Thanks Kelvie - you are a wordsmith wonder I have put your edited text up at A European Union space I co-edit. http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=1985 If its not OK, shout and I can of course re-edit
Whilst on the line, I am trying at the moment to map in each European country a first point of contact amongst youth networks who care about peacemaking -if anyone has some suggestions of people I should be trying to connect to please say. The only reason why I say European is that this is a geographic networking role I have been co-assigned by the Australian movement of 200 peacemaking NGO's http://www.collapsingworld.org <http://www.collapsingworld.org/> I would love to contribute to a world map of youth movements if anyone else is starting work on such a compass. Sincerely, Chris Macrae, [email protected], 2004 Year of Transparency, www.valuetrue.com <http://www.valuetrue.com/> Updates: 04.1 For a couple of months I have been discussing a few terms with experts in Open Space. This is a sort of consensus paragraph we have reached: Open Space - gateway to real time, real place deep reflection, conversation and idea development (special thanks for editing help to Kelvie Comer) Open Space technology ( <http://www.openspaceworld.com,> http://www.openspaceworld.com, <http://www.openspaceworld.org,> http://www.openspaceworld.org, <http://www.openspaceworld.net,> http://www.openspaceworld.net, <http://www.practiceofpeace.com> http://www.practiceofpeace.com ) permits every human to make the most of their time. Systemically, Open Space is the simplest tool people will have for communally valuing the dynamics of Conflict, Change and Chaos. Each of these 3 C's is depressingly misunderstood whenever our human race forgets its essential collaborative spirit - what makes us better at value multiplying than those species we call animals. For example, when people come together in conflict, highly passionate perspectives may emerge with deep feelings. If these feelings can be resolved in a way that openly engages everyone in the prospects for a better future than the conflict ridden past, a valuable collaborative initiative is now started. Our current understanding of conflict is systemically immature both in commercial business contexts and human policy places and environments. Equally, if we can go openly beyond this barrier, the prospects for the human race's innovative diversity may become wonderful at every locality worldwide. I picture conflict as a gravity attracting huge passions and interests; its often been stirred up by a congregation of compounding winds of change (Chaos); Confusion (and its tragic partner destruction) is what happens if one person or one sectional interest tries to rule over this space and all the people passionately interdepending on communal human sense and hoped for progress. Openness and reconciliation of respect is the only pathway I can imagine truly leading out of descending into conflict's communal hell. (do you have a different picture? ) -----Original Message----- From: Kelvie Comer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 January 2004 22:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Editorial Work for OS & OST Chris . . .took a stab at editorial work, no significant substantive changes. You've made fascinating meaning of OST. Not sure I understand what you are trying to say there. Use or not as you see fit. I started life as an English teacher; was a college dean for a long, long time; then a professor; am now on leave caring for my husband. Thoroughly enjoyed the web page . . .you have quite a mind. Kelvie C. Comer, Ed.D. Youth in London From: Josef Davies-Coates [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 January 2004 03:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Sat Feb 7th: uniteddiversity Open Space event Everyone: please read and pass around. Thanks and Peace, ud x Sat Feb 7th 2004: *uniteddiversity Open Space Technology event* *Be the change you want to see in the world* - Ghandi *Self-organise and Share* - uniteddiversity Sharing makes sustainable living simple, improves quality of life, and reduces our ecological footprint (see http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/ecological_footprint) Imagine if all your mates and loved ones, together with all the talented and caring people you collectively all know (plus all the people they all know) shared some of everything they have: time, tools, knowledge, land, food and shelter... If you think about it, you'll soon realise that together we already have the knowledge, expertise, land, property and resources necessary to establish a global network of sustainably managed commons. We just need to self-organise and start sharing. All the Tools for Change we need are already at hand: free software, land trusts, co-ops, social enterprise, social forums, community currencies, renewable energy, satellite broadband, community wireless, social software, open space technology, ecological building, permaculture design, urban ecovillages, city farms, community gardens, infoshops and social centres etc. etc. Like what you hear? Everyone who shares our principles (see http://www.uniteddiversity.com/about and http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/member_agreement) is invited to come along on *Saturday February 7th* to experience experience a session of Open Space Technology and shared times... Why? Apart from the obvious (to have fun), we hope to to decide how we can be the change we all want to see in the world. The rough plan is: * Launch a formalised *Open Organisation*, incorporating our shared principles, and agree to begin to use it to more effectively pool our time and resources towards acheiving our common goals. * Experience *Open Space Technology* to help us mind share and move ahead. * Party! With our all-star jam sessions: *Sessions of Spontaneity* (tbc) Invitations will be sent to the ud list by 21st January. If you're not on it already, use the form on our homepage to sign up now. More details about the meeting will be coming soon. In the meantime, make sure you have a read through the ammusing and illuminating brief history of Open Space Technology at http://www.openspaceworld.com/brief_history.htm and check out the 12 steps (see http://www.uniteddiversity.com/12steps) Peace, the ud crew http://www.uniteddiversity.com -- Josef Davies-Coates Founder, uniteddiversity LLP Tel: 0845 456 9774 Mob: 07800 849 287 mailto:[email protected] http://www.uniteddiversity.com Youth in Australia http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/wyr.html Network ProjectsCollapsing <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/cwc.html> World Conference <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/cwc.html> World Youth Reconciliation Project <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/wyr.html> HIV/AIDS Project <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> World Youth Reconciliation Project <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> An international network for local and global reconciliation" is a loose association of groups and individuals around the world seeking to coordinate their various, diverse activities directed towards the common broad goal of reconciliation. It has been formed in part in response to the events of September 11 and their aftermath and the apparent impotence of the international institutions for the establishment and maintenance of peace and reflects a sense that there is a need for a robust infrastructure at the level of civil society that allows community to come into direct contact with each other. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> The network will be formally inaugurated at a conference in London in September 2003, at which a formal structure which can facilitate open, democratic collaborations among diverse groups will be considered. It has also given rise to a number of specific projects. The World Youth Reconciliation Project, or "WYR", The World Youth Reconciliation Project aims to bring together young people to address the problems of hostility and lack of understanding and mutual respect among people of different cultures throughout the world. