Plans for 2009
(15 January 2009)
The Global Understanding Institute is working on a number of initiatives for 2009. Many are internally-focused on the organization (corporate organizational filing, lining up volunteers and directors, fundraising plan, etc.), while others are community and organizational service projects (blogs, research, game design, web and database development, audio interviews, video projects, seminars and other public events). A more full report of our plans will be made available in coming weeks. For now, please follow highlighted issues of concern which we are reporting on via our blog:
Of concern in recent months have been the global financial crisis, the rising incidence of cancer and suicide-homicide in the world, and the conflicts in Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan, the prospects of conflict with Iran over nuclear development, as well as the violent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.
The Global Understanding Institute wants to know what matters to you. Which crises and conflicts are at the top of your mind? If you have any global issue in particular you wish for the Global Understanding Institute to cover, please contact us! You can leave a comment at the bottom of our blog pages, or send your concerns to PeterCorless@mac.com, or call 650-906-3134 (mobile).
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Three Cups of Tea for Global Understanding wins Second Place!
24 November 2008, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - The 10-minute film Three Cups of Tea for Global Understanding was awarded second place in the Mountain View Reads contest for 2008. The documentary film presents the origins of the Global Understanding Institute as it directly relates to the New York Times-bestselling book Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
The film highlights the Razumijen project, which studies the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the wars of independence of the West Balkans c. 1989 - present. This project will result in the production of a boardgame simulating international conflict resolution.
Peter Corless, founder of the Global Understanding Institute, was awarded a Flip digital video camera as the second place prize.
As well, the movie will be shown on KMVT15, the Mountain View Community Television cable channel. Three Cups of Tea for Global Understanding is expected to be cablecast in December 2008.
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| Armistice Day Events - 11/11/2008 |
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Dest In Nation
Grant Pollock (Dest)
http://www.myspace.com/thisisrobbery
Interviewed on...
Global Understanding Audio
by Peter Corless
Grant Pollock (Dest) for Global Understanding
Global Understanding Audio Interview #002
September 21, 2008
Recorded on Castro Street
Mountain View, California
(Playing Time: 43m 40s)
Grant or Dest
Grant Pollock, known as Dest, is a musician, poet, and traveler who left his family in Palo Alto, California at the age of 15 to travel the country to find his own reality. I encountered Grant, Dest, on Castro Street, Mountain View. In this exclusive interview and recorded performance, he shares his vision of life, liberty, and harmony.
Grant's Music
During the interview, he sings three songs of his own composition, including a "world premiere" of an untitled original composition:
- Austin Knows Best ("Well I still see fire in your eyes...") [@ 14:00]
- Untitled ("We set out Sunday morning...") [@ 19:49]
- Hop the Gate ("I got the sweetest girl around...") [@ 38:30]
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Roz Savage Rows
Roz Savage
http://www.rozsavage.com
Interviewed on...
Global Understanding Audio
by Peter Corless
Roz Savage Rows
Roz Savage for Global Understanding
Global Understanding Audio Interview #001
September 18, 2008
Recorded at Shoreline Park
Mountain View, California
As
a woman who has rowed the Atlantic Ocean solo, and has made the first
leg of her cross-Pacific trip in a 23-foot-long boat, the Brocade, Roz Savage is the author of her story, and a maker of history.
In
a one-hour interview, Roz Savage lays forth her life, her philosophy,
her experiences on land and sea, and her vision for the world.
[Posted: 2008-09-20]
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9/11 to 11/11 - 61 Days to Transform from Tragedy to Truce
UNITED, WE SHALL CHANGE THE WORLD!
There are 61 days between 9/11 and 11/11. In these 61 days we have an opportunity to transform the spirit of the world from one of a focus on tragedy and terror, as symbolized by 9/11, to one to envision global truce and the peaceful transformation of our world, as symbolized by Armistice Day, 11/11.
Starting in 2008, the Global Understanding movement calls on the interested and concerned citizens of the world to shift the political and social dialog surrounding these key dates in history. To first, learn about these events, then to understand them in historical context, and from that, to draw conclusions about a better possible future for us all.
LEARN MORE!
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Welcome to the Global Understanding Institute.
This site was founded in August 2008 by Peter Corless to support the
Global Understanding movement. Its mission is to provide an
organizational and communications hub on the World Wide Web to address
the major crises and conflicts around the globe, as well as those right
here in our own neighborhoods and personal relationships.
The Global Understanding movement is both new and not new. From the
dawn of humankind to the present day, humans have communicated or
failed to communicate successfully.
The Global Understanding movement seeks to aid and ameliorate the
suffering of humanity by providing a medium for rational discussion and
clear communications, to provide services and tools for contextual
analysis and education, and to propose possible solutions to resolve
local, national regional, and global conflicts and crises.
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| Photograph by Peter Corless |
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| Global Understanding Institute is Launched, 19 August 2008 |
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