Michael Ware: Beyond the Global Divide

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Beyond The Global Divide Big Island, Hawaii

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The second retreat, in Big Island Hawai’i (November 1-5, 2006), will serve as a healing intensive for BGD global peace ambassadors, and will include the participation of Hawai’ian Na Koa (elders) and young leaders from the island. www.bigisland.com/
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Beyond the Global Divide (BGD) is a meeting comprised of young leaders and elders 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, learning to embrace our differences and find the common ground.

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 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.

“Michael believes that world peace is, “ . . . 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, what I hear from them is that 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 society 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 beginning of a number of organizations around the world 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.

Originally we project the Beyond the Global Divide Summits would go through the year 2010. It is my dream that 2010 will not be the end of ten years of facilitating world leadership for BGD, 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. It creates the opportunity for people to come together with like minds to create a unified plan to accomplish peace, 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 summits creates an environment for healing, great ideas, individuals and plans for action to come forward to be implemented.”

To contact Michael: trailmixgreen@aol.com

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