Pax Forum—Appendix V
Building Peace: To Understand, So We Can Act
List of Participants

Following is the full list of all the persons who were subscribed to the “pax” forum on June 30, 2002, with the e-mail address and, when they introduced themselves, their introduction. Please keep in mind that what you have is no more than a “machine translation post-edited for mistranslation only” of the introductions sent in French and in Spanish.

	casper.cusell@planet.nl		
ABDOUN Rabah	rabdoun@yahoo.fr		
ABORUNGONG Jude Nji	jaborungo@yahoo.com	What can I say about myself? What an honor however to be known and to know all of us who are participating in this discussion forum.
I am a native of Cameroon, a country in the central region of the African continent. People throughout most of this continent of my origin have in my life-time of thirty-two years lived in a state of relative peacelessness. This is the motivating concern for which I am highly delighted to contribute to the initiative of informing the world at large that it is high time for which we all have to be at peace with one another.
I presently live in the United States. All of my family lives in my home town of Bamenda in Cameroon. I am not sure how many of us in the forum know about this part of the world. I wish this is an opportunity to share / exchange past / present and earmarked efforts in which I have had the chance to be personally involved, and which are aimed at furthering a culture of peace for mankind. My education, professional background and work career is in the area of community development. Over the last recent years, and to this date I commit myself to activism and advocacy promoting social justice. I hope all of us in the forum will pull our little bits of peace together to bring a lasting global state of peace and peacefulness for humanity.	
AGOPIAN Eozen	ozen@vip.gr	My name is Eozen Agopian. I am a visual artist, born in Greece with Armenian origin. I moved to the USA when I was 19 years old. I lived there for 13 years. I worked and got my education at Art Universities in NYC. I returned to Greece after the birth of my daughter. Presently I live in Athens, Greece where I have my studio, teach Art and exhibit my work. This was my first experience with Alliance.	
AHMAD Mohiuddin	rdc@bol-online.com	My name is Mohiuddin Ahmad. I am 49. I am a citizen of Bangladesh. I feel that we all should work for global citizenship and we should uphold the religion of humanity. Other religions divide the people in antagonistic camps. Each religion claims to be superior. Most of the problems originate from this claim.
I am a writer. I find pleasure in writing poems. I earn my bread by doing community and research works for development projects. My contact address is: rdc@bol-online.com  	
AHMED Raphael 	raphaelahmed@hotmail.com	My name is Raphael Ahmed and I am from Bangladesh.
I am a student of class 12 and I am going to give my * GCE A Level Exams * in January 2002.
I am basically interested in any kind of peace movement as I hate violence and this is the reason why I chose to participate in this peace forum.
I occasionally write articles and I practice poetry, as in I try to write poems. I am a dreamer and a weaver, and it is my dream that some day I shall be able to contribute to bring about the desired peace, a huge piece of which is missing! 	
AISSAOUI Nadia 	nadia@alliance21.org		
AKNAK Nacera	nacera@vsnl.com		
ALVAREZ David 	dvdalga@usc.es		
ASSAH Gustave 	youthafric@ifrance.com	I am Gustave ASSAH, socio-anthropologist and translator of the Bible in national language Mina, of Benin. I am an active member since 1996 of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, among others in the Youth Workshop and the network DPH. In this framework we organize school workshops in Africa, among others on the resolution and the prevention of conflicts and the culture of the peace. It is for this that this forum is welcome for our network. 	
ASTIER Delphine 	delphine.astier@ifrance.com delphine.astier@ecoledelapaix.org	Member of the Forum Coordination, Delphine Astier, 25, has just finished a Ph.D. in development economics at the University of Grenoble. She was a facilitator for the Alliance forum on state and development this past year, and as soon as the World Citizens Assembly <http://www.alliance21.org/lille/en/index.html> (*) is over, she will join us to reformat your messages, if necessary, run them through machine translation, and post-edit them.	
ATEMKENG David 	datemkeng@yahoo.fr		
AUBAC Citlali 	citlali@erreur404.org		
AUBAC Jean-François 	jf.aubac@worldonline.fr	I am a white man, French, well fed, smoker and I intend, I propose to participate in this grand global discussion in the framework of this Foundation Alliance 21 for the Peace.
I live in a large apartment on the French Riviera and I have a computer linked to the Internet. Which means that I am absolutely not representative of the immense majority of the men, since I am a minority in the very heart of the Western minority. I am even only very little representative of the other citizens of my country.
However, I don't possess anything: no property (house, car, electronic or other devices), and my bank account is decidedly empty. My only material possessions amount to some clothes, books and an old camera. I contributed to the birth and the existence of two children that are my joy. I am 50 years old.
I was eager to specify this so that each should consider that the ideas that I will be able to bring up on these serious and fundamental subjects, are only what are often ideas: soap bubbles.
I am a bit journalist, a bit businessman which occupies my life and give me the means for it.
My interest carries me toward community-organization circles. So I participated in an organization, Le Monde à Paris [The World in Paris], that had for aim to attenuate racism by considering the inhabitants of Paris above all as Parisians, taking in account their origins only in second place: Parisians of the various French provinces and from all over the world. We produced several broadcasts of television on this topic and participated in several writing works. I was also very active in a movement of the beginning of the eighties having the tendency to free the speech on the radiowaves, at that time, entirely under the control of the French state: "the movement of the pirate radios". If success was at the date, commerce has now invaded the sector, as it has done of the entirety of the Western society and others, under the name of "the economy": the new god. Since, I have a bit journeyed in Asia - Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Thailand - which are for me on the verge of economic development and solidly seated on very ancient and very living cultures.
I am very curious of the points of view of each and the objective products that we will be able to generate and do together beyond the words.
Cordially	
AZIZ Mustafa 	ipe@brain.net.pk	My name is Mustafa Aziz and am presently working as a development consultant with NGOs and other voluntary sector organizations. My disciplines of learning and facilitation include human and institutional development. Strategic Planning and emergency & disaster management are subjects that interest me most.
I was born in 1952 and got my education at a missionary school. I joined the Armed Forces but left service and acquired masters degrees in History, Political Science and Strategic Studies. My academic and professional pursuits have brought in varied experience and differing insights. These are based on the changing perspectives of a professional military background that has gradually transformed under a greater appeal for a civil-society culture based on democratic norms and pluralistic values.
I joined the NGOs and worked with two NGOs for around 8 years. I have presently been working as a free-lance development consultant for over two years. Being based in NWFP, a province just next to the Afghan border in Pakistan, most of my work as a consultant has been with Afghan and International NGOs.
At a time in our history, where the entire human race is hostage to weapons of mass destruction and annihilation, we can still switch on our TV to see leaders, politicians, terrorists, ----, harping on tones of war, revenge, terrorism and everything else that puts many on tranquilizers to get a normal night's sleep. 	
BABAYEOA Elnara 	ellanrg@hotmail.com		
BAILEY Razaan	taming@mweb.co.za		
BLIN Arnaud 	ablin@beaumarchais.org  et blinarnaud@yahoo.com	Member of the Forum Coordination, Arnaud Blin, 41, is French and American. He specializes in war and peace, democracy, and American politics. Here, he will be a godsend for those of you who are very busy, as his job will be to produce an analytical summary of all your contributions once a week, as well as once a month. 	
BLOCH Anthony	soul_friend@mindspring.com		
BOSTEELS Tatiana	tatiana.bosteels@advalvas.be	My name is Tatiana, I am 27 years old and originally from Belgium but I have lived in many other places. I have always been interested in people different than myself and in trying to create links between groups, for understanding and tolerance. I work in the environmental field, and in particular in finding ways to get the private sector to make the necessary changes in view of the climate-change issue. The inputs of this forum have been good food for thought.	
BOUDRA Mohamed 	boudra.mo@voila.fr	I am Moroccan aged of 41 years, physician radiologist, municipal adviser, member of the central committee of the Parti du Progrès et Socialisme [Party of the Progress and Socialism] in Morocco.
As you know, Morocco is an African, Arabian, Berber and Islamic country, with a major history and civilization in Morocco and in Andalusia, and that knew how to be always a land of peace and cohabitation between all cultures and religions.
The Jews lived there in peace and in harmony with Moslems and Christians, whereas in other countries, especially European, they were very persecuted. But in the current time what * Sharon * and * Israel * do, with the support of USA and the silence of the Europeans, is a * shame * for all the humankind. The Moslem peoples are now certain of the Western hypocrisy and after numerous Moslems sincerely condemned the attacks on New York that provoked deaths of the innocents, with what does * Sharon * currently, and the silence of the West, one arrives to the conclusion that evil is fighting another evil. There are no good, so human rights are not respected by anyone.
* NGOs, organizations * and anyone who still believes in the human being, in life and in the earth must form a block the most quickly to give hope to our children.	
