friday, 27 September 2024

Humanity Care--UPGs and SDGs 30

 

Global Integration Updates 
Special News--October 2024
Issue 100
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Common Ground for the Common Good 
Be the people we need--Build the world we need

Special News--October 2024
Being Global integrators
Five Foundational Perspectives to Guide and Goad

Eolia at Harkness--Waterford CT USA 
Image © 2023 KOD

We think that the time is definitely here 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 definitely here 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)."  Global Integrators--25, CORE Member Care (31 December 2015)

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Overview
In this Update we are celebrating our 100th issue! We focus on what it means to be global integrators and in the process share some of our favorite and compelling images from the last 10 years. Global integrators are committed to link their skills, values, integrity, and relationships on behalf of the major issues facing humanity--locally through globally. They seek "to be the people we need and to build the world need."

We feature five foundational perspectives for being global Integrators. These perspectives are excerpts from five of the 
25 special entries on Global Integrators which Kelly did in the CORE Member Care weblog (see the list below). Specifically,

  • Global Disintegration--The Precarious Exploitation of People-Planet
  • First Love--Values that Guide and Goad Global Integration
  • The Global VaticUN--How Far Should We Go with Global Integration?
  • Global Integration Training--Pathways for Preparation
  • Global Integration Partnership: At the Global Tables and in the Global Trenches

We conclude the Update as usual with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active learning and collaboration with a diversity of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.

Important News--Just Released!
Note also the final outcome document from the 
UN Summit of the Future (20--23 September 2024)--The Pact for the Future. Consider the Applications section below in light of this major document--and vice versa! UN Secretary-General António Guterres opening remarks at the Summit (22 September 2024)--video HERE (12 minutes) and the text HERE
. (excerpt below  from the beginning of his remarks)  

"We are here to bring multilateralism back from the brink. I called for this Summit to consider deep reforms to make global institutions more legitimate, fair and effective, based on the values of the UN Charter. I called for this Summit because 21st century challenges require 21st century solutions: frameworks that are networked and inclusive; and that draw on the expertise of all of humanity. I called for this summit because our world is heading off the rails – and we need tough decisions to get back on track.”

Suggested Applications--Making It Personal

  • Review the brief excerpts from the five entries below--and the images in this Update--and reflect on how they apply to your life and work. Check out some of the full versions of these entries in the CORE Member Care weblog.
  • Go deeper by reading more of the 25 entries (perhaps over the course of a few days). Some of the links no longer work yet the main points are still apparent.
  • Your input. Are there any perspectives that you would adjust or challenge or other perspectives that you would add?
  • Share this Update with your friends, colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.
See these recent Global Integration Updates:

Warm greetings,
Kelly and Michèle

     
MCAresources@gmail.com


Featured Resources
Being Global integrators
Five Foundational Perspectives to Guide and Goad


The broken chair monument in front of (facing) the UN Geneva

Global Integration (GI) is a framework, embedded within the missio Dei, for actively integrating our lives (connecting and contributing) with global realities (addressing the major issues facing humanity and promoting wellbeing) in light of our core values....Our international work as psychologists is based in Geneva. It includes regular interactions with personnel/events in the United Nations, World Health Organization, and international NGOs—and hence materials, perspectives, and cutting-edge news that we can share with colleagues.” Global Integrators--1 CORE Member Care (16 January 2015)

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PERSPECTIVE ONEGlobal Integrators--5 (excerpts)
Global Disintegration--The Precarious Exploitation of People-Planet


Universal Declaration of Human Rights--shattered.
Monument on the border dividing Nicosia, Cyprus.
Image © 2012 KOD

"Global integration is what helps to safeguard us all from global disintegration. Global integrators, as defined in these entries, have crucial roles to play in counteracting disintegration as they “integrate their skills and values on behalf of the major problems facing humanity.”
 
Here are five realities, among others, that seriously undermine the world community’s efforts to promote wellbeing and sustainable development for all people, including the estimated 1.5 billion “multi-dimensional poor.” Perhaps at the core of all five of these disintegration realities is exploitation at all levels of society: fundamentally, people exploiting people.
 