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> WYR will include a range of events, themes and projects that converge at a festival to be held in late 2004. These will involve active collaborations among young people living in different settings and in each case aim to produce specific, enduring outcomes. Following the festival, a workshop will be held in the setting of a live-in camp to consolidate the achievements of the process and to assist in the development of a structure that can promote the development of a continuing program of activities. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Aims WYR aims: 1. to assist in the development of greater understanding among youth from diverse cultures; 2. to establish networks between communities involving young people that may otherwise not be in communication with one another; and 3. to create an environment in which young people can collaborate in the pursuit of global reconciliation. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> It seeks to contribute to the realisation of these aims by: 1. organising a Youth Reconciliation Festival, which will take the form of a series of active collaborations among young people, developed over time and converging on a series of public events in Melbourne in early 2004; and subsequently 2. holding a live-in workshop, or camp, to establish a continuing framework that will promote ongoing youth activities directed towards reconciliation on a local and global scaleParticipants Like the global reconciliation network, WYR is an open, collaborative project. It seeks to involve young people from around the world, with a particular focus on Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Particular attention will be given to ensuring that a wide range of cultures, local regions and community groups are represented, including schools, indigenous groups and different community based cultural organisations. Although no specific age range has been set, it is planned that the activities will appeal predominantly to people aged between 12 and 25. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Project plan WYR will involve a festival and a camp-workshop. The festival - which will take the form of a series of collaborative activities occurring over some months converging on a series of public showings in late 2004 - will aim at a diverse group of young people and will emphasise global reconciliation and cross-cultural pride and acceptance in a laid-back, fun setting. Following the conclusion of the festival process these issues will be examined in further detail at a camp-workshop, which will focus especially on the development of a framework that will enable participants to continue to work actively to make a difference within their own communities. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> The festival will involve a series of projects or "themes" using different media, occurring in different settings and involving a range of groups of young people. These projects will bring young people together around music, theatre, video, the visual arts, writing, discussion and other activities. Each project will be coordinated by an experienced practitioner, many of whom will have particular skills in education. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> The projects will come together at a series of public presentations in late 2004, which will themselves include international music, theatre, dance, film, food etc., together with lectures and discussion around the theme of the celebration of world cultures and the need for global reconciliation. An emphasis will be placed on interactive workshops to enable participants to engage with each other actively around these subjects in small groups and to provide opportunities for dialogue and individual expression. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Camp Following the public festival, a workshop in the setting of a camp will be held to enable a smaller group of young people to share their cultural backgrounds with one another in the form of discussion groups and workshops in an intimate, residential setting and to explore ways to promote acceptance of difference within their local communities. This camp, which will extend over 4-5 days, will also provide an opportunity for participants in the festival to evaluate its success and to consider the possibilities for establishing an ongoing process to continue the work it has initiated. Particular attention will be given to the development of another festival in a different city. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Outcomes The principal outcome of WYR will be the development of conditions for harmony between people from different cultural, political, racial and religious backgrounds, emerging our of the experience of working together on particular projects. The existence of widespread divisions and hostility separating people around the world is disheartening for young people, who often feel unable to make any response themselves, and in some cases, themselves mimic this hostility within their own local communities in the form of intolerance, discrimination and racism. Bringing people together in small communities in cooperative projects will help counter negative images, enhance communication and overcome the sources of hostility. The experience of participating in a festival or workshops itself will lead to an increase in understanding and cross-cultural harmony and tolerance which those attending will continue to practice in their daily lives. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> The specific activities that are generated in relation to the festival, such as artistic works, the video the tile installation and written materials, will provide a concrete embodiment and symbol of the processes that produced them and will continue to represent the aims of the project. At the public festival and the camp which follows a framework will be developed to facilitate continuing forms of cooperation and ways of bringing people from different communities and cultures together. This process will make use of the resources of the global reconciliation network to provide opportunities for continuing communication through its web site to promote the further development of networks and outreach programs, participation in specific projects in different areas, and other follow-up activities. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> It is intended to use the opportunities presented by this project to develop a network of relationships to facilitate the continuation of the youth reconciliation festival as a recurring event. Depending on the availability of funding, consideration will also be given to developing other processes to encourage continuing contact between young people from different cultures and backgrounds. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Further information Further information can be obtained by contacting: <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Address: <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Paul Komesaroff, Director Monash Centre for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society Monash University Department of Medicine Alfred Hospital Commercial Road Prahran, Victoria 3181 Australia. <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> Fax: <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> (613) 9521 2124 <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> e-mail: <http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/hap.html> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> _____ <mailto:[email protected]> Get reliable dial-up Internet access now with our limited-time introductory offer. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