BOURSE Stéphane 	contact@creastart.com		
BRAOJOS GARCIA F. Ramón	frbg@laneta.apc.org		
BURGESS Peter	profitinafrica@aol.com	By way of introduction. My name is Peter Burgess. I am British, but a long-time resident of the United States and now located in New York. I have a Cambridge education in engineering and economics and am professionally trained in Chartered Accountancy. I have had some 18 years of corporate management and professional experience, and had something of a reputation as an effective problem solver.
Since 1978, I have been engaged in consultancy for international business and the official development assistance (ODA) community. During my career I have worked in over 40 countries both in the public sector and in private enterprise. I have done work connected with all sorts of emergencies including drought and war and refugees and floods.
During the last three years I have been working on initiatives that address the root causes of "development" failure. The promise of independence some 30 or 40 of 50 years ago has not been realized. Instead of global prosperity we have enormous poverty. I work as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for ATCnet, an organization founded by professional Africans who have a commitment to socioeconomic progress in Africa that truly reflects the potential of this enormous and rich continent.
Peace must win in order for socioeconomic progress to be achieved. 	
CABALLERO Pablo Luis 	filtina@movi.com.ar filatina@movi.com.ar		
CABO Maribel	maribelcabo@telefonica.net		
CATTENAT Tania 	tania.cattenat@voila.fr		
CHALYVOPOULOU Vanda 	vanhalgr@yahoo.com	My name is Vanda Chalyvopoulou ; I am a painter and I teach plastic arts at the Department of Architecture of the University of Patras in Greece.
I have participated in two working groups of the Alliance [Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World <http://www.alliance21.org/en/index.html >] (Naxos 1998 and Syros 2000) [intercultural works on the terms of the Charter on Human Responsibilities < http://www.alliance21.org/lille/en/resultats/charte_resp.html >] and in the meeting on Art and Cultural Identity in the Construction of a Solidary World (Alliance and Instituto Polis of Brazil, 2001 [<http://www.idrc.ca/lacro/foro/seminario/polis.html>]). 	
CHOUDHARY Biplove 	biplove2000@yahoo.com		
CHOUDHURY Murari	needspostoffice@sify.com		
CID FERNANDEZ Xabier	xabier@acordando.com	My name is Xabier Cid. I was born in Galicia, which is a small country in the Northwest of the Iberian peninsula, in Spanish territory. I am 26 years old and I do not participate in any organization of solidarity. I work in the promotion of my language (Galician) and I militate, not very actively, in local environmentalist organizations.
I have known this forum through Internet, because I work as a journalist in a small electronic portal. [See <http://www.vieiros.com/noticia.asp?Ed=1&N=19007 (*)] 	
COHEN James 	jim.cohen@libertysurf.fr	I was born in the United States in 1954 and have lived in France since 1977. I teach political science and sociology in a university north of Paris to students from many different countries of Africa, the Arab world, Europe, Asia and the Americas. I prefer to look at myself as a citizen of the world rather than as a citizen of France or the United States, which I am legally.
Since my teenage days in the 1960s in the United States, I have felt deeply concerned by issues of war and peace, inequality and maldevelopment, racism and exclusion. I would love to be able to say that I am active in helping to solve these problems, but I am not sure that I can claim this. My "practice" is mostly a matter of teaching and writing, that is, forging, as best I can, the elements of an analysis of the world situation and trying to communicate to others a taste for doing the same, since I certainly do not claim to possess a "science" with answers to every question.
I do not believe in a future utopian society, be it called "socialism" or anything else, though I do believe that radical changes are needed to make the world more egalitarian and more democratic. I believe there are ways of acting in the present that can shape the future by prefiguring a more just and egalitarian society. The world has a long way to go, but perhaps there are a few reasons for optimism, in spite of the tone of conflict and mistrust, often with ethnic or religious connotations, that dominates the world today. When I think about people organizing for a more egalitarian world order, against the arbitrariness of the world financial system, against AIDS and the high price of medicine in Africa, for sustainable development, and for a more inclusive society, less obsessed by people's origins (color, nationality, religion, etc.), then I allow myself, each day, a few minutes of optimism. 	
COSNIER Florence 	flocos@wanadoo.fr	My name is Florence Cosnier and I live in a popular district of Paris. I work in a social center whose "employers" are voluntary inhabitants of the district. The main objective of the Center is to involve the inhabitants in the life of the district.
For me, the simplest socially responsible implication is a grand hope to see changing the society towards peace. 	
CRANE Ed 	ecrane@rpcv.org		
CROMBIE Sedick 	mtp@yebo.co.za		
CUPINO Pinky	pcupino@hotmail.com	Greetings of Peace and Justice! I am Fleur de Lys Castelo Cupino. Everybody calls me Pinky. I am from the Philippines, 43, a mother of two teen-agers, a boy and a girl. I come from a family of professionals and my father was a politician. My father's advocacy exposed me to the urban poor. I imbibed Christian values from my mother's Protestant family. I studied in a Catholic elementary school, in a public high school and then in a university that breeds social activists.
From all these, I chose to have a career in social service, taking up community development and social work. In the university I became a member of the Student Catholic Action, which was strong on exposure to social realities and not much on rituals. After college, I co-founded a social development organization serving in rural communities, OTRADEV [>http://www.eco-web.com/cgi-local/sfc?a=index/index.html&b=register/04886.h tml> (*)].
After five years, I searched for more meaning and expression of my desire for social change. I joined the underground revolutionary movement. In the early 1990s, this movement started to splinter and I joined the one that upheld the mass movement (as against the armed struggle) as the primary means to achieve social change, banking on the strength of the labor force.
Beginning the end of year 2000 (or 17 years after), for various reasons, I left the underground, mainly to find my bearings again as an individual but still retaining my desire to contribute to social change.
I remained a member of the (legal) social movement, SANLAKAS [<http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/masses/index.html> (*)]. Elected as a board member of OTRADEV. Active in a school parents association. Now employed in a foundation that provides free email to remote rural communities. Enrolled as a master's student taking up Women and Development. In short, I expanded my horizons and my forms of involvement.
An eye-opener for me was attending the Assembly of World Inhabitants in Mexico in October 2000 [<http://www.laneta.apc.org/hic-al/results.html> (*)]. There I was exposed to other forms of service and advocacy of different peoples and organizations. My belief then that there is only one path to social change was shattered. Mexico made me appreciative of other initiatives that contribute to changing social realities, towards making the world a better place to live in. 	
D’ABOVILLE Marie-France 	mariefdabo@noos.fr	60 years old. I am born in a family of the French aristocracy. My husband is born in a family of the French aristocracy of military tradition, known in the United States in * the war of the independence *.
We have 3 girls and 6 grandchildren. 2 grandchildren have a father of Germanic descent and live in Great Britain. 2 grandchildren have a father of Polish descent and live in France. 2 grandchildren have a father of French descent and live in France.
My childhood in the countryside: father farmer, poor region. We lived with difficulty, with the crops and the raising that we produced.
I live next to Paris since the adult age. I am especially interested in the different forms of communication: speech writing verbal nonverbal What they transmit as information and as energy.
When I look at my past life, I see all aspects to which I was not sensitive. My marriage at age 21 was a first opening to * difference *. At age 30, I expressed that I wished to remain a student all my life. When I was child, I didn't like history, geography and languages, except the French language. I liked the physical sciences and mathematics. I liked to look for solutions. I always asked myself on the meaning of life. When I became an adult, I understood that the history and geography that one taught me were * dead *.
The Alliance [for a Responsible, Plural and United World <www.alliance21.org> (*)] gives concrete expression emotionally to a very strong dream and activates very deep feelings. 	
DA COSTA LINO CARNEIRO Ana Mary	anamc@ism.com.br	I am a lawyer, militant in the area of human rights. I participated in the [World Citizens] Assembly [<http://www.alliance21.org/lille/en/>], in Lille, and of the World Social Forum [<http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/eng/index.asp>], in Porto Alegre [Brazil]. I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I try to participate in the movements for peace.
A great and affectionate hug, 	
da MATHA SANT’ANNA Christian	sedjrobj2000@yahoo.fr	My name is Christian da MATHA SANT'ANNA and I am an economist, specialist of fiscal policy. I am member of the Youth Workshop [< http://www.alliance21.org/en/colleges/youth.htm >] (Benin), [Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World <http://www.alliance21.org>] managed by the Beninese GUSTAVE ASSAH. 
Am I interested a lot in your activities and I would like to make a contribution about the question: * What is governance? * What is our role in it and what is the link, precisely, with the construction of peace? 	
DE LA MATA Maypa	maypa2002@yahoo.es	Hello, I am Maypa de la Mata, I am 44 years old, I was born and I live in Madrid (Spain).
I develops my social work in the Local Movement of Madrid, in an active way, and I work the themes of employment, social movements, urbanism, social economy, immigration, housing, that is to say, all has to do with the life and problems of neighbors.
I am vice-president of the Regional Federation of Associations of Neighbors of Madrid, and our objective is to improve the quality of life of neighbors. We participate and we summon different mobilizations that have been done in Madrid against the war and all the injustices that there are, not only in Madrid but in the world.
