WEs we like - Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:33 - 3 Comments

charterforcompassion.org

A project WE will join:

http://www.charterforcompassion.org/

it is encouraging to see a project like this getting so much attention … hopefully enough to make it into the traditional media… (see Samia’s compassionate statement)

Preamble:
Compassion is a key and universal value in all faiths. The most urgent task of our time is to build a global community around this idea, where all peoples of the world can live together in harmony, appreciation and mutual respect. If we fail to achieve this, it is unlikely that we will have a viable world to hand on to the next generation. We believe that the religions of the world have a unique contribution to make and that is why we have issued this Charter of Compassion. 

“The first step in the creation of the Charter for Compassion has begun. Over the next four weeks people from all over the world will write the Charter. Using an innovative group-decision making platform from Kluster, submissions will be collected and rated in order to see which ideas have the most traction globally. A Council of Sages, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sister Joan Chittister, Prof. Tariq Ramadan, and Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, will gather together to read the world’s words and mold the final version of the Charter. In 2009, the final Charter for Compassion will be launched into the world to live in people’s lives.

Join us on this amazing journey. Share your words. Share your story. Let your voice be heard.”

Supporters:
http://www.asmasociety.org/
http://www.interfaithcenter.org/
http://www.ncccusa.org/
http://www.wcrp.org/
http://www.tanenbaum.org/
http://www.soliya.net/
http://www.cordobainitiative.org/
http://www.unaoc.org/
http://www.templeofunderstanding.org/
http://www.threefaithsforum.org.uk/
http://www.utsnyc.edu/

http://www.ted.com/ (& tedprize.org)
http://www.kluster.com/

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