tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66989234941889648872024-03-25T09:45:40.738+01:00Global IntegrationThis weblog features the Global Integration Updates from Member Care Associates. The Updates provide materials to support colleagues in different sectors as they connect and contribute on behalf of the major issues in our world. Feel free to add comments and resources in the "Comments" section located at the end of each of the Updates.Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698923494188964887.post-65339625857464093272024-03-25T09:44:00.003+01:002024-03-25T09:44:41.947+01:00Special News--April 2024<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: black; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templatePreheader" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 0px; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="preheaderContainer" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--April 2024</span></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Inequality, Inc.</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Exploring Our Poverty-Prosperity Divides</span></em></span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="5526541" height="264" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/776487c9-2997-85fb-09af-d3013e8c1a26.png" style="border: 0px; height: 264px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <span style="color: black;"> "In Panama City inequality is seen side by side. Panama, April 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP/Grey Díaz </span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">And in so many other places throughout our world!</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">"As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest...Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times - times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation - that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils...millions of people in the world’s poorest countries remain imprisoned, enslaved, and in chains. They are trapped in the prison of poverty. It is time to set them free."</span> </em><a href="http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/2005/050203_poverty.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Nelson Mandela, 3 February 2005 (speech text)</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">--</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NennMCLG7A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Make Poverty History (video</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">)</span></span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-align: justify;">------------------</span></span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Perspectives</strong><br />This has been one of the most challenging <em>Updates</em> to do. Delving into the inequalities of poverty in our world is disturbing. I have never known poverty, much less multi-dimensional poverty. And it is not on my bucket list. My family, friends, and I have access to plenty of resources for wellbeing. Yours too? I hope that this <em>Update's</em> glimpse into the inequalities of poverty may encourage us to make some adjustments in our lives and to do good on behalf of our fellow humans. <strong>Kelly</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#94), we explore inequality in our world--primarily from the air</span></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> We feature the </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">drone journalism of Johnny Miller</span></a><span style="color: black;"> who takes us into the skys to get a different--and actually closer--view of our world's poverty-prosperity divides (<strong>Part One</strong>)</span></span><span style="color: black;">. Let's <span style="font-size: 14px;">venture into the aerial heights in order to explore the visual depths of poverty!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Inequality threatens long-term social and economic development, harms poverty reduction and destroys people’s sense of fulfillment and self-worth...Inequalities based on income, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, class, ethnicity, religion and opportunity continue to persist across the world. Inequality threatens long-term social and economic development, harms poverty reduction and destroys people’s sense of fulfillment and self-worth. This, in turn, can breed crime, disease and environmental degradation.” </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/inequality/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN SDGs--Inequality</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In<strong> Part Two </strong>we feature<strong> </strong>the new </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Human Development Report 2023-2024</span></a></em></span><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>: </strong></span></u></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>B</u>reaking the Gridlock</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>...</u></span><em><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">in a Polarized World</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. See especially the "</span><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/global-report-document/hdr2023-24snapshoten.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Snapshot</span></a><span style="color: black;">" which summarizes the Report (in six languages). We encourage you to also review t</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">he targets and progress for three Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG 1</span></a><span style="color: black;"> ("end poverty in all its forms everywhere")</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-align: center;">,</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG 10</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> ("reduce inequality within and among countries")<span style="text-align: center;">, and </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG 11</span></a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-align: center;"> ("make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable")</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good" (<strong>Part Three</strong>)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> This inclusive approach encourages active learning and collaboration with a diversity of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review the materials in this <em>Update</em></strong></span></span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Identify a couple items that you want to explore more. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See the section below from the </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Unequal Scenes</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> website</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. Choose one of more countries and</span>/<span style="color: black;">or cities to view images of their poverty-prosperity divides from the air. Note any thoughts and feelings that get stirred up for you.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> <strong>this <em>Update</em></strong> with your friends, colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/78167c20ef37/global-integration-update-special-news-13539720" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty–Ending All Forms of Poverty Everywhere</span></a><br />(November 2023)</span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/23742389c587/global-integration-update-special-news-13529528" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Halfway into the SDGs: Taking Stock–Taking Action</span></a> <br />(July 2023)</span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/2a5a1d9567cb/global-integration-update-special-news-13512064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resisting Despair-Disillusion: Will It Get Worse Before It Gets Worse?</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><br />(January 2023)</span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Inequality, Inc.</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Exploring Our Poverty-Prosperity Divides</span></em></span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZFQBqTPsoo&t=12s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6781247" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6d47f3fd-180d-0f4f-0573-36fcc099aa39.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"The </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZFQBqTPsoo&t=12s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">drone video</span></a><span style="color: black;"> that sums up global inequality"</span><br /><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Unequal Scenes</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"The scale and regularity of urban structures constructed to separate people, in many different cities and cultures all across the world, points to the systemic nature of inequality. Evidence shows that high levels of inequality are correlated with worse health outcomes, like lower life expectancy, higher rates of heart failure, and higher levels of infant mortality. More equal societies are happier and more cohesive, and to a large degree more prosperous. Countries that are more equal tend to have far more generous, encompassing and egalitarian social systems." </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/about" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Johnny Miller, Unequal Scenes, September 2022</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">--------------------<br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Part One</span><br /><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Unequal Scenes</span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Aerial Perspectives from by Johnny Mille</em></strong></span><strong>r<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpfMMKT_4jw" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6781239" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/facb7086-acf2-1530-4737-f72e926f423d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"This is what inequality looks like"<br />Johnny Miller, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpfMMKT_4jw" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">TedxJohannesburg</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"Severe economic inequality is largely a consequence of human-enacted policies. Tin shacks in Cape Town are separated from mansions with barbed wire and concrete walls. Millionaires in high-rise aeries in Mumbai gaze down on informal settlements, their roofs covered in blue tarps to keep out the monsoon rains. Pollution-spewing highways belch toxins onto playgrounds in underserved areas of New York City. <br /><br />Walls, highways and other infrastructure usually keep us from seeing the extent of the problem, usually by design. That always bothered me. By using drones and helicopters for this project, I wanted to peek over those walls, and enter into forbidden liminal territory. For the first time in our history, drones and social media are a cost-effective solution for depicting and then disseminating these separations. It’s hard not to look straight down on the divisions and not have an unsettling realization that we, the people gazing at these scenes, are also complicit." </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/about" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Johnny Miller, September 2022</span></a><br /><br /><strong>Have a Look at Aerial Views of These Locations</strong><br /><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/south-africa" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">South Africa</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/manila" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Manila</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/brazil" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Brazil</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/mumbai" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mumbai</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/peru" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peru</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><br /><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/jakarta" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Jakarta</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/mexico-city-df" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mexico City</span></a> <a href="https://unequalscenes.com/lagos" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Lagos</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/bali" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Bali</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/pakistan" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pakistan</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><br /><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/buenos-aires" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Buenos Aires</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/cape-town" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Cape Town</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/detroit" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Detroit</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/namibia" style="color: #6dc6dd; 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overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Baltimore</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/johannesburg" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Johannesburg</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"I enjoy the freedom that aerial photography allows, an expansive sense of travel and distance. There is a beauty in the composition and color of the earth as seen through a rectangular frame, much as the pages of atlases and maps captivated me when I was younger. I hope that the discussions around equity, design, and justice are somewhat furthered by this project, as well capturing some essence of strange beauty in our built environment." </span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/about" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Johnny Miller, September 2022</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“<strong>Johnny Miller</strong> is a photographer and multimedia storyteller based in South Africa and the USA. He is interested in exploring social justice issues from the ground and from the air. His photographic project </span><a href="http://www.unequalscenes.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Unequal Scenes</span></a><span style="color: black;"> has garnered widespread praise and been featured in many of the world’s top publications.” (</span><a href="https://unequalscenes.com/about" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">quote from website</span></a><span style="color: black;">) See also his <em>Time</em> magazine </span><u><a href="https://time.com/5581483/time-cover-south-africa/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">cover photo</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> and the </span><a href="https://time.com/5581483/time-cover-south-africa/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">article</span></a></u><span style="color: black;"> (5 May 2019) and his </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qlxEPkyvqI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">video presentation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (11 minutes) for UN-habitat Worldwide.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Part Two<br />Global Efforts</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em><strong>Exploring the Details of Inequality </strong></em></span><br /><br /><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6691292" height="388" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/a9a73fa6-15d1-a644-b7a1-6e9a61a34954.png" style="border: 0px; height: 388px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click </span><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or on the map above to access<br />the interactive map and more information by country<em>.</em></span></span><br /> <div> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Human Development Report 2023-2024</span></a></em></span><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>: </strong></span></u></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>B</u>reaking the Gridlock--Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. Untied Nations Development Programme. “The 2023/24 Human Development Report assesses the dangerous gridlock resulting from uneven development progress, intensifying inequality, and escalating political polarization, that we must urgently tackle. The report emphasizes how global interdependence is being reconfigured and proposes a path forward where multilateralism plays a pivotal role.” (quote from </span><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/global-report-document/hdr2023-24snapshoten.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">See the summary "Snapshot" HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (in six languages)</span></span><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Sustainable Development Goals 1</span></strong><span style="color: black;">,<strong> 10</strong>,</span><strong><span style="color: black;"> and 11</span></strong></span><br /><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG 1</span></a><strong style="font-size: 14px;">--</strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><strong>End poverty in all its forms everywhere</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">See all Targets and the latest </span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Progress Report</em> (2023)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG 10</span></a>--</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Reduce inequality within and among countries</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">See all the Targets and the latest </span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Progress Report</em> (2023)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG 11</span></a><span style="color: black;">--<strong>Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;">See all the Targets and the latest </span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Progress Report</em> (2023)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><hr /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><hr /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><strong style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 16px;">Part Three<br />Personal Reflections</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></div><div><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves, etc.)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like climate, conflicts, poverty, and corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></div></div></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--March 2024</span></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">UN Summit of the Future</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;">22-23 September 2024</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em><span style="color: black;">Preparing for the Global Summit<br />Reviewing the "Pact for the Future"</span></em></span></strong><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6522652" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/731852c3-eed2-1450-a1db-d931816ba832.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"We, the Heads of State and Government, representing the peoples of the world, have gathered at United Nations Headquarters to take action to safeguard the future for present and coming generations.<br /><br />We are at a moment of acute global peril. Across our world, people are suffering from the effects of poverty, hunger, inequality, armed conflicts, violence, displacement, terrorism, climate change, disease, and the adverse impacts of technology. Humanity faces a range of potentially catastrophic and existential risks. We are also at a moment of opportunity, where advances in knowledge and technology, properly managed, could deliver a better future for all." </em></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sotf-co-facilitators-zero-draft_pact-for-the-future.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pact for the Future</span></a><span style="color: black;"><em> </em></span><span style="color: black;">(zero draft<em>, </em>paragraphs 1 and 2) </span></span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <span style="text-align: justify;">------------------</span></span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#93), we focus on the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Summit of the Future</strong></span></a><span style="color: black;"> which is to be held at the Untied Nations General Assembly in September 2024. We share brief descriptions and links to help you explore the process, developments, and documents leading to this new global effort to make the world a better place. We want to especially emphasize the recently released "zero draft" of its anticipated outcome document, the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sotf-co-facilitators-zero-draft_pact-for-the-future.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em><strong>Pact for the Future</strong></em></span></a><span style="color: black;">. We have interspersed quotes throughout this <em>Update </em>which are<em> </em>from the Pact's opening 10 paragraphs<em>.</em><br /><br />“The <strong>Summit of the Future </strong>is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance cooperation on critical challenges and address gaps in global governance, reaffirm existing commitments including to the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/sustainable-development-goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (SDGs) and the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations Charter</span></a><span style="color: black;">, and move towards a reinvigorated multilateral system that is better positioned to positively impact people’s lives. Building on the SDG Summit in 2023, </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member States</span></a><span style="color: black;"> will consider ways to lay the foundations for more effective global cooperation that can deal with today’s challenges as well as new threats in the future.” (quote from </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN website</span></a><span style="color: black;">) <br /><br />“[The] zero draft of the <strong>Pact for the Future</strong>...is intended to serve as a starting point for the intergovernmental deliberations this year, with the ultimate aim of adopting an ambitious, concise, action-oriented Pact for the Future...in the lead-up to and during the Summit in September 2024. The result will [hopefully] be a world – and an international system – that is better prepared to manage the challenges we face now and in the future, for the sake of all humanity and for future generations.” (quote from </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future#:~:text=The%20Pact%20will%20be%20negotiated,humanity%20and%20for%20future%20generations." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We believe it is important to stay informed about the Summit and the Pact and to seriously and critically consider its aspirations for a better world. <strong>We do not want to see this latest global effort morph into the Summit--and Pact--of the Futile. </strong>What needs to happen to prevent this "morphing" from happening</span></span><span style="color: black;">?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Not sure if you have the time or interest to explore the Summit and Pact? Then we encourage you to read the three-page background document for a quick overview, "</span><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-summit-of-the-future-what-would-it-deliver.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Summit of the Future</span></a></span><u><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">: </span></span></u><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-summit-of-the-future-what-would-it-deliver.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">What Would It Deliver?</span></a><span style="color: black;">"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active learning and collaboration with a diversity of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review </strong>the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summit of the Future</span></a><span style="color: black;"> website and familiarize yourself with the main documents and events in the lead up to the Summit. Identify a couple materials that you want to explore more. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Read </strong>the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sotf-co-facilitators-zero-draft_pact-for-the-future.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Pact of the Futur<strong>e</strong></em></span></a><span style="color: black;"><strong></strong><strong> </strong>and note any thoughts and feelings that get stirred up for you. Are there things you strongly agree with, disagree with, or want to learn more about</span>?</span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your friends, colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/64af3bff9880/global-integration-update-special-news-13533808" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace and Security–Staying Alive in Our World</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(September 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development or Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(October 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/021d340d37d2/global-integration-update-special-news-11395549" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Thinking Critically about Sustainable Development</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(February 2022)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">UN Summit of the Future</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;">22-23 September 2024</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em><span style="color: black;">Preparing for the Global Summit<br />Reviewing the "Pact for the Future"</span></em></span></strong><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6748476" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/781d4e6d-9031-854b-2730-7dd7e6aea57a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"We believe there is a path to a better future for all of humanity. We are committed to meaningful changes to global governance to address new and emerging challenges. We commit to ensure the whole world – especially the most vulnerable – are ready for the vastly more complex challenges to come. We also commit to deliver on our existing commitments. We will re-earn the trust of our people and each other, which is the vital precondition for effective international cooperation.<br /><br />Today, we pledge a new beginning in international cooperation with a new approach. We will cooperate to manage risks and harness opportunities for the benefit of all, guided by the principles of trust, equity, solidarity, and universality. We will collectively strive for a world that is safer, more peaceful, more just, more equal, more inclusive, more sustainable, and more prosperous." </em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sotf-co-facilitators-zero-draft_pact-for-the-future.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pact for the Future</span></a><span style="color: black;"><em> </em></span><span style="color: black;">(0 draft<em>, </em>paragraphs 5 and 6) </span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>UN Summit of the Future</strong></span><br /><em><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow</span></strong></em></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Some Background</strong><br />“The <a href="https://www.un.org/en/un75" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">75th Anniversary of the United Nations</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span>was marked in June 2020 with a <a href="https://undocs.org/A/RES/75/1" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">declaration</span></a> by Member States that included 12 overarching commitments along with a request to the Secretary-General for recommendations to address both current and future challenges. In September 2021, the Secretary-General responded with his report, <a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Our Common Agenda</em>,</span></a> a wake-up call to speed up the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and propel the commitments contained in the UN75 Declaration.<br /><br />In some cases, the proposals addressed gaps that emerged since 2015, requiring new intergovernmental agreements. The report, therefore, called for a <a href="https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summit of the Future</span></a> to forge a new global consensus on readying ourselves for a future that is rife with risks but also opportunities. The General Assembly welcomed the submission of the “rich and substantive” report and agreed to hold the Summit on 22-23 September 2024, preceded by a ministerial meeting in 2023. An action-oriented <strong>Pact for the Future</strong> is expected to be agreed by Member States through intergovernmental negotiations on issues they decide to take forward.” (quote from <a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN website</span></a>)</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"We already have the <strong>"what"</strong> in the form of many existing agreements and commitments, starting with the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Charter</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and including the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/development-agenda/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2030 Agenda</span></a><span style="color: black;">, the </span><a href="https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Paris Agreement</span></a><span style="color: black;">, the </span><a href="https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/69/313" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Addis Ababa Action Agenda</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and many others. The Summit of the Future will look at the <strong>"how"</strong> – how do we cooperate better to deliver on the above aspiration and goals? How do we better meet the needs of the present while also preparing for the challenges of the future?" (quote from </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN website</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Why the Summit Matters</strong><br />"The world is not on track to meet the goals we have already set for ourselves. Nor are we effectively rising to new challenges or opportunities. The speed and complexity of developments have outpaced our systems for cooperating and coping. The benefits and opportunities of progress are spread unevenly, with the majority of people left behind. The risks and threats are also unevenly felt, disproportionately impacting the most vulnerable.<br /> <br />Extreme poverty and hunger are on the march. Global emissions are at their highest levels in human history, as are levels of human displacement. Threats such as climate, conflict, food security, weapons of mass destruction, pandemics and health crises, and the risks associated with new technologies, are growing.