This Friday on 30 September 2011 the 1%Club is organising a global co-creation event in Amsterdam, Nairobi, Buea, Cape Town, Kampala, Ramallah, Cairo and London. The 1%EVENT is the Open Space event that connects people with smart ideas for projects; which stimulate the self reliance of individuals anywhere in the world, and improve their standard of living.

 

The 1%EVENT brings together innovators, young professionals, entrepreneurs and change-makers that invest one day of…

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The long-awaited Charter for Compassion will be officially unveiled today at 9:30am EST at the National Press Club in Washington DC.



To celebrate the launch 123 international partner organisations have created 175 events in 32 countries, on every populated continent.



This global movement has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to fulfil TED-prize winner Karen Armstrong’s wish of repositioning compassion at the heart of people’s lives and communities.



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The Times has featured an article by global tolerance’s managing director Simon Cohen on ‘Gandhi and the other 9/11′. The article celebrates Gandhi’s 140th birthday by delving into the revolutionists’ empowering Satyagraha movement.



Simon recalls a prominent point in the birth of Gandhi’s non-violent movement, which he notes was initially sparked by a Muslim merchant, something that adds a special resonance to the date of its birth, September 11th.



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A Washington Times article today says global tolerance is at the forefront of a paradigm shift of ‘religious dialogue being translated daily into the language of online users.’



The article also looks in detail at Faithbook on Facebook, which global tolerance conceived and manages.





Journalist Bekah Grim examines the self-regulating nature of Faithbook, quoting Simon Cohen, managing director of global tolerance, who observes global tolerance has not had to moderate or… Continue

TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong joins four Nobel Peace laureates, including HH Dalai Lama, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams, moderated by Mary Robinson, at the Dalai Lama Center’s Vancouver Peace Summit to introduce the story of the Charter for Compassion and discuss their experience of compassion in their own lives - and their perspectives on our human responsibilities right now.



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