2012 Conference and Concert

The Global Peace Centre aims at creating an open and ongoing dialogue in world society on the key issues affecting the future survival of mankind.

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Our conferences will bring together all aspects of current world thinking from the scientific to the spiritual to seek solutions to the major problems facing the future of humankind. These problems will include pollution, overpopulation, ecological imbalance and the destruction of the delicate web of life that constitutes the biosphere as well as the nature of humans and their changing consciousness.

The Global Peace Centre is particularly concerned about achieving sustainable survival by bringing out the untapped resources of human potential and exploring new ways of thinking, being, acting and behaving which can enhance the quality of our lives.

The Global Peace Centre is the key to the unguessable future of humankind, of infinite potential based on transformation of consciousness through global awareness of the dignity, uniqueness, sacredness and interconnectedness of all life. Transformation means inner change to love of self, of humanity and of the planet. It means healing. Mindquest will be a healing conference, it will heal and renew the planet.

The Global Peace Centre provides a focus, a creation of awareness, of consciousness for the need for change to radiate throughout the globe, this world conference is a call not only to human intellect, our comprehension and reasoning power, but also to the driving force of our underlying spirituality.

The Global Peace Centre conferences will be a dialogue between the greatest minds on the planet which in its immediacy reaches the heart and mind of global consciousness through global television.

A giant step to recovering our humanity

Outcome

The outcome of our conferences are dependent on the conception of a new ethos leading to definitive action by those individuals, organisations, institutions, industries and nations who wish to create a better world. A wide variety of tangible operative solutions will be created through the combined effort of lectures, seminars, workshops and experiential events. The operative solutions will be of an innovative and tangible nature and will be supported by:

1. working parties originated at the conference
2. information distributed by the conference
3. moneys raised through the conference
4. media interest in the conference
5. the development of networks at the conference
6. the creation of new knowledge and approaches by the conference delegates
7. databank of written audio and visual information
8. newsletters
9. a trade magazine of supporting businesses
10. reports to be circulated around the world.

The operative solution may be divided under the headings of:
• environment and resources
• government and economics
• healing and relationships
• education and communication
• transformation of consciousness and psycho-technologies

The tangible outputs will be economically viable and challenge current organisations, institutions, industries and governments to develop new technologies and ways of thought which are ecologically and economically viable and sustainable.

The Global Peace Centre supports a Decade of Action, a thinktank for the whole of humankind and as such will develop a bank of innovative information, challenging operational data and creative solutions which can enhance the quality of life on the earth. The Global Peace Centre calls to humanity in our ability to care for others, for other forms of life, for the earth as our home and our responsibility.

By promoting our conference via social media we gain a global audience. They can then be informed and nourished by the outcomes of the conference. Maintenance of the information on the web is of great significance because it gives the opportunity of interested people to have a global dialogue. It is therefore important as to organise the conference like a professional artistic production, which we would hope to link with national public radio in America through our vice president Dr James Hurtek. We would also anticipate coverage by national tv. Rather than create radical activisim, the aim of the GPC conference is to be an ordered and cohesive voice on the need for change and transformation on the planet. Our conference differs from other conferences that it aims to be an ongoing process, fed and nurtured by our extensive range of contacts throughout the world including the united nations. Peace can be approached on many levels and is specifically related to inner transformation leading to external change. As Mahatma Ghandi said, we need to be the change that we wish to see around us and it is the aim of our ongoing dialogue initiated by the conference to talk on various levels from spiritual and inner processes to educational dialogue and altruistic and actions that we can take to help save the planet, including the development of new science and technologies, which is where cooperation with industry and government is so important.

A global shift towards the consciousness of the interconnectedness of all life

The Crisis of Values and Attitudes on the Planet

Humankind has reached a stage of development in which old modes of thinking and behaving threaten to destroy our planet. This is becoming patently obvious to people of all political and religious persuasions. We are living through a crisis in international relationships in which only a profound and radical revolution, unlike any other that has ever taken place before, can save us from total self-destruction. Those of us who are dedicated to the preservation of life must play a prominent part in this revolution, which calls for a substantial change in our manner of thinking.

The main issues that our Conferencesare addressing are people’s inhumanity to people; the fact that two-thirds of the world’s population live at almost starvation level; the exploitation of the environment and the inability of nations to live in harmony and co-operation.

We will seek new ways of thinking and behaving that will eliminate the use or threat of violence as an instrument of policy in international relations and the exploitation of the environment for short-term gains.

Options for Action

The Global Peace Centre proposes that we should redress the crisis in values and attitudes on the planet so we may seek to unleash the human potential for love, compassion, co-operation, mutual understanding and creativity.