<br /> <br />Multilateral governance, designed in simpler, slower times, is not adequate to today’s complex, interconnected, rapidly changing world. The Summit is an opportunity to put ourselves on a better path." (quote from </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN website</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">)</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Explore and Engage</strong><br /><strong>Summit of the Future:</strong> Learn how your organization, group or network can </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/stakeholders" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">engage on the Summit</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Preparation for the Zero Draft:</strong> </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/pact-for-the-future-zero-draft#inputs" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">View written submissions from NGOs and civil society and other stakeholders</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Declaration on Future Generations:</strong> Find out how you can </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/declaration-on-future-generations" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">engage in the process towards the Declaration</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Common Agenda</span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>: </strong></span><span style="color: black;">Have a look at </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/policy-briefs" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">12 Policy Briefs</span></a><strong><span style="color: black;"> </span></strong><span style="color: black;">developed in route to the Summit</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><div><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="2726133" height="309" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/d4cc28c7-8263-45fa-afee-384e78d975a8.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"To achieve [the aspirations of the Pact], we reaffirm our commitment to the Charter of the United Nations and international law. We also reaffirm that the three pillars of the United Nations – development, peace and security, and human rights – are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. We further reaffirm that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.</span></span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Every commitment in this Pact is guided by principles of human rights and gender equality and will contribute to their fulfilment. On the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, we reaffirm the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined therein...We recognize that human rights are at the heart of peaceful, just and inclusive societies and need to be promoted and protected for the sake of current and future generations. We commit to stepping up our efforts to fight against racism, all forms of discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance." </span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sotf-co-facilitators-zero-draft_pact-for-the-future.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pact for the Future</span></a><span style="color: black;"><em> </em></span><span style="color: black;">(0 draft<em>, </em>paragraphs 7 and 8) </span></span></div><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><hr /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><strong style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 16px;">Personal Reflections</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></div><div><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves, etc.)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like climate, conflicts, poverty, and corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></div></div></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--February 2024</span></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Conversations on Creation Care</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em><span style="color: black;">Contemplating Laudate Deum and COP28</span></em></span></strong><br /><br /><em style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="6721208" height="259" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/_compresseds/e2a0da93-a29c-1ccd-c332-34d96eb0d5c3.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 259px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></em><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Creation in California USA--Image courtesy and © ENOD<br />Pondering the health of our planet?</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: justify;">------------------</span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#92), we invite you to join us in getting further informed about the current and future state of our planet as we discuss creation care. We welcome our long-time friend and colleague, <strong>Dr. Ania Grobicki</strong>, as the Guest Contributor, who for over 40 year has been actively involved in leadership, training, and advocacy in environmental-climate and development issues (see her bio towards the end).<br /><br />One of Ania's current activities is co-facilitating the Climate and Spirit Group, a multi-faith group meeting on-line and in-person for spiritual conversations on climate issues (more information below). Thank you, Ania, for being with us and sharing your insights and resources in this crucial area!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Specifically we feature two new documents for your consideration--for contemplation and conversation<strong>:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Pope Francis' <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Laudate Deum</em></span></a>, <em>An Apostolic Declaration to all People of Good Will on the Climate Crisis </em>(October 2023)--noting the earlier document <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Laudato Si’</em></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span>(2015). </span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The United Nations <a href="https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-declaration-on-climate-relief-recovery-and-peace" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>COP28 Declaration</em></span></a> <em>on Climate Relief, Recovery, and Peace</em> (December 2023)--noting the agreed-upon decisions in the <a href="https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma2023_L17_adv.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">COP28 outcome document</span></a>).</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We have intentionally only focused on these documents in this <em>Update </em>(one faith-based</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Christian and the other secular-based</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> United Nations)</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Our hope is that you can take the time to read them carefully and further explore and engage in the crucial area of creation care</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active learning and collaboration with a diversity of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review</strong> the two main materials below<strong>: </strong></span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Laudate Deum</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> and the </span><a href="https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-declaration-on-climate-relief-recovery-and-peace" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>COP28 Declaration</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">. Take notes on any thoughts-feelings that get stirred up for you. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Reflect</strong> on their implications for your life, world, and future generations. Are there things you strongly agree with, disagree with, or want to learn more about</span>?</span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Have conversations </strong>with</span><span style="color: black;"> some family members or friends<strong> </strong>about these two documents</span><span style="color: black;">. What other materials have you found to be helpful about creation care and safeguarding the people-planet nexus</span>?</span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="text-align: center;">Contact Ania </strong><span style="text-align: center;">for more information about the Climate and Spirit Group.</span></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/502365a15041/global-integration-update-special-news-8685297" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Planet SOS: The UN Climate Conference</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (November 2021)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/b40df7a04872/global-integration-update-special-news-8428185" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Code Red for Humanity: The UN Climate Repor</span><span style="color: black;">t</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (September 2021)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/bf700106383d/global-integration-update-special-news-7204945" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">State of the Planet: Our Suicidal War on Nature</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2021)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Conversations on Creation Care</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em><span style="color: black;">Contemplating Laudate Deum and COP28</span></em></span></strong><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6643928" height="423" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/1c6ff4e2-8f0a-9dfd-ff0e-8578138dc251.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 423px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Eolia, Harkness Park on the Atlantic Shoreline, CT USA<br />Image © KOD</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">------------------</span></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Greetings from Dr. Ania Grobicki</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.</strong></em><br /><strong>Genesis 1:2</strong></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I am delighted to join with you all as we contemplate and converse about the wellbeing of our precious planet—<em>creation care</em>. In our lifetimes, we have witnessed how human beings have inadvertently altered the balance of our two great and inter-connected planetary cycles, the carbon cycle and the water cycle, leading to increasing climate instabilities and human suffering worldwide. The ongoing proliferation of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and storms are causing increasing losses and damages to people, communities, and ecosystems. We now know that 2023 was the hottest year in recorded human history, by a long way, following a series of record-breaking hot years over the last decade, and that this global heating has been largely caused by our development of the fossil fuel economy. Changing human dependence on fossil fuels will be a long process, and in the meantime, climate impacts will get worse before they get better. <br /> </span></span><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As a person of faith in the Christian tradition, I am eager to explore how God’s Spirit is moving in our times. Where are the sparks of hope, where are the solutions, where are the needed social and personal transformations taking place? How can we contribute in the best way to the many climate-wise choices, decisions and actions that must be made everywhere over the coming years?</span></span></div><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Certainly, I and many others have been inspired by the two papal encyclicals that have been published on the subject, <em>Laudato Si’ </em>(2015) and <em>Laudato Deum </em>(2023), both of which I would warmly urge to read. I have been involved with working for water all my life (over the past 40 years), from practical local projects to national, regional, and global levels. In the past 15 years I have become more deeply involved in climate issues, with my first COP experience being at COP15 in Copenhagen, in 2009.<br /><br />The snail-like COP process is based upon a flawed multilateral convention (the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC) which links together most of the world’s countries. Despite (or perhaps because of) its focus upon climate change, the convention mechanisms have been overly influenced by the oil-rich countries, with the latest annual event (COP28) being held recently in the United Arab Emirates. Nevertheless, the major COP28 outcome (termed the “Global Stocktake”) has now finally stated, for the first time in the Convention’s 30 year history, that humanity needs to make global efforts to “transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner” (paragraph 28). <br /><br />I would like to encourage you to get together with friends, family, and colleagues to explore the documents in this <em>Update </em>and the overall topic of creation care. There will likely be different opinions and concerns expressed which hopefully would be shared for mutual learning and support. I recently met online as part of a new multi-faith group to discuss spiritual and climate issues using <em>Laudate Deum </em>and <em>COP28 materials a</em>s a springboard for contemplation and conversation. More on this group which I co-facilitate--The Climate and Spirit Group--below!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Wishing you all the best as you safeguard and care for our wonderful world,<br />Ania</strong></span></span><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><img data-file-id="5551161" height="263" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/e861e1c1-b448-6d20-23f9-4e23fedb6fd3.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Creation in Connecticut USA--Image courtesy and © KOD<br />Pondering the code red for humanity?</span></span></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Pope Francis' </span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Laudate Deum</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">--<em>An Apostolic Declaration to all People of Good Will on the Climate Crisis </em>(October 2023)</span></strong><span style="color: black;">.<strong> </strong>This faith-based document builds on Pope Francis' longer and foundational </span><em><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Laudate Si'</span></a><span style="color: black;">--On Care for Our Common Home </span></em><span style="color: black;">(<em>2015)</em><strong>. </strong>It is in 10 languages and includes 73 concise paragraphs organized into six sections: The Global Climate Crisis, A Growing Technocratic Paradigm, The Weakness of International Politics, Climate Conferences: Progress and Failures, What to Expect from COP28 in Dubai?, and Spiritual Motivations. Here are five excerpts to launch you into the document.<br /><br />5. Despite all attempts to deny, conceal, gloss over or relativize the issue, the signs of climate change are here and increasingly evident. No one can ignore the fact that in recent years we have witnessed extreme weather phenomena, frequent periods of unusual heat, drought and other cries of protest on the part of the earth that are only a few palpable expressions of a silent disease that affects everyone. Admittedly, not every concrete catastrophe ought to be attributed to global climate change. Nonetheless, it is verifiable that specific climate changes provoked by humanity are notably heightening the probability of extreme phenomena that are increasingly frequent and intense.<br /> <br />33. In conscience, and with an eye to the children who will pay for the harm done by their actions, the question of meaning inevitably arises: “What is the meaning of my life? What is the meaning of my time on this earth? And what is the ultimate meaning of all my work and effort?”<br /> <br />55. Despite the many negotiations and agreements, global emissions continue to increase. Certainly, it could be said that, without those agreements, they would have increased even more. Still, in other themes related to the environment, when there was a will, very significant results were obtained, as was the case with the protection of the ozone layer. Yet, the necessary transition towards clean energy sources such as wind and solar energy, and the abandonment of fossil fuels, is not progressing at the necessary speed. Consequently, whatever is being done risks being seen only as a ploy to distract attention.<br /> <br />69. I ask everyone to accompany this pilgrimage of reconciliation with the world that is our home and to help make it more beautiful, because that commitment has to do with our personal dignity and highest values. At the same time, I cannot deny that it is necessary to be honest and recognize that the most effective solutions will not come from individual efforts alone, but above all from major political decisions on the national and international level.<br /><br />73. “Praise God” is the title of this letter. For when human beings claim to take God’s place, they become their own worst enemies.<br /><br /><strong>Note</strong> also Paragraph 3 in <em>Ladaute Deum</em> which includes references with links to three other documents by the bishops in the United States, the Pan-Amazon region, and Africa.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /></div><div><a href="https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-declaration-on-climate-relief-recovery-and-peace" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6721216" height="233" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/56412797-2552-8ae4-8fc5-a4c29b6dbc75.png" style="border: 0px; height: 233px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></div><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image from </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-declaration-on-climate-relief-recovery-and-peace" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">COP28 Declaration website</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The United Nations </span><a href="https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-declaration-on-climate-relief-recovery-and-peace" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>COP28 Declaration</em></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><em>on Climate Relief, Recovery, and Peace</em> (December 2023). </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">This UN document builds of previous COP declarations and agreements and in particular the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/paris-agreement" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Paris Climate Accord from COP21 (2015)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. It includes a short preamble and conclusion with 13 concise paragraphs in-between that are organized into three sections: Enhanced financial support for climate adaption and resilience, Understand and improve good practice and programming, and Strengthen coordination, collaboration, and partnerships. Here are five excerpts to launch you into the document.<br /><br />...Recognizing that many of the people, communities, and countries threatened or affected by fragility or conflict, or facing severe humanitarian needs, are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, and are among the least resourced to cope with and adapt to associated shocks and stressors...<br /> <br />Continuing to substantially scale-up financial resources for climate adaptation and resilience building in such situations, emphasizing the need for public and grant-based resources, as well as mobilizing a variety of financing sources, while recognizing the importance of environmental and social safeguards...<br /> <br />7. Investing in the design, piloting, delivery and scaling up of climate adaptation programming that is informed by the most vulnerable and hard to reach populations and communities, including through preparedness and prevention, early warning and anticipatory and early action, and disaster risk finance mechanisms; ecosystem restoration, protection, and sustainable use; sustainable agriculture; building climate-smart infrastructure and resilient food, water, and energy systems; and strengthening shock-responsive and inclusive social protection systems,<br /> <br />14. Strengthening operational partnerships and synergies across governments, international and regional organizations, financial institutions and mechanisms, civil society, local communities, the private sector, and other actors to tailor climate action to context and needs, and to deliver coordinated, inclusive programs and sustainable solutions for greater impact...<br /> <br />We commit to contribute to the operationalization of this declaration, in line with our mandates and governance structures. We will continue to raise the objectives of the declaration, including in relevant international fora, and will reconvene at the 29th UN Climate Change Conference to review progress and initiate potential additional action.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Note </strong>that it is helpful to read the <em>COP28 Declaration</em> in the context of the </span><a href="https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma2023_L17_adv.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">COP28 outcome document</span></a><span style="color: black;">. In particular:<br />--Paragraph 28 which includes "transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems," etc.<br />--Paragraph 63 which includes adaptation and support for water, food and agriculture, health, ecosystems and biodiversity, infrastructures and human settlements, poverty, and cultural practices and heritage sites. </span></span><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">More from Ania</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Going and Growing Deeper with Others</em></span></span></strong></div><div><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="6722528" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/339c1594-a61a-5d11-5c1b-0145364ce75f.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>GEO-6--Going Deeper!</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">After reviewing and reflecting on the key documents above (which are the focus of this <em>Update</em>), I suggest you look over the </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3D823c8249df%26e%3Db4e06e3d9b&source=gmail&ust=1706166869836000&usg=AOvVaw0nYJKgUFR3dlsEr2A4kFNM" href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=823c8249df&e=b4e06e3d9b" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Key Messages</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (in six languages) from the </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3D49ede4d51a%26e%3Db4e06e3d9b&source=gmail&ust=1706166869836000&usg=AOvVaw1CYVVDuU67rrzjHjf21zUf" href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=49ede4d51a&e=b4e06e3d9b" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>6<sup>th</sup></em> </span></a><em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3D53b85c74e7%26e%3Db4e06e3d9b&source=gmail&ust=1706166869836000&usg=AOvVaw2IAuSnEXZ7DfmFHbXsMQBH" href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=53b85c74e7&e=b4e06e3d9b" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Environmental Outlook</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(<em>GEO-6</em>)<em> </em>by the United Nations Environment Program (2019). I was honored to be the Coordinating Lead Author for this extensive report. Go deeper as you wish by reading more of the full </span><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=53b85c74e7&e=b4e06e3d9b" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>GEO-6</em> </span></a><span style="color: black;">report and exploring the many resources on its website. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>GEO-6</em> “provides a clear assessment of the current state of the environment, the challenges that we face and how well we have dealt with them, with due consideration given to gender, indigenous knowledge and cultural dimensions. The assessment lays the foundation for continued socio-environmental assessments across relevant scales...Alongside the main <em>GEO-6</em> publication, there are three major advocacy products, aiming to communicate the scientific analysis in the main GEO report to Youth, Cities and Local Governments, and Business.” (quote from </span><a href="https://www.unep.org/geo/geo-resources/geo-6#:~:text=The%20sixth%20edition%20of%20the,indigenous%20knowledge%20and%20cultural%20dimensions." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>GEO-6</em> website)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> For starters, have a good look at the report's </span><a href="https://www.unep.org/resources/assessment/geo-6-key-messages" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Key Messages</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (in six languages).</span></span></div></div><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Climate and Spirit Group—Going and Growing Deeper!</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Together with a small new group (the Climate and Spirit Group) we are working this year to broaden the network of people co-discerning and sharing climate-wise thinking, through spiritual conversation. If you are interested to be part of this with us, you are very welcome to apply to join the monthly on-line discussion group (email me at </span><a href="mailto:ania.grobicki@icloud.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ania.grobicki@icloud.com</span></a><span style="color: black;">). We are also organizing two in-person workshops in Europe (both in English):</span></span><ol><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">A day workshop (20 April 2024, Saturday) at the spiritual eco-centre near Lyon, France called </span><a href="https://www.chatelard-sj.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Le Châtelard</span></a><span style="color: black;">–the workshop itself is free to participants, and accommodation can be arranged onsite at a small fee.</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">A </span><a href="https://www.beunos.com/retreat/restoring-the-integrity-of-life-in-jesus-a-weekend-of-reflection-and-prayer-on-the-climate-crisis" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">residential weekend workshop</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (20-22 September 2024, Friday evening to Sunday) at the beautiful Ignatian Spirituality Centre in north Wales, called Saint Beuno’s. For this workshop there is an accommodation fee (see). Staying at </span><a href="https://www.beunos.com/about" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Saint Beuno’s</span></a><span style="color: black;"> is an opportunity to experience the landscape that inspired </span><a href="https://hopkinspoetry.com/poems/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Gerard Manley Hopkins’ nature poetry</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></li></ol><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">These workshops will seek to explore the question: how could a deeper spiritual understanding of the carbon cycle and the water cycle inform and energize our efforts to restore the integrity of life on Earth? Members of the on-line discussion group will be able to participate in the workshop sessions remotely.<br /> <br />Everyone is welcome. No prior scientific or theological training or experience is needed to join us in these spiritual conversations You only need a desire and willingness to pray through and to share thoughts about how we can co-create with God’s Spirit to bring about balance, healing and restoration, at global and local levels. <br /><br /><strong>All the best,</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Ania</strong></span></div><hr /><hr /><div>.</div><div><img data-file-id="6722504" height="243" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/b27af0ad-b93e-ad39-f54e-9ec7373712fe.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 243px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 250px;" width="250" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Dr</strong>.<strong> Ania Grobick</strong>i was born in Kenya and raised in South Africa, She is a chemical engineer by training. Ania has worked in academia, consulting, and international organizations on water, environment and development issues for the last 30 years. She holds a PhD in Biochemical Engineering as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Applied Economics.<br /><br />From 2009 to 2015 Ania headed a worldwide mult-istakeholder network of over 3000 organizations, the Global Water Partnership, based in Sweden, contributing to the design of the Sustainable Development Goals (especially SDG 6). She then served as the Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, a multilateral agreement on conserving aquatic ecosystems ratified by 170 countries. Ania has written many papers, reports, and publications on science and technology policy and water resources and earth systems, most recently as a Coordinating Lead Author of the award-winning </span><a href="https://www.unep.org/geo/geo-resources/geo-6#:~:text=Global%20Environment%20Outlook%206,indigenous%20knowledge%20and%20cultural%20dimensions." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>6</em><sup><em>th</em> </sup></span></a><em><a href="https://www.unep.org/geo/geo-resources/geo-6#:~:text=Global%20Environment%20Outlook%206,indigenous%20knowledge%20and%20cultural%20dimensions." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Environmental Outlook</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (</span></em><span style="color: black;">United Nations Environment Program, 2019).<br /><br />Currently Ania is a Non-Executive Director of AFC Capital Partners, the private sector arm of the Africa Finance Corporation, a Director and Trustee of the UK charity Dig Deep (Africa), and the Senior Water Advisor to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Previously she served as Deputy Director of External Affairs at the Green Climate Fund, which finances climate adaptation and mitigation projects in developing countries worldwide.<br /><br />Ania is a co-facilitator of the Climate and Spirit Group, a multi-faith group supporting on-line and in-person spiritual conversations on climate issues. </span></span><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><strong style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 16px;">Personal Reflections</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></div><div><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves, etc.)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like climate, conflicts, poverty, and corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></div></div></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--January 2024</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Why the "M" Word Matters</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Rethinking Missionaries and Development<br /><br /><img data-file-id="6718792" height="333" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d85397f-342c-98aa-51d8-8e2b81f6caf9.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 333px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 500px;" width="500" /></em></strong></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The </span><a href="https://www.cmch-vellore.edu/2col.aspx?ptype=CONTENT&pid=P170801015&mid=M170807109" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Christian Medical College</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India was founded in 1900 by missionary Dr. Ida Scudder. It is a Christian institute with an extensive network of primary, secondary, and tertiary care along with a community-based hospital, medical school, and research program. The main hospital has nearly 2500 beds and provided services to more than 2 million outpatients and over 100,000 inpatients plus recorded more than 14,500 births (stats from April 2016-March 2017). The image above is of the Hospital Campus.</span></span></div> <span style="text-align: justify;">------------------</span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Personal Perspectives</strong><br /><em>Missionaries</em>. Just saying the word can evoke strong negative reactions and a string of pejorative associations like <em>archaic</em>,<em> irrelevant</em>, <em>proselytizers</em>, <em>culture destroyers</em>, <em>converters</em>, <em>fanatics</em>, <em>agenda-imposers</em>, and <em>bigots</em>, among many other unbecoming if not scathing terms. In many places it is easier--and safer--to drop the F-bomb than it is to use the "M" word.