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Programs & Projects » NationalPeaceAcademy.us. The National Peace Academy offers a variety of programs supporting the full development of the peacebuilder – inner and outer, personal and professional. (Click the titles to expand for more information) National Peacebuilding Peacelearning Certificate Program (NCP) The National Peacebuilding Peacelearning Certificate Program (NCP) provides opportunities for gaining breadth & depth in peacebuilding and peace education or for just testing the waters. Students can take one course, sample a few, or pursue a personalized learning journey toward earning a certificate in Peacebuilding and Peacelearning. Certificate Program courses are available online or as short, in-person intensives and are conducted in partnership with leading educators, universities, and peacebuilding organizations around the country.

Peacebuilding Peacelearning Intensive (PPI) Peacebuilder Teleconference Dialogues Peacebuilding Peacelearning Conference International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) Global change. Global change refers to planetary-scale changes in the Earth system. The system consists of the land, oceans, atmosphere, poles, life, the planet’s natural cycles and deep Earth processes. These constituent parts influence one another. The Earth system now includes human society, so global change also refers to large-scale changes in society.[1] More completely, the term “global change” encompasses: population, climate, the economy, resource use, energy development, transport, communication, land use and land cover, urbanization, globalization, atmospheric circulation, ocean circulation, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the water cycle and other cycles, sea ice loss, sea-level rise, food webs, biological diversity, pollution, health, over fishing, and more.[2] History of global-change research[edit] IGBP, WCRP and a third programme, the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP, founded in 1996), spearheaded a landmark science conference held in Amsterdam in 2001.

See also[edit] MY World. World We Want 2015. Energy Realities - A Visual Guide to Global Energy Needs. The Future We Want. Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all. Transitioner.org : Global challenges. All pages in TheTransitioner that have ' Global Challenge ' in their title are part of an organized structure whose aim is to cover global challenges in a collective intelligence way through our collaborative spage TheTransitioner.

The initial content has been provided by OSS.Net, Inc., a Virginia for-profit corporation, as a contribution to the Earth Intelligence Network, a Virginia non-profit that has applied for 501c3 (tax exempt) status. It is our hope that others will adopt this web site and these wikis to make their own intellectual contributions. No one owns this--it is a gift intended to inspire organized reciprocal altruism. As soon as possible, we hope to create a virtual EarthBudget totalling US$1 trillion a year. Such a budget, created by experts and validated by international and non-governmental organizations, would be presented to the many charitable foundations known for their interest in addressing the ten High-Level Threats to Humanity. This is an open letter. Untitled. “Saving the world differently…” |

“Saving the world differently…” was the title of an event, last February, which I’ve been waiting for with joyous anticipation. It was organized by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), of which I am a Fellow. RSA bills itself as “an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges.” The joy in my anticipation came from suspecting that the social innovation vision that we will be introduced to, will be radical enough to my taste; not merely treating the symptoms of the multiple, intertwining crises of which our world is suffering, but addressing their common root cause. The patient has multiple, interdependent, and systemic dysfunctions, and medical specialists focusing on only one or another organ can’t understand, let alone change its conditions. His books on the implications of emergent technologies for organisational strategies shaped my thinking over the years. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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Mobilizing Knowledge through Complex Systems. Three (Incredibly Simple) Questions The Most Successful People Use To Change The World. High Existence. FutureChallenges - Bertelsmann Future Challenges. Greatest Threat to Humanity. What is a Global Citizen? March 19, 2014 poverty, birth mortality, children, environment The fight for justice has never been easy. But human history has always been shaped by the courageous actions taken by those with a vision of a better world. From the civil rights movement to the end of Apartheid, people with a belief in a better world have sparked and spread their passion for progress to families, communities and countries across the globe, building justice movements that have changed society forever.

As Global Citizens, we stand against the greatest injustice of our time: extreme poverty. We're fighting because we know that a world that deprives 1.2 billion people of their basic rights and opportunities is unjust, and unacceptable. As Global Citizens we celebrate the efforts made to cut extreme poverty by half, but recognise more still needs to be done. We don't ask for charity, we ask for justice. Help us build the movement of Global Citizens taking action for change. WHAT *SHOULD* WE BE WORRIED ABOUT? Clematis 2013 by Katinka MatsonClick to Expand | www.katinkamatson.com "The most stimulating English-language reading to be had from anywhere in the world.

" —The Canberra Times "A profound question a treasure trove of ideas...each one is a beautiful and instructive reflection, which encourages thinking and reading. "Probably the most useful space at the moment for anyone who wants to peer into the flowering of the most advanced human thought...A surprising territory where one finds, in rigorous disarray, the vanguard of scientific knowledge, at this technological and humanistic moment... "The World's Smartest Website"— The Observer, 2012 We worry because we are built to anticipate the future. Tell us something that worries you (for scientific reasons), but doesn't seem to be on the popular radar yet—and why it should be.

Geoffrey Miller, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, William McEwan, Helena Cronin, Dan Sperber, Martin Rees, Barbara Strauch, John Tooby, David Gelernter, Brian Eno, Seth Lloyd, W. Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential. Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential. The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is published by the Union of International Associations (UIA) under the direction of Anthony Judge. It is available as a three-volume book,[1] as a CD-ROM,[2] and online.[3][4] Databases, entries, and interlinks[edit] The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is made up from data gathered from many sources. Those data are grouped into various databases which constitute the backbone of the Encyclopedia.

List of databases[edit] World Problems – Issues is a database with 56,000+ entries and 276,000+ links. Basic universal problems include danger, lack of information, social injustice, war, environmental degradation. Global Strategies – Solutions is a database with 32,000+ entries and 284,000 links. Abstract fundamental strategies include compromising, transcending, providing. Constructive values include peace, harmony, beauty.

Human Development is a database with 4,800+ entries and 19,000+ links. Entries and links[edit] Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity. Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential: Project Overview. Category:Social problems. Institute on Governmental Procedures and World Problems. Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth. A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event with the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale.[2] Some such events could destroy or cripple modern civilization. Other, even more severe, scenarios threaten permanent human extinction.[3] Natural disasters, such as supervolcanoes and asteroids, pose such risks if sufficiently powerful.

Human-caused, or "anthropogenic", events could also threaten the survival of intelligent life on Earth. These anthropogenic events could include catastrophic global warming,[4] nuclear war, or bioterrorism. The Future of Humanity Institute believes that human extinction is more likely to result from anthropogenic causes than natural causes.[5][6] Human extinction is a difficult subject to study directly since humanity has never been destroyed before; while this does not mean that it will not be in the future, it does make modelling existential risks difficult, due in part to survivorship bias.

Fermi paradox[edit] Ten Threats. High Level Threat Panel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Ten threats[edit] The ten threats identified in 2004 by the High Level Threat Panel of the United Nations are these: External links[edit] Retrieved from " Categories: Hidden categories: Navigation menu Personal tools Namespaces Variants Views Actions Navigation Interaction Tools Print/export Languages This page was last modified on 9 October 2013 at 20:20. High Level Threat Panel. How To Change The World. Global Issues Tours | Global Issues & Sustainability Resources | Facing the Future. Observatoire International des prisons.

Council on Spiritual Practices. Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Activism by method. BIGProblems | Metanexus. BigPictureSmallWorld: Home. Union of International Associations | New Civilization Network. Prioritizing Knowledge « KMbeing. Design Science Lab Home Page. The Evolutionary’s Guide to Changing the World | The Evolutionary Worldview Courses. TRAPESE - Popular Education Collective. The World Knowledge Dialogue - The World Knowledge Dialogue. LAUNCH | collective genius for a better world.