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The Ambassadors for Peace Initiative is a worldwide network of leaders dedicated to transcending racial, religious and ethnic boundaries to promote a world of genuine peace. Launched in 2001, Ambassadors for Peace has become the world's largest and most diverse network of peace leaders. They come from all walks of life representing all races, religions, nationality and cultures, and commit themselves to:
- Stand on the common ground of universal moral principles, committed to promoting reconciliation, overcoming barriers, and building peace.
- Form a global network of leaders representing the religious, racial, and ethnic diversity of the human family, as well as all disciplines of human endeavor.
- Participate in peace initiatives and programs that promote reconciliation and cooperation beyond traditional boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality.
- Promote and practice the ethic of “living for the sake of others” as the guiding principle for building world peace and a global community.
The network of Ambassadors for Peace includes a wide variety of people, such as diplomats, clergy, civic leaders, artists, athletes, students, scholars, lawyers, health professionals, businessmen, journalists, and current and former heads of state.
The Ambassadors for Peace principles can be summarized as follows:
- God - We are one human family created by God.
- Spirituality - The highest qualities of the human being are spiritual and moral.
- Family - The family is the "school of love and peace."
- Service - Living for the sake of others
- Unity - Peace comes through cooperation beyond the boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and nationality.
Read below what Ambassadors for Peace in the United States are doing.
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Written by Rebecca Cataldi
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 14:31 |
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 I would like to share with the Ambassadors for Peace network one project called the American-Islamic Friendship Project (AIFP). This project seeks to build better relations between the people of America and the Muslim world by collecting messages of peace and friendship from Americans to people in the Muslim world and from people in the Muslim world to Americans.
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Written by Gail Paine
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:20 |
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This summer young American Ambassadors for Peace traveled to Gambia for the third time  with the service group “Side by Side”, inspiring greater participation of Gambian youth in service and establishing lifelong friendships. Beverly Berndt, a teacher and administrator at New Hope Academy in Landover Hills, Maryland , created “The Gambia Project” out of her love of the African nation of The Gambia. Since 1998, she has been traveling each summer with groups of American youth, to visit, organize service projects and educational programs.
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Written by Gail Paine and Tomiko Duggan
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Saturday, 15 August 2009 20:59 |
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 A special gathering of peacemakers explored the theme, “A New Vision for Peace in the 21st Century,” held at the residence of the Ambassador of Sri Lanka on July 30, 2009 in Washington DC. The Sri Lankan Embassy, partnering with Universal Peace Federation (UPF) International and UPF-USA, presented the core principles and practices that can facilitate movement toward a world in which people of every race, culture and religion can live together in peace.
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Written by UPF-United States
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:38 |
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Virginia, United States - The Ambassadors for Peace Association of Virginia has launched a new task force: Global Orphan Outreach, Families for Children. The desire to help underprivileged children and orphans has been repeatedly expressed by Ambassadors for Peace, and many active Ambassadors for Peace are currently running projects which help orphans or have done this type of work in the past. |
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Written by Gail Paine
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:00 |
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The Ambassadors for Peace Association of VA's first forum of 2009 fulfilled an essential need in our American society today; to provide a platform for the "moderate" voice of American Muslims. This is the marginalized voice which seems to be the large majority yet is sadly ignored because it is not sensational, and therefore not news worthy.
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Written by Susan Bradbury
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Monday, 01 October 2007 02:00 |
 Susan Bradbury "Do not be discouraged when things do not go as you had planned, because what is not possible today will be possible tomorrow. But remember, Big Vision requires Big Dreams, Big Dreams require Big Actions, and Big Actions require Big Commitment." Prosper Ndabishuriye, Ambassador for Peace from Burundi, said to me one rainy day in November, 2006 in Seattle, Washington.
This tall man from Burundi ignited a fire within me. I heard a call within my heart to help the widows and women of this small, densely populated African country.
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Written by Jonathan F. Pratt
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Sunday, 30 September 2007 17:00 |
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As a new Ambassador for Peace I was honored and excited to be invited to my first ILC Conference. My journey began on Tues. Aug 28 departing from Norfolk Airport 9:30 in the morning. After a layover in Atlanta I boarded my plane for Anchorage, Alaska. Although my plane departed around 4:30 and the flight was over 7 hours I was lucky to be treated to a spectacular view of some of Alaska’s glaciers along the coastline bordering Canada from 30,000 feet. These pictures would have been taken around 10:30pm EST. Magnificent aren’t they?
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Written by Gerry Eitner
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 14:00 |
 Gerry Eitner Some spiritual paths view life as a “dream”, with each human being as the creative dreamer. If we are indeed all here making it up, how can we create a more evolved level of community, evoking the utmost expression of love from each person?
In both Eastern and Western traditions, the experience of life as a dream peeks through, usually at the tip of the mystical traditions. The Hindu tradition speaks of life as “maya”, or the illusion. The Course in Miracles, coming out of Western thought, provides a framework for a new teaching from Jesus. The teaching posits a structure of each person walking through a pre-structured construct or dream, set up by the person’s higher Self before he or she came here.
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