<br /><br />For those of us in Christian mission, it can be tempting (under the guise of being "prudent"--which certainly has its merit at times) to find other terms to allay such negative reactions by <em>partially</em> describing or even obfuscating who we are and what we do and support. Examples are focusing on more generic and acceptable self-descriptors such as our <em>being faith-based and</em> <em>culturally-sensitive</em>, <em>working inter-faith and collaboratively across sectors</em>, etc.<br /><br />In our case, the older we get, the easier it is to simply say we are <em>Christians</em>. Or <em>followers of Chris</em>t. Period. And then we might add that we are <em>working (in</em> <em>mission and) across sectors as psychologists</em>. And to that we might also add something like <em>we are focusing on the wellbeing and effectiveness of (mission workers and other) international personnel in support of the SDGs</em>. Yet even though we did not use the "M" word, people may still walk away using this loaded term to summarily describe who we are and what we do.<br /><br />That's OK. Because as seen in this <em>Update</em>, historically and generally there is much to admire in the sacrifice and contributions of missionaries and other people of faith towards human development. Health, education, economic livelihoods, gender equality, morality and ethics, are but a few of these contributions. <em>So</em> <em>let's set the record straight--or at least straighter--about missionaries! --</em>Kelly<br /><br /><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#91), we share a few materials to (re)consider the positive impact of missionaries and Christian mission on human wellbeing and development. They not only make for "interesting" reading but also hopefully challenge us all to <em>rethink</em> and <em>(re)affirm </em>these contributions. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In stating this purpose, though, we are in no wise downplaying the past and current examples of destructive and inexcusable actions by the Church and mission sector, including sexual abuse and exploitation, alignment with state efforts to colonize indigenous peoples, and reinforcing "rice Christians" by basing aid and development on adopting the Christian faith. The resources in this <em>Update</em> will surely provide lots of material for reflection, discussion,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and debate</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. Here are the five main ones</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">:<br /><br />1. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://cfc.sebts.edu/faith-and-economics/robert-woodberry-world-missionaries-made/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The World the Missionaries Made </span></a><span style="color: black;">(2018)</span><u><span style="color: black;">,</span></u><span style="color: black;"> video presentation by Robert Woodbury</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/239693931503900301" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progressive Pentecostalism</span></a><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/239693931503900301" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">, Development, and Christian Development NGOs</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (2015)</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">article by Bryant Myers<strong> </strong><br />3</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. </span><a href="https://www.miseancara.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Missionary-Approach-Conceptual-Framework-and-Current-Context-July2018-2.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Missionary Approach to Development Interventions</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2018), article by Misean Cara<br />4. </span><a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/archive/making-a-killing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Making a Killing: The Global Death Industries and Missionary Response</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2019) special issue of <em>Mission Frontiers</em><br />5: Three examples of our <em>Global Integration Updates</em> on faith-based and inter-faith cooperation focusing on the wellbeing of all people and the planet. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active partnership with a diverse group of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review</strong> the materials below. What other scholarly materials would you recommend that address missionaries and development</span></span>? </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Probe further </strong>by reading or watching one of more of the materials</span><span style="color: black;">. What do you think of the assertions and conclusions</span></span>? </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Reflect</strong> on the opening perspectives and quotes in the <em>Update</em>. Are there things with which you agree or disagree or </span></span>want to adjust or add?</li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss any shifts in your thinking and practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/272027cad1e0/global-integration-update-special-news-13518856" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Being Inter-Faith-Based: Doing Better Together</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(April 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/689577e1d0e6/global-integration-update-special-news-11829308" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Repentance and Reconciliation: The Pope’s Pilgrimage of Penance</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(August 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e8c785caf52d/global-integration-update-special-news-1376705" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Being Faith-Based–Evidence-Based: Lessons from the Joint Learning Initiative</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(May 2019)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Why the "M" Word Matters</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Rethinking Missionaries and Development</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img height="183" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/68bbfcd9-bc2b-400e-8c94-1053090b2192.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 183px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"In parts of Africa where bandits and warlords shoot or rape anything that moves, you often find that the only groups still operating are Doctors Without Borders and religious aid workers: crazy doctors and crazy Christians. In the town of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutshuru" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Rutshuru</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in war-ravaged Congo, I found starving children, raped widows, and shell-shocked survivors. And there was a determined Catholic nun from Poland, serenely running a church clinic...she was passionately “pro-life” even for those already born—and brave souls like her are increasingly representative of religious conservatives. We can disagree sharply with their politics, but to mock them underscores our own ignorance and prejudice.“ Nicholas Kristof. </span><u style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=253f65fed5&e=8abe98a91a" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love</span></a></u><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-align: center;">. </span><span style="text-align: center;"><em>New York Times </em>(3 February 2008)</span></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">------------------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://cfc.sebts.edu/faith-and-economics/robert-woodberry-world-missionaries-made/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The World the Missionaries Made (10 January 2018)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> is a presentation by Robert Woodbury</span> <span style="color: black;">at the Center for Faith and Culture. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in the USA. “What kind of impact have missionaries made on the world? Have they harmed the world by merely exporting western values, or have they improved the world? Robert Woodberry addressed these questions and more...<br /><br />By examining historical patterns and statistics between 1820 and 1920, he explains how missionaries have influenced healthcare, education, printing, social reform, economic development and democracy. Missionaries made an overall positive impact, he argues. For example, Christians were the first to pursue educational opportunities for all people, regardless of their socio-economic status. They brought mass printing to places that had never had it.<br /><br />‘Christianity has profoundly shaped what we consider to be modernity,’ Woodberry said. Woodberry is the director of the Project on Religion and Economic Change, associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore and visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame. His research uses both historical and statistical methods to analyze the long-term effects of Protestant and Catholic missionaries on the societies where they worked.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See also<span style="color: black;">:</span></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">T</span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/missionary-roots-of-liberal-democracy/3D96CF5CB2F7FEB19B1835393D084B9A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">he Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(2014). </span>Robert Woodbury<span style="color: black;">.</span> <em>American Political Science Review</em> 106 (2): 244-74.<br /> <br /><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/january-february/world-missionaries-made.html?paging=off" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Surprising Discovery about Those Colonialists, Proselytizing Missionaries</span></a> (10 January 2014). <em>Christianity Today</em>.</span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">2. </span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/239693931503900301" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progressive Pentecostalism</span></a><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/239693931503900301" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">, Development, and Christian Development NGOs</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2015) is an article by Bryant Myers. "Something unusual happened in the Global South in the late 1980s and 1990s. A new expression of Pentecostalism arose that was distinguished by a combination of Pentecostal worship, aggressive evangelism, and grassroots efforts to provide education, health services and other relief, and development ministries. The phenomenon has attracted the attention of secular scholars. Their research makes the claim that, in five instances, these churches were better positioned and more effective in development work than international NGOs at work in the same city. This article will describe and assess these findings and then apply them to Christian development NGOs." (opening paragraph of the article)</span></span><br /><br /><strong>See also<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></span></strong><strong>:</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://odihpn.org/publication/some-myths-about-faith-based-humanitarian-aid/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Some Myths about Faith-Based Humanitarian Aid</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 14, 2004) Wilfred Mlay (World Vision International)</span></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> <em>Humanitarian Practice </em>Network (issue 27 article 15)</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong> </strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UOHlb1iFT4kl_HhJN7pWRZRyDjRqvF_3" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Partnering as Faith-Based People and Organizations</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(6 April 2019) Kelly and Michele O'Donnell</span></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> International Trauma Collaborative, Multnomah University USA</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6718804" height="600" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/611cf7b6-ce7d-8236-022b-d6ca08dcdc85.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 600px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Summary Table--Key Characteristics of the MADI framework</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"> Misean Cara (page iii)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">3. </span><a href="https://www.miseancara.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Missionary-Approach-Conceptual-Framework-and-Current-Context-July2018-2.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Missionary Approach to Development Interventions </span></a><a href="https://www.miseancara.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Missionary-Approach-Conceptual-Framework-and-Current-Context-July2018-2.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">(MADI): Conceptual Framework and Current Development Context </span></a><span style="color: black;">(July 2018) is an article by Misean Cara, a Christian development organization based in Ireland</span>.<strong> </strong><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Christian Inspiration and Ethos</strong><br />"Missionary development projects all take their ultimate inspiration from the Christian values, ethos and approaches of the organisations that implement them. Core principles and concepts such as human dignity, social justice, option for the poor, solidarity, subsidiarity and care for creation are fundamental to the way in which projects are designed and implemented for the benefit of poor, vulnerable and marginalised people throughout the world. Projects are also influenced by the particular key commitment or ‘charism’ (spiritual gift) of the implementing congregation. Some, such as Misean Cara members, further emphasise the related core values of respect, justice, commitment, compassion and integrity." (page 1)<br /><br /><strong>The Unique Approach of Missionaries</strong><br />"The approach of missionaries to development work is defined by five features that, when taken in combination, describe a way of working that is unique to missionaries when compared to the approaches of other development agencies, including the approaches of other faith-based organisations (FBOs). These five features are as follows: 1) Crossing boundaries in a whole variety of ways, as a global missionary movement of great scale and diversity 2) A long-term commitment and local presence on the ground where projects are being implemented; 3) A personal witness of commitment to Christian and missionary values; 4) A prophetic vision that inspires missionaries to take action to address community problems, even when the outcome is uncertain or unclear; and 5) A holistic (whole of person) approach towards working with individuals." (page 1)<br /> <br />"Other FBOs also take their inspiration from the same Christian values, but many of the international bodies amongst them do not commit themselves to a long-term presence on the ground. Other Christian organisations have their own diocesan and parish structures locally, but do not necessarily link to international networks or structures. Missionaries go beyond borders, cross boundaries and operate on a global basis, seeing the world as one place, while at the same time being fully embedded in the local community." (page 1)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See also</strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>:</strong></span><br /><a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022015026" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Missionary Approach to Development: Ensuring Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education for the Most Marginalized</span></a> (2022).<strong> </strong>Jenny<strong> </strong>Ackermann, Casey Eamonn, Seamus Collins, Anthony Hannon, and on behalf of Misean Cara. 2022<em>Environmental Sciences Proceedings</em> 15, no. 1: 26. <br /><strong> </strong><br /><a href="https://www.miseancara.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Conceptual-Framework-MADI-and-FBF.pdf?_gl=1*euis0x*_ga*NDQzOTExMDkuMTcwMzc4OTUxNg..*_up*MQ..*_ga_YZVYJNSW4X*MTcwMzc4OTUxNi4xLjAuMTcwMzc4OTUxNi4wLjAuMA..*_ga_4LGE0GLZN7*MTcwMzc4OTUxNi4xLjAuMTcwMzc4OTUxNi4wLjAuMA.." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">How the Missionary Approach to Development Interventions (MADI) Addresses the Concept of Reaching the Furthest Behind First (FBF)</span></a> (January 2021). Misean Cara.</span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">4. </span><a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/archive/making-a-killing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Making a Killing: The Global Death Industries and Missionary Response</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(September 2019) is a special issue of <em>Mission Frontiers e</em>dited by Rebecca Lewis. <br />“[This issue] focuses on the “death industries,” which are a handful of global industries that together directly result in almost two-thirds of global deaths. The lead editorial gives an overview of the historic connection between evangelicals, revivals, social transformation and addressing evil. It outlines four specific “death industries” which will, in various ways, be discussed in this issue of MF.”<br /> <br />The 'death industries' are a handful of global industries that together directly result in almost two-thirds of global deaths. Yes, two thirds of all deaths every year, and these particular deaths are fully preventable. Having lived on five continents from Latin America to North Africa to India, I have personally seen that millions of people God loves are being dragged down to death by these lucrative industries.<br /> <br />Unfortunately, missionaries and other believers with no money in the game are often the only ones willing to take a stand against them. We hope to encourage all believers to repent, pray and have the courage to bring a gospel of both hope and freedom, as has happened in the past. We also hope to galvanize expat evangelical workers to confront issues that cause so much suffering in the people groups they serve and to help families avoid misery and death.” (Opening overview and editorial by Rebecca Lewis)</span></span><br /><br /><strong>Two of the articles</strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/pdfs/MF41-5_WEB_p_12-17.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">What's Killing Us</span></a><u><a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/pdfs/MF41-5_WEB_p_12-17.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">?</span></a></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/the-addiction-industries-reform-efforts-and-the-unique-role-of-missionaries" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Addiction Industries: Reform Efforts and the Unique Role of Missionaries</span></a></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">5: Three examples of our <em>Global Integration Updates</em> on faith-based and inter-faith cooperation for the wellbeing of all people and the planet. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/272027cad1e0/global-integration-update-special-news-13518856" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Being InterFaith-Based: Doing Better Together</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(April 2023)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/689577e1d0e6/global-integration-update-special-news-11829308" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Repentance and Reconciliation: The Pope’s Pilgrimage of Penance</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(August 2022)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e8c785caf52d/global-integration-update-special-news-1376705" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Being Faith-Based–Evidence-Based: Lessons from the Joint Learning Initiative</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(May 2019)</span></span><hr /></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Final Thoughts</strong><br /><em>"</em><em>Religion and faith, as we know, have a central place for most people in our world—including many “persons and communities of concern,” staff, organizations, governments, and donors. Faith-based people are thus often mainstream contributors and partners--and not marginal players--when it comes to the efforts to transform the world. The emphasis on </em><strong><em>personal </em></strong><em>transformation (including virtue and moral integrity) is often an important added contribution from the faith-based sector."</em> </span><a href="https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=81eac56b93" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Update<u> (</u>August 2015</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 16px;">Personal Reflections</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves, etc.).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good." </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (85+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The Global Integration image used in this <em>Update</em> (the global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698923494188964887.post-21978766821754474682023-12-01T10:32:00.000+01:002023-12-30T12:20:44.696+01:00Special--News December 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; 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font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">10 December is Human Rights Day</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">!</span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>2<span style="color: black;">023 Theme: Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All</span></em></span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6694468" height="203" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ebb427c7-e927-8893-3dd9-8a34fe197eb8.png" style="border: 0px; height: 203px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image: UN Photo/Martine Perret/Eskinder Debebe/Gregório Cunha<br />(</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Human Rights Day website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."</em></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights </span></a></span><br />________<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#90), we focus on the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</span></a> (UDHR)<span style="color: black;">. We are whole-heartedly joining in the commemoration of its 75th year of the UDHR (10 December 1948--10 December 2023) and in the reaffirmation of its foundational principles for human dignity, equality, peace, and wellbeing.<br /><br />In so commemorating, we absolutely are not glossing over the challenges of implementing the UDHR and subsequent human rights instruments. Nor are we minimizing the episodic and ongoing selective application or blatant disregard of basic human rights in various settings. In addition to our virtuous human qualities, our human propensities to self-justify, be intolerant, and exploit others--from the individual through the international levels--can wreak havoc on people's and peoples' human rights.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Background</strong><br />"The </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/03/udhr.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (</span><a href="http://undocs.org/en/A/RES/217(III)" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">General Assembly resolution 217 A</span></a><span style="color: black;">) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over </span><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/en/search?f%5B0%5D=event_type_taxonomy_term_name%3AUniversal%20Declaration%20of%20Human%20Rights" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">500 languages</span></a><span style="color: black;">. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles)." (</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN—Peace, Dignity, and Equality on a Healthy Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span><br /><br /><strong>Learning More about Human Rights</strong><br /><span style="color: black;">Specifically, we share the <strong>Preamble of the UDHR</strong> (with its six "whereas" assertions--in hopes that you will also read the Articles 1-30 that follow it) as well as information on the UN's special <strong>Human Rights 75 Initiative</strong> (in hopes that you will learn more about this world-wide effort). There are of course so many other materials and resources related to human rights, We encourage you to use this <em>Update</em> and the occasion of the UDHR' 75th year to <strong>delve more deeply</strong> <strong>into this crucial area.</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active partnership with a diverse group of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Read</strong> the materials below about the two featured items--UDHR Preamble and the Human Rights 75 Initiative.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Reflect</strong> on the four quotes below in this <em>Update</em>.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Probe further </strong>into the two featured items by reading the 30 articles in the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UDHR</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (in one or more of its </span><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/en/search?f%5B0%5D=event_type_taxonomy_term_name%3AUniversal%20Declaration%20of%20Human%20Rights" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">500 languages</span></a><span style="color: black;">) and explore the website for the Human Rights 75 Initiative (</span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights-75" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Human Rights</span></a><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights-75" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">, Office of the High Commissioner</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/00bff707ddec/global-integration-update-special-news-13518152" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Developing Character Strengths–Being the Leaders Our World Needs</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (March 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/5338ed4e7551/global-integration-update-special-news-12156692" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Children’s Day–Love Them All! </span></a><span style="color: black;"> (November 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/5b462b677000/global-integration-update-special-news-8683017" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health and Wellbeing for All—Mind Our Rights!</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(October 2021)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Commemorating and Reaffirming Our Human Rights</em></strong></span></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">75 Years (1948--2023)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></strong></span><br /><br /><img height="366" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/255c350e-3d0f-49b2-945e-8ebedb97bc0a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image: UN</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." </em></span><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Article 3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights </span></a></span><br />________<br /><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Preamble</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Universal Declaration of Human Rights</em></span></span></strong></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Now, therefore,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The General Assembly,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">10 December is Human Rights Day</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">!</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>2023 Theme: Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All</em></span></strong></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Quote One for Reflection:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"Human beings are held to possess human rights, and to be accountable and to live up to them simply because they are human, not because they are Muslim, or Christian, or Buddhist, or Jewish, or Hindu, or a member of any particular religious or philosophical tradition. The whole point of human rights is that they are taken to be binding and available, regardless of identity or worldview. This does not mean, of course, that people are not free to harbor their own personal reasons—religious or otherwise—for believing in human rights. It only means that such views may not be taken as "official" or in any way binding on others who do not share them." David Little in his Foreword to John Nurser's book, <em>For All Peoples and All Nations: Christian Churches and Human Rights</em> (2005, page ix). </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Quote Two for Reflection:</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"…the Human Rights Commission [1945] went on to bring into being the Universal Declaration [1948] and thereby to make way for and inspire a whole array of subsequent human rights documents on civil, political, economic, social, cultural, racial, gender, minority, environmental, and other issues, that today set international standards for what is expected of nation-states, both within and outside their borders. Although these standards are not universally enforced around the world, they are more and more taken to comprise the basic international requirements of political legitimacy. It is simply the case now that states found systematically and grossly to these violate standards are regarded as pariahs." </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">David Little in his Foreword to John Nurser's book, <em>For All Peoples and All Nations: Christian Churches and Human Rights</em> (2005, page x).</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Human Rights 75 Initiative</span></strong></span><br /><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>UN Human Rights--Office of the High Commissioner</strong></span></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tweet, Instagram or YouTube your action using the hashtags<br />#humanrights75 and #Act4RightsNow</span></span></strong><br /><br /><em><img data-file-id="6694484" height="183" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ceb04117-348c-ce00-ed37-3e0faa4d97cd.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 183px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></em><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image above and quote below: </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/events/events/2023/human-rights-75-high-level-event" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Human Rights 75 Initiative website</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"Together, let’s rejuvenate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, demonstrate how it can meet the needs of our time AND advance its promise of freedom, equality and justice for all”.</em></span><br />----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>"Background</strong>.<strong> </strong>Rebirth often follows decimation. And so, in the aftermath of World War II, on 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<br /><br />If there was ever a moment to rekindle the hope of human rights for every person, it is now. And this moment will last throughout 2023 and beyond – a year of commemoration of one of the world’s most ground-breaking international commitments. In 2023, we reinvigorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, showing the ways it meets the needs of our time, and advancing its promise of freedom, equality, and justice for all.