It seemed that to participate in this forum on a personal basis would enhance my knowledge, to be able to develop and apply it.
A forum like this one was needed.
A greeting 	
DE PALMA Isis	isis@educ-imagens.com.br		
DENJEAN Christophe 	cd@vercors-net.com		
DEUTSCH Morton 	md319@columbia.edu	I resumed graduate studies in psychology after flying with the U.S. Army Air Force in Europe during World War II. This was shortly after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My career in psychology ever since has been shadowed by the atomic cloud. It has been largely directed at developing the psychological knowledge that might be useful in creating a world that would be characterized by a cooperative peace, social justice, and the constructive resolution of conflicts.
Shortly before I officially retired in 1990,I established the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University. This Center has been mainly concerned with helping schools become more cooperative institutions, and with developing systematic education in the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of constructive conflict resolution. It has been my strong conviction that for a peaceful world, we will need to educate ourselves and our children in how to resolve conflicts constructively. Conflicts of all sorts -- at the interpersonal, intergroup, and international levels -- are inevitable. The issue is how can we have lively, productive conflicts rather than deadly quarrels.
Our Center, which is now directed by Professor Peter T. Coleman, has also been concerned with integrating theory and practice in the field of conflict resolution. This effort has given rise to THE HANDBOOK OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION: THEORY AND PRACTICE[Jossey-BASS,2000],edited by Morton Deutsch and Peter T. Coleman.
Currently, I am coordinating a faculty seminar on oppression and how to overcome it. I believe that oppression, systematic injustice, is at the root of our most severe intractable conflicts. Social scientists have done a good job of documenting the widespread injustices which exist in our world but have not provided much systematic knowledge of how to overcome oppression through nonviolent means. We are seeking to understand the psychodynamics within the oppressed and the oppressors which foster the continuation of oppression. We are also trying to develop understanding of which strategies and tactics are most useful in overcoming different forms of oppression.
My best wishes to all for peace, justice, and joy as well as a happy New Year. 	
DIAZ PRADO DE VERA David 	daviddp@jazzartistas.com	my name is David, I was born in Madrid, in 1971. I have participated in numerous international students meetings. The last one was in 2001 in Trondheim, Norway. The theme of the festival was Global Responsibility. With a group, we decided to create an organization for the transformation of educational systems so that they integrate knowledge and values related to sustainable development, which name is Aeiforia. But the association Aeiforia is undergoing very difficult moments that put its continuity in great danger. 	
DIOP Ababacar 	ababa_kone@yahoo.fr	My name is Ababacar Diop, I am Senegalese, resident in Senegal. I am jurist of training, I am corresponding of the ARPA organization [Aid for African's Plans Achievement] in Senegal whose address is the following: <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/arpa> (*) I am Coordinator of the project Caravan Multimedia whose address is the following: <http://www.caravane-multimedia.sn> 	
DRORY Elisabeth 	elisabeth.drory@skynet.be		
EDDY Janice	janiceeddy@aol.com		
EDOU Patrick 	patrickedou@yahoo.fr	I name myself Jean Clair Patrick NGUEMA EDOU. I am Gabonese, religious spiritist. I prepare in Cameroon a degree in theology because I am future priest. I always lived in cross-cultural dynamics and internationality and I always centered my considerations on mutual understanding. I was responsible for Christian Student Youth. Every year I organize a meeting around "Religion and culture of the peace" and I launched the network "faith, culture and education" to reinforce the dialogue between culture and religion. I am convinced that peace can only happen if we accept to reconsider the world. I wish to get involved therefore in this forum so that together we can build peace by accepting to jostle ourselves within ourselves. 	
EGGUM Bruce 	eggum@frontiernet.net	I am Bruce Eggum, from Gresham, Wisconsin, USA, male, age 58. I have been a carpenter, mechanic, farmer, family counselor. I am also a recovering alcoholic. I would like for all of us in the world to enjoy happiness together.
There are many ideals to look at. The United Nations Human Rights looks nice. The problem seems to be implementing these things.
I like "these truths" which have stood the test of time. One of these I believe is Socrates in "Republic" book Four. Socrates states that happiness comes from the practice of "Virtue". The State, as well as the individual will be happy practicing virtue.
So that to implement these ideals, must we practice virtue? Is virtue restricted, or owned such as in a certain religion or ethnic group? I believe not. I believe virtue is what we teach our children so we can get along as a family. What we learn to get along with each other.
Could it be that if we come to an understanding and begin acting with virtue, that globally we would begin to see our likeness?
Could we implement peace without virtue?
Peacefully, 	
ESTRADA Mariela 	colacot@yahoo.com		
EUVERTE Bertrand 	bertrand_euverte@hotmail.com		
FARIA Hamilton 	hfaria@polis.org.br		
FERNANDEZ Alfredo 	abroxo@hotmail.com 	My name is Alfredo Luis Fernández, I was born September 22, 1961 in Lanús, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, I am affiliated and militant of the Justicialista Party (Peronist) of the Republic Argentina, married, without children, I live in the City of Banfield, I am a fan of San Lorenzo de Almagro, lawyer, writer, secretary of a Deliberative Town council, vice-president of the Foundation Conurbano. 	
FIGUEIREDO Hermila	hermila@pacs.org.br	My name is Hermila Figueiredo. I am 59 years old. I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, close to the sea. I speak Portuguese. And I am a librarian. I work in PACS - Instituto Políticas Alternativas para o Cone Sul [Institute for alternative policies for the Southern Cone <http://www.irc-online.org/cbl/fairtrade/la/ipacs.html> (*)].
PACS is an independent, non-profit entity, which gathers professionals committed with the popular classes and the social transformations. It was created in 1986 and, it is devoted to the education, to the research and the shared construction of alternative practices, in narrow collaboration with the social movements. Its central objective is to contribute to the elaboration of policies and the adoption of new practices of the person's development and of the human society, with the worker's participation as central subject of the democracy, rendering advice in the ecosocial, political, educational, and methodological fields.
In PACS I am responsible for the administration of the directory of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World [<http://www.alliance21.org> (*)], a data base that has the addresses of all allies [signatories of the Platform for a Responsible and United World [<http://www.alliance21.org/en/platform/index.html> (*)].
I know the Foundation (FPH) [Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation <http://www.fph.ch/bienvenue%20eng.html> (*)] since 1992. First as member of the DPH network [Dialog for the Progress of Humankind <http://www.webdph.net/> (*)]and since 1995 as member of the Alliance.
Cordially, 
	
FONTAINE Annie 	fontaine_annie@hotmail.com 	Born in 1969, I am a native of Quebec (French Canada). I have a long experience in the community life and in the work in the street with young people in difficulties. I work currently in the Social Working School of the University of Quebec in Montreal where I work as responsible of a training project and as teacher of work in the street. I am fighting to preserve a part of humanism in the social. In fact, too often the institutions themselves generate the problems that they try to fight. Today, I think it is indispensable to join throughout the world in order to weave a canvas of solidarity capable to slow down the self-destructive escalation. 	
FRISAYE André 	fond.frisaye@caramail.com	I am born in 1951, in Belgium, in the region of Liege, at the border with Germany and Netherlands. I taught during about twenty years, especially Latin and Greek (ancient). As Socrates in fact, I feel like "citizen of the world."
Now, I am early-retired person and I take care of an organization that carries my name, the Foundation Frisaye A.S.B.L. (non-profit association), which is devoted mainly to education and to creativeness (Site: http://www.chez.com/fondationfrisaye/index.htm) (*). My centers of interest are numerous enough: education, creativeness, data processing, Internet, psychology, spirituality, etc.
Peace challenges me, as much interior as outside. But I will come back to that soon...
Take good care of yourselves!
Cordially, 	
GANDAHO Frédy	fgandaho@caramail.com	I am GANDAHO Mêton Frédy Tassien. My usual first name is Frédy. I am a Jurist by training. I am the President of the NGO Galop-Solidarité (GALSO). The NGO that I direct facilitates a project of construction of a free training center currently in joinery and soldering for children who have dropped out of school and are abandoned from the city of Ouidah in Benin. It is a project that began on own funds. In the same order of ideas, we have just finished the construction of an agro-pastoral farm, which will serve to feed the children of the home and at the same time to allow the children who are not interested in joinery and soldering to turn toward agriculture. All the children of our home are currently regularly enrolled in the school and follow the courses.
Those that are first concerned by the project of the socio-educational home are those who will have, for a reason or another, decided not to follow the courses any longer. Beyond that, I am assistant to the Civil Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Benin. I am very interested by subjects as various as politics under all its forms, education, the environment, etc..
I am of those who believe that Africa can change, even though a lot of taboos remain to be broken. I am convinced that globalization doesn't only have bad things about it. Only, it would be necessary to see things under another angle.
