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Ghana, West Africa & Brazil-Peru, South America
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Beyond the Global Divide (BGD) is a meeting comprised of youth and Indigenous
Elders/Wisdom Keepers from all over the world to exchange knowledge. The objective for
these gatherings is world peace. Our goal is to develop a dynamic leadership
core of youth leaders who embrace values from the teachings, wisdom, and
guidance of traditional and domestic elders. Beyond the Global Divide celebrates both the uniqueness and commonality
of our various world cultures and our shared hope for a more peaceful
world. Youth Director and Visionary of BGD, Michael Ware, believes that, “We
need to look at what our definition of world peace means, if I ask everybody
what defines world peace, you would all have something different to say.
To totally make this vision work, we need to hear as many diverse ideas
of world peace as possible, represented by individuals from around the
world. No one person or nation has the answer. If it is world peace we’re
talking about we need a worldview. I strongly believe in taking care of
the home front, and or our self before we can effectively care for someone
else, but its necessary to know that what we do affects those at home
and abroad. Far more than
one country’s foreign policy, and the way it affects another. It’s
the way we treat our environment and how we choose to use natural resources.
It has to do with our worldview on religions and a lot of small things
we so often look past, mainly, the love of self. We cannot help anybody if we are not right within our self. I so often
talk to people about the topic of world peace and nine times out of ten
I here it cannot happen. The first point they bring up is that the world
powers make to much money off of the death and destruction they feed to
the world. *That’s one main illness we have to over come before
a lot of other problems will be solved. Focusing mainly on my generation, we are fed by TV, and all the other
ways they can make us love money more than we love our selves. This makes
the loving and moral side of us secondary to making and spending money
. . . Today the phrase world peace is watered down. I believe that most people
truly feel that it can’t happen, but they say it anyway because
it’s the expected thing to say. I say it because I know it is possible
and I feel that I have a responsibility to help create the network that
starts a visible world movement towards that goal. A number of organizations around the world are striving to
achieve the same results. There are people already out there that are
working on it right now, but the vision is of massive proportions. I urge
all organizations working towards the same goal to be a part of Beyond
the Global Divide. It is my dream that 2010 will not be the end of ten years of world leadership,
but the beginning of a new nation. A world nation made up of hundreds
of organizations and people that work hard and believe that world peace
is not just possible but will take place.”
Beyond the Global Divide creates an opportunity to share this vision;
to come together with like minds to create a unified plan to accomplish
peace and peace initiatives; to create a focused, structured organization while utilizing everyone’s
abilities and connections to help accomplish our goal. No one person has the answer, but the BGD summit creates an environment
for great ideas, individuals and plans for action to come forward to be
implemented.”
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