<br /><br /><strong>Solidarity for the rights of everyone.</strong> In the decades since 50 countries signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we have pushed the frontiers in medicine, technology, the environment, social and political expression, economic and labour laws, and more. Progress is a process, and we have much to build on. The Declaration reflects an agreement that equality, freedom and justice are values that drive a thriving society when everyone could experience equal access to opportunities in these domains and any of their choosing.<br /><br />The Declaration is a life guide encompassing 30 articles that address rights and benefits, which have been realized by many yet outside the reach of others. These include access to education, employment, fair pay, voting rights, healthcare and more; the values of free speech, privacy, and mutual respect irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion are evinced by the Declaration.<br /><br />Human Rights 75 is an initiative whose three main goals focus on universality, progress and engagement under the leadership of UN Human Rights, together with its partners. The initiative culminates in a high-level event in December 2023 that will announce global pledges and ideas for a vision for the future of human rights.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Read more on the </strong></span><strong><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights-75" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Human Rights 75 website</span></a></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Note the </span></strong></span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/events/events/2023/human-rights-75-high-level-event" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">special events (hybrid) at the UN Geneva on 11-12 December 2023</span></strong></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See "</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories?field_published_date_value[max]=&field_published_date_value[min]=&field_subject_target_id[8214]=8214&sort_bef_combine=field_published_date_value_DESC" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Stories Showcasing the Humans in Human Rights"</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(UNOCHR)</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Quote Three for Reflection:</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">“In addition to literacy and numeracy, education must advance the cause of global citizenship which: promotes integrated development of the whole person emotionally, ethically, intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually; imbued with an understanding of our roles, rights and responsibilities for the common good in service to humanity and the advancement of a culture of peace, non-violence, freedom, justice, and equality…“empowers learners to assume active roles to face and resolve global challenges and to become proactive contributors to a more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, and secure world” [UNESCO 2014]; nurtures a sense of solidarity and empathy in order to end poverty, protect the planet, ensure human rights, and foster prosperous and fulfilling lives for all….We commit to…An education that teaches conflict resolution, a deep appreciation for diversity, ethical reasoning, gender equality, human rights and responsibilities, interdependence, multilingual and multicultural competence, social justice, sustainable development, and values.” </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2020/02/actionplan-en.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>E</u>ducation for Global Citizenship: Achieving the SDGs Together--Gyeongju Action Plan</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">UN DPI</span></span>/NGO<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> (2016, pages 1,2)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Quote Four for Reflection:</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">“[Global Citizen Education (GCE)] has a critical role to play in equipping learners with competencies to deal with the dynamic and interdependent world of the twenty-first century. While GCE has been applied in different ways in different contexts, regions and communities, it has a number of common elements, which include fostering in learners:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">an attitude supported by an understanding of multiple levels of identity, and the potential for a ‘collective identity’ which transcends individual cultural, religious, ethnic or other differences;</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">a deep knowledge of global issues and universal values such as justice, equality, dignity and respect;</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">cognitive skills to think critically, systemically and creatively, including adopting a multiperspective approach that recognizes the different dimensions, perspectives and angles of issues;</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">non-cognitive skills including social skills such as empathy and conflict resolution, communication skills and aptitudes for networking and interacting with people of different backgrounds, origins, cultures and perspectives; and</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">behavioural capacities to act collaboratively and responsibly to find global solutions for global challenges, and to strive for the collective good.“ </span><br /><a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002277/227729E.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Citizenship Education: Preparing Learners for the Challenges of the 21st Century</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Executive Summary, UNESCO (2014 page 9)</span></span></li></ul><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 16px;">Personal Reflections</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves ourselves, etc.).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--November 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Ending Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere<br /><br /><img data-file-id="5526541" height="264" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/776487c9-2997-85fb-09af-d3013e8c1a26.png" style="border: 0px; height: 264px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>"In Panama City inequality is seen side by side. Panama, April 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP/Grey Díaz </em></span></span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">And in so many other places throughout our world!</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest...Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times - times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation - that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils...millions of people in the world’s poorest countries remain imprisoned, enslaved, and in chains. They are trapped in the prison of poverty. It is time to set them free." </em>(</span><a href="http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/2005/050203_poverty.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Nelson Mandela, 3 February 2005 (speech text)</span></a><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NennMCLG7A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Make Poverty History (video</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></div>------------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#89), we focus on <strong>multidimensional poverty</strong> and some of the main research tools for measuring and monitoring it in our world. It is such a devastating experience for hundreds of million of people in our world--fellow humans like us who are not simply statistics! Before we go any further, <span style="background-color: lightblue;">we want to encourage you to watch this short video overview on </span><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">multidimensional poverty</span></strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> </span></span><a href="https://player.vimeo.com/video/843978495?h=4db3ee10ac" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">HER</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">E</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> (1 minute 30 seconds).</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">“Poverty is often defined by one-dimensional measures--usually based on income. But no single indicator can capture the multiple dimensions of poverty. <strong>Multidimensional poverty</strong> encompasses the various deprivations experienced by poor people in their daily lives--such as poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standards, disempowerment, poor quality of work, the threat of violence, and living in areas that are environmentally hazardous, among others.” (</span><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/policy/multidimensional-poverty-index/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Tackling the pervasive and massive reality of multidimensional poverty </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/topics/poverty-eradication" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">i</span><span style="color: mediumblue;">s an underlying emphasis</span></a> <span style="color: black;">throughout the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (SDGs) and is embodied in Goal 1</span><span style="color: black;">:<strong> </strong>"End poverty in all its forms everywhere." Some of the aims of Goal 1's seven associated targets seek to "eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty, and implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable." (</span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/topics/poverty-eradication" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN DESA website</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">)</span></span><br /><br /><strong>Specifically we feature four core resources--new research and reports</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">:</span></span><strong> </strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)</span></a><br /><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/gmpi-report-2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Multinational Poverty Index Report 2023</em></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, United Nations Development Program</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/multidimensional-poverty-measure#:~:text=The%20MPM%20is%20composed%20of,education%2C%20and%20basic%20infrastructure%20services." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty Measure</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(2023)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Development Report 2023--Migrants, Refugees, and Societies</em></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">World Bank<br /><br /><strong>How many people live in extreme poverty</strong></span></span><strong>? And w</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>hat causes poverty</strong></span></span><strong>? </strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“For most of us, living on less than $2 a day seems far removed from reality. But it is the reality for roughly 800 million people around the globe. Approximately 10% of the global population lives in extreme poverty, meaning that they're living below the poverty line of $1.90 per day.” (The Top 11 Causes for Poverty Around the World, </span><a href="https://concernusa.org/news/causes-of-poverty/?&utm_source=grgs&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=information-content&utm_content=v1&utm_term=causes-of-poverty&c_src=grgs-cpc&c_src2=information-content-causes-of-poverty-v1&gclid=CjwKCAjw7c2pBhAZEiwA88pOF-ObazRqXfOAVzf19h0FJFpYMAEG6qk-hFONoTn-eXG4lYtH6uDKDRoCwCoQAvD_BwE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Concern US, 2022</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active partnership with a diverse group of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review</strong> the information and the key findings and statistics in the materials below.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Watch </span></strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NennMCLG7A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Nelson Mandela's historic speech for the Make Poverty History Campaign</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2005, 9 minutes). We have included two quotes from this speech--a summons to action--in this <em>Update</em>.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Probe further </strong>by reading some of the summary materials online</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. Consider reading through parts of one or both of the two main reports.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/23742389c587/global-integration-update-special-news-13529528" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Halfway into the SDGs: Taking Stock–Taking Action</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/2a5a1d9567cb/global-integration-update-special-news-13512064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resisting Despair-Disillusion: Will It Get Worse Before It Gets Worse?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/021d340d37d2/global-integration-update-special-news-11395549" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Thinking Critically about Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2022)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Ending Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere</em></strong></span><br /><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6691292" height="388" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/a9a73fa6-15d1-a644-b7a1-6e9a61a34954.png" style="border: 0px; height: 388px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Click </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> or on the map above to access the interactive map including more information by country</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>.</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom...Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up."</em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (<a href="http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/2005/050203_poverty.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Nelson Mandela, 3 February 2005 (speech text)</span></a>--<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NennMCLG7A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Make Poverty History (video</span></a>)</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------<br /><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/gmpi-report-2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6691316" height="345" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8d5ca4cf-ef3c-88ae-66d7-e9cc859e2e26.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 345px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)<br />and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)</span></a><br /><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/gmpi-report-2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Multinational Poverty Index Report 2023</em></span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"This report presents a compact update on the state of multidimensional poverty (henceforth referred to as “poverty”) in the world. It compiles data from 110 developing countries covering 6.1 billion people, accounting for 92 percent of the population in developing countries. It tells an important and persistent story about how prevalent poverty is in the world and provides insights into the lives of poor people, their deprivations and how intense their poverty is—to inform and accelerate efforts to end poverty in all its forms. As still only a few countries have data from after the COVID-19 pandemic, the report urgently calls for updated multidimensional poverty data. And while providing a sobering annual stock take of global poverty, the report also highlights examples of success in every region." (quote from </span><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/2023-global-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi#/indicies/MPI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNDP website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://trainingidn.shinyapps.io/OPHIDataBankGlobalComparison/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="6691352" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/86815b50-3286-94ec-6c0e-bbf0ee20e062.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">“The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)...has three dimensions and 10 indicators [see image above]. Each dimension is equally weighted, and each indicator within a dimension is also equally weighted. Any person who fails to meet the deprivation cutoff is identified as deprived in that indicator. The global MPI is then created using multidimensional measurement method of Alkire and Foster (AF). So the core information the MPI uses is the profile of deprivations each person experience</span></span>s.” <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(quote from </span><a href="https://trainingidn.shinyapps.io/OPHIDataBankGlobalComparison/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">OPHI website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Key Findings</strong><br /><strong>Where do poor people live?</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Across 110 countries 1.1 billion out of 6.1 billion people are poor – just over 18% are estimated to live in acute multidimensional poverty.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">534 million out of 1.1 billion poor people – half of all poor people – live in Sub-Saharan Africa</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Over a third of all poor people live in South Asia – that’s 389 million people.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">730 million – nearly two-thirds of all poor people – live in middle-income countries. Low-income countries are home to over one-third of all poor people – 387 million.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Who are the poorest?</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The higher the incidence of poverty, the higher the intensity of poverty that poor people experience.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">485 million poor people live in severe poverty across 110 countries, experiencing 50–100% of weighted deprivations.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">99 million poor people experience deprivations in all three dimensions (70–100% of weighted deprivations).</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">10 million of the 12 million poor people with the highest deprivation scores (90–100%) live in Sub-Saharan Africa</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Which groups are the poorest?</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Subnational regions are being left behind in two ways: where poverty is widespread, poverty is also most intense.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Half of the 1.1 billion poor people (566 million) are children under 18 years of age.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">84% of all poor people live in rural areas. Rural areas are poorer than urban areas in every world region.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>What deprivations do poor people face?</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">824–991 million out of the 1.1 billion poor people do not have adequate sanitation, housing or cooking fuel.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">600 million poor people live with a person who is undernourished in their household.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Gaps in years of schooling are a cross regional issue: In all regions except Europe and Central Asia, around half of poor people do not have a single member of their household who has completed six years of schooling.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How do monetary and multidimensional poverty compare?</strong></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In 42 of 61 countries more people live in multidimensional poverty, based on the global MPI, than in extreme monetary poverty according to the World Bank’s $2.15 a day measure.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How has poverty changed?</strong></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">72 of 81 countries, covering well over 5 billion people, experienced a significant absolute reduction in MPI value during at least one period. But nearly all data are from before the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">25 countries halved their global MPI value well within 15 years, showing that progress at scale is attainable.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">" (quote from </span><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/global-mpi-2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">OPHI website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></li></ul><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6691308" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/e95a5211-5605-66c9-e972-cd2ac34891ca.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">World Bank</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/multidimensional-poverty-measure#:~:text=The%20MPM%20is%20composed%20of,education%2C%20and%20basic%20infrastructure%20services." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty Measure</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(2023) (MPM)</span><br /><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Development Report 2023--Migrants, Refugees, and Societies</em></span></a></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"[The MPM] measures the percentage of households in a country deprived along three dimensions –monetary poverty, education, and basic infrastructure services – to capture a more complete picture of poverty. [It is a] means to capture the complexity of poverty that considers dimensions of well-being beyond just monetary poverty.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">[The <strong>MPM] seeks to understand poverty beyond monetary deprivations</strong> (which remain the focal point of the World Bank’s monitoring of global poverty) by including access to education and basic infrastructure along with the monetary headcount ratio at the $2.15 international poverty line.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The World Bank’s measure takes inspiration and guidance from other prominent global multidimensional measures, particularly the </span><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford University but differs from them in one important aspect: it includes monetary poverty less than $2.15 per day, the New International Poverty Line at 2017 PPP (Purchasing Power Parity), as one of the dimensions. <strong>Under this broader definition of poverty, many more people come into view as poor</strong>.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">While monetary poverty is strongly correlated with deprivations in other domains, this correlation is far from perfect. The Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022 report (</span><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-prosperity" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Bank, 2022</span></a><span style="color: black;">) shows that almost 4 out of 10 multidimensionally poor individuals (39 percent) are not captured by monetary poverty, as they are deprived in nonmonetary dimensions alone. A country’s MPM is at least as high as or higher than monetary poverty, reflecting the additional role of nonmonetary dimensions to poverty and their importance to general well-being. Deprivations in nonmonetary dimensions like access to schooling and basic infrastructure, compound poverty and perpetuate cycles of inequality. Securing higher living standards for a population becomes more challenging when poverty in all its forms is considered, but it can provide policymakers with a roadmap for and a means of monitoring improvements in welfare.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">[This 5<sup>th</sup> edition of the MPM] includes the latest estimates for 121 economies. A full list of 149 countries with the latest and historical MPM data is available [on the website]. Major updates to the MPM database happen around March/April of every year, with the possibility of a smaller update in September some years." (</span><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/multidimensional-poverty-measure#:~:text=The%20MPM%20is%20composed%20of,education%2C%20and%20basic%20infrastructure%20services" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Bank website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going Further</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">See the various events during </span><a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Geneva Peace Week (30 October-3 November 2023)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> related to peace and poverty etc<em>. </em>You can<em> r</em>egister to attend several of the events virtually<em>. </em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See the many resources related to poverty and corruption on the Global Integrity Day website<em>. The theme for 2021 was </em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/gid-theme-resources?authuser=0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Corruption and Poverty--Multidimensional Probity to End Multidimensional Poverty.</span></a></em></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 16px;">Personal Reflections</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves ourselves, etc.).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good." </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (85+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The Global Integration image used in this <em>Update</em> (the global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698923494188964887.post-22582069040058092032023-10-01T14:49:00.000+02:002023-10-27T15:18:49.337+02:00Special News--October 2023<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; 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height: 367px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York. Image--</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/ccoi/general-assembly" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN photo</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"> Note that it is</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/un-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations Day on 24 October 2023</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Use it as an opportunity to learn more about the UN.</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>" ‘We the Peoples’ are the celebrated opening words of the UN Charter. It is ‘We the Peoples’ who are embarking today on the road to 2030. Our journey will involve Governments as well as Parliaments, the UN system and other international institutions, local authorities, indigenous peoples, civil society, business and the private sector, the scientific and academic community – and all people. Millions have already engaged with, and will own, this Agenda. It is an Agenda of the people, by the people, and for the people – and this, we believe, will ensure its success.”</em> Paragraph 52. </span><em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">T</span><span style="color: mediumblue;">ransforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. United Nations</span></span></div>------------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In this <em>Update</em> (#88), we feature Kelly's brief op-ed, </span></span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4m3aVTn7dy4jMsvR2CFBj8yRXxYNcPG/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"Wrong Way! A Reality Check on Being a <em>Non</em>."</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Kelly explores how the term<em> non "can be used inadvertently or intentionally to define relationships, levels of influence, and even worth</em> <em>in civil society and government engagement</em>.<em>" </em>Our<em> </em>intention is to encourage us all to reflect on--and hopefully change--how we use such terms in our international interactions and work.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active partnership with a diverse group of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Read</strong> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4m3aVTn7dy4jMsvR2CFBj8yRXxYNcPG/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">"A Reality Check on Being a <em>Non</em>."</span></a><span style="color: black;"> What are some of your initial responses and ideas</span></span>? <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We have included several excerpts below and also a link to read the entire three-page piece. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Consider </strong>a term besides a "non" to describe and refer to (individually or combined)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> civil society</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> private industry</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> academic sectors</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and philanthropic organizations</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Any suggestions</span></span>?</li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/021d340d37d2/global-integration-update-special-news-11395549" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Critical Thinking for Sustainable Development: Challenging Our Assumptions, Agendas, and Actions</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/4911684ca85e/global-integration-update-special-news-1472225" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2020)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c83778c797e5/global-integration-update-special-news-1466097" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Shaping the Future We Want: UN75 Global Conversation</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(January 2020)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Are You a <em>Non</em></span>?</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Respecting Colleagues--Balancing Influence<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ptpO7wHKXCAz7pnXn4QQeKo4qHeldsy5/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6683268" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/_compresseds/8f8a24b2-b2b4-dc78-4af0-01b2d15b9cfd.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></em></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“The scale and ambition of the new Agenda [for Sustainable Development] requires a revitalized Global Partnership to ensure its implementation. We fully commit to this. This Partnership will work in a spirit of global solidarity, in particular solidarity with the poorest and with people in vulnerable situations. It will facilitate an intensive global engagement in support of implementation of all the Goals and targets, bringing together Governments, the private sector, civil society, the United Nations system and other actors and mobilizing all available resources.”</em> Paragraph 39.</span><em><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. United Nations</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Wrong Way!</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>A Reality Check on Being a </em>Non</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Kelly S</strong><em>.</em><strong> O'Donnell, PsyD</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(link to full article </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4m3aVTn7dy4jMsvR2CFBj8yRXxYNcPG/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>The word "non" can be used inadvertently or intentionally to define relationships, <br />levels of influence, and even worth</em> <em>in civil society and government engagement<span style="color: black;">.