Thank you 	
GARAY Mike 	bmp_national@edsamail.com.ph		
GARCIA-DELGADO Vicente	tivino@aol.com	Hello to all. My name is Vicente and I am 51 years old. I am lawyer of Bars of Barcelona and New York, and Individual Partner of CIVICUS, an international Alliance for citizens participation <http://www.civicus.org> (*). I am also representative of CIVICUS in "The Values Caucus" at the U.N. <http://www.worldpeace.org/values.html> (*). In Spain, I am part of the organizing group of the chapter of International Transparency <http://www.transparency.org> (*).
I was born and raised in Spain, and I live in New York from 1976. My work in civil society is centered on the possibility to configure an authentic trisectorial cooperation (global, regional, local) toward the sustainable human development.
I share the vision of the world of Carl Jung and, among the contemporary, of Ervin Lazslo. I possess a sacred sense of life and I try to act in consequence, in spite of my countless limitations and my equally countless shortcomings. I am not affiliated to any political party, neither I participate in any religious organization. Neither I am related with any economic or financial interest.
I celebrate to be in your company and I thank Alliance 21 the opportunity to participate in the noble effort of creating, united in solidarity, a future of Peace. 	
GARD Stanislas	sgard@omedia.ch	Hello to all. My name is Stanislas Gard. I am 64 years old and I live in Switzerland, in the Valais, in Martigny, not far from the place where I was born: the Val de Bagnes. I have traveled a fair amount and I lived in different places: Lausanne, Paris, Geneva, Copenhagen, Ranchi, New York, Berkeley, Oakland, El Cerrito.
If I participate in this discussion it is because since always, at least since my first excursions into cyberspace, toward 89, at the time of the BBS (Bulletin Boards Systems), I wished to put to profit the extraordinary potential of interactivity of the Internet to provoke collective thinking, to promote the exchanges of ideas, opinions and information and so to encourage a better mutual understanding and greater synergy among people of different languages, dispersed in the four corners of the planet.
I am eager in fact to congratulate the facilitators of this forum for their initiative. The project doesn't lack audacity. It deserves to be backed.
I share the point of view of Vicente when he says that "an enormous progress in our collective human conscience is what is required most now" and, like him, I wish the advent "of a sustainable, holistic" human system and the institution "of a culture of peace". I think however that it is not necessary to conceal the difficulties of this. The path is sowed with ambushes; we must make sure not to sink either into angelism nor into "bar-room talk" because the process will be vain unless it results in the concrete.
Strong with this conviction, I will follow the progress of this virtual forum attentively and will try to contribute to it in the measure of my modest means. 	
GARZON Juli	julig24@hotmail.com		
GONZÁLEZ J. Luisa	jluisagon@wanadoo.es	My name is Luisa González. I live in Palencia, a small city of the Castilla y León region [in Spain]. I am a teacher in a Superior Technical School of Agrarian Engineering. I will soon be retired. I am 68 years old.
I am widow and I have three daughters. I have always been devoted to research and teaching in scientific and technical topics, but I have also been interested in human problems. Up to now I have not had occasion of participating actively in some action dealing with social, political or economic problems. It doesn't mean that they did not concern me, but circumstances are circumstances.
Now I have begun to get involved. I have entered in contact with this forum through *Indymedia* [<http://www.indymedia.org/> (*)]. Indymedia is a digital journal that publishes things that is hidden by the official press. Anyone can publish in Indymedia her/his points of view on different topics. I want to take advantage of that opportunity.
I consider that the citizens should feel responsible for what is happening. Democracy is defined as the government by the people for the people. It is true that politicians try to steal from the citizen the exercise of that responsibility by means of a lot of tools: education, propaganda, sports, news,... It is that responsibility that encouraged me to participate in this forum.
This forum should not be a simple exchange of points of view; I would like this to lead to conclusions in order to advance on the way of the construction of a better world or, at least, different.
I am sorry to have incorporated to the Forum a little late. I will do my best to make up for lost time.
Greeting to all. 	
GRAU Francesc 	xeskins@yahoo.es 		
GRENIER René	ren.grenier2@sympatico.ca		
GUEYE Youssoupha	youssouphagueye@sentoo.sn	I am Senegalese resident in Senegal.
I did some studies in Germanic languages and civilizations. I was director of the CREDETIP (Center of research for the development of the intermediate technologies of fishing), I organized the Senegalese stage of the African Caravan for peace and solidarity <http://www.barcelona2004.org/caravana/fr.htm> (*) and I have been chosen by the Foundation of the nations for youth to participate in the conference Training on the mediation and the resolution of the conflicts in Africa. This conference succeeded to the setting up of the African Network of the young builders of the peace.
Regards. 	
HAERINGER Nicolas 	haeringn@club-internet.fr		
 HESTER Pam 	pam@nchre.org	My name is Pam Hester.
Currently I am the Senior Program Director with the National Center for Human Rights Education [http://www.nchre.org/about/index.shtml], which is located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Our mission is to build a human rights movement in the United States by teaching activists how to use the human rights framework to their work and in their lives. For the past 10 years I have been involved in various programs that help youth and adults discover ways to live in a heterogeneous society and work to build sustainable, just communities. 	
HOUINATO Mathieu	houinatmath@yahoo.fr		
HOVY Ed 	hovy@nitro.isi.edu		
INOSTROZA E. Luis P.	linostroz@hotmail.com		
INOSTROZA E. Luis P. 	lpinostroza@yahoo.com		
ISAULA Raquel 	contacto@rds.org.hn		
ISEMANN Franz 	 mehr.demokratie@chiemgau-online.de	I am Franz Isemann of Germany,
I am 68 years old, married, three children, 6 grandchildren, former executive member of Goethe Institute [<http://www.goethe.de/eindex.htm>(*)].
I took part in the governance working group at the Peles/Sinaia European conference in June 2001 [of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World <http://www.alliance21.org/continental/en/europe/index.html> (*)].
I am member of Mehr Demokratie e.V. in Germany, of Network Direct Democracy in Europe (NDDIE) [<http://home.t-online.de/home/nddie/home~1.htm>(*)] and of World Direct Democratic Movement (WDDM).
My main interest is the democratization of the EU [European Union] and EUs peaceful relations with the world.
I am looking forward to get new ideas on peace keeping and peace making.	
ISSIFOU Alassani	afrique@atmedica.com		
JAISWAL Rakesh K. 	rakjai2001@yahoo.co.inrakjai@sancharnet.in	I'm a full time eco-activist. I'm working on urban environmental issues, with special focus on water pollution. For the last 8 years, I've been involved in the ecological health restoration of river Ganga, the life line of India and the most venerated river on planet earth.	
JOHNSON Pierre	pwj@alliance21.org	My name is Pierre Johnson and I am 36 years old. I have got a multidisciplinary background (social sciences and development studies) ; my experience led me to act at the crossing point of several cultures. I am interested in international cooperation (in a general, in a non institutional sense), and also in how our daily lifestyles influence on the environment and on social relations. I am engaged therefore in a number of actions, characterized by the sense given to everyday actions and by the partnership and solidarity between social actors.
I am participating in the Alliance [Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World <http://www.alliance21.org>] for 4 years, and among others in the Socioeconomy of Solidarity workgroup, that tries to consider an economy at the service of the human being, and to articulate experiences and initiatives going in that sense, and also to formulate some proposals for the transformation of the socioeconomic logic of our societies. I have been the facilitator of the Fair Trade Workshop [http://fairtrade.socioeco.org/en/] for two years, and I am an active member of the organization Action Consumption" Acting through Consumption." [<http://www.local.attac.org/attac24/Bulletin011107.rtf].
The Socioeconomy of Solidarity is a new conception of exchanges in which economy is not separated from society and culture anymore and works on daily socioeconomic relations ; it is directly related to Peace and sustainability at different levels: local, national and international. I will later try to argue in that sense by the means of various examples.	
JURUA Ceci Vieira	juruacv@montreal.com.br	My name is Ceci Juruá, economist, dedicated to research and teaching in the fields of Public Ministry of Finance and the Scheduling of Urban Transportation. I worked during 35 years in the budget of the state, in Rio de Janeiro and in Brasilia, and at the University. In the framework of the Alliance [for a responsible, plural and united world <http://www.alliance21.org>], I was facilitator of the Workshop on Tax Policy. At present, I lead work on National Health Insurance, on taxes and on National Sovereignty. 	
KARLSSON Gail 	g.karlsson@worldnet.att.net	I am an American woman, married with two sons. I am an environmental lawyer and I work as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program [<http://www.undp.org/> (*)] on energy projects and policies for sustainable development.
I live in New York very close to the World Trade Center site. On September 11, I evacuated my home and ran with my ten-year-old son from his school as the second tower collapsed behind us. Our neighborhood has become a scene of mass death and destruction. It was many weeks before we could return to our home, and our lives have been changed forever.
I am aware of resentments against United States foreign policy positions, and I have opposed many actions taken by the US. I am sympathetic to people who are poor and victimized and without hope around the world, which is why I work for the United Nations. But I do not see that any just cause was served by the attack on the World Trade Center, as some participants in this forum have suggested.
