International Association of Educators For World Peace
NGO United Nations, ECOSOC, UNDP, UNICEF, UNCED, UNESCO
2 Bloor Street West Ste 100-209
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3E2
Tel. 416-924-4449
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E-Mail: mgold@homeplanet.org
URL: http://www.homeplanet.org

November 1, 2000

Dear Friend: Re: A Culture of Peace

I am sending this to you, as you have either expressed interest in our activity, or you are currently involved in some capacity with the nature of the work.

We are working with the leaders in the Peace Movement around the world. To that end you may review our upcoming Culture of Peace conference in Madrid where we will be speaking to the issue of a new Social Contract which is one of four issues that this conference will address. Our presentation will center around global education, and how money and education are inextricably linked in the process of achieving a culture of peace. Within that context we will be bringing forth a strategy that includes a global contribution. This contribution is voluntary and will be processed as a brand label program. Those participating in our research model will be the first beneficiaries (from a business point of view) of this global strategy.

Our program utilizes the best that is available to-day in proactive thinking on how we might achieve peace in our time. We are presenting a living working model in Madrid.

After Madrid, it will be necessary to establish the control and spend mechanism. We are designing this into our presentation through the discussion of a Spiritual Forum. This Spiritual Forum has a steering committee, that has been working for the past five years on developing the discussion. Also during these past years, pressure has been brought at the UN for the Development of an Indigenous Peoples Forum. In the last session, the Secretary General has endorsed, and the General Assembly has approved the development of such a Forum.

It is in the interest of all of us to look to the UN process as a guide, and develop a Forum that is more inclusive than what I understand the UN process to be. (16 members - elitist selection process)

To that end, I am writing to suggest that we host a Gathering of Elders in Toronto Canada ( the meeting Place) to discuss 1) the nature and formation of a Spiritual Forum, 2) how the Indigenous Peoples Forum might interact with our Forum, in the development of the Spend and Control Function of the funds generated through our program/process.

The purpose of this letter is to solicit your input into the process, and open the door for you and your constituency to participate. I would like to select a time for such a Gathering early in the New Year -possibly the March 21 Equinox. Sacred time, sacred place.

We look forward to hearing from you as early as possible.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Gold
VP North American Affairs