What is Required if We are to Survive

A human Renaissance of thought, conscience and ethics.
‘The highest wisdom has but one science – the science of the whole – the science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it.’ (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.)
Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea that science functions under the control of a paradigm. For centuries science has been guided by a paradigm based on the intellectual achievements of Newton and Descartes, who saw the world mechanistically and reductively, with its division of inside and outside, subject and object. This has been overturned by the work of Einstein and his theory of relativity, the atomic physicists and others who have discovered laws that don’t fit the old paradigm. The new paradigm which is emerging takes into account the observer as well as the thing observed, and the fact that the two cannot be separated. There cannot be objective knowledge without a knowing subject: what we see must be relative to and influenced by where we are and who we are.

A step on the ladder to sustainable survival for humankind

In human affairs, objectivity on its own does not work because it contradicts what it means to be a human being. A human being is not an object. He or she is not only a thinking but a feeling person with emotions, values, hunches, intuitions, sensitivities which have a tremendous influence on what they do and how they perceive the world. He or she is both an individual, alone in their own private world, and also a member of a particular society; and, in turn, that society belongs to a wider community, the human family, with which every individual shares common experiences and aspirations and a common global environment.

Basis for Action

We have to re-evaluate ourselves as the prime cause of the problems we are facing, and redefine the profound value inherent in every single human being. This is something that the United Nations conferences, as yet, have not really addressed.

Damage to the Environment

The damage we are doing to ourselves and our environment was described in the first Conference Earth and recent United Nations conferences. The planet’s capacity to support people has been irreversibly reduced in both developing and developed countries and the resource base of major industries is shrinking. Arable lands and forests are being decreased at an alarming rate, as is the genetic diversity of plants and animals. In Europe, forests are being destroyed by acid rain. The effect on trees is only the tip of the iceberg. Industrial pollution (from sulfur, nitrogen, heavy metals, etc.) is poisoning our soil and even our water supplies are endangering human health.

The current population of the world amounts to about 5.5 billion people, and this will probably rise by 2 billion to 7.5 billion in the next 20 years, giving rise to enormous problems of maintaining even a minimum standard of health and subsistence in vast areas. Even at present, there are 0.5 billion in the world who are underfed, 1 billion who are illiterate, 1.5 billion who do not have adequate medical care, and a billion who do not have adequate housing. This problem of deprivation is further magnified by the millions of refugees and the degree of unemployment in the world.

The arms race throughout the world causes an enormous strain on resources. The approximate cost of armaments for 1994 are estimated at $900 billion. In the world today, there is one soldier for every 43 people and only one doctor for 1030 people. Every two seconds a child dies – a victim of avoidable disease – whilst another is bound to be damaged, physically and emotionally, for life.

Objectives

The aim is to create a new kind of human being who is aware of her or his significance, value and worth, and is able to contribute constructively and creatively in a co-operative way to the well-being of the whole planet in order that we may have sustainable survival. We suggest that some of these objectives are already being achieved in numerous ways, but with no cohesion or alliance.

The international peace concert, hosted and performed by Dr Allan Zavod, our great international composer and musician will be inaugurating his new environmental symphony synchronized with a beautiful film, highlighting environmental and ecological… we face on the planet.

This artistic presentation will be enhanced by the narration of Sir Richard Branson, who is a key exponent for saving the planet.

A think-tank of the world’s greatest minds

The new vision of reality requires us to review our origins, the nature of evolution and the basic cause behind the need for healing of the individual, society and the planet. The Global Peace Conference is, above all, a healing conference.

The suggested process involves:
• the creation of a planetary peace culture
• the use of innovative forms of education
• an understanding of the power of the human potential
• the power of the mind to devise appropriate technologies
• the communication technology and the media.

It is important that education is seen as an on-going process and that, although the media tend to sensationalise destruction, exploitation, greed and sexuality, there is a way in which the media can, in fact, exalt peace and the values associated with this. In this respect, there needs to be an all out world crusade to inform people about their rights, their innate powers to enhance change and transformation within their immediate environment.

Education, knowledge and wisdom are very powerful tools for the survival of humankind. The more thought we put into our survival, the more solutions we will get. An open dialogue is the key to our success because it addresses differences, difficulties and barriers, and creates co-operation that may enable all people to survive at a sustainable level.

When we realise that human suffering in the developing world diminishes us in the developed world, in tangible and intangible ways, we are more likely to decide to help rather than hinder. But this realisation can only come through understanding the nature of human relationships. Once the intention is created on a heartfelt basis, and it is decided in our hearts that we wish to co-operate with each other, and nation with nation, then the problems of the world can be solved.

By a wiser and more equitable distribution of medical and other resources and by putting the eco into economics, i.e. persuading governments that it makes economic as well as ecological sense to develop environmental protection programs, we can reverse the trend towards the ultimate destruction of our essential means for survival on our planet.

A change of mindset through transformation of consciousness