I believe that in the long run there cannot be lasting peace without a greater degree of fairness in the world economy. In many countries the poverty is so extreme that no one has much hope for a rewarding life. There is no direct connection, however, between poverty and terrorism.
Although it may be hard to resolve many economic and political conflicts, or even domestic ones, through negotiation and compromise, I believe there is some hope of working towards peace in that way. The United Nations is important because it provides a forum where the interests of all countries can be discussed and addressed, at least to some extent. There can be no compromise, however, with fanatics who see people with different beliefs as enemies who should be killed.
Even though I am angry about being attacked, I still believe there are many opportunities for each of us to promote the goal of peace, at least in small ways. A willingness to recognize conflicts and try to understand them is a first step towards taking action to resolve them, no matter where they arise. 	
KHALID Rajae 	rajaekhalid@yahoo.fr		
KITAZAWA Yoko	kitazawa@jca.apc.org 	I am a Japanese Woman.
I am the President of the Peace Studies Association of Japan [<http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/psaj/about-e.html> (*)], which was created in 1973. This is an interdisciplinary academic association of 800 members who are interested in peace studies and peace education. E-mail <psaj@tku.ac.jp>
I am also Co-Chair of Japan Network on Debt & Poverty [<http://www.eco-link.org/jubilee/top-en.html> (*)] (formerly Jubilee 2000 Japan Coalition). This network is composed of Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Trade Unions, women, lawyers, academics, and NGOs. In July 2000, Jubilee 2000 Japan organized an international conference of Jubilee 2000 and adopted an Appeal to the G7 Leaders, which was presented to the G7 Summit Meeting in Okinawa. E-mail <debtnetjapan@jca.apc.org>
Also a free-lance journalist specialized on Political Economy of the Third World, regularly contributing articles to the various weekly/monthly reviews.	
LAMBERT Sterling	lamwebb@cam.org		
LEVASSEUR Elie 	elie.levasseur@etatsgeneraux.org		
LIBROJO Anna Haydee 	cordphil@pworld.net.ph		
LINH LE Xuan	gerimania2000@yahoo.co.uk		
LORENTE Consol 	consol.lorente@wanadoo.fr	Member of the Forum Coordination, Consol Lorente, 38, Spanish and Catalan, also lives in Paris. She will be helping with the machine translation of your messages until the end of this month. 	
LUBOCHINSKI Lilian Avivia	lilianlubo@alternex.com.br		
MACKINNON Geraldine	mackinnon_g@hotmail.com	Hello to all, my name is Geraldine MacKinnon, I am 22 years old, I am Chilean and in one month I will graduate of Degree in Art (visual arts). In May of this year I participated in the Meeting of Artists for a Responsible and United World, organized by the Alliance [for a Responsible, Plural and United World <http://www.alliance21.org> (*)] in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I also carried out studies in History of the Art in the university of Sussex, England.
Which more interests me of this debate, it is the possibility to reopen the discussion on the role of the Art and Education, mainly now in that we are faced with a new warlike conflict that many associate with a cultural crash. It would be also interesting to exchange ideas on the posture that the poor countries have been forced to take in front of the conflict, supporting ideas that maybe not many share. It is important to evaluate to what extent we should allow ourselves to be forced to take positions that only identify those who have the power.
I hope the debate serves us all and let us be able to create a network of opinions that surpasses the virtual. 	
MADAULA CANADELL Feliu	fmadaula@teleline.es	I am Feliu Madaula Canadell, Catalan, residing in Sabadell, city next to Barcelona. I am 46 years old, I studied agricultural engineering, I impelled ecological farming and responsible consumption, now I am working as technician in a natural park.
I participate in different organizations, we have a group of the association EcoConcern in Sabadell and we collaborate in the Sabadell Platform for Peace.
Let us stop war. Another world is possible. We have participated in the initiative of Drums for Peace <www.tamtamforpeace.org/> (*) and we have carried out several acts against war. In another mail, I will contribute a writing that is part of periodic collaborations in the local media that we carry out.
Wanting that we be able to create an opinion and organization that facilitates a world in peace and fairness, I greet you cordially. 	
MARCOS Liliana	yubiri@eresmas.com		
MARDULYN Micheline	michmardulyn.bernheim@online.be		
MARIN Gustavo 	gustavo@alliance21.org	Member of the Forum Coordination, Gustavo Marin, 51, is Chilean and French. He is in charge, at the Charles Léopold Foundation for the Progress of Humankind (FPH) <http://www.fph.ch/bienvenue%20eng.html> (*), of the Future of the Planet program. The FPH has backed the development of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World <http://www.alliance21.org> (*) since its beginning, and is also financing this forum. Our warm thanks to the FPH. 	
MARINO Olinca	derechoshumanos@laneta.apc.org		
MARMALUK-HAJIOANNOU Daria 	dariamusic@yahoo.com		
MARTAWORDAYO Berly 	berly@yifan.net		
MATTOS Janaina 	jana@gvmail.br	My name is Janaina Mattos, I am forty years old, I have a three year-old daughter, and I am been born in Brazil, where I live in the city of Sao Paulo, a metropolis that has somewhere around twenty million people.
I work in an NGO dedicated to several topics, as: culture, environment, local development, community participation, food security, and urban reform.
It interests me to be in the Pax Forum because I think that the construction of peace is a daily task that implies to change all the paradigms that are prevailing in civilization just as we have lived it. For that reason it interests me to know how other people are doing this in their lives, maybe to learn how to do this in mine.
It interests me to be in the forum because I have a very small daughter, which makes me mother of all the children of the world, who have nothing to do with what we have made of it without asking their opinion. Hopefully we can do something together here.
Greetings to all.	
MBARGA Jean	jmbarga@caramail.com		
McNAIR Jean	shemaya@wanadoo.fr	I have lived in France for 28 years. I am 55 years old, a teacher by profession, poet and writer. A child of the turbulent years of the 1960's, I grew up in a segregated south in North Carolina where "Welcome to the land of the Ku Klux Klan" has meanings of terror, even today. The search for answers changed my life forever and made me an activist. Questions of * race * evolved naturally into questions of * human rights * and the fate of our species and planet. My work ? Director of a non profit association, * Espérance et Jeunesse * (Youth & Hope-France) which works with French underprivileged children, youth, foreigners and immigrants. 	
MENDEZ Marie-Dominique	madorama@aol.com		
MOLLE Christine	christine.molle@freesurf.fr 	If I am held to what Ali says (life begins at 40!), then I am 7 years old and I am happy of it because I start a new life indeed! In fact I try to learn Arabic and it is like being in kindergarten, to restart all from zero. It reminds me of very bad memories! School was difficult for me. I had fun writing upside-down and read through the paper! Therefore with Arabic, my reference marks are upset, this time all is in the opposite direction (rather than upside-down! because upside-down with regard to what? With regard to what criteria?)
I try to learn the Arabic just to try to make inside me, the effort to reach this unknown, this difference. I tell myself that, what does it serve to speak of peace if myself I don't manage to go beyond my own cleavages, my own limitations, my own fears and to make the link. This asks of me big efforts, I have the impression that I will not get there, I meet lots of material obstacles, reflections of my own interior obstacles, but little by little, I progress!
" Other reference marks, other field of vision". In any case, I already went beyond a stage of the fear! (This happens in the zone of Minguettes in Lyons [France], a difficult district, with a lot of breakers, violence, theft....). Therefore, it is by working on myself first that I try to make peace progress by hoping to become myself an example! Vast program! At another level, I also act in this sense by following a training of 6 months in " management of development project in the international solidarity." Before, I was in the education and I am also trained in "mediation," management of conflicts. Currently we work on a pilot project of "education to citizenship and development in a difficult district."
I feel like a citizen of the world, with friends of the world, of Israel, of Palestine, of the United States, of Europe, of everywhere, of the Moslem, of the Jewish, of the Hindu, of the Christian, of animists, of atheists,.... And I am a woman attempting at my level, as you all, to contribute to a more human world. Good year to all,	
MONTSERRAT I OLIVELLA Xavier	fxmontserrat@hotmail.com		
MOORE Ric	omnist@yahoo.com	Greetings. I am 51 and American. My ancestry is Native American, European, and African, which makes me a Black American by social category in the human race.
I am the Manager for Web, Information, Technology and Strategy in the United States International Global Climate Initiatives, including the United States Initiative on Joint Implementation and the United States Country Studies Program. These are now legacy programs in the area of energy and the environment related to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Framework Convention involves international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to promote sustainable development.
My opinions in this forum are strictly personal and do not represent United States Government policy or positions. I am an advocate for justice and social action. My religion is omnism, so I am an omnist. The word omnist can be found in an Unabridged Webster's Third International Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary, but without much explanation.
