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Women Leaders Gather for Peace: Celebrities Include Christie Brinkley, Marian Hobbs and Alexa McDonough

Oct 12 2007
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At the United Nations, women leaders from around the world gathered for peace.

Posted by Pierre Terre |

Thinking Outside the Bomb: Beyond Nuclear Weapons

Aug 05 2007
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Hope over fear. With this intention, leading experts on the risks of nuclear weapons, space weaponization, nuclear proliferation, Iran, North Korea and nuclear terrorism gathered to develop a path toward "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons" - a path forward also recently described by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn in the Wall Street Journal on January 4th, 2007.

Posted by Kevin Hansen |

How to Use Consensus Democracy: NYGA.org Demonstrates from the #OWS protests

Submitted by Kevin Hansen on November 8, 2011 - 17:39

Consensus Democracy - How do the Occupy Wall Street protesters reach decisions in a very diverse group? 

We filmed at the Occupy Wall Street protests recently. One of the wonderful things to emerge in these protests has been the Consensus Democracy approach: broad, highly inclusive, community-focused and introspective - everyone has a voice. This form of decision-making is similar to older forms - for example, Quaker Letters - used to find central commonalities among diverse groups.

Consensus Democracy is very powerful. When decisions are reached, you know that the vast majority agree; and that essentially all in the group will accept the result. There is a lot of listening required: deeply understanding the others' points of view and priorities - good skills for us to re-learn now, especially in U.S. politics!

Twelve Benefits of a Commons-Focused Approach - #Commons

Submitted by Kevin Hansen on July 17, 2011 - 14:47

During the process of filming the documentary Common Healing, it has become clear that there are many benefits from re-looking at difficult, immovable situations from the ancient perspective of the commons.
 

The Commons: What We Share - #Commons

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