</span></em></span><br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4m3aVTn7dy4jMsvR2CFBj8yRXxYNcPG/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6683120" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/27c12326-9396-bf58-16c4-aa7231e01c13.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Have you ever felt belittled—a bit or a bunch, subtly or overtly--when interacting with someone who seemingly has more power than you do? I certainly have. Unfortunately, this can be a frustrating experience when trying to engage relevantly on a more equal footing in many settings such as at events hosted by United Nations and government agencies. Feeling second class and being treated that way—even unintentionally: think of micro-aggressions--is not exactly conducive to an all of society, collaborative approach to tackle some of our world’s toughest problems.<br /> <br />The designation and use of “terms” are a major culprit. I want to tap into my background as a psychologist to remind us how the use of terms can both psychologically and practically disempower (maintain power imbalances) and marginalize (minimize inclusion) people and groups.....<br /><br /> The case in point is the almost ubiquitous, entrenched, and unquestioned use of the term "non" in English within international, intergovernmental, and multi-sectoral discourse. For example: non-Westerners, non—governmental organizations, non-state actors and other deleterious and frankly “non-sense” designations. Surely there must be better terms—and if so what might they be!<br /><br />Practically, <em>non-sense</em> is about conveniently defining others by what they are not. And psychologically it is about feeling more secure by referring to others as "non-us.” Further, it’s about who is in the <em>in-groups</em> and who is in the <em>out-groups</em>. It’s about “othering.”<br /><br />We all engage in this type of categorization to an extent of course as labels and groupings help us make sense of the world around us. However, it remains important to question the implicit valuing embedded within our designation and groupings. When we use the qualifier <em>non</em> as part of a group’s label, let’s ask ourselves: “Is it really necessary? Is it really neutral? Is it really helpful? Is it really fair?”<br /> <br />And consider these two equally important, corollary questions: <strong>Why on earth do people tolerate being referred to as <em>nons</em>? </strong><strong>Surely there is a better term and terms to use!</strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Read the full version of this article </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4m3aVTn7dy4jMsvR2CFBj8yRXxYNcPG/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6683260" height="203" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/c6cd1884-1355-c857-7ca6-affe7e61291f.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 203px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">United Nations emblem in the General Assembly Hall in New York. </span><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/un-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Photo: UN/Cia Pak</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> <br />Note that it is</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/un-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations Day on 24 October 2023</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Use it as an opportunity to learn more about the UN.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 16px;">Personal Reflections</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves ourselves, etc.).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good." </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (85+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The Global Integration image used in this <em>Update</em> (the global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--September 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace and Security</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Staying Alive in Our Precarious-Perilous-Precious World</em></strong></span></span><br /> <br /><img data-file-id="2381329" height="267" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/e7bea525-7c45-4755-9267-1a4df2d63c2a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="550" /><br /><br /><em>“<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We are a world in pieces.</span></span></em><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>We need to be a world at peace.”</em><br />UN Secretary-General António Guterres</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=b719153dcd&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN General Assembly, 19 September 2017</span></a><span style="color: black;">)<br /><br />21 September 2023 is </span><span style="color: mediumblue;">I</span><a href="https://internationaldayofpeace.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">nternational Day of Peace</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">The theme is "Actions for Peace: Our Ambition for the #GlobalGoals."</span></span><br />------------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update</em> (#87), we share three sets of resources that deal with the world community's efforts to prevent-resolve armed conflicts and maintain-nurture peace locally through globally. Our interest in these areas are spurred on by current and ongoing geopolitical tensions as well as by growing up in families in which several members (parents, siblings, in-laws) have been involved in international armed conflicts as soldiers and civilians (World War 2, Korea, and Vietnam).</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Resource Set 1--</strong></span><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1138947" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The New Agenda for Peace</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021) is the latest in a <strong>series of Policy Briefs</strong> that build upon the UN Secretary-General's</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Our Common Agenda</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2021) and foster discussion and debate in preparation for the</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summit of the Future</span></a> <span style="color: black;">in 2024.</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Resource Set 2--</strong></span><a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Geneva Peace Week</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(GPW--30 October-3 November 2023) is a major annual forum (hybrid format with <strong>over 100 events</strong>) that brings together organizations in Geneva and their international partners to share knowledge and practice related to peace across contexts and disciplines. Watch a short overview of GPW 2022 </span><a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en#gallery" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> to launch into this <em>Update's</em> crucial content.</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Resource Set 3--</strong></span><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/global-integration/gi-updates/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Integration Updates</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> over the past five years (2018-2023) have regularly focused on peace and security--building and sustaining peace in our world and dealing with sources and sustainers of violence and conflict.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Peace and security are frequent themes in our <em>Updates</em> and are a reflection of the ongoing struggles--the collective maims and moans--within our precarious, perilous, and precious world. International peace and security are complicated in our complicated world. But they are not impossible wishes. They are not implausible wants. "Consequently, everything that we say and do must bear in mind that behind all of the [current threats to peace and security] is a hope and a desire of the world that <strong>some way can be found to settle disputes around the conference table, not on the battlefield.</strong>"</span> (<a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/the-presidents-news-conference-318" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Dwight Eisenhower, 14 November 1956</span></a>)<span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>“<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The need for a systemic response to building peace is urgent. Conflict is intensifying in several regions, with conflict-related deaths rising rapidly. The gap between the most and least peaceful countries continues to grow, and although many measures of militarisation have improved over the past fifteen years, the proliferation of cheaper advanced military technologies, increasing geopolitical competition, and an underlying current of political instability in many countries means that a continuing deterioration of global peacefulness seems likely</span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.” Final paragraph in the Executive Summary, </span><em><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GPI-2023-Web.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Peace Index (June 2023)</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal reflections on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good."</span></span></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review </strong>the resources below. Are there additional ones that you would recommend for understanding peace and security in our world</span></span>?</li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Probe further</strong><strong> </strong>into one or more of the resources in this <em>Update</em>. For example, a) read through the Introduction of </span><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1138947" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The New Agenda for Peace</em></span></a> <strong>(</strong>six pages) and the Conclusions (one page)</span>;<span style="font-size: 14px;"> b) look over <a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Geneva Peace Week</span></a> and note that the program and registration will be available on 25 September (save the date as events can fill up fast!)</span>; c) <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">learn more about activities and participating in the</span></span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">I</span><a href="https://internationaldayofpeace.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">nternational Day of Peace</span></a></span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(21 September 2023);</span></span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">and/or d) explore one of the </span><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/global-integration/gi-updates/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Integration Updates</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> that have focused on peace and security. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace and Security</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Staying Alive Our Precarious-Perilous-Precious World</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6676464" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/a071d721-6f0e-af20-db76-7909a5de6aab.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Statues from France in our living room, flanked by two artillery shells<br />from the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">major battle in Verdun, France during World War I</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br />The shells have been refashioned into pieces of art.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>"<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore</span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.” </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%202%3A4&version=NIV" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Isaiah 2:4</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br /><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.” </span></span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">UN Charter Article 2</span></span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></u></span><em><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">4</span></span></a></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resource Set 1</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>The New Agenda for Peace</em> (July 2021)</span></strong></span><br /><strong><em>Peace is possible--don't give up! Pray-push-partner-persevere!</em></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">21 September 2023 is </span><span style="color: mediumblue;">I</span><a href="https://internationaldayofpeace.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">nternational Day of Peace</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">The theme is "Actions for Peace: Our Ambition for the #GlobalGoals."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><img data-file-id="6676484" height="411" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6d42fdc9-4e37-09c6-907c-6cbce3006cfe.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 411px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></strong></span></span><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">You can read UN Secretary-General António Guterres' opening remarks<br />at the launch of this agenda on 20 July 2023 </span></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2023-07-20/secretary-generals-remarks-the-launch-of-the-policy-brief-new-agenda-for-peace" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">HERE</span></span></a><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1138947" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The New Agenda for Peace</em></span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021) is the latest in a <strong>series of Policy Briefs</strong> that build upon the UN Secretary-General's</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Our Common Agenda</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2021) and foster discussion and debate in preparation for the</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/summit-of-the-future" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summit of the Future</span></a> <span style="color: black;">in 2024. Here are excerpts--five orienting paragraphs--from the Introduction and Conclusion.<br /><br />"The challenges that we face can be addressed only through stronger international cooperation. The Summit of the Future, in 2024, is an opportunity to agree on multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow, strengthening global governance for both present and future generations (General Assembly resolution 76/307). In my capacity as Secretary-General, I have been invited to provide inputs to the preparations for the Summit in the form of action-oriented recommendations, building on the proposals contained in my report entitled “Our Common Agenda” (A/75/982), which was itself a response to the declaration on the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations (Assembly resolution 75/1). The present policy brief is one such input. (page 2)<br /><br />The collective security system that the United Nations embodies has recorded remarkable accomplishments. It has succeeded in preventing a new global conflagration. International cooperation – spanning from sustainable development, disarmament, human rights and women’s empowerment to counter-terrorism and the protection of the environment – has made humanity safer and more prosperous. Peacemaking and peacekeeping have helped to end wars and prevent numerous crises from escalating into full-blown violence. Where wars broke out, collective action by the United Nations often helped shorten their duration and alleviate their worst effects. (page 3)<br /> <br />Nonetheless, peace remains an elusive promise for many around the world. Conflicts continue to wreak destruction, while their causes have become more complex and difficult to resolve. This may make the pursuit of peace appear a hopeless undertaking. However, in reality, it is the political decisions and actions of human beings that can either sustain or crush hopes for peace. War is always a choice: to resort to arms instead of dialogue, coercion instead of negotiation, imposition instead of persuasion. Therein lies our greatest prospect, for if war is a choice, peace can be too. It is time for a recommitment to peace. In the present document, I offer my vision of how we can make that choice. (page 3)<br /> <br />My vision as outlined in the present document is one of hope and optimism. Despite the profound difficulty of the current moment, I expect that Member States will rise to the challenge. During its 78 years of existence, the United Nations has heard, time and again, announcements of its imminent demise or increasing irrelevance. However, overcoming failures and shortcomings, the Organization has not only endured, but remained the nerve centre of the multilateral system. (page 33)<br /> <br />We must, however, be clear-eyed about the magnitude of the problems before us. What is at stake is not the future of the United Nations, but of our nations and humanity. The possibility of global devastation, whether from nuclear weapons, climate change, diseases or war, or even technology run amok, is tangible and increasing. Member States will need to find new ways of working together despite the increasing mistrust that has permeated international relations." (page 33)</span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="6676472" height="700" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d23b55e-845b-82bc-ca65-8f605f24d200.png" style="border: 0px; height: 700px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Page 15 from <em>A New Agenda for Peace</em><br />The text describes these 12 action points in more detail and with examples.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Note--I</strong>n order to better understand the purpose and propositions of this new Policy Brief on peace</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;">it is really helpful to</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;">familiarize ourselves with the broader efforts for the wellbeing of all people an the planet via <em>Our Common Agenda</em> (</span>the result of a year-long global listening exercise) </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">and the preparatory documents and events en route to the upcoming Summit of the Future. All this might seem overwhelming but keep in mind that the Agenda and the Summit are core parts of the efforts to collaboratively build the world we want--and need! Hence we believe that understanding and tracking with them--while not necessarily agreeing with everything therein--is important for connecting and contributing to a better world.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Resource Set 2</span></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em><span style="color: black;">Geneva Peace Week (30 October-3 November 2023)</span></em></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Save the date--register and sign up for events well in advance! </em></span></strong><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6676500" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/c6d05d87-bc22-cc42-0bf2-d6853a437520.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">You can watch the three-minute overview of Geneva Peace Week 2022 </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en#gallery" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /> </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Geneva Peace Week</span></a> </strong>is an<strong> </strong><span style="color: black;">annual forum that brings together organizations in Geneva and their international partners to share knowledge and practice related to peace across contexts and disciplines. (hybrid format with <strong>over 100 events</strong>) Now in its 10th year, the theme this year is "Building Trust, Building Peace--An Agenda for the Future." <strong>We have attended five times (in person and on line) and have found the presentations<em> </em>and interactions to be <em>very</em> valuable for ourselves and for colleagues working in almost all sectors!</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>"</strong>Geneva Peace Week [GPW] offers an opportunity to connect and highlight the work of peacebuilders and to expand the space for each and every person, actor and institution that has a role to play in building peace and resolving conflict. GPW recognizes that peacebuilding occurs in many different contexts and cuts across disciplines and sectors. In this sense, Geneva Peace Week breaks down professional silos in order to enable creative responses to violence, exclusion and insecurity. By synchronizing meetings and events on different topics related to the promotion of peace during one week, GPW maximizes synergies between organizations in Geneva and their international partners, focusing on the cross-cutting nature of peace." (quote from the GPW website)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Note--</strong>Registration and the program of events are available on 25 September. More information is </span><a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en/gpw23/participation" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> about how to participate. Note that places at the events are limited and many of the events (in person and online) fill up very fast.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Hence we are sending this information to you well in advance fo</span>r you to mark the date and to register and sign up for events by the end of September</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. More information on this year's theme and the three thematic tracks is </span><a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en/gpw23/thematic-direction" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Resource Set 3</strong></span></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Global Integration Updates</em> (2018-2023)<br /><em>Finding common ground for the common good</em></span></span></strong></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6327533" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8032b5fd-421f-f121-997a-9f52a0d3a17b.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the cover of </span><a href="https://icrcndresourcecentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/icrc_002_4015.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Children in War</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">,<em> </em>Christoph von Toggenburg<strong>/</strong>ICRC (2009). This is the man image used for our <em>Global Integration Update</em> (April 2022), </span><em><a href="https://mailchi.mp/d40ac0629a27/global-integration-update-special-news-11449161" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Staring War in the Face</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We have compiled several special issues of the </span><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/global-integration/gi-updates/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Integration Updates</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">over the years that focus on peace and security--building and sustaining peace in our world and dealing with sources and sustainers of violence and conflict. Here are seven examples from the past five years (2018-2023). We encourage you to look through at least one of these issues.</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/2a5a1d9567cb/global-integration-update-special-news-13512064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resisting Despair and Disillusion: Will it Get Worse before it Gets Worse?</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(January 2023)</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">(October 2022)</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c35dc88ee23d/global-integration-update-special-news-12148220" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arming the World–Promoting Positive Peace</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(September 2022)</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/d40ac0629a27/global-integration-update-special-news-11449161" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Staring War in the Face</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(April 2022)</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/ad30f29619c1/global-integration-update-special-news-10514349" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">New Year’s Yearnings: Peace on Earth–Sharing our Stories and Strategies</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(January 2022)</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(July 2021)</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/f259810c3a95/global-integration-update-special-news-1214153" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace Psychology/Sustaining Peace–Resources from Two Recent Events</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(May 2018)</span></span></li></ul><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves ourselves, etc.).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span><br /> </div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (85+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The Global Integration image used in this <em>Update</em> (the global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--August 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Evil Inc</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Trafficking Children for Sex</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Getting Informed--Taking Action</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><a href="https://www.angel.com/watch" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="14435550" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/66e16f9d8a9699d5d627c279d/images/3ef480a5-c1ac-6593-1474-f447e386cbc1.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" width="550" /></a></strong></span></em><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"God's children are not for sale<strong>.</strong>"</em><br />The Sound of Freedom (2023)</span></span><br />------------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update</em> (#86), we focus on one aspect of human trafficking<strong>:</strong> the widespread and egregious practice of <strong>child sex trafficking</strong>. We feature the new film, </span><a href="https://www.angel.com/watch" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sound of Freedom</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (released 4 July in the USA). You can watch the trailer </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=FiZgs7dyBZg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.angel.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /><br />"Sound of Freedom is the story of Tim Ballard, a former U.S. government agent, who quit his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers" (from the </span><a href="https://ourrescue.org/sound-of-freedom?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwk96lBhDHARIsAEKO4xb2pQxEZBIMhHGtSzPztXnkkCR5zmqOQqkx9Rt4dwxWnFPgQvtrU8IaAr5AEALw_wcB" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Operation Underground Railroad website</span></a><span style="color: black;">). The film focuses on his efforts with others to rescue two siblings abducted and trafficked for sex in the Americas. It appeals to people to get informed and involved in the fight against sex trafficking.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"You can sell a bag of cocaine one time. But a child, the most precious child,<br />you can sell a five-year-old kid 5 to 10 times a day for 10 years straight."</span></span></em><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Sound of Freedom (2023)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We also share several other resources to help you get further informed and involved in the fight against human trafficking including child sex trafficking. A main example is the annual </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk96lBhDHARIsAEKO4xbMUSIsmhLiMn3g3YmR7j5HWMKju1RBf6vw1mvUO-1VM3MUTFpchQEaAlI7EALw_wcB" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Day Against Trafficking in Persons</span></a> <span style="color: black;">which is commemorated on 30 July (now in its 10th year).<br /><br />We conclude the <em>Update</em> with some personal reflections on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good."</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review </strong>the resources below. Are there additional ones that you would recommend</span></span>?</li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Probe further</strong><strong> </strong>into one or more of the resources in this <em>Update</em>.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Watch the </strong></span><a href="https://www.angel.com/watch" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sound of Freedom</span></a><span style="color: black;"><strong>.</strong> If you are in the USA then make it a point to view</span><span style="color: black;"> it </span><span style="color: black;">in a theater (while it is still being shown--locations are on the website). Make a note to periodically look at the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://www.angel.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Angel Studios website</span></a><span style="color: black;"> to see if the film is available to stream online.<br />--<strong>Consider a special way</strong> for you and others you know to commemorate </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk96lBhDHARIsAEKO4xbMUSIsmhLiMn3g3YmR7j5HWMKju1RBf6vw1mvUO-1VM3MUTFpchQEaAlI7EALw_wcB" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Day Against Trafficking in Persons</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on or aroound 30 July. We think that going through this <em>Update</em> can be a great way to do so!</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/5338ed4e7551/global-integration-update-special-news-12156692" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Children’s Day–Love Them All!</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (November 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/689577e1d0e6/global-integration-update-special-news-11829308" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Repentance and Reconciliation–The Pope’s Pilgrimage of Penance</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (August 2022) </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/d0ad1cb15f2d/global-integration-update-special-news-13514184" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Uprooting Corruption in Our World and Lives–Plenaries from IACC</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/9e50116116a6/global-integration-update-special-news-11815112" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Moral Health for a More Whole World--Global Integrity Day</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(June 2022)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Evil Inc</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Trafficking Children for Sex</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Getting Informed--Taking Action</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6672416" height="344" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8aac193d-928c-16fa-7deb-cbae83bee02e.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 344px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Source--</span><a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/human-trafficking" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Getty images<em>, </em>human trafficking section</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"Over two million children a year are being sucked into the deepest recesses of hell. Trust me, man, if we do nothing, their pain is going to spread and spread until someday it’s going to reach the likes of you. And that will be a nightmare that you’re never going to wake up from."