I have a degree in education and social theory from Antioch College, a masters degree in education focused on policy research and organizational behavior from Harvard, and a masters degree in business from The Wharton School. I have worked in the United States Department of Energy for 21 years and in the Federal Government for 27 years. My program is located in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
I have also been active in organizations on behalf of social change and justice, civil liberties, human rights, and wise use of technology to achieve human progress. I am the cofounder of Sojourner Douglass College in Baltimore, Maryland. I am also an organizer of the Coalition of Federal Employees.
I look forward to the Pax Forum discussions. 	
MOREAU Roger 	musica@imagine.com.ar	I am 63 years old. Original French, I live in Argentina since 1984, with my wife Susana, of nationality Franco-Argentine, and our two children. My personal orientation of life consists in making me available to accompany on the field the processes of resistance, liberation and social change, according to the spirit and the methods of active nonviolence of Gandhian inspiration and community orientation. This orientation led me to participate successively:
* between 1968 and 1972, in the commune of the Arche de la Borie Noble (south of France), founded by the writer Lanza del Vasto, direct disciple of Gandhi.
* between 1972 and 1984, in the fight of nonviolent inspiration against the governmental project of enlarging of the military camp of the Larzac (France): activities of facilitation, journalism, participation in the foundation of a rural agro-pastoral commune that still exists.
* between 1985 and 1990, in the pastoral of liberation of the parish of Tilcara (Argentina) as in charge of "human promotion."
* between 1991 and 2001 in the creation and the activities of the organization "Música Esperanza Filial Tilcara" directed by my wife Susana, in the framework of the International Foundation Music Hope created in 1982 by the Argentine pianist Miguel Angel Estrella, as administrative and technical assessor.
* since September 11, 2001, I recentered my activity on the specific issue of active nonviolence, community facilitation, participatory social diagnosis, and education in Peace.
The Forum for the Peace of the FPH [Foundation for the Progress of Humankind <http://www.fph.ch/> (*)] seems me a good platform of research and exchanges and, why not, of initiatives on these topics, in organic complementarity with other constituent topics of a process of justice and peace.
Very cordially to all, 	
MOSNEAGA Silvia	la_moldave@mail.ru		
MUNSTER INFANTE Blanca 	blanca@ciem.cu	I am Blanca Munster Infante from Cuba, I have more than 15 years of experience in the educational and investigative work in the Polytechnic University and in the University of La Havana.
I have worked directly with student, union and feminine organizations, contributing to the overcoming and to the qualification in themes related with political economy and international economy.
In the 2001 I knew if the existence of the Alliance [Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World <http://www.alliance21.org>] and I participated in the Pole Socioeconomy of Solidarity in the " Woman and economy" workshop in La Havana, in the workshop "Job and employment" in Brazil and in the Event of Scotland. I await to contribute starting from my experiences to this enriching debate. 	
NDETA Philip 	learning@africaonline.co.ke		
NEGEDE Gobezie	negede@skynet.be		
NGONO ONANA Françoise Yolande	n-ofy@caramail.com		
NOTTEN Frank	franknotten@hotmail.com	This is my short presentation, so I can be involved in the discussion later on. My name is Frank Notten, male, 21 years old and History and Journalism student in Groningen, the Netherlands.
For me the alliance [for a Responsible, Plural and United World <www.alliance21.org> (*)] is new. I am curious to its possibilities for giving me more knowledge about the global discussion which started after the 11th of September. Of course, the American attacks are not the solution for making worldly peace, but what CAN be the solution? I hope to find concrete answers than I already heard and read the last few months in different discussions and articles. I don't know if it's realistic to expect this from a forum like this, but at least I can try. In the end I also hope to have developed a more explicit own opinion about the current worldly events. Thanks for your attention. 	
OCHIENG’ Michael 	app@maf.or.ke	I am Michael Ochieng'. I am working with Africa Peace Point. This is a grassroots Initiative. APP is hosting a regional network called Peace Tree Network. We are involved in Peacebuilding and reconciliation activities. I am for a peaceful and just world.
Regards	
OJEDA José Gil	tesaireko@hotmail.com	Born of family of landless farmers in Caacupé (spiritual capital of the Republic), Paraguay, I am 68 years old. I am father to 12 children in a single marriage, my wife lives healthy and she continues being my girlfriend. I was a seminarian (student for Catholic priest) from the ages of 13 to 23. I was a metallurgist union militant in Argentina. As a family farmer I was a militant and leader in the organization Ligas Agrarias Cristianas [Agrarian Christian Leagues] in the 70s and 80s, under the dictatorship of Stroessner [1954-1989]. As a consequence, 3 years of jail with no parole. I was already also embarked in the guerrilla's plan. During prison, in three successive hunger strikes I reached 80 days of fast with only water. After 11 years of exile, again I am in a rural organization. From 1970 my area of social activity is popular education, and at the moment education in popular health. <tesaireko@hotmail.com>
A lot of times I have listened to the sermon that " violence is never Christian or evangelical." Generally this has been affirmed in superior hierarchical levels at moments of violence from below against the cold violence of the oppressors. Supposedly we all want, we all yearn for peace. But I believe that peace is not a citizen that inhabits a territory where injustice that begets inequality has its throne. The power that imposes an injustice and legalizes inequality is a power that it at war, declared or not, cold or hot, depending on whether the victims resist or not, with or without weapons. But it is state of war even when the oppressed do not declare themselves as rebels: between exploiters and the exploited there is no peace. Among oppressors and oppressed there is not peace. And if the exploited-oppressed rise up in arms, it is not there that the violence began, it is not then that the war begins. I believe that there is where the route to peace starts up, if among the rebels there are plans of equality, if they have a program of justice, if the objective is fraternity. 	
OLIVEIRA Sonia 	svitorix@ig.com.br		
OLIVELLA Marti	marti@novacis.org 		
OLTEANU Ion	paltin@dnt.ro		
OTERO Santiago 	nyigonyigo@menta.net		
PANCIERA Silvana	silvana.panciera@enter.org		
PANSU Denis 	denis@alliance21.org		
PEDRAZZINI Yves 	yves.pedrazzini@epfl.ch		
PELAYO German 	german.pelayo@free.fr	Hello to all, my name is Germà Pelayo.
I am Catalan, I am 33 years old. I am a geographer and at the moment I live in Paris.
I have been part of the organization team of the project * rethink society * [<http://www.novacis.org/indexeng.htm> (*)] in Barcelona that has consisted in inviting everybody to produce proposals to transform society in fields such as education, communication, politics, economy, environment, etc.
At the moment I have the intention of mounting a debate group in order to rebuild the United Nations. I think that the strengthening of this institution is a necessity to establish a durable peace at a planetary scale. At the moment, I cannot show you a web page, but I am very interested in sharing your experience and support; so all those who are interested, feel free to contact me. Critics are also accepted. 	
PETRIS Richard 	richard.petris@ecoledelapaix.org	After having done a "detour" of fifteen years in a bank, I got involved in peace-education actions. I lived a long time in Vietnam where I have seen two wars. I was responsible for an emergency organization for refugees that managed a temporary center of accommodation (1976-1992). Currently, I am director of the Ecole de la Paix, in Grenoble. I am also co-facilitator of the "Peace" program of the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation and director of the collection "Culture of peace" at the Éditions Desclée de Brower publishing house. 	
PILI Ross Gaston R.	rpili@forbin.qc.edu	Hello, my name is Ross Pili and I served in the United States Marine Corps Infantry from August of 1990 to November of 1994. I was deployed in South and Central America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. I am also a Gulf War veteran.
I am a naturalized US citizen, but I grew up in the Philippines -- the family did not plant roots here until 1989. I am currently an Assistive Technology Specialist with the Office of Special Services of Queens College, CUNY (City University of New York). The Assistive Technology Office actively provides training, software and hardware as well as referrals and evaluations so that students with disabilities can have access to technology (specifically, computers). We are currently in the process of trying to coordinate its adoption and implementation throughout all of CUNY.
My participation in the forum is personal and my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of CUNY or Queens College. Nevertheless, I am honored to be able to participate in this forum and I hope to make worthy contributions. 	
POR George 	gpor@co-i-l.com		
POTH Robert	robert.poth@aon.at		
RAMIS I MONENY Guillem	gramis@dginnova.caib.es	My name is GUILLEM RAMIS i MONENY, I am school teacher, I am 63 years old and my current occupation is educational technician adviser in the "Conselleria d'Educacio i Cultura del Govern de les Illes Balears."
I am the coordinator of VIVIM PLEGATS (We Live together), an intercultural program of education for peace and cooperation that goes to 44 school centers of primary and secondary education at the moment in the islands of Majorca, Menorca, Eivissa and Formentera. For more than 20 years I am devoted to the education of peace and of human rights. I have written some didactic works on this topic, always in Catalan for the pupils of these islands. I know that the field of teaching is fundamental for coexistence and to establish a fairer society.
I am convinced that peace is possible and that in the world there are many people who work to make it reality. The negative news and their pernicious effects arrive with more speed, but there exists a slow and constant reality of construction of a better society, by means of peace and justice. I have made my motto to act on the slogan of the World Social Forum of Porto Alegre [in Brazil <http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/> (*)] "Another better world is possible."
