Hello Chris. I have forwarded your question to a friend of mine who works a lot with youth and peacemaking and is the initiator of a local peaceproject. Information about it can be found on www.ickvald.nu, but only if you read swedish. In Sweden we also have the youthorganisation Peacequest, working with peacemaking linked to democracymaking. Look at www.peacequest.se. You can click on "other languages" and then "english". You can contact them on mailto:[email protected]. They have existed since early 80. I have a very good impression of them. all the best! Agneta Setterwall Uppsala, Sweden mob. 0046-(0)70-687 00 95
----- Original Message ----- From: chris macrae To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 3:36 PM Subject: FW: Editorial Work for OS & OST & POP goes our Youth 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 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 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.org, http://www.openspaceworld.net, 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? ) * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