</em> The Sound of Freedom (2023)</span><br />-----------</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://www.angel.com/watch" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sound of Freedom</span></a> <span style="color: black;">Angel Studies (released 4 July 2023)</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">This new film focuses on one aspect of human trafficking--the widespread and egregious practice of <strong>child sex trafficking</strong>. </span><a href="https://www.angel.com/watch" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sound of Freedom</span></a><span style="color: black;"> is based on "the story of Tim Ballard, a former U.S. government agent, who quit his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers" (from the </span><a href="https://ourrescue.org/sound-of-freedom?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwk96lBhDHARIsAEKO4xb2pQxEZBIMhHGtSzPztXnkkCR5zmqOQqkx9Rt4dwxWnFPgQvtrU8IaAr5AEALw_wcB" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Operation Underground Railroad website</span></a><span style="color: black;">).The film recounts his efforts with others to rescue two siblings abducted and trafficked for sex in the Americas. It appeals to people to get informed and involved in the fight against sex trafficking.<br /><br />This movie is currently being shown in USA theaters and hopefully will be available online in due course via Angel Studios' "pay forward" sharing and marketing strategy. You can watch the trailer </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=FiZgs7dyBZg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.angel.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">. See also the review of historical accuracy of this film on the </span><a href="https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/sound-of-freedom/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Hollywood or History website</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Note--this movie is not for children to watch--take the PG-13 rating seriously!<br /><br />Note that the International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that about 50 million people are currently in forced labor or forced marriage and nearly 5 million women and girls are exploited via forced commercial sex (2021). More stats and a short overview video are on the </span><a href="https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/lang--en/index.htm#:~:text=Facts%20and%20figures,22%20million%20in%20forced%20marriage" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ILO website</span></a><span style="color: black;">. The actual statistics on the number of children exploited each year for child sex vary from 2 million to five million children (</span><a href="https://1saved.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">1Saved website</span></a><span style="color: black;">).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception for exploitation. In every region of the world, traffickers exploit vulnerable women, girls, men, and boys of all backgrounds for profit. Traffickers often use violence, blackmail, emotional manipulation, removal of official documents, fraudulent employment agencies, and fake promises of education and job opportunities to trick and coerce their victims. Even without knowing, we might have come across its victims." </em></span><a href="https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/blueheart/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Blue Heart Campaign</span></a></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Going Further</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Getting Informed and Taking Action</em></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk96lBhDHARIsAEKO4xbMUSIsmhLiMn3g3YmR7j5HWMKju1RBf6vw1mvUO-1VM3MUTFpchQEaAlI7EALw_wcB" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="14435582" height="263" src="https://mcusercontent.com/66e16f9d8a9699d5d627c279d/images/7ad30d91-1d17-aa8f-bbef-256e6285d59b.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The annual </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk96lBhDHARIsAEKO4xbMUSIsmhLiMn3g3YmR7j5HWMKju1RBf6vw1mvUO-1VM3MUTFpchQEaAlI7EALw_wcB" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Day Against Trafficking in Persons</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">is approaching--30 July! (now in its 10th year and organized by the United Nations and observed by many organizations and people). The theme this year is <strong>"Reach Every Victim of Trafficking--Leave No One Behind."</strong> More info on the UN web site linked above.<br /><br /><strong>F</strong><strong>or more information ideas about taking action to fight the various forms of human trafficking see:</strong><br />--Angel Studios (which holds the rights to the film Sound of Freedom) has several suggestions in a section of their website to “</span><a href="https://www.angel.com/blog/sound-of-freedom/posts/sound-of-freedom-join-the-fight-against-child-trafficking" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Join the Fight Against Child Trafficking</span></a><span style="color: black;">.” <br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/blue-campaign-training" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">US Department Of Homeland Security website</span></a><span style="color: black;"> includes materials and training to recognize the signs of human trafficking.<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.ijm.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Justice Mission</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (IJM) has various materials and extensive experience focusing on modern slavery and abuse. Watch the compelling Ted Talk by IJM's founder Gary Haugen on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsncCF9O_U" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">"The Hidden Reason for Poverty the World Needs to Address Now</span></a><u><span style="color: black;">.</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsncCF9O_U" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">"</span></a></u><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://ovc.ojp.gov/program/human-trafficking/faces-of-human-trafficking" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">US Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) (Human Trafficking section)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> has a series of short educational videos that orient viewers to the different “Faces of Human Trafficking” with accompanying materials like “Fact Sheets” and a discussion guide. These can be used in a variety of settings, including churches and community centers.<br /><br />--The </span><a href="https://polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Polaris Project</span></a> <span style="color: black;">has helpful information on human trafficking including sections on "Myths, Facts, and Statistics" and "25 Human Trafficking Business Models."<br /><br /><strong>Note</strong> that there are <em>many</em> more organizations and resources for fighting human trafficking. The "causes" (primary and reinforcing causes) are also many and often complex starting from individual and group evil to systemic and structural evil. Add in poverty and other "survival" realities too. <strong>Further</strong></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><em>,</em> note that complicity on many fronts can be more widespread--and uncomfortably closer to home--than we may want to admit: <em>"If it takes a village to raise a child</em><em>,</em><em> it takes a village to abuse one</em>.<em>" </em>(</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTy1fP2bvPc" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Spotlight </em>film<em>,</em></span></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTy1fP2bvPc" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> 2015</span></a><span style="color: black;">) </span></strong></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves ourselves, etc.).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The Global Integration image used in this <em>Update</em> (the global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--July 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Halfway into the Sustainable Development Goals<br /><em>Taking Stock--Taking Action<br />Sounding the Alarm--Rescuing Our World</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="3004321" height="366" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/90e94aa4-08ff-4c9a-98eb-e851e3b2238f.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image source--internet</span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“The 2030 Agenda [for Sustainable Development] stated that this generation could be the first to succeed in ending poverty—and the last to have a chance of saving the planet [Paragraph 50]. This higher purpose remains within our grasp, but it requires an unprecedented effort by individual governments, a renewed sense of common purpose across the international community and a global alliance for SDG action across business, civil society, science, young people, local authorities and more. It requires that we come together in September [at the UN General Assembly's SDG Summit] to deliver a Rescue Plan for People and Planet.”</em> UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/SDG%20Progress%20Report%20Special%20Edition.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Planet</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(May 2023). Excerpt from Paragraph 8</span></span></div>------------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Opening Perspective</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">It’s yet another dismal appraisal of the future and a dire warning by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The central message of the 105 paragraphs of his May 2023 progress report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDSs) collectively point to the perilous and catastrophic path that people and planet are inseparably traveling upon. The rallying aspirations at the launch of the SDGs in 2015—“transforming our world”--have regressively morphed into a summons for survival--“rescuing our world.” We take this regressive shift towards survival seriously. We do not believe this is<em> </em>self-serving<em>,</em> fear-mongering rhetoric from the UN. We also believe that from the start<em>,</em> the SDGs have in fact fundamentally been about rescuing and saving the world interlaced with "transforming" it.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update</em> (#85), we check in again with the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</span></a><span style="color: black;">, this time on the occasion of the halfway point in their 15 year time frame (2015-2030). In so doing we want to encourage us all to make it a point to regularly track with the SDGs as a whole as well as with specific goals of interest. Further we want to nudge us all to not only track with but also to <em>engage with</em> these crucial and varied efforts to further realize wellbeing for all people and the planet. <strong>In short: take stock and take action.</strong><br /><br />To help facilitate tracking and engaging further with the SDGs, we present two major progress reports (May and June 2023 versions) and two major United Nations gatherings (High-Level Political Forums in July and September 2023). We really encourage you to take the time to check out what is happening—and in many cases, sadly, what is <em>not</em> happening with the SDGs. Use the materials in this <em>Update</em>...to get updated!</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Report 1</strong>--<em><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/SDG%20Progress%20Report%20Special%20Edition.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Planet</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Report of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres (special edition--advance unedited version<em>,</em> May 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Report 2</strong>--<em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Advance%20unedited%20GSDR%2014June2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report 2023</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">Independent Group of Scientists (IGS) supported by a task team of six UN agencies (advance unedited report<em>, </em>14<em> </em>June 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Event 1</strong>--United Nations High Level Meeting on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council--</span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Pre-SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (10-19 July 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Event 2</strong>--United Nations High Level Meeting on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the General Assembly--</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (18-19 September 2023)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review </strong>the four items featured below<strong>:</strong> the summary excerpts from the two SDG progress reports and the overviews of the upcoming High Level Political Forums on the SDGs. You may also want to reacquaint yourself with the foundational SDG document from 2015, </span><em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Transforming Our World<strong>:</strong> The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></em></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Probe further </strong>into one or more of the featured items. For example, read the Executive Summary of the </span><em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Advance%20unedited%20GSDR%2014June2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 (GSDR)</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. To what extent do you concur with the “warning signal" that “unless the world makes an urgent course correction and initiates transformative change, we risk undermining advances made, increasing vulnerability to future crises and cementing unsustainable development pathways.”(page 20)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Save the dates</strong> to watch some of the livestreamed sessions (or recordings) from the SDG Pre-Summit (10-19 July 2023) and the SDG Summit (18-19 September 2023) (</span><a href="https://media.un.org/en/webtv" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Web TV</span></a><span style="color: black;">). Check out the provisional schedules for these two UN gatherings (links below).</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Interact with colleagues to discuss practical applications for your life and work—for taking stock and taking action. For examples and ideas on how to get involved in the SDGs, see </span><span style="color: mediumblue;">“</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/actnow" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Act Now</span></a><u><span style="color: black;">.</span></u><a href="https://www.un.org/en/actnow" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">”</span></a></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (October 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/021d340d37d2/global-integration-update-special-news-11395549" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Thinking Critically about Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c83778c797e5/global-integration-update-special-news-1466097" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Shaping the Future We Want: UN75 Global Conversation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2020)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/a24eaaee7a30/global-integration-update-special-news-1402457" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress Reports–Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (August 2019)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Halfway into the Sustainable Development Goals<br /><em>Taking Stock--Taking Action<br />Sounding the Alarm--Rescuing Our World</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="5526541" height="264" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/776487c9-2997-85fb-09af-d3013e8c1a26.png" style="border: 0px; height: 264px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"In Panama City inequality is seen side by side. Panama, April 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP/Grey Díaz </em></span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“It's time to sound the alarm. At the mid-way point on our way to 2030, the SDGs are in deep trouble. A preliminary assessment of the roughly 140 targets with data [169 targets total] shows only about 12% are on track; more than half, though showing progress, are moderately or severely off track and some 30% have either seen no movement or regressed below the 2015 baseline.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/SDG%20Progress%20Report%20Special%20Edition.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Plane</span><span style="color: black;">t</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (May 2023). Paragraph 4</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">-----------<br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>SDG Progress Report 1</strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6667444" height="147" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8a165bc5-cfea-ff9a-f11c-1bf3facd805a.png" style="border: 0px; height: 147px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/SDG%20Progress%20Report%20Special%20Edition.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Planet</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. Report of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Advance unedited version (May 2023). Excerpts below.</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Summary</strong><br />The present report on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 70/1, Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the mid-way point towards 2030, this Special Edition report provides an update on progress made since 2015 against the global SDG indicator framework. It finds that many of the SDGs are moderately to severely off track and puts forward five major recommendations to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals and accelerate implementation between now and 2030, for Member State consideration in advance of the SDG Summit.<br /> <br /><strong>Paragraph 1</strong><br />Leave no one behind. That defining principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a shared promise by every country to work together to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet. But halfway to 2030, that promise is in peril. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are disappearing in the rear-view mirror – and with them the hope and rights of current and future generations. A fundamental shift in needed – in commitment, solidarity, financing and action - to put the world on a better path. And it is needed now.<br /><br /><strong>Five Major Recommendations</strong><br />10. First, I urge Heads of State and Government to recommit to seven years of accelerated, sustained and transformative action, both nationally and internationally, to deliver on the promise of the SDGs.<br /> <br />13. Second, I call on governments to advance concrete, integrated and targeted policies and actions to eradicate poverty, reduce inequality and end the war on nature, with a particular focus on advancing the rights women and girls and empowering the most vulnerable.<br /><br />16. Third, I urge on governments to strengthen national and sub-national capacity, accountability and public institutions to deliver accelerated SDG progress.<br /><br />18. Fourth, to ensure developing countries can deliver in the above areas, I strongly encourage the international community to recommit this September to deliver on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and to mobilize the resources and investment needed for developing countries to achieve the SDGs, particularly those in special situations and experiencing acute vulnerability.<br /> <br />21. Finally, I urge member states to facilitate the continued strengthening of the UN development system and to boost the capacity of the multilateral system to tackle emerging challenges and address SDG related gaps and weaknesses in the international architecture that have emerged since 2015.<br /><br /><strong>Concluding Paragraphs 102-105</strong><br />102. The world has been rocked by a series of interlinked crises exposing fundamental shortcomings in business-as-usual approaches to sustainability including the vulnerability and fragility of progress, reinforcing inequalities, life-long impacts of adverse events, increasing threats of irreversible change, risks of ignoring interlinkages, and the geographically imbalanced distribution of global assets for achieving sustainable development.<br /> <br />103. Tepid responses will not do for the millions living in poverty and hunger, the women and girls with unequal opportunities, the communities facing climate disaster or the families fleeing conflict. We need a fully-fledged Rescue Plan for People and Planet.<br /> <br />104. There are no excuses not to be ambitious. Never before have we had such an abundance of knowledge, technology and resources to succeed in ending poverty and saving the planet. Never before have we carried such a responsibility to pivot to a bold set of actions.<br /><br />105. At the SDG Summit, we must match that abundance and responsibility with global, national and local commitments to deliver the finance, to galvanize the leadership and to restore the trust that will put us on course to achieve the SDGs by 2030.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Notes</strong><br />--See also a summary of this Report on the <a href="https://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-secretary-generals-report-outlines-rescue-plan-for-people-and-planet/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Knowledge Hub of the International Institute for Sustainable Development</span></a>.<br /><span style="color: black;">--See also the</span><strong> </strong><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/vnrs" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Voluntary National Reviews of SDG Progress</span></a></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Progress Report 2</span></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Advance%20unedited%20GSDR%2014June2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><img data-file-id="6667428" height="203" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/1e7dac0f-c3e1-2a77-e448-b1cffb672dd6.png" style="border: 0px; height: 203px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></strong></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Advance%20unedited%20GSDR%2014June2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report 2023</span></a> (GSDR)</em><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">Independent Group of Scientists (IGS) supported by a task team of six UN agencies (advance unedited report<em>, </em>14<em> </em>June 2023)</span></strong><span style="color: black;">. </span><strong><span style="color: black;">Excerpts below.</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">The GSDR is an independent report and while the IGS have considered all feedback from Member States and stakeholders, they have incorporated changes at their discretion. The current draft is an advance and unedited version that is undergoing editing, fact checking, design, layout. The final version will be available in September 2023. (page 2)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Excerpts from the Executive Summary (pages 6-19)</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Transformations are possible, and inevitable.</strong> This report is an invitation to embrace transformations with the urgency needed to accelerate progress toward the SDGs. Four years have passed since the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) was 188 published and even then, the world was not on track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since 2019, challenges have multiplied and intensified. The world has moved forward on some fronts, such as the deployment of zero carbon technologies as one of many climate mitigation strategies. Progress has been halted in many areas partly as a consequence of a confluence of crises – the ongoing pandemic, rising inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, and planetary, environmental and economic distress, along with regional and national unrest, conflicts, and natural disasters. As a result, overall progress towards the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs has been severely disrupted in the last 196 three years, yet every inch of progress matters and counts. (page 6)<br /><br /><strong>Strive not for one, but for all securities.</strong> The resilience and well-being of planet, people, environment, and ecosystems are degraded. A better future does not rest on one source of 1security, but on all necessary securities, including geopolitical, energy, climate, water, food,and social security. Strategies to embrace transformations should therefore be based on the principles of solidarity, equity and well-being, in harmony with nature. (page 6)<br /> <br /><strong>Working as a human collective, time and resources must be used as judiciously and effectively as possible.</strong> The world is changing at an accelerated rate. Halfway to 2030, thereis an ever-greater urgency to build momentum, embrace solidarity, and speed up progress on the SDGs. To do that, decision-makers need to use time and resources —human, knowledge, financial, and institutional, among others— as judiciously and effectively as 207 possible, and take a systematic and strategic approach to drive and accelerate 208 transformations. (page 6)<br /> <br />The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report has six chapters. Chapter 1, asks ‘where are we now?’ and, reflecting on where the world is at the halfway point to 2030, highlights the need for resilience and acceleration. Chapter 2 asks ‘where are we heading?’ and frames the future, from urgency to agency, reviewing new knowledge for understanding the interlinkages between the SDGs and international SDG spillovers. Chapter 3 focuses on ‘what needs to be done?’, reviewing scenario projections for the SDGs alongside key shifts and interventions to accelerate transformations through the six entry points introduced in the 2019 GSDR. Chapter 4 considers ‘how can it be done?’ with a framework that can guide strategic action. It unpacks the dynamics in different phases of transformations towards sustainable development, with examples from historical and recent experience. Chapter 5 is about the unifying role of science, the importance of knowledge from a broader spectrum of society, both in the production of socially robust science, and in connecting science to policy making. Finally, Chapter 6 is a call for action inviting a reflection on the steps ahead, to accelerate transformative action, improve the underlying conditions for transformation, and use science to drive the world forward. (page 7)<br /> <br /><strong>Chapter 1: Half-way to 2030 – progress towards the SDGs.</strong> In 2015, United Nations Member States agreed on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – as a universal call for action to end poverty and protect the planet. But today at the half-way point, the world is not on track to achieve the SDGs by 2030, and we are more off track than four years ago. This is a warning signal that unless the world makes an urgent course correction and initiates transformative change, we risk undermining advances made, increasing vulnerability to future crises and cementing unsustainable development pathways.(summar of chapter 1, page 20)</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Notes</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">--See also the </span><u><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Development Report 2023</em></span></a><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">: </span></a><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Migrants</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Refugees</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span></u><em><u><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> and Societies</span></a></u><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">and related resources from the World Bank.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--See also the advanced information about the upcoming </span><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/announcement-2023-hdr-will-explore-how-enhance-collective-action-addressing-global" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Human Development Report 2023</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> by the UN Develoment Program.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Event 1</strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>High-Level Political Forum<br /><em>UN SDG Pre-Summit July 2023</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Save the dates--tune into the live and recorded events on</span> <a href="https://media.un.org/en/webtv" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN WebTV</span></a></strong></span><br /><br /><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6667436" height="229" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/7fdb7d53-60d9-576d-86ce-3a23ddf33cb3.png" style="border: 0px; height: 229px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"The </span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (HLPF) will be held from <strong>Monday, 10 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2023</strong>, under the auspices of the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Economic and Social Council</span></a><span style="color: black;">. This includes the three-day ministerial segment of the forum from <strong>Monday, 17 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2023 </strong>as part of the High-level Segment of the Council. The last day of the High-level Segment of ECOSOC will be on <strong>Thursday, 20 July 2023</strong>.<br /><br />The theme will be '<strong>Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels '</strong>.<br /><br />In the forum, participants will be able to further discuss the effective and inclusive recovery measures to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and explore actionable policy guidance for the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at all levels.<br /><br />The HLPF in 2023, without prejudice to the integrated, indivisible and interlinked nature of the SDGs, will also review in-depth <strong>Goals 6 on clean water and sanitation, 7 on affordable and clean energy, 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure, 11 on sustainable cities and communities, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals."</strong></span></span><br />(excerpts from website)<br /><br /><strong>Notes</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--See the Provisional Program and other resources </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/2023/programme" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Event 2</strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>High-Level Political Forum<br /><em>UN SDG Summit September 2023</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Save the dates--tune into the live and recorded events on</span> <a href="https://media.un.org/en/webtv" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN WebTV</span></a></strong></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6667440" height="217" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/13bd9344-e8e1-61a0-30de-c97ce78d460e.png" style="border: 0px; height: 217px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">in New York (18-19 September 2023). High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the General Assembly</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"During the United Nations General Assembly high-level week in September 2023, Heads of State and Government will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<br /><br />The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2022 called for the Summit to “mark the beginning of a new phase of accelerated progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.”