A two-hour live television broadcast on Sunday, Jaunary 31, 2011 from Palo Alto, Calif. celebrated and commemorated over a half-century of service and the closing of the Foundation for Global Community. By whatever name - Creative Initiative, Building the Earth, Beyond War, Foundation for Global Community - at the heart of the work was always a Golden Thread that, all through time, has represented the universal truth: All is One. The televised program concluded by celebrating over 100 diverse,...
In Singapore, Service-Learning faculty and students of Republic Polytechnic experienced a July 2010 face-to-face, one-hour Dialogue workshop facilitated long-distance via Skype by Len Traubman of the 18-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo, California, USA. Sharing personal life narratives, participants experienced that "an enemy is one whose story we have not heard," and that "story is the shortest distance between people." Diverse women and men included Buddhis...
(1) Sharing personal stories, (2) listening-to-learn, and (3) empathy are modeled by two participants of the Palestinian-Jewish Living Room Dialogue of San Mateo, California. This is part of DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH, a 43-minute documentary at http://traubman.igc.org/vidschool.htm
This 12-minute archival video is the KPIX-TV San Francisco news broadcast of the December 1984 Beyond War Award to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). It was the historic first San Francisco-Moscow television satellite "spacebridge." ; In the news broadcast are Belva Davis and Rollin Post of Channel 5, and Craig Ritchey of the Beyond War Foundation.More information is at http://traubman.igc.org/bwaward.htm
This 22-minute film gives faces and voices of participants in the inspiring 2005 Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp in the California mountaiins near Yosemite National Park, where 140 Muslim, Jewish, and Christian youth and adults gathered to successfully live together and learn to communicate in ways they never imagiined possible. Called Oseh Shalom~Sanea al-Salam, it is described in more detail at http://traubman.igc.org/camp2005.htm
In 2009, eighty diverse youth and adults engaged in authentic Dialogue with a new quality of listening to learn. Face to face, they experienced that "an enemy is one whose story we have not heard." This Fresno, California public evening can be replicated anywhere on Earth, as a first step to building true community. More information is at http://traubman.igc.org/fresnonight.htm .
This archival 59-minute video highlights the 1990 Beyond War Award recipients: (1) GRO HARLAN BRUNDTLAND, (2) EARTH DAY, and (3) THE PEOPLE OF CZECHOSLAVAKIA. The annual Beyond War Award for eight years (1983-1990) honored the great efforts of individuals, groups, and nations as humankind moves to build a world beyond war. In the mid-1980s, the Beyond War Movement had over 24,000 active members in twenty-three states and internationally understanding that war had become obsolete and conflicts ...
This archival 79-minute video highlights the 1986 Beyond War Award recipient -- THE CONTADORA GROUP and the historic television satellite broadcast, SPACEBRIDGE OF THE AMERICAS. The annual Beyond War Award for eight years (1983-1990) honored the great efforts of individuals, groups, and nations as humankind moves to build a world beyond war. In the mid-1980s, the Beyond War Movement had over 24,000 active members in twenty-three states and internationally understanding that war had become obso...
BEYOND WAR AWARD - 1985 - Five Continent Peace Initiative This archival 85-minute video highlights the 1985 Beyond War Award recipients -- THE FIVE CONTINENT PEACE INITIATIVE and the historic television satellite FIVE CONTINENT SPACEBRIDGE. The annual Beyond War Award for eight years (1983-1990) honored the great efforts of individuals, groups, and nations as humankind moves to build a world beyond war. In the mid-1980s, the Beyond War Movement had over 24,000 active members in twenty-three st...