Stories
The Culture of Peace News Network continued
Missions for the Culture of Peace
Travels with Lindsay in the USA
Vacations with Lindsay in the Caribbean
Vacations with Kiki in Reunion
The geometry of time
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In 2001 Lindsay and I returned from Paris to our Short Beach home and I retooled myself to work for a culture of peace on the Internet, not yet fully aware of the emotional consequences of the let-down I was feeling after my departure from UNESCO.
Each year I would open a new Internet system, learning computer languages as I needed them. It was easy to learn HTML, and more difficult to master enough PERL to make CPNN and later the ikonboards for the Civil Society Report and Strategy boards. At a later point I mastered PHP, CSS and XHTML in order to make the culture of peace game. I was on the computer so much that Lindsay began to complain, which would come to play a role in our eventual divorce. By 2007, I had more than 10,000 pages of information and more than 400,000 visitors a year on the following websites (the culture-of-peace-game website came later):
The Culture of Peace News Network (CPNN), 2002:
http://cpnn-world.org
The Global Movement for a Culture of Peace, 2003:
http://culture-of-peace.info
The Aggression Systems, 2003:
http://culture-of-peace.info/aggression-intro.html
Strategy for Revolution in the 21st Century, 2004:
http://sfr-21.org
Civil Society Report on the Culture of Peace to the United Nations, 2005:
http://decade-culture-of-peace.org
Strategy Discussion Board for the Global Movement, 2006:
http://decade-culture-of-peace.org/strategy/cgi-bin/ib5/ikonboard.cgi
The Culture of Peace Game, 2008:
http://culture-of-peace-game.org
Speaking at a forum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2008
Over time I found was that Internet was not enough and I had to be also on the speaking circuit. Hence I gave talks on the culture of peace in Brazil, Canada, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Egypt, Netherlands, England, Switzerland and Spain, as well as in the United States (see my missions). Meanwhile, I contined to document my work in the large brown notebooks that were begun in 1992, extending to volume 32 by 2010. The first 23 volumes are now in my Wesleyan Univeristy archives.
I kept in touch with UNESCO and the NGO community at the United Nations in New York, but found both of them very frustrating, as exemplified by my experience there on that infamous day of September 11, 2001
In 2002, I went back for one semester to teach at Wesleyan - a course on the culture of peace - but it was frustrating, as I have described at the end of the page on Wesleyan teaching
In these years I was still traveling separately with Lindsay in the USA and the Caribbean and Hawaii and with Kiki to Reunion, as well as on various missions.
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Stages
1986-1992
Fall of Soviet Empire
1992-1997
UNESCO Culture of Peace Programme
1997-2001
UN Intl Year for Culture of Peace