Robert Muller: [GMW #2175] A True World Community Nurturing Common World Projects

Sunday, March 20, 2011

[GMW #2175] A True World Community Nurturing Common World Projects

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1429 ~ 9 June 1998

I cannot repeat often enough that common world projects should be planned and undertaken to increase the efficiency of the world ecology, economy and management and put an end or at least reduce the colossal duplications between 185 nation states. I hope that the European Union will become a second leading model for the world, after the United States, and that many more regional communities will be created, leading at long last to a true world community, a United States of the World or a World Union.

The UN should create an office of collecting and proposing many common world projects.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
You have no idea how people can be disinterested in your negativism. But to be polite, they say nothing or nod politely and go.

You will never imagine how many people will keep away from you because you are negative. You will never imagine how people will be friends with you and will help you if you are positive.

Pessimists, cynics and negative people think that they are smart. On the contrary, they are very stupid, self-destructive.

UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

A tribute at the Memorial Service 27 September 2010
for the
World Leader for Peace, Robert Muller

By
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury,
Under-Secretary-General and
High Representative of the United Nations (2002-2007) and
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN (1996-2001)
*****

The international community is deeply indebted to Robert Muller for his life-long contribution to humankind's quest for peace and happiness. A man of peace, a true global citizen and a real believer in harmony and understanding among all peoples, he lived an extraordinary, exemplary life that motivates all of us to carry forward his mission for world peace and global cooperation.

I am one of them being charmed by this renaissance man of ideas from our first meeting at the UN when I reached there in 1972 with the application for the membership of my new-born country Bangladesh. Our interactions since then - in particular for the University of Peace and for the World Center of Thanksgiving - had always been spirit-uplifting. His words, writings and books have been a constant source of inspiration for me.

Robert has been one of our greatest and most committed voices for peace. He dedicated his life to global unity and the spiritual well-being of humanity. It fills us with energy when he and his life-partner Barbara wrote in 2001, "Let us make this third millennium a Jubillennium filled with overflowing peace, tremendous love, happiness and thanksgiving." Rising, within a span of 40 years, from a UN Intern to Assistant Secretary General's position, Robert's courageous story is an inspiration to all of us to continue working relentlessly for the mission of the United Nations.

Introducing an excellent hands-on approach to learning in a global perspective, Robert created a "World Core Curriculum" that earned him the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1989. He has been popularly known throughout the world as the "father of global education."

In his acceptance speech for the UNESCO prize, he said, "I hope [there will be] a global peace strategy which would reach from outer-space to the atom, encompassing all aspects of our planetary home." I believe with its Programme of Action on Culture of Peace, the United Nations has given the world such a strategy and today, in honor of Robert's memory, we need to re-dedicate ourselves to the Programme's realization into a meaningful reality.

In his poem Decide to be Peaceful, Robert exhorted us so eloquently: "Render others peaceful; Be a model of peace; Irradiate your peace; Love passionately the peace."

In conclusion, I echo you my dear friend as I say, "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."

Books recommended by Robert are here.
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