Autobiographical Notes
Missions for the Culture of Peace 1992-2001

Stories

1992-1997

The culture of peace proposal

National culture of peace programmes

Missions for the culture of peace

Cross-conflict participation

Poetry and Federico Mayor

South African peace process

Malangatana

Nestor and Nicole

The crab story

The failure of the culture of peace programme

The Russian girls

Alioune Traore

Brothers for Peace

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Learning languages

Working at a high level at UNESCO included the opportunity to undertake missions around the world. The list of missions shows over 50 missions to most of the continents and most of the major countries in the world in the 10 years I was at UNESCO.

Mission reports are available in my archives, both on paper and as computer files, from 37 of these missions, and they provide a rich source of information about the development of the global movement for a culture of peace.

Most of the missions were in Europe, but there were also missions to the United States, to Africa (4 to Mozambique and 1 to Durban), to the Middle East (Israel and Yemen), to Latin America (El Salvador) and to Asia (Korea, Japan, Philippines, India).


Meeting with Brahma Kumaris in India in 2000
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Meeting with Kang in Korea in 2001
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1982-1986
A Science of Peace

1986-1992
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1997-2001
UN Intl Year for Culture of Peace

2001-2005
Internet for peace

2005-2010
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2010-2015
Indian Summer

2015-2020
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2019-2024
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