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   jpeason
   Administrator
   Posted 11 months ago
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   At the 4th Summit of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace in Costa Rica (Sept. 17-21, 2009) participants, led by David Cooperrider, undertook a process of Appreciative Inquiry aimed at strengthening the identity and direction of the Global Alliance. One group focused on developing the Mission, Vision and Principles of the Global Alliance, which you will find below.
   At this point we would like to encourage feedback from all Global Alliance members so that we may improve this first draft and publish a final version to be used as a guiding and communicative tool throughout the work of the Global Alliance. The deadline for feedback is Oct. 20, 2009 and the final version will be published on Nov. 30, 2009. Thank you for your precious input!

   Vision
   A world where human beings embody peace as governments and civil society promote peace and prevent violent conflict.

   Mission
   To collaborate with and support civil society and governments to build effective peace infrastructures* around the world.

   *Peace infrastructures range from ministries of peace to local peace councils.

   Principles

   1. Integrity of principles
   2. Peace as humanity’s imperative and everyone’s responsibility
   3. Being peace and self-transformation
   4. Educating for and in peace
   5. Nonviolence and Nonviolent Communication
   6. Cultural sensitivity, receptiveness and solidarity
   7. Inclusiveness, active participation and empowerment
   8. Respect for all life, sharing generously and sustainability
   9. Trust people and processes
   10. Versatility and flexibility – capacity to transform
   11. Imagination, creativity and sense of possibility (in engaging with conflict)
   12. Holistic and systemic thinking
   13. Enhancing the healing capacity of humanity
   14. Fun!
   15. Recognize the crucial importance of the national and regional infrastructures without which
       the Global Alliance would not exist
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   bhadley
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago
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   Hey, team, whoever you are--thanks for giving the GA so much to work with. You achieved an amazing amount of meaningful work in a short period of time.

   I'd like to see the Vision tightened up so that it is easily memorizable. Something like "A world where individuals, governments, and civil society promote peace and prevent violent conflict." Maybe somebody can make it even shorter.

   Secondly, there are many principles here and they are very open to interpretation. Perhaps you could post a little paragraph about each one and we could better undertand the intention.
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   drpeterstockdale
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago
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   I find the focus on violent conflict not very relevant to my country certainly. We haven't had much of a violent conflict in Canada since 1885, but we certainly have had to build peace. This is the language developed countries use to triage what they focus on in developing countries. I find some of the Principles vague or irrelevant in a professional alliance. It should be civil society promotes, not promote.
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   Mike Abkin
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago
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   Great work, DNA Team! I make a recommendation and a request:

   1. Have a look at the list of principles on the mfp-dop site for About Us. We actually have had two sets of principles -- one for internal organizational operations, how we treat one another, etc.; and one for conflict resolution. Perhaps a melding of those with these could be worthwhile.

   2. There was talk at the Summit about GA supporting the spread of academies of peace around the world, as well as mfps/dops. Could that be added to the elaboration of "peace infrastructures"? For example: *Peace infrastructures range from ministries of peace to local peace councils to academies of peace."

   Thanks for all your work!
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   Corina Simon
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago
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   I would like to see the focus on ministries and departments of peace to be primary and then mention the broader context of supporting infrastructure for peace.

   Thank you for your work DNA Team

   Preventing violence may be a better/more inclusive term. We see by violence: direct, structural and cultural violence and no country in this world is spared by it.

   I would also support a process to elaborate on the principles and to group them perhaps.