<br /><br />The </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: black;"> marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. It will bring together political and thought leaders from governments, international organizations, private sector, civil society, women and youth and other stakeholders in a series of high-level meetings. They will carry out a comprehensive review of the state of the SDGs, respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world, and provide high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to the 2030 deadline for achieving the SDGs. The SDG Summit will be chaired by the President of the General Assembly. The outcome of the Summit will be a negotiated political declaration.<br /><br />The Summit will focus on people. It will culminate 10 months of active preparations involving governments, the UN system and other international and regional organizations, the private sector, NGOs, youth, cities, and multiple other actors and people. It will benefit from the proposals of an independent group of scientists through the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report</span></a><span style="color: black;">, the Secretary-General’s SDG progress report and analysis from the UN system, think tanks and others.<br /><br />This will be the second SDG Summit, since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015." (quote from </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Notes</span></span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--See the upcoming Provisional Program and other resources </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="2843649" height="335" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/4ea027e0-228f-41e9-82b6-f6f4fec48a40.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 335px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">For perspective, watch the 2021 HLPF video overview </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWHuJOmaEk" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>We appreciate and enjoy connecting with people<br />from different faiths or of no particular faith.<br />People are people.</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. 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William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--June 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Parables for Personal Growth<br /><em>Tales for Your Healing Journey</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Featuring Dr</em></strong></span><strong>.</strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"> <strong><em>Melinda Reinicke</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6662308" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/bad6ec68-8a76-29ce-2510-89bc823285a6.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Detail of the book cover--</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Parables for Personal Growth</span></a></em></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em> </em>(2021 edition)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"These parables not only help us see our wounds, but they also show us how to mend that brokenness. Something about a parable whispers to our hearts and helps us embrace truth into our lives. We feel the emotions of the story, we grasp the difficulty of the road ahead, and we carry with us the pictures of the parable to encourage us in the choices we face."</em><br />Melinda Reinicke--</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/taking-a-journey-with-the-parables/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Taking a Journey with the Parables</span></a></span></div><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">-----------</span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#84), we focus on your personal growth and wellbeing as you engage in the world's many challenging settings, locally through globally. This <em>Update</em> provides what for many of us is a much-needed opportunity to pause and reflect on our own inner worlds, lifestyles, and even directions as well as to further build this important process into our busy lives and work.<br /><br />We are delighted to welcome a good friend and fellow psychologist as the Guest Contributor this month, Dr. Melinda Reinicke. Melinda's remarkable and recently updated workbook (growth-book!) and related resources are featured.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Parables for Personal Growth--Tales for Your Healing Journey</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">is a tool that we have been using ourselves and recommending to colleagues across sectors since its first publication 30 years ago in 1993. It is also available in Spanish and Portuguese (2022). <br /><br /><strong>Tough people in tough places need tools like this! </strong>Stay as healthy and sane as you can, help others to do the same--and keep growing! Thank you, Melinda, for joining with us in this <em>Update</em>!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">We conclude the <em>Update</em> with some personal reflections on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Review t</strong>he items featured below from Dr</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Reinicke</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">. Use it also as a springboard to identify a few of the resources and tools that you use to support your own and others' personal growth and wellbeing.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Probe further </strong>into one or more of the items</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. For example, we encourage you to start by watching the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=6haX7K55TKo&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fparablesforpersonalgrowth.com%2F&feature=emb_logo" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Dragon Parable</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, a short</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">animated video that will give you a good sense of this growth-book. It will likely pique your curiosity about your own state of wellbeing as it gently draws you into "a mythical realm not far from your inner struggles</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Meet with colleagues to discuss practical applications for your life and work. </span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/19b387a3e87b/global-integration-update-special-news-7534217" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Staff Wellbeing: Getting it Right!</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Global Integration Update</em> (June 2021)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/319410199677/global-integration-update-special-news-1421889" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health for All–Me Too!</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Global Integration Update</em> (October 2019)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/6c9fcac50258/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1097441" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Helping the Helpers: 50 Resources for Humanitarian Workers</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Global Integration Update </em>(October 2017)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Parables for Personal Growth<br /><em>Tales for Your Healing Journey</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Featuring Dr</em>.</strong> <strong><em>Melinda Reinicke</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">“Nineteen parables written for adults with interactive workbook reflections to explore the tapestry of issues in your life. Move forward in your journey out of depression, addiction, self-defeating behavior, sexual violation, anxiety and trauma.” </span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">And more!<br /><br /><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/xtras/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6662496" height="224" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8cf0eff6-0ac7-2913-4e8b-b7045e8ffd65.png" style="border: 0px; height: 224px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">The 2021 edition is three languages</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Celebrating the 30-year journey since the first English edition in 1993!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"The parables are particularly useful in opening feelings that have been closed off. So ask yourself as you experience the parable, “What am I feeling? What part of the story brought this feeling? What is the parallel in my own life?”</em><br />Melinda Reineke--</span><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/taking-a-journey-with-the-parables/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Taking a Journey with the Parables</span></a></span><br /><br />-----------<br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Greetings from Dr. Melinda Reinicke</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Healing Our Wounds and Renewing Our Strengths</em></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br /><strong>Greetings to colleagues in different countries and sectors around the world!</strong> <br /><br />I am grateful for this opportunity to share my work with you. The materials in </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Parables for Personal Growth</em></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> are borne out of my own journey into greater personal growth and that of my clients over the years. I hope that they will support your own journey as well including helping to heal wounds and renew strengths in the midst of your demanding work with seemingly intractable problems and sensitive time crunches.<br /> <br />Self-care coupled with mutual care are crucial for the wellbeing of people like you who give so much in making the world a better place. As a psychologist, I am keenly aware of how people in helping roles need to build both types of care into their lives and how organizations in their cultures, policies, and programs need to encourage and reinforce such care. Finding creative and effective ways to help do so has been a passion and focus of my psychology practice.<br /> <br />Perhaps you feel like a person who is so busy feeding others that you do not take time to have a meal yourself until you are almost too exhausted to eat. Or perhaps you do self-care and mutual care well already and are interested in some additional approaches. Either way, I’d like to invite you to sit down and nourish yourself with the parables in this book. There are nineteen short stories each with reflection questions about your own life which can gently move you forward in areas which might be holding you back. You will find no lectures or long treatises as you delve into the stories and connect with the lives of their characters.<br /> <br />In co-directing a large counseling center with many interns under my supervision and raising five children, I often found that multiple issues would suddenly need my attention at the same time. There was always more to do than hours at the end of the day. But I would take time for myself to reenergize. My hope is that the parables will be a safe and supportive means for you to do the same.<br /> <br /><strong>Wishing you all the best!</strong><br /> <br /><strong>Melinda Reinicke</strong></span></span><hr /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Parables for Personal Growth--Tales for Your Healing Journey</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em> </em>(2021 edition). Melinda Reinicke. </span><a data-ved="2ahUKEwi_wenappr_AhUBg_0HHThFAuoQFnoECAkQAQ" href="https://traumaclinic.com.br/livros/" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md" jscontroller="M9mgyc" jsname="qOiK6e" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://traumaclinic.com.br/livros/&ved=2ahUKEwi_wenappr_AhUBg_0HHThFAuoQFnoECAkQAQ" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">TraumaClinic Edições</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/xtras/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span>“<span style="color: black;">Nineteen parables written for adults with interactive workbook reflections to explore the tapestry of issues in your life. Move forward in your journey out of depression, addiction, self-defeating behavior, sexual violation, anxiety and trauma.” And more!</span><br /> <ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">You can watch the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=6haX7K55TKo&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fparablesforpersonalgrowth.com%2F&feature=emb_logo" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Dragon Parable</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, a short</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">animated video that will give you a good sense of this growth-book. It will likely pique your curiosity about your own state of wellbeing as it gently draws you into "a mythical realm not far from your inner struggles</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">You can read two of the 19 parables here<strong>:</strong><br />--</span><strong><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/dragon-with-reflections/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Dragon Parable with Reflections</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> “There was once a great and noble King whose land was terrorized by a crafty dragon. Like a massive bird of prey</span></span>,<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> the scaly beast delighted in ravaging villages with his fiery breath. Hapless victims ran from their burning homes only to be snatched into the dragon’s jaws or talons. Those devoured instantly were deemed more fortunate than those carried back to the creature’s lair to be devoured at the dragon’s leisure...<br /><br />Riding alone in the forest during a period of calm, one of the King’s sons heard his name purred low and soft. In the shadows of the ferns and trees, curled among the boulders, lay the dragon. The creature’s heavy-lidded eyes fastened on the prince, and the reptilian mouth stretched into a friendly smile...”</span></span><br /><br />-<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">-</span><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/mirror-with-reflections/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Mirror Parable with Reflections.</strong></span></a><span style="color: black;"> “Born into a dark and war-torn land, she was the youngest child and only daughter of the king and queen. Because of the battles, her father and older brothers spent little time in the castle...<br /><br />Under the cover of this darkness one night, a band of misshapen gnomes climbed silently from the depths beneath the castle cisterns and crept unseen into the chambers of the sleeping princess. She awoke with a start to find small bodies like rats clamoring onto her bed. Though she opened her mouth to scream, only the whisper of a cry escaped and her body froze in terror...”</span></span><hr /><hr /></li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/taking-a-journey-with-the-parables/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Taking a Journey with the Parables</span></strong></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Reflections and Suggestions from Melinda</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6662464" height="825" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/de7c9dd9-93cc-2269-f080-46b003c09605.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 825px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In a mythical realm not far from your own inner struggles, you will find travelers in these pages who join you on your sojourn. A noble prince who falls under the sway of a destructive dragon allows you to feel the process of recovery from self-defeating behavior. In another parable, an enchanted mirror leads a princess to mistakenly believe she is grotesque. Eventually she discovers her true identity.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">These parables not only help us see our wounds, but they also show us how to mend that brokenness. Something about a parable whispers to our hearts and helps us embrace truth into our lives. We feel the emotions of the story, we grasp the difficulty of the road ahead, and we carry with us the pictures of the parable to encourage us in the choices we face.<br /> <br />Written for adults on a personal growth journey, these parables speak to the heart as well as the mind. Self-defeating behavior, codependency, inner child work, boundaries, depression, self-concept, loss of childhood, recovery from childhood abuse, dysfunctional family interactions, fears, anxiety, unhealthy group victimization, forgiving and letting go, loss and grief: many of these apply, if not to you, then to someone you love. Even issues that may, on the surface, have nothing to do with you, carry parallels in your own life. Your dragon may not be addictive or compulsive, but you know the talons of self-defeating behavior. Your uncle may not have danced with you in the dark, but you have felt betrayed by someone you loved.<br /> <br />Similarly, the gender of the main characters is varied, but the truths apply equally to any gender. There are many male codependents, many women who were the angry scapegoats in their families, and many men who were molested as children.<br /> <br />The parables are particularly useful in opening feelings that have been closed off. So ask yourself as you experience the parable, “What am I feeling? What part of the story brought this feeling? What is the parallel in my own life?”<br /> <br />A section for personal reflection follows each parable. These pages involve you through writing, drawing, imagining, meditating, and other experiences designed to lead you toward more wholeness in your life. Feel free to skip exercises you don’t feel ready for. And, if at any time you feel overwhelmed by memories or emotions sparked by a parable, please talk to a good friend or counselor.<br /> <br />Since any journey is better with company, you might consider going through the parables with a friend, Twelve-Step sponsor, or support group. The book lends itself to either individual journaling or group exploration. For those wanting more information on group use, please see Appendix 1.<br /> <br />You may be an avid reader of recovery or self-help books, but the parables often reach a part of you that lecture-style books do not. Or, perhaps you don’t enjoy reading and aren’t familiar with recovery principles. The parables will refreshingly introduce you to personal growth without boring or overloading you with “psychologese.”<br /> <br />You may be a new traveler, only recently having discovered the road to wholeness. You are eager to learn what is ahead and how to get there. Others of you may be seasoned travelers but would appreciate some encouragement on the long trek. It is, after all, a never-ending journey. The longer we travel, the stronger our injured souls become, the fewer the pitfalls we stumble into, the more beauty we notice around us. May these parables help you enjoy your own wondrous sojourn.</span><br /> <br /><strong>Melinda Reinicke</strong></span><hr /><hr /><br /><img data-file-id="6662488" height="350" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/bc9cc209-ce9d-eeb1-bf71-108b56e68d6c.png" style="border: 0px; height: 350px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 350px;" width="350" /><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Melinda Reinicke, Psy.D.</strong> is a licensed psychologist and her husband, Aaron Reinicke, is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California where they specialize in recovery treatment for trauma and sexual addiction. </span></span><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">www.RCAcounseling.com</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">. Her most valued education came from the clients who trusted her to walk beside them in their healing journeys and from raising five children with her wildly nurturing husband. More information about Melinda is </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://parablesforpersonalgrowth.com/about-the-author/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>We appreciate and enjoy connecting with people<br />from different faiths or of no particular faith.<br />People are people.</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--May 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Into the Towers and Trenches<br /><em>Crucial Contributions from Global PBS:<br />Global Psychological-Behavioral-Social Sciences</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="5526541" height="264" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/776487c9-2997-85fb-09af-d3013e8c1a26.png" style="border: 0px; height: 264px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"In Panama City inequality is seen side by side. Panama, April 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP/Grey Díaz </em></span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">U</span><span style="color: mediumblue;">NDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"Our world is in big trouble. Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider. Challenges are spreading farther. We need hope — and more. We need action.….the reality is that we live in a world where the logic of cooperation and dialogue is the only path forward. No power or group alone can call the shots. No major global challenge can be solved by a coalition of the willing. We need a coalition of the world." </span></span></em><a href="https://press.un.org/en/2022/sgsm21466.doc.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ opening remarks</span> </span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;">to the General Assembly in New York (20 Sept. 2022)</span></span></div>-----------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In this <em>Update</em> (#83) we delve into the domain of the Global Psychological-Behavioral-Social Sciences (Global PBS). This broad, overlapping term, which we are presenting here for the first time, represents a domain of study, research, and practice which seeks to positively impact the major problems facing our world--across cultures and countries, sectors and settings, locally through globally. Global PBS is intentionally and increasingly immersing in the influential towers and the infernal trenches of our world--and many areas in-between.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Specifically we share three recent and representative resources from each of the three multi-disciplinary fields that comprise Global PBS (Part One):</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Psychological Sciences:</strong> </span><a href="https://www.unpsychologyday.com/pcun/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychology Day at the UN</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (event 27 April 2023), </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB-jn4J703s&t=27s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (webinar 21 April 2023), and </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Going-Global-Psychologists-Meet-World/dp/1433836432" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Going Global: How Psychologists Can Meet a World of Need</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (edited book, 2023).</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Behavioral Sciences:</strong> </span><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/behavioural-sciences-for-better-health-initiative" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Behavioural Science for Better Health Initiative</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (WHO, 2022), </span><em><a href="https://www.uninnovation.network/assets/BeSci/UN_Behavioural_Science_Report_2021.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations Behavioural Science Report</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2021), and </span><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/search.html?keyword=International+Psychology" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Behavioral Science in the Global Arena</em></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(book series, 2020-current).</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Social Sciences:</strong> </span><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-psychology?lang=f&utm_medium=sem&utm_source=gg&utm_campaign=B2C_NAMER_ibm-data-science_ibm_FTCOF_professional-certificates_country-US-country-CA-pmax-nonNRL-within-14d&campaignid=19995348162&adgroupid=&device=c&keyword=&matchtype=&network=x&devicemodel=&adposition=&creativeid=&hide_mobile_promo&gclid=CjwKCAjwrpOiBhBVEiwA_473dPDRKKMeUZm8eR1pPxlUXzs33pDB9PEqkKbB6_oOE7tibnV7IrPFlhoCB48QAvD_BwE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Social Psychology Course</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(Corsera, current), </span><a href="https://phap.org/PHAP/Events/OEV2023/OEV230418s3.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Leveraging Social Sciences for Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (webinar 18 April 2023), and </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Social-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second/dp/1462525393" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The Social Psychology of Good and Evil</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (edited book, 2016).</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We also include three recent and representative resources from two other highly relevant areas overlapping with Global PBS (Part Two):</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Mental Health (GMH): </strong></span><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (WHO, 2022), </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14sQdg6o50-Vtmlii8kH4CPKdCjZvLCnt/view" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH: Collaborating for Sustainable Development and Wellbeing</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (overview article, 2022),</span><span style="color: black;"> and the </span><a href="https://gmhan.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH Action Network</span></a>.</span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS):</strong> </span><em><a href="https://u25334197.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=4VUjoXenH-2Fb3rUuqAFSP1Vx-2BOdH51cbJEIpzF92gjnGw4-2BRMQs8ZOWrvZ-2FB-2BvhCVplALINfa-2F0Qf2JSx4ZlIUOSxLjKTvWdglBhFR7kkLM27XrBhfnRLS0qZRa720jrRC6rRi9XsAZ6EW5gPgK96Eg-3D-3DAo_B_5vTYOAPZ6zQHFL9o43EnRSaO52TzXegyj7I9Ouzp2kRC-2Fgkly87EywhdZgPV1D0xxuUGGfoOLv8JL9XwLn7NZsqAl3BoXWUFaMjWeFDHnhEV-2FLHA0LRtWrKbsoqKwGhUeu60AZ3NH8-2B9DpjLDybfETrtWB7Km6hcLXlN7D2TWlEmKm8BrRbfQJP7k7NeXccR0PpMp6a-2Bnmp8HY59mCBQIG4iLPJiPxNW7bL7SIj1v1Nx9Bqwr0z5kGXqJpK73-2F6v-2B5qmty1UDXHZh3PxqX2DN9zICvgtJat1F5Lzmg916IvChJvexXUgf6FTKRtyAhyoCEfLmg-2BiW5j-2BJBxgalZz-2FxJXA-2BRy7Sod7Jjw5W8ZDAJU-2FwvaqgDnfBHXvvNyPtllxCLqv28PboYp3uMvZixmPvD8kI4o61Qzc5wcOOEypAwq8XNYYX-2BO5ICrXCNr7KnkGfLEMjuHySRu4CuqW-2Bmy8jIRYZjvZDIVj5A3w0Yvyb2-2BmAys0Ia-2Bqxh8fwkbhsry-2BdW7shi2nhTUFvZ5AgpNpjB8Hgyv-2FG-2FZwRBXtHvE-2FJU8vTKyQPCv1siTv-2BIz8CcN1-2FO3wSp8JK4QRmxALzWZD7P8JNPndqcNV4ATdCliaecvlM6w38ShGCZf48jdtzMBB5affQeN4o5arfN3fXAlzhP8Ub25nR-2FPinbyFjDZqVX2Xh-2BjEI2kZoEBEnepIDaTXr4SXxrqpGMKcj5DhnjQnIWxzjvsaHtEPDSyKRK85WjwCrLq0Ik5Y1-2FZvr7gaqyn00wn5o9BSc-2FuqFBk9e5IJq9TsNLKphykzcUMFxvE4PRfJzmySrvzMvLu5t9eY95VmcLzgBksLtvW6DediQsOCjyWsBaqQ69vrCP8kWPSxlCmF9xUNr3WqA9w7PdN8Iphkoh5l1h0qUQqoqilcojIQcuJaFbNqU2P8-2FPxFnctZQd9msimAV3RmW3JqxBYAaNBbVO3RmEsf1OhbTi7f8q6lvBF89OwX4reyMpY4vnYX6-2FrqDg4DwoDNAs48hCD2ihX" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">IASC Handbook: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Coordination</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2022), </span><a href="https://app.mhpss.net/mhpss-setting-consensus-based-research-priorities-for-2021-2030-mhpss-set2" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Top 20 Priority Questions for MHPSS Research in Humanitarian Settings</span></a><span style="color: black;">, and the </span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MHPSS Network</span></a>.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Three clarifications and caveats:</strong><br />1. <strong>Good and the bad.</strong> Global PBS is a two-edged sword ("tool"). Like any tool, it can be used for either good or for evil and/or with mixed motives--promoting greater peace, economic prosperity, equity, and health or manipulating, exploiting, corrupting, and harming people and the planet. See the </span><a href="https://hbr.org/2019/04/the-psychology-behind-unethical-behavior?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Psychology of Unethical Behavior (Harvard Business Review, 2019)</span></a> and a <a href="https://fpinetwork.org/2020/08/20/article-review-the-psychology-behind-unethical-behavior/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">short review of it (FPIN, 2019</span></a>).<br /><br /><span style="color: black;">2. <strong>Skills and virtue.</strong> We believe it takes committed people and institutions who are both skillful <em>and </em>virtuous--working collaboratively in tough places and problems with humility, integrity, accountability, and transparency--to apply Global GPS well. See </span><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Integrity-and-Accountability-parts-1-and-2-UN-Special-March-and-April-2017-ODonnell.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Integrity and Accountability for UN Staff (<em>UN Special</em>. 2017)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /><br />3. <strong>Sciences and humanities.</strong> Global PBS is a new and overlapping term and not solely the purvue of "science." Rather it includes both sciences <em>and</em> humanities, and has a key, integrative role in developing global citizens. See </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2020/02/actionplan-en.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Education for Global Citizenship: The Gyeongju Action Plan (UN DPI/NGO, 2016</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">).<br /><br />We conclude this <em>Update</em> with some personal reflections on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Review </strong>the descriptions of the Global PBS materials in this <em>Update</em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Which ones are most applicable to the "influential towers" of our world and which ones are most applicable to the "infernal trenches" of our world?</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Probe further </strong>into one or more of the items</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. For example, you might want to watch all or part of the upcoming </span><a href="https://psychologycoalitionun.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychology Day at the UN on 27 April 2023</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (or the video recording at a later date).</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Meet with colleagues to discuss practical applications for your life and work. </span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/00bff707ddec/global-integration-update-special-news-13518152" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Developing Character Strengths–Being the Leaders Our World Needs</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (March 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Destruction or Development?