I live in islands that have become a paradigm of union between the North and the South. Here live many rich European that are buying our land and industries. Equally are arriving countless immigrants from countries of the South who require to survive and to exercise their rights of human beings. From this reality I want to contribute my small grain of sand to this forum of peace. Exchanging our experiences can teach a lot to one another and to all grow in humanity. We all are useful and we each have our own irreplaceable role in the construction of our world.
At the moment I am very interested in the work of elaboration of the Earth Charter, text that will be put to approval by the United Nations in September 2002 [<http://www.earthcharter.org/> (*)]. In the schools of our school program for peace and cooperation we are already working on the "official" text being helped with some adaptations at a school level for children and young people that we have prepared in the work team. I want to share this work with other educators. 	
RAUSS Manola 	manola@fph.fr		
RAZAKAHARIVELO Charlot	cidrvm@dts.mg	My name is Charlot Razakaharivelo, Director of an institution of Microfinance operating in the southwest of Madagascar. I had a manager training and I am graduate in Company Administration Science and in finance and specialized in Microfinance.
I am member of the Alliance [Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World < http://www.alliance21.org/en/index.html >] and I participated in the Finance of Solidarity forum [<http://finsol.socioeco.org/en/>] in Paris, and in the socially responsible socio-economy meeting in Findhorn and in the World Citizens Assembly in Lille [<http://www.alliance21.org/lille/en/index.html>].
I am also vice-president executive the Young Economic Chamber of Madagascar. 	
REYX Philippe 	philippe.reyx@ecoledelapaix.org	Retired engineer, 62 years, professional career at the Direction of the International Trade of electromechanical equipment goods: North America, Scandinavia, Europe Central and Oriental, Russia, until 1998, plus a number of specific journeys, here and there in the world. Married, father of large family, a " big car" for the grandchildren, to take them at the sledge,...
My father, officer, resistant during the second world war, deportee, disappeared in March 1945 in a "Transportation". It is not the forgetting that can break the sequence "violence entails violence" but on the contrary the integration of all Memories in an educational method for Peace. Meetings, sharing of experience are part of this method.
These last years, I went several times in Germany, in particular to meet the professors of junior high schools and their classes with former prisoners in concentration camps.
Voluntary to the Ecole de la Paix [School of Peace <http://www.ecoledelapaix.org> (*)] at the same time, I work thanks to the medium of the projects of the school, to contribute to the development of the educational methods of the Peace. In a government of oppression (Milosevic), how to give the speech and the means to the resistant? How to distinguish a resistant from a terrorist clearly? The soldiers are also builders of Peace (chapter of the symposium of Lille December 2001 [<http://www.alliance21.org/lille/en/> (*)]). I participate in the "research workgroup" of the School of Peace and in search of new partners.
On these bases, I will endeavor to contribute to the life of this Forum. 	
ROBEYNS Vincent 	vincent.robeyns@yucom.be		
ROMBAUER Eduardo 	durombauer@uol.com.br		
RUELLAN Alain 	ruellan@agropolis.fr		
SABOURIN Claire 	claire.sabourin@internet.uqam.ca		
SACASAS Maria	sakis@wanadoo.es	My name is María. I am 43 years old. I was born and I live in Barcelona. Until 3 years ago I had a company of reproduction of antiquities while I was collaborating with some NGO and studying NLP [Neuro-linguistics Programming].
At age 40, I took the decision of devoting me to what I wanted. Next year I will graduate in Social Work, mediation and resolution of conflicts. I am crazy about the study of human behavior and social abilities.
I am very interested in peace culture. I participate in some seminars (Peace Foundation).
I consider myself hardly *intellectual*. I sometimes get lost in your reflections so rich that you send and that I admire sincerely. The synthesis of last week pushed me to enter. I see * practical* and accessible proposals. I would like that we continue in that way.
I have three adolescent children of 15, 18 and 19 years. People of this age need answers and orientations. I don't worry about my children excessively because they already have a mark where to debate, with the necessary values to know how to discern. Values that they themselves transmit and that they even, *already* teach me.
Although the work begins with oneself (It is a constant work), the work with the children, with the ones that are very near, participating actively in citizenship. What can we do to seduce the young that don't have the same opportunities and that are more victims therefore of the violent part of society? I would also need an answer, but I believe that the big *actions* need time. Time of constant work without fainting if we don't see immediate results. Maybe, the following generation will be able to collect some of these fruits.
I find your proposals fantastic, but personally, I would like to know some experience of concrete intervention with positive results, in the field of adolescents or parents' school.
Meanwhile, I want to continue with more force and with more conviction, while at the same time reading of the contributions of the participants *recharges* me with energy of knowing that I am accompanied. 	
SANTOS Yoe F.	yoefsantos@hotmail.com		
SATUÉ DE VELASCO Eduardo 	e.satue.000@recol.es	My name is Eduardo Satué, I am Christian, pharmacist and Spanish, I believe that this is the right order. I am 29 years old and I am already active since two years in the Alliance[for a responsible, plural and united world <http://www.alliance21.org>], but it still have not introduced myself, although I have followed with interest many of the debates of this forum.
I am member of a grassroots Christian community from where we share faith in a God who is able to die for us, and if it were little, who is able to resuscitate later, and us with him. We believe that God created us at his image and likeness, that is to say, as creators; each one has within himself the possibility to create and to recreate this unfinished world where God has created the world for each of us, and not only for a few. We believe that the sanctification capacity of oneself is within each person. We believe that Law is made to serve man and not the other way around. We believe that all together, we are more than the addition of each one of us by separate and although a lot of times we can only be willing to believe theses things, we believe that believing is a gift.
I am inspector of Public Health and at the same time I dedicate my time to a foundation that works for sanitary development and for the protection of the environment.
My work is centered mainly in the access to medicine.
On the other hand, I am an incorrigible reader and fond of computer science and I am studying Philosophy remotely.
Lastly, I am Spanish. First I thought it was something great, now I find that it is irremediable.
Greetings, 	
SEDIRA Boudjemâa		My name is Boudjemaa Sedira and I am 48 years old. I am a plastic artist (I painted one hundred paintings between 1995 and 1999 and I did two exhibitions of photos), photoengraver and free-lance journalist, but I don't practice these trades currently: I live with the minimum allowance of the French government for people deprived of income. I traveled a lot between 1978 and 1981 in the three Americas. Between 1978 and 1994 I underwent three internments (one prison, one abusive, then prison and psychiatric). Since 1988 I am a non-published author. Since 1998, I follow academic courses as a free listener in Americanist Anthropology, History, Art History and Architecture, and since 1999, I don't have a residence anymore and I am housed in a theater. 	
SEETHARAMDOO Cecile	c.m.seetharamdoo1@bradford.ac.uk	It is a bit late to introduce myself but there it is briefly : I guess you will add this to the list of presentations. Thank you.
After several years in the UK teaching several subjects in a variety of contexts, in particular Peace Education, Communication and Teacher Training, I retired early and moved to France with my husband and elder son who is also a member of the forum.
Here I wish to involve myself in training for * conflict management * and * nonviolence * in Valence and nearby. I trained myself through the Alternative to Violence Project in the UK, and through the Center for Constructive Conflict Management in France and Germany ; personal training is an ongoing process.
Currently I am refining mediation skills and carrying research for a Ph.D. thesis registered at the University of Bradford, UK, Department of Peace Studies. The focus bears on the acquisition and transmission of peace-related competencies (attitudes, skills and cognitive baggage). This is the continuation of studies and teaching in International Relations and Peace Studies. I would like also to set-up an online conflict management resource for individuals ; for this I would need help and I have suggested this idea to the Forum for the future. I would welcome any contacts in French or English.
Peaceful wishes to all, 	
SEETHARAMDOO Jean-Philippe	jpcs20@multimania.com	From Europe, I am someone who traveled a lot and studied a lot. Currently I am 31 years old. I am medium size and in good health.
I find that computers and the Internet are very useful to communicate with equals and to work in projects. I occupy my time writing and especially exchanging on Internet. My website is : <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jpseet>
I am interested in a lot of subjects. For example, I think about socio-politic and spiritual topics. The modern society is very technological but I would wish that it functions healthily. I understand several languages: French, English, Italian, etc.
I am favorable to the philosophy that the natural world in which we live is intelligent. We must respect life.
I knew this list through my family. 	
SEVIGNY Pierre-Jean	pjsevigny@yahoo.com		
SIDDHARTHA	siddh@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in		
SIMON Anne 	anne.simon@skynet.be		
SIRE Philippe 	clphsire@link.net	I am 60 years old and I am engineer adviser at "Ondeo Degremont" [<http://www.degremont.fr/internet/accueil.nsf/HomePage?OpenForm&langue=UK&m etier =>], the first water processing plant of the world (drinkable, industrial and used).
After having browsed the world and having had a career essentially dedicated to the big hydraulic works, I progressively realized the importance of the simple disposition of water for all populations.
