[Peace-discussion] Press Release: "Peace Sunday" Goes Global

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:22:33 -0700

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Peace Sunday" Goes Global

. Unity-and-Diversity Council (UDC) converges on Temescal Canyon, CA  

. Final parameters for an "online think-tank" (Global Assembly Dialog)
completed 

. Executive session establishes strategic vision for UDC and Global Assembly
rollout

Contact:
Rev. Leland Stewart, (310) 391-5735    Email: udcworld1@yahoo.com
Rebecca Tobias, (310) 916-8888     Email:
Rebecca@RaoulWallenbergInstitute.org 

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA -- June 24, 2007. The Special Events Committee of the
Unity-and-Diversity Council held a Convergence gathering at Temescal Canyon
Conference and Retreat Center on June 8-10, 2007. 

Rev. Stewart and the Unity-and-Diversity Council (UDC - est. 1965) are best
known for hosting nearly five decades of interfaith and intercultural
events, the largest being "Survival Sunday" held at the Hollywood Bowl with
12,000 in attendance, focused on publicizing the United Nations First
Special Session on Disarmament.  

Four years later, in June 1982, the same concern produced the first Peace
Sunday, which was held in the Rose Bowl with 100,000 in attendance,
featuring such internationally known artists as Joan Baez and Bonnie Raitt.
Peace Sunday was in support of the U.N.'s Second Special Session on
Disarmament.  Several smaller Peace Sundays have been sponsored by UDC since
that time, with the goal of making it an ongoing community event.

The Convergence retreat featured three days of panels, plenaries and
workshops conducted by experts and facilitators on topics ranging from
global governance and interfaith relations to conflict resolution. With
attention to protecting the Earth's fragile environment and providing
special services, tools, and skills to our urban area's at-risk youth, the
UDC has created topical working groups to contend with some of the most
pressing challenges facing civilization today.

Utilizing modern technology in an automated and real-time fashion, the
Global Assembly Dialog is an "online think-tank"; the first of its kind --
open to all with internet access.

Gathering wisdom from diverse perspectives to break negative patterns of
thinking, the Global Assembly (GlobalAssembly.net) generates a roster of
ideas and evolving statements that are then ranked by the collective
participants. 

"Our aim is nothing less than the creation of a vehicle of expression for
the voice of humanity", explained UDC Executive Board member Roger Eaton,
"the concept of the Global Assembly is along the lines of the UN General
Assembly, but from the bottom up to build a world that works for all using
the power of nonviolence."

 "The Unity-and-Diversity Council has been dedicated to showing how
religions and belief systems have a common ground in truth," expressed
Executive Board member Byron DeLear, "and with the UDC's Global Assembly
Dialog, we will be able to witness, global truths evolving right before our
eyes."

"The goal of achieving 'unity-and-diversity among all peoples and all life'
is a new idea whose time has come.  It derives from the fact that the
emerging global civilization is based upon pluralism, which means that there
are many races, religions, cultures and organizations all needing to be
included within a new and worldwide synthesis.  No longer will any one
religion or ideology be the dominant teaching or organization that controls
the direction of modern life.  Rather, there will be more and more
acceptance of diversity among these paths, as well as an increasing degree
of cooperation and mutual support."

~ Rev. Leland Stewart

Global Assembly: www.GlobalAssembly.net <http://www.globalassembly.net/> 

Unity-and-Diversity Council: www.UDCWorld.org <http://www.udcworld.org/> 

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