Tuesday, November 28, 2017

[GMW #3916] Budgets For Peace Education Including University For Peace

[GMW #3916] Budgets For Peace Education Including University For Peace Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4309 ~
170 governments spend 800 billion dollars a year on armaments, militaries and military academies, but almost nothing on peacemaking and peace education. Only 36 governments out of 189 have ratified the UN document creating the UN University for Peace in demilitarized Costa Rica and one can count on one hand those which have made modest contributions to it. Moreover, at the request of western governments, the United Nations is not allowed to give the University financial support, the thesis being that since the University is an independent institution with academic freedom it should also have the freedom of finding its own resources.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 5 - The Miracle of Individual Life

What is the most fascinating thing on Earth?
My own life.

All external things are fascinating only inasmuch as I see them as such.
My own life, my own functioning, my own complexity, my own capacity to think, to dream, to imagine, to love, to act, those are for me the most fascinating things on Earth: 

I, a microcosm of the universe.
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UN News: UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service, UN Wire Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

WORD FOR THE DAY
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.
~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer

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The first 4000 Ideas & Dreams
For A Better World

The Idea Dreams
- With An Index

Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems

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