One speaks too much the geopolitics of water about conflicts it generates. I am convinced that water is abundant, in sufficient quantity for all humankind, and that it is the water that can bring us peace.
To do so, political and economic decisions must be taken immediately, to carry out this huge workshop, for the simple respect of all man's right to have water to live!
I gave conferences on this very vast topic and would be happy to exchange with the other participants of the forum. 	
STAMPER Ronald 	rstamper@compuserve.com		
STOLTE Jacqueline	jacquelinestolte@hotmail.com		
STOREY Christopher 	crrsto@aol.com		
 TAPONIER Susan	staponier@noos.fr		
TCHOUAMOU Eric Hervé	groupecomputech@yahoo.com		
TRISTAN Mario	mtristan@ihcai.org		
TSHELANE Sipho 	sipho@myisp.co.za		
Union Mundial Hondurena	unimundho@aol.com		
URQUIDI Marina	marina.urquidi@wanadoo.fr	Member of the Forum Coordination, Marina Urquidi, 52, is both Mexican and American. She has lived in Paris, France all her adult life. She has always had a passion for communication and languages, and has been active in the Alliance since 1996 on communication methodology and cross-cultural issues. Here, she will serve as overall coordinator, facilitator, and moderator. She is also in charge of setting up and maintaining the forum logistics. She will answer any questions you address to her at <marina@alliance21.org>, and generally help to keep words, thoughts, and emotions flowing.	
URQUIDI Victor L.	vurquidi@colmex.mx	I belong to three previous generations, born in 1919, in an international family, of Mexican father, mother of English origin, and other ethnic contributions.
When I was young, I had the luck of traveling with my family to many countries.
I studied economy in the London School of Economics; during 25 years I worked professionally in Mexicans public entities and in the ECLA [Economic Commission for Latin America <http://www.eclac.cl/acerca/default-i.asp>], and also two years in the World Bank <http://www.worldbank.org/>.
Since 1964 I have been devoted on time complete to investigation and teaching in the field of the social sciences connected with economic and social development, with experience in a lot of parts of the world.
At the present time, as professor emeritus of The Colegio de Mexico [<http://www.colmex.mx/>], I am devoted mainly to study the complexities of sustainable and equal development, in the global, regional, national and local-urban areas, with special attention to the environmental policies.
I have been active member of the Club of Rome [International group founded in 1968 in order to search solutions to the problems of the planet <http://www.clubofrome.org/>] and I collaborate with the Mexican chapter of the Club and with other institutions interested in global matters. I have participated in dozens of conferences and international, regional and national seminars. I am most of all interested in the future of humankind and of the planet.
I dominate the English and I know quite well the French and the Portuguese.
I will enjoy participating in the activities of Pax Forum. 	
VERANO PAEZ Luis Francisco 	colacot_col@hotmail.com		
VERGES Victor	vincit73@hotmail.com		
VILLALBA Alberto 	albertovillalba@yahoo.com 		
VILLAVICENCIO Alejandra 	aavm2001@hotmail.com	My name is Alejandra Villavicencio, I was born in Peru and at the moment I live in Venezuela for more than 25 years, and I have this nationality (both countries are located in South America).
I believe that from immemorial times peace has been the concern of humankind and I have sometimes thought that far from obtaining it in our day people live more in conflict, but the question is: On what side is reason? ... I think that while we are always thinking of having "our reason" we will always be at a dead point and therefore I believe that humankind should work in function of a common cause and of a common good, of balance in all its aspects, not of the force of the big on the smaller, not of the one who has more on the one that lacks everything.
By these days there has been a terrible and painful fact that has shaken our most intimate fibers in Latin America and it is the case of Argentina. The question is on whom falls the greatest responsibility: On the rulers? Only on [recently resigned Argentine President] de la Rúa, on the IMF [International Monetary Fund]? Whatever the answer, it is not right that a country with so many resources has such an unhappy framework and 25 young persons dead.
I pray that awareness begin inside each one of us, that love of our dear ones move us to love and to respect our neighbor, not just the friend but the opponent, that respect cross the borders!
I am a simple inhabitant of the world and most of the world is inhabited by simple people like me!
I have great expectations in this forum and I know that I will nurture myself a lot with points of view so diverse and respectable.
Whatever the belief of each one of you, I wish you a lot of joy in these Christmas festivities and a year 2002 with a lot of PEACE! 	
VILLLAREAL Chilo 	chilov@infosel.net.mx	I am Chilo Villarreal of Mexico and for about 30 years I have accompanied organizations and Indigenous People of Mexico and Center America mainly ; in some cases and I have also participated in meetings and workshops at the level of Latin America.
I believe that my experience and knowledge come from this accompaniment to Indian People, knowing their values, recovering their culture with them and looking for alternatives in front of the current reality we are living.
In 1998 I met the Alliance [Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World [<http://www.alliance21.org>] and I subscribed to it but in a more intense way, I have participated during all the year 2001 in the Socioeconomy of Solidarity pole and in 2 geocultural meetings at regional levels, the one of Mexico and the one of US and Canada. 	
WASIF Syed Ali	sawasif@hotmail.com	I am a human rights activist from Karachi, Pakistan.
I am a PH.D in international law from Moscow, Russia, and I am presently teaching the same at LLM levels at the Faculty of Law, University of Karachi.
I belong to an NGO, the Human Rights Group Of Pakistan (HRGP) [<http://www.net-ngo.com/detailpage.cfm?ngoid=296> (*)], conducting research and other works related to a civil society organisation.
I'm only 40, don't forget this. As the British say " life begins at 40."
I am grateful to you all for bearing with me.
Best regards, 	
YATES Natalie 	selenia18@sbcglobal.net		
ZELAYA Carlos Andrés 	cazelaya@sdnhon.org.hn	My name is Carlos Andrés Zelaya.
I am Honduran and I am 53 years old. I am an Agricultural Economist. I live in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.
As student in United States in the 60s I have participated actively in the student pacifists movements against the war in Vietnam. There I learned that wars are not won. It is peace that is won. I have worked most of my professional life in organisms of public character (governments, NGOs and international organizations) and in one or another way I have been attached to the search of solutions to rural poverty.
At the moment I work as Officer of Operations and Programs in the Representation of the FAO [United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization <http://www.fao.org/> (*)] in Honduras. I participate in this peace forum * in my own name * and my opinions and comments are exclusively my responsibility and they don't commit in any way the FAO.
I have 4 children, two of age and two under age. I share with several participants the idea that peace is a construction from the daily thing. I hope this forum illuminates us a path toward the construction of peace, but besides our dialogue, it will be necessary that the ones who take decisions and who can give answers come off of their selfishness and recognize that the only peace is the one that can reach everyone.
Peace to all, 	
ZIAKA Yolanda	yziaka@aurora.eexi.gr	Dear friends from all over the world,
My name is Yolanda Ziaka, I am Greek.
I am 37 years old and I am mother of two children. I lived 6 years in France and I got involved since 7 years in the works of the Alliance [Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World [<http://www.alliance21.org> (*)], as facilitator of the Workshop "Education to environment". [<http://www.alliance21.org/en/themes/envireduc.htm> (*)]
These two experiences were extremely rewarding and formative for me. They allowed me to meet other civilizations, through people of different nationalities, languages, and cultures, who I knew in France and elsewhere, through the intermediary of the Alliance. I am convinced that the opening to the other civilizations is one of the preliminaries to cultivate and to train oneself to a peace culture. 	
ZURITA OCHO Félix A. 	aurelio1@starmedia.com jefezura_64@hotmail.com	I am nearly 59 years old and I have a multidisciplinary formation: industrial chemical Engineer, in my native country of Mexico.
I did technical and academic stays in several European and Asiatic countries: Federal Germany, France, China and Saudi Arabia in multiple aspects: Petrochemistry, Rural electrification and Training about human resources. I am from the Sorbonne in Paris, with a French Ph.D. in Economic and Social Development.
I studied completely a doctorate in the UNAM [National Autonomous University of Mexico <http://www.unam.mx/english/>], Mexico and I studied sinology at Beijing University and the Islam at King Saud University, in Riyadh.
I have a 25 years experience in the biggest public universities of Mexico, Polytechnic and UNAM and I visited Universities and Centers of Peace Studies in: Germany, Austria, Sweden and Italy. I was also International Peace Secretary of SERVAS NGO [<http://www.servas-international.org/en/information.html>] with recognition of ECOSOC and I am also part of other associations as: Hospitality Exchange, Echanges Enseignants and World Citizens, Latin American Association of Studies on Asia and Africa (ALADAA) and I speak several languages.
I have written, among others, reports on environment friendly Tourism, North/South Trade relations and on Technical Innovation in Southeast and East Asia.
At the moment I am prematurely retired. I investigate about multidisciplinary subjects and I am drafting works: one on Modernization in China and another on the structure of the World Power (financial, industrial and about armaments production and trade).
Sincerely,