1. Complacency—business as usual, denial, oblivion, someone else’s responsibility
2. Conflicts –protracted and new human security threats, interpersonal violence
3. Consumption—consumerism, lifestyle maintenance
4. Corruption—moral sickness at all levels, including cover ups, complicity and cowardice...
5. Climate change—related to the threat to many 'planetary boundaries.' "


PERSPECTIVE TWOGlobal Integrators--11 (excerpts)
First Love--Values that Guide and Goad Global Integration

 "Love never ceases"
The epigraph from our books in the 
Global Member Care series

"[Global Integration--GI] at its core involves values. Core values. Not just good actions or recognized codes of practice or even human rights standards. But rather the underlying, deeply held moral convictions that motivate action, foster commitment, and priortize goals. Values that guide us and which goad us as Global Integrators. Values that reflect both desire and duty--and delight! I like to think of the core of the core of these values as our First Love. It is our highest good and our core existential belief which shapes and supports us, our work, and our world. GI would never be the same without core values. And core values would never be the same without our First Love.

Listed [in the online entry] are five of my core of the core values--First Love--that guide me and goad me as a growing Global Integrator who is a committed Christian. It is helpful to make them explicit as they are deeply ingrained with who I am, my identity....Note though that values--my values--often get mixed up with other, well, lesser values (motives/commitments/goals
...) which I don't usually like to admit or show to others and which I am sure are often under the radar of my own self-surveillance. Some of these less noble examples: self-interest (what's in it for me?), convenience (could it interfere with my lifestyle?), fear (what would people say or think?), getting attention and getting people to like me (am I really special and important?) etc. "


PERSPECTIVE THREEGlobal Integrators—19 (excerpts)
The Global VaticUN--How Far Should We Go with Global Integration?

 Pope Francis and the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
pose for photographs at the UN in New York, 25 September 2015. Image: AP

"The image above really got me thinking. Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, flanked by the flag of the Vatican, standing next to Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, flanked by the United Nations flag. I think I might have welcomed such a photo op in the past, including the recent past. Yet when it finally happened on 25 September 2015, I was not so sure. In fact, the image above, taken shortly before Pope Francis’ speech prior to the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York, left me somewhat disconcerted. And it did so in spite of my appreciating both men and their respective institutions (with their strengths and weaknesses).    

So I asked myself, and all of us: How far can and should we go with global integration (GI) and as global integrators? Not just in terms of Personal GI, but also on the other end of the GI continuum, in a more macro way—Global GI?.…And so what about the VaticUN, or the Global VaticUN? The pros and cons? Good, bad, or something in-between? Laud it, loathe it, or leverage it for people and planet? There are many perspectives."


PERSPECTIVE FOURGlobal Integrators--10 (excerpts)
Global Integration Training--Pathways for Preparation

"We were recently asked three questions by a university student about preparation for work in GI. This entry includes the three questions and our answers, with applications mostly in our fields of mental health/member care and mostly in a North American context. We hope this material can be used as a springboard for discussion that could help stimulate and shape GI training in its many emerging forms. To begin...

There are many experiential paths for the foundational and ongoing training needed to do GI well. And since GI and GI related areas are still being developed, there is definitely no definitive word on which path or even paths to take! So think of GI training as involving a great variety or “pathways for preparation” which reflect the great variety of “pathways for practice
..
.Question 1. What academic and experiential recommendations would you have for starting out in GI? Question 2. What are three of the main characteristics needed to be successful in this field?" Question 3. Is there anything about starting and working in Global Integration that you wish you had known at the beginning?"

Note also Global Integrators—21

7Is for GIs--Seven Indicators for Global Integrators
"This entry identifies seven core indicators--seven I’s--that we think are important to help guide Global Integrators. There are surely more too! The seven indicators are qualitative markers rather than quantitative measures. Indicator 7, Imparting your life (love) links them all....Clarify your Interests, Involvements, and Influences; Cultivate your Interior, Integrity, and Inspirations; and Impart your life."


