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'I am a peacemaker in the ____________ tradition.' (optional): world cirizen

Relationship Status:: Single

What town or city, state, and country do you live in?: 07140 Gravieres, France

Date of Birth:: October 2, 1934

About Me (please use blog for resumes, CVs, or longer sketches):: Currently, Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Citizens, active on conflict resolution, arms control, human rights including human rights education and development issues

Avocational Interests: Music, Arts, Hobbies, Sports, Family, Etc.: Art and Literature, see poetry section of www; transnational-perspectives.org

I was invited to this John Woolman College site by:: John Woolman staff

Relevant Affiliation(s): Center, Institute, School, Religious, Etc. (longer answer is OK):: Currzntly, Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Cirtizens, and editor of Transnational Perspectives. Formerly, professor and Director of Research, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, University of Geneva

Is this (see above) your place of paid employment?: Retired

Affiliate Organization Web Site:: http://www.transnational-perspectives.org

Additional Affiliate Organization or other Web Site of interest:: http://www.worldcitizens.org

I believe Active Peace and its component parts -- peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding -- constitute a discrete discipline (Y/N):: Yes

I believe Active Peace, and its three component fields, can be taught (Y/N):: Yes

It is my own personal calling or vocation to teach Active Peace -- peacemaking, peacekeeping, and/or peacebuilding:: Yes

I am resolved to teach Active Peace at every possible opportunity in my life:: Yes

I endorse John Woolman College, and intend to contribute to its mission in any way(s) I can (money donations NOT required):: Yes

Email Address (optional, but recommended):: wadlowz@aol.com

Skype, Yahoo, or other Internet names (specify which):: Skype: wadlow.rene

Telephone number with country code (optional):: 33 4 75 37 23 66

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Global Civil Society

The Rise of the Global Civil Society

Rene Wadlow*

There is currently a great expansion of what can be called “The Global Civil Society”— a host of commercial companies, media outlets, and non-governmental organizations ((NGOs) whose activities cross State frontiers. Often the staff members of these organizations come from a variety of countries and backgrounds. This global civil society is increasingly powerful…

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Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:44pm — 1 Comment

2010 International Year of Biodiversity

For International Year of Biodiversity,

World Citizens Propose Planting Trees of Life

Rene Wadlow*

Listen for whispers from the woods, and wisdom will come.

The United Nations General Assembly, in Resolution 61/203; has proclaimed 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. The resolution, marking the UN Convention on Biodiversity was passed prior to the holding of the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference which highlighted the interactions between… Continue

Posted on December 31, 2009 at 4:30pm

Hostage held on Afghan-Pakistan Frontier

Citizens of the World call for the release of Greek scholar and aid worker among the Kalasha of Pakistan held by Taliban-related insurgents in the Nuristan area of Afghanistan

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In a statement prepared for the UN Forum on Minority Issues, 12-13 November 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland, Rene Wadlow, Chief Representative of the Association of World Citizens to the UN, Geneva, called the assembled representatives of Governments, minority associations, and… Continue

Posted on November 9, 2009 at 1:29pm

Women and Universal Responsibility

Women, Universal Responsibility and the Healing of Nations

Rene Wadlow*

We should begin to develop from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility: a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home. The Dalai Lama

On 31 October 2002, the UN Security Council adopted unanimously Resolution 1325 urging “Member States to ensure increased representation… Continue

Posted on October 24, 2009 at 6:54am

24 Oct: UN Day

The United Nations as One Mind

Rene Wadlow*

Those who observe world events may perceive something higher than human logic at work

Dag Hammarshjold has written that the United Nations was “the beginning of an organic process through which the diversity of peoples and their governments are struggling to find common ground upon which they can live together in the one world which has been thrust upon us before we were ready.”

Basically, the function of the UN… Continue

Posted on October 21, 2009 at 3:21pm

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At 1:08pm on December 30, 2009, Christinia Eala said…: Greetings Rene Wadlow. What a wonderful place to make your acquaintance. I am with the United Nations Association of Northern Colorado located in Fort Collins, Co. We have started an "Indigenous Concerns Committee" and hosted a conference we called "Emergence - Gathering of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas". I would love to meet you one day in Geneva...I would love to do some work on the frontlines. I am a Lakota woman originally from the Roseobud area of Lakota Territory, in South Dakota.
We have a small contigent of Lakota who serve there in Geneva. You may know them. Be well Rene, stay strong on your life and heart journey, and Wicosani to you and those you love.

At 1:11pm on December 30, 2009, Christinia Eala gave Rene Wadlow a gift…: Thank You Card
For all that you do, for all those you serve, for being on the frontlines...Thank you.
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At 5:03pm on January 2, 2010, Christinia Eala said…: Greetings Rene'. I hope that you had a wonderful time on New Years Eve. I also hope that you danced through wonderful memories, and created many new ones. Wicosani to you and yours.