
INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO NON-VIOLENCE AND PEACE
November 29, 2019 by

“ICT is having a profound impact on the way we live, work, learn and entertain our selves. It is helping all parts of our communities and improving all sectors of the world economy. It is changing the world.”
CUMHURİYET VE KADIN
November 23, 2019 by

Sermin ÖZCİLİNGİR’in, Başkan, Amerika-Türk Kadınlar Birliği | ATKB; “Cumhuriyete Doğru” programında, Salvation Army International Commission on Social Justice, New York’ta 29 Ekim 2019 Salı günü sunmuş olduğu konuşma metnini, etkinliğin içeriğini ilgilisine ulaştırmak amacıyla aşağıda yayınlıyoruz.
– TurkishLibrary.Us
“Cumhuriyet idaresinin ilk yılları, 1923’te nüfus sayımında kadınlarında sayılması, 1924 seçme ve seçilme hakları reddedilmişti. Atatürk çok istese de bu yıllarda, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi’nin kabul etmediği kadın haklarının zamanlamasının, o ilk yıllar için çok da uygun olmadığını gördü.
2 yılı daha bekliyecekti.”
[Read more…]PATHWAYS TO A MORE PEACEFUL AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
October 17, 2019 by

“I pledge to be a global citizen and help bring PEACE for one and all:
By treating all children with love, hope, and kindness;
By respecting and helping others every day; and
By thinking about how I can work with others to bring positive change in my home, neighborhood, workplace, community, and the world at large with help from the Early Childhood Peace Consortium https://ecdpeace.org/.”
by James LECKMAN, MD, PhD
[Read more…]FRIENDLY HEADS-UP: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
October 17, 2019 by

The Light Millennium organization being always on the lookout for the future well-being of humanity for current actions, once again shed light-pun intended- on some of the good intentions of the bold United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) that were discussed at the 68th UN Civil Society Conference that was held in Salt Lake City during 26-28 August 2019.
Report by Sevgin OKTAY, Representative of The Light Millennium to the United Nations Department of Global Communications
• RUN-DOWN and Welcoming • PHOTO Album of the Workshop | • BOOKLET with Bios (Abstract included) | • FLYER • MEDIA Release (Updated on August 19, 2019) | • Photo Album
[Read more…]GANDHI’S NOTION OF PEACE
October 4, 2019 by

Anniversary of Mahamat Gandhi
October 1, 2019
The Light Millennium
Written and Presented by:
Abdelkader Abbadi, Ph. D
The world is celebrating the International Year of peace and the 150th anniversary of Mahamat Gandhi.
Every year on September 21, the United Nations calls on all nations and people to put down their weapons and reaffirm their commitment to living in harmony.
MAHATMA GANDHI AND THE SCULPTOR
October 3, 2019 by

– A personal view by Harvey TORDOFF
“Bearing in mind he was a thorn in the flesh of the British Government during most of his life it says a great deal about his legacy that he has been honoured in sight of Parliament and says a lot about Britain that they should place his sculpture where it is.”
– Philip Jackson, Sculptor
[Read more…]HOW TO PROTECT INDEPENDENT SCIENCE AND ENSURE OUR INNOVATIONS ARE IN TUNE WITH OUR HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS? A Necessity for Free and Healthy Communities
September 17, 2019 by

“A free and unbiased science is essential for resilient and sustainable cities. Otherwise, business plans will become entrenched in untested technologies, which it will become too difficult and unwieldy to back away from. We will have become a highly inflexible and un-resilient, and secretive, society.”
Written & Presented by JULIE MARDIN, Researcher-Author, Digital Artist and Representative of The Light Millennium to the UN Department of Global Communications (New York).
WORKSHOP: GREAT GOALS, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: How to handle the complexity of our technology, and make true progress for our social and environmental well being
Organized & Presented by The Light Millennium
as part of
The 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference
BUILDING INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
26 – 28 August 2019, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
– For the full text of this paper (Pdf), please click on here >
NOTES – References | GLOSSARY
MAHATMA GANDHI ~ THE MAN OF MILLENNIUM
September 11, 2019 by
“In a Gentle Way, You Can Shake the World”

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