PERSPECTIVE FIVEGlobal Integrators--23 (excerpts)
GI Partnership: At the Global Tables and in the Global Trenches

Image from the UN's Partnership for SDGs website

“One of the main challenges in working internationally [in Global Integration] is how best to convey important perspectives and arrive at consensus given the diversity of people/organizations around the world who are involved or want to be involved in global affairs. This challenge includes how to make room at the global table and in the global trenches for perspectives/agendas that are influenced by one’s own national, sectoral, institutional, and/or personal interests as well as one’s world view (and which may or may not contribute towards the common good). It is often pointed out by people of faith that the [UN Sustainable Development Goals—SDGs--are] highly secularized and do not include God and dependence on God in the picture. While this is true, it can be argued that this “omission” is a necessary reality given humanity’s diversity and the need to find common ground (vs it being humanistic arrogance or anti-religious)....
 
The [SDGs] in our view [are] a crucial rallying point for the world community to truly make a difference on the horrific conditions in which so many fellow humans live. Two stats in particular come to our minds: one billion urban slum dwellers; 1.5 billion people living in settings exposed to violence and conflict that threaten their physical and mental integrity....Having just come back from a trip that included connecting with urban refuges in the Middle East and the poor in Africa—people in desperate situations—we frankly do not have much patience for armchair criticisms that trivialize or denigrate the work of the humanitarian-development sector. We appreciate and affirm the combined efforts of the UN, governmental, and civil society sectors and its dedicated personnel who take risks and make sacrifices often at great personal cost. We do however appreciate informed critiques (including our own!) and know that there is much room for improvement and, at times, for confrontation within the humanitarian-development sector.”



Global Integrators
Perspectives to Guide and Goad

Click HERE to see all 25 entries from CORE Member Care (2015)

Hanging out in the neighborhood--The UN Geneva

"One guiding question stands out as I have endeavored through these entries to help shape and support the emerging corps of Global Integrators. How can colleagues around the world practically apply the [Global Integration--GI] framework in various settings-sectors in order to connect relationally and contribute relevantly? In other words, how can GI People link their skills and values as forces for good in order to make a difference in our world?" Global Integrators--25, CORE Member Care (31 December 2015)
 
1. Background and Overview--Globalntegtration for Global Integtators
2. Trans-Practitioners—Working in the Trenches, the Towers, and Everything In-Between
3. GI People for the SDGs—Connecting and Contributing for Sustainable Development
4.  Sector Connectors—Personal Reflections on Crossing Sectors
5.  Global Disintegration—The Precarious Exploitation of People-Planet
6. LTPeople—People Loving People with Truth and Peace
7. Taking the Pulse—Global Reports
8. Global Intercessors—Praying for the World
9.  Charting Your Course in the Missio Dei-Missio Mundi
10. GI Training—Pathways for Preparation
11.  First Love—Values that Guide and Goad GI
12. Transforming the World—A Call for Personal Transformation
13. Staying Updated—Staying Outdated
14. GI Corelitions—Core Group of Colleagues-Coalition of Organizations
15. Global Innovators—Making Important and Sustainable Differences 
16. The Preeminent Pantocrator—Connection vs Contention
17: Global Interns—Common Ground as Learners-Practitioners
18: Global Towers and Global Trenches
19. The Global VaticUN—How Far Should We Go with GI?
20. Globe-Bael and Globe-Babel—New Concepts and Old Cautions for Global Integrators
21. 7Is for GIs—Seven Indicators for Global Integrators
22. Faith-Based Foundations—Christian Worldview
23. GI Partnerships—At the Global Tables and in the Global Trenches
24. Resilience for Global Integrators--Staying the Course
25. Summary and Conclusion--Globalntegtration for Global Integtators



Personal Reflections
Being People of Faith-Hope-Love
 

California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and © ENOD 2016

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964

"Not all of us can do great things,
but we can do small things with great love.”

Mother Teresa

As people of faith who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in hope for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical love for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves, etc.)

We do not want to further problematize our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as people of integrity find common ground for the common good.

Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like climate, conflicts, poverty, and corruption can also be quite positiveThey can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. 

The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction? (Global Integration Update, October 2022).



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