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (October 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Into the Towers and Trenches<br /><em>Crucial Contributions from Global PBS:<br />Global Psychological-Behavioral-Social Sciences</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2990685" height="366" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/255c350e-3d0f-49b2-945e-8ebedb97bc0a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Source: UN photo</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“But by acting as one, we can nurture fragile shoots of hope. The hope found in climate and peace activists around the world calling out for change and demanding better of their leaders. The hope found in young people, working every day for a better, more peaceful future. The hope found in the women and girls, leading and fighting for those still being denied their basic human rights.The hope found throughout civil society seeking ways to build more just and equal communities and countries. The hope found in science and academia, racing to stay ahead of deadly diseases and end the COVID-19 pandemic. The hope found in humanitarian heroes rushing to deliver life-saving aid around the world. The United Nations stands with them all. We know lofty ideals must be made real in people’s lives. So let’s develop common solutions to common problems — grounded in goodwill, trust, and the rights shared by every human being. Let’s work as one, a coalition of the world, as united nations. Thank you.” </em></span><a href="https://press.un.org/en/2022/sgsm21466.doc.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ opening remarks</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">to the General Assembly in New York (20 September 2022)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------<br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Part One</span></strong></span><br /><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;">Global PBS Resources</span></span></strong></em></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Psychological Sciences:</strong></span><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://psychologycoalitionun.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychology Day at the UN</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (event 27 April 2023), organized by the Psychology Coalition at the UN addn other partners. The theme this year is "<strong>Psychological Contributions to Peace, Conflict Resolution, and Equity."</strong> This is an annual, three hour event at the UN in New Yolk and live-streamed, now in its 16th year. <span style="background-color: lightblue;">Save the date and register! You can also watch the video recording at a later date.</span></span></span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img data-file-id="6655084" height="259" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5f15129b-0b69-cc40-76b2-a0e19677f40f.png" style="border: 0px; height: 259px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from he 8th Psychology Day at the United Nations</span></span></div>-----<br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB-jn4J703s&t=27s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (webinar 21 April 2023). We found this 75 minute webinar to be excellent, totally worth watching all of it--stimulating, instructive, challenging, supportive, and relevant. The many diverse presenters each had 5 minutes to share about their work, and there was a 20 minute time for Q/A. Powerpoint slides are </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mwAFcJMQSANOSB4E9zgprEKP1sD41-GN" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">. </span><strong>Where to begin, especially for all of us very busy people? </strong>For a short summary about the webinar's relevance--"The Why"--we suggest you watch the 90 second overview by Dr Craig Shealy (from minute 58:00 to minute 59:30). To paraphrase: <em>Students really want to have an impact in our world and they look to their professors to help them make their training as applicable as possible for the issues facing our world... </em></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="6655096" height="404" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0b1e2256-f203-01d1-e765-98b90cbaef3b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 404px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br />A powerpoint slide from the opening comments by Dr. Harold Takooshian</span></span></div><div>-----</div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Going-Global-Psychologists-Meet-World/dp/1433836432" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Going Global: How Psychologists Can Meet a World of Need</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(edited by Craig Shealy, Merry Bullock, and Shagufa Kapadia, 2023).</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> “This is the authoritative guide for current and future psychologists around the world who are or want to be engaged in international efforts and opportunities and meet pressing global needs. Psychologists are increasingly applying their knowledge, skills, and values to big picture issues such as sustainability, human rights, conflict resolution, global education, and religious and cultural understanding. However, education, training, and professional development often overlook "thinking and acting globally" as a vital component of the professional identities of psychologists. With decades of international experience as scholars, educators, practitioners, policymakers, and consultants, contributors to this book describe exemplary programs, relevant trends, and dynamic possibilities for global engagement. They focus specifically on nine key areas of expertise through which psychologists can make a difference: advocacy, assessment, consultation, intervention, leadership, policy, research, service, [and] teaching. Chapters also highlight opportunities for international and interdisciplinary collaboration while empowering indigenous voices and psychologies.” (quote from the </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Going-Global-Psychologists-Meet-World/dp/1433836432" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">book description on Amazon</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">). <span style="background-color: lightblue;">You can read the TOC and Introduction </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"><a href="https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/going-global-sample-chapter.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">.</span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"><img data-file-id="6655240" height="468" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/d361fc8c-42bf-275c-4cf6-37f2e1554798.png" style="border: 0px; height: 468px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></span></div><hr /><hr /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Behavioural Sciences:</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/behavioural-sciences-for-better-health-initiative" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Behavioural Science for Better Health Initiative</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (WHO, 2022).</span> </span>“<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The objective of the Behavioural Sciences for Better Health Initiative at WHO is to promote and enable the systematic use of behavioural and social sciences in public health across the work of WHO and that of its partners. Within WHO, the initiative provides support for the use of behavioural and social sciences as part of policy development, programme design, research, communication and advocacy, and capacity building and training.The initiative has five workstreams: Strategy and normative, Testing approaches and piloting projects, Technical assistance and capacity building. Knowledge sharing, [and] Positioning and partnerships. WHO includes behavioural and social sciences in its work in different ways and across a variety of issues; some of these efforts are included here below [in the examples on the website].”</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="6655100" height="199" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/d9f7ab32-2909-23ef-3c71-06b763675063.png" style="border: 0px; height: 199px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/initiatives/behavioural-sciences" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO website</span></a></span></div>-----<br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://www.uninnovation.network/assets/BeSci/UN_Behavioural_Science_Report_2021.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations Behavioural Science Report</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2021). “The UN cannot proceed with business as usual if it desires to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and deliver on its mandates across the four pillars of peace and security, human rights, development and the rule of law. For the organisation to maintain the role of a trusted global leader in the 21st century and to carry out its functions effectively, it needs to look toward innovative ways of working with respect to its operations and administration. In many areas, successful outcomes in the UN’s work depend on changes in human behaviour - for instance, making healthy choices, taking medicine, allowing a child to go to school, finding decent work and saving money. Behavioural science can improve outcomes through facilitating understanding of: the barriers that prevent people from engaging in or following through with their intended actions, n the enablers that assist people in in establishing and achieving their goals, and n the impact of interventions based on an understanding of those barriers and enablers - all premised on commitments to human dignity, transparency and respect for ethical requirements.” </span><em><a href="https://www.uninnovation.network/assets/BeSci/UN_Behavioural_Science_Report_2021.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations Behavioural Science Report</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">, UN Innovation Network (2021, page 1)</span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><img data-file-id="6655104" height="447" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/66bc2a7a-b51d-39a1-d3de-47969917858b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 447px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></div>-----<br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/search.html?keyword=International+Psychology" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Behavioral Science in the Global Arena</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (book series, various editors, 2020-current). ‘In 2020, the Psychology Coalition at the United Nations (PCUN) launched a bold new series of edited books, describing how evidence- based behavioral research is increasingly used by United Nations and other decision-makers, to address global issues. These issues reflect the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030—such as health, poverty, education, peace, gender equality, and climate change. The first three PCUN volumes bring together concise chapters that are co-authored by leading global experts as well as “rising star” students from many nations--offering readers an excellent overview of each topic, a glossary of key terms, study questions, and references. The volumes are suitable as a textbook for diverse courses in psychology, social work, cross-cultural and international studies. More volumes are en route.’ (adapted from the </span><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Behavioral-Science-in-the-Global-Arena-Mental-Spiritual-Social-Health" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">publisher’s website</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Information Age Publishing)<br /><br /><strong>Behavioral Science in the Global Arena</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Behavioral-Science-Global-Arena-International/dp/1648020828" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Volume One: Addressing Timely Issues at the United Nations and Beyond</em> (2020)</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Behavioral-Science-in-the-Global-Arena-Mental-Spiritual-Social-Health" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><em>V</em></span><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>olume Two<strong>:</strong> Global Mental, Spiritual, and Social Health </em>(2022<em>)</em></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Behavioral-Science-in-the-Global-Arena-Health-Trends-and-Issues" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Volume Three<strong>:</strong> Global Health Trends and Issues </em>(2022)</span></a></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><img data-file-id="6655112" height="253" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/e37ff58c-afb6-1fcb-cf5a-2fe735da9389.png" style="border: 0px; height: 253px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><hr /><hr /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Social Sciences:</strong> </span><br /><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-psychology?lang=f&utm_medium=sem&utm_source=gg&utm_campaign=B2C_NAMER_ibm-data-science_ibm_FTCOF_professional-certificates_country-US-country-CA-pmax-nonNRL-within-14d&campaignid=19995348162&adgroupid=&device=c&keyword=&matchtype=&network=x&devicemodel=&adposition=&creativeid=&hide_mobile_promo&gclid=CjwKCAjwrpOiBhBVEiwA_473dPDRKKMeUZm8eR1pPxlUXzs33pDB9PEqkKbB6_oOE7tibnV7IrPFlhoCB48QAvD_BwE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Social Psychology Course</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(Corsera, a "massive online open course" taught by Dr. Scott Plouss, current). "Each of us is dealt a different hand in life, but we all face similar questions when it comes to human behavior: What leads us to like one person and dislike another? How do conflicts and prejudices develop, and how can they be reduced? Can psychological research help protect the environment, and if so, how? This course offers a brief introduction to classic and contemporary social psychology, covering topics such as decision making, persuasion, group behavior, personal attraction, and factors that promote health and well-being. Our focus will be on surprising, entertaining, and intriguing research findings that are easy to apply in daily life. The course will also draw from the websites of Social Psychology Network, the world's largest online community devoted to social psychology. I hope you'll join me for this course, have fun, and learn some useful information that enriches your life.” (quote from the </span><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-psychology?lang=f&utm_medium=sem&utm_source=gg&utm_campaign=B2C_NAMER_ibm-data-science_ibm_FTCOF_professional-certificates_country-US-country-CA-pmax-nonNRL-within-14d&campaignid=19995348162&adgroupid=&device=c&keyword=&matchtype=&network=x&devicemodel=&adposition=&creativeid=&hide_mobile_promo&gclid=CjwKCAjwrpOiBhBVEiwA_473dPDRKKMeUZm8eR1pPxlUXzs33pDB9PEqkKbB6_oOE7tibnV7IrPFlhoCB48QAvD_BwE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">course website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img data-file-id="6655128" height="294" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/4ddc7194-7a8c-2710-4eb0-6d5639921634.png" style="border: 0px; height: 294px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the </span><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-psychology?action=enroll&adgroupid=&adposition=&campaignid=19995348162&creativeid=&device=c&devicemodel=&gclid=CjwKCAjwrpOiBhBVEiwA_473dPDRKKMeUZm8eR1pPxlUXzs33pDB9PEqkKbB6_oOE7tibnV7IrPFlhoCB48QAvD_BwE&hide_mobile_promo&keyword=&lang=f&matchtype=&network=x&utm_campaign=B2C_NAMER_ibm-data-science_ibm_FTCOF_professional-certificates_country-US-country-CA-pmax-nonNRL-within-14d&utm_medium=sem&utm_source=gg#instructors" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Corsera website</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">------<br /><a href="https://phap.org/PHAP/Events/OEV2023/OEV230418s3.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Leveraging Social Sciences for Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(webinar organized by International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection--PHAP, 18 April 2023). “The social sciences have long had a solid connection to humanitarian action. A recent project has aimed to strengthen this further in how humanitarian actors engage communities in their work. In collaboration with more than 70 humanitarian partners across humanitarian practice and academia, the Social Science for Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action (SS4CE in HA) project has been aiming to facilitate community engagement of affected and at-risk communities throughout the humanitarian program cycle. This session will be the first in which the outputs from the projects will be showcased, exploring those that focus on concepts related to decolonization, social justice, and localization. Panelists will be discussing how social sciences and community engagement in humanitarian action can be implemented towards more ethical, inclusive, decolonized, social justice, and effective practices, as well as how to approach resourcing for systematically integrating social science for community engagement.” (quote from </span><a href="https://phap.org/PHAP/Events/OEV2023/OEV230418s3.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">PHAP website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="6655124" height="316" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/18bd684d-d32b-a65b-1efe-aa4791a49953.png" style="border: 0px; height: 316px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></div><div> ------<br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Social-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second/dp/1462525393" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The Social Psychology of Good and Evil</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(edited by Arthur Miller, second edition 2016). “This timely, accessible reference and text addresses some of the most fundamental questions about human behavior, such as what causes racism and prejudice and why good people do bad things. Leading authorities present state-of-the-science theoretical and empirical work. Essential themes include the complex interaction of individual, societal, and situational factors underpinning good or evil behavior; the role of moral emotions, unconscious bias, and the self-concept; issues of responsibility and motivation; and how technology and globalization have enabled newer forms of threat and harm.” (quote from publisher’s website, </span><a href="https://www.guilford.com/books/The-Social-Psychology-of-Good-and-Evil/Arthur-Miller/9781462525393/summary" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Guilford Press</span></a><span style="color: black;">) The is one of our favorite books, with 22 fascinating and informative chapters organized in five parts: Conceptual Perspectives, Harming Others, The Self Concept, Group Perspectives, and The possibility for kindness. Some of the most impactful chapters or us include Why are the Milgram Studies [on obedience in harming others] Still So Extraordinarily Famous, False Moral Superiority, Dishonesty Explained: What Leads Moral People to Act Immorally, and the Psychology of Heroism.</span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="6655120" height="477" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/36aa753c-d24c-88dd-e511-d2bb2ea3d1b0.png" style="border: 0px; height: 477px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></div><hr /><hr /></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Part Two</span></strong></span><br /><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;">Global GMH and MHPSS Resources</span></span></strong></em><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="6479476" height="216" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/dac61187-81a6-c53c-a9a0-9901ff40849a.png" style="border: 0px; height: 216px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO website</span></a></span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Mental Health (GMH): </strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (WHO, 2022)."Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental health report: transforming mental health for all is designed to inspire and inform better mental health for everyone everywhere. Drawing on the latest evidence available, showcasing examples of good practice from around the world, and voicing people’s lived experience, it highlights why and where change is most needed and how it can best be achieved. It calls on all stakeholders to work together to deepen the value and commitment given to mental health, reshape the environments that influence mental health, and strengthen the systems that care for mental health." (quote from the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span><br />-----<br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14sQdg6o50-Vtmlii8kH4CPKdCjZvLCnt/view" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH: Collaborating for Sustainable Development and Wellbeing</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (overview article, 2022, Kelly O'Donnell, Julian Eaton, and Michele Lewis O'Donnell). “Mental health is increasingly being recognized for its pivotal role in health, sustainable development, and wellbeing for all people and of the planet. In this chapter we highlight several markers that collectively reflect crucial developments and directions for mental health’s global impact. These comprise events, reports, manuals, campaigns, consortia, etc., and this body of markers represent the culmination of a series of articles over the past 10 years to orient colleagues in mental health and across sectors to the domain of Global Mental Health (GMH) (GMH-Map Project). We organize the markers into 10 areas of engagement for GMH Collaboration and conclude with perspectives on working together into the future.” (excerpt from the </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14sQdg6o50-Vtmlii8kH4CPKdCjZvLCnt/view" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">article introduction</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">-----<br /><a href="https://gmhan.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH Action Network</span></a>. <span style="color: black;">“The Global Mental Health Action Network is a free to access membership organisation established to connect people and resources to promote better mental health awareness and provision….[The Network has] more than 2,200 members from academia, governments, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector, from over 125 countries there are many reasons to be part of our growing network. Mental health campaigners and advocates – including those with lived experience – come from an incredibly diverse range of backgrounds. We work hard to include the experiences and perspectives often missed in conversations about mental wellbeing. We know that mental health is influenced by everything from socio-economic conditions, gender and ethnicity, to sexuality and the attitudes and beliefs of individual communities. We therefore endeavour to work with partners who reflect that breadth of experience.” (quote from the </span><a href="https://gmhan.org/about-us" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Network's website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><hr /></div><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div><br /><img data-file-id="6655116" height="338" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6afc1a7c-614f-b528-9456-602c037fa21b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 338px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image from the <em><a href="https://u25334197.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=4VUjoXenH-2Fb3rUuqAFSP1Vx-2BOdH51cbJEIpzF92gjnGw4-2BRMQs8ZOWrvZ-2FB-2BvhCVplALINfa-2F0Qf2JSx4ZlIUOSxLjKTvWdglBhFR7kkLM27XrBhfnRLS0qZRa720jrRC6rRi9XsAZ6EW5gPgK96Eg-3D-3DAo_B_5vTYOAPZ6zQHFL9o43EnRSaO52TzXegyj7I9Ouzp2kRC-2Fgkly87EywhdZgPV1D0xxuUGGfoOLv8JL9XwLn7NZsqAl3BoXWUFaMjWeFDHnhEV-2FLHA0LRtWrKbsoqKwGhUeu60AZ3NH8-2B9DpjLDybfETrtWB7Km6hcLXlN7D2TWlEmKm8BrRbfQJP7k7NeXccR0PpMp6a-2Bnmp8HY59mCBQIG4iLPJiPxNW7bL7SIj1v1Nx9Bqwr0z5kGXqJpK73-2F6v-2B5qmty1UDXHZh3PxqX2DN9zICvgtJat1F5Lzmg916IvChJvexXUgf6FTKRtyAhyoCEfLmg-2BiW5j-2BJBxgalZz-2FxJXA-2BRy7Sod7Jjw5W8ZDAJU-2FwvaqgDnfBHXvvNyPtllxCLqv28PboYp3uMvZixmPvD8kI4o61Qzc5wcOOEypAwq8XNYYX-2BO5ICrXCNr7KnkGfLEMjuHySRu4CuqW-2Bmy8jIRYZjvZDIVj5A3w0Yvyb2-2BmAys0Ia-2Bqxh8fwkbhsry-2BdW7shi2nhTUFvZ5AgpNpjB8Hgyv-2FG-2FZwRBXtHvE-2FJU8vTKyQPCv1siTv-2BIz8CcN1-2FO3wSp8JK4QRmxALzWZD7P8JNPndqcNV4ATdCliaecvlM6w38ShGCZf48jdtzMBB5affQeN4o5arfN3fXAlzhP8Ub25nR-2FPinbyFjDZqVX2Xh-2BjEI2kZoEBEnepIDaTXr4SXxrqpGMKcj5DhnjQnIWxzjvsaHtEPDSyKRK85WjwCrLq0Ik5Y1-2FZvr7gaqyn00wn5o9BSc-2FuqFBk9e5IJq9TsNLKphykzcUMFxvE4PRfJzmySrvzMvLu5t9eY95VmcLzgBksLtvW6DediQsOCjyWsBaqQ69vrCP8kWPSxlCmF9xUNr3WqA9w7PdN8Iphkoh5l1h0qUQqoqilcojIQcuJaFbNqU2P8-2FPxFnctZQd9msimAV3RmW3JqxBYAaNBbVO3RmEsf1OhbTi7f8q6lvBF89OwX4reyMpY4vnYX6-2FrqDg4DwoDNAs48hCD2ihX" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">IASC Handbook: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Coordination</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2022, page 13)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS):</strong></span><br /><em><a href="https://u25334197.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=4VUjoXenH-2Fb3rUuqAFSP1Vx-2BOdH51cbJEIpzF92gjnGw4-2BRMQs8ZOWrvZ-2FB-2BvhCVplALINfa-2F0Qf2JSx4ZlIUOSxLjKTvWdglBhFR7kkLM27XrBhfnRLS0qZRa720jrRC6rRi9XsAZ6EW5gPgK96Eg-3D-3DAo_B_5vTYOAPZ6zQHFL9o43EnRSaO52TzXegyj7I9Ouzp2kRC-2Fgkly87EywhdZgPV1D0xxuUGGfoOLv8JL9XwLn7NZsqAl3BoXWUFaMjWeFDHnhEV-2FLHA0LRtWrKbsoqKwGhUeu60AZ3NH8-2B9DpjLDybfETrtWB7Km6hcLXlN7D2TWlEmKm8BrRbfQJP7k7NeXccR0PpMp6a-2Bnmp8HY59mCBQIG4iLPJiPxNW7bL7SIj1v1Nx9Bqwr0z5kGXqJpK73-2F6v-2B5qmty1UDXHZh3PxqX2DN9zICvgtJat1F5Lzmg916IvChJvexXUgf6FTKRtyAhyoCEfLmg-2BiW5j-2BJBxgalZz-2FxJXA-2BRy7Sod7Jjw5W8ZDAJU-2FwvaqgDnfBHXvvNyPtllxCLqv28PboYp3uMvZixmPvD8kI4o61Qzc5wcOOEypAwq8XNYYX-2BO5ICrXCNr7KnkGfLEMjuHySRu4CuqW-2Bmy8jIRYZjvZDIVj5A3w0Yvyb2-2BmAys0Ia-2Bqxh8fwkbhsry-2BdW7shi2nhTUFvZ5AgpNpjB8Hgyv-2FG-2FZwRBXtHvE-2FJU8vTKyQPCv1siTv-2BIz8CcN1-2FO3wSp8JK4QRmxALzWZD7P8JNPndqcNV4ATdCliaecvlM6w38ShGCZf48jdtzMBB5affQeN4o5arfN3fXAlzhP8Ub25nR-2FPinbyFjDZqVX2Xh-2BjEI2kZoEBEnepIDaTXr4SXxrqpGMKcj5DhnjQnIWxzjvsaHtEPDSyKRK85WjwCrLq0Ik5Y1-2FZvr7gaqyn00wn5o9BSc-2FuqFBk9e5IJq9TsNLKphykzcUMFxvE4PRfJzmySrvzMvLu5t9eY95VmcLzgBksLtvW6DediQsOCjyWsBaqQ69vrCP8kWPSxlCmF9xUNr3WqA9w7PdN8Iphkoh5l1h0qUQqoqilcojIQcuJaFbNqU2P8-2FPxFnctZQd9msimAV3RmW3JqxBYAaNBbVO3RmEsf1OhbTi7f8q6lvBF89OwX4reyMpY4vnYX6-2FrqDg4DwoDNAs48hCD2ihX" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">IASC Handbook: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Coordination</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2022). “During and after an emergency, many local, national and sometimes international actors respond to support those in need. In many cases, this aid is crucial and can save lives, reduce suffering and maintain dignity. However, when it is poorly planned, un-coordinated and designed without the participation of local communities,, aid can also lead to harmful outcomes. Therefore, it is essential that the different actors, each responding to the same crisis with their own mandates, missions, interests and working languages, organize their efforts. This coordination is of critical importance because it prevents confusion and conflict, reduces duplication and harmful gaps and supports the efficient use of scarce resources. In short, it can truly save lives. Therefore, coordination is not a goal. Instead, it is a process of collaboration to improve the quality and accountability of a humanitarian response.“ (page 2)</span><br />-----<br /><a href="https://app.mhpss.net/mhpss-setting-consensus-based-research-priorities-for-2021-2030-mhpss-set2" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Top 20 Priority Questions for MHPSS Research in Humanitarian Settings</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(commissioned by </span><a data-remove-tab-index="true" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://www.elrha.org/" href="https://www.elrha.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Elrha</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and conducted by researchers at </span><a data-remove-tab-index="true" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://healthright.org/" href="https://healthright.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HealthRight International</span></a>,<span style="color: black;"> 2021). “Humanitarian crises are often associated with significant psychological and social suffering. It is now recognised that the provision of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) should form a key component of humanitarian health response...Recognising the diverse MHPSS needs in humanitarian settings, and the growth in delivery of MHPSS programmes, efforts have been taken to refine a research agenda that is responsive to the needs of different population groups as well as the humanitarian practitioners providing services...Elrha commissioned a second review in 2021 to establish an MHPSS research agenda for the next ten years. The findings of MHPSS-SET2 are presented in an interactive table below. This visualisation presents the top 20 research questions as aggregated across groups. These 20 questions can be reordered by professional category, gender, or region of work using the below filters.” (quote from the </span><a href="https://app.mhpss.net/mhpss-setting-consensus-based-research-priorities-for-2021-2030-mhpss-set2" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MHPSS.net website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span><br />------<br /><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MHPSS Network</span></a>. <span style="color: black;">The MHPSS Network is “a growing global platform for connecting people, networks and organizations, for sharing resources and for building knowledge related to mental health and psychosocial support both in emergency settings and in situations of chronic hardship. The network functions as an online community of practice for mental health and psychosocial support in challenging humanitarian and development contexts…We are a hosted online platform that enables members to share resources, join groups and interact with others, based on their work and interests. The platform also plays an important role in mobilizing capacities, resources and supporting coordination around MHPSS response during emergencies. Recognizing that technology alone is not always sufficient to enable exchange or grow communities of practice, the network’s team of online hosts supports members in using the site and in helping members connect with others across the network.” (quote from </span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>We appreciate and enjoy connecting with people<br />from different faiths or of no particular faith.<br />People are people.</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span><br /> </div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The Global Integration image used in this <em>Update</em> (the global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--April 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Being Interfaith-Based<br /><em>Doing Better Together </em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6643928" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/4dbbfebe-ae4f-9784-e7d3-e23851c4fdbd.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Eolia<em>,</em> Waterford<em>,</em> CT USA--Image © KOD 2023</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“But of course UNHCR is not a faith-based organisation. Yet when I came here, I soon discovered in its work exactly the same principles that are enshrined in my own beliefs. And I also realized that the values of caring for those in need were equally shared by all major religions. This is of fundamental importance for refugee protection.” </span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/admin/hcspeeches/50c84f5f9/high-commissioners-dialogue-protection-challenges-theme-faith-protection.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Opening remarks by Mr. António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(12 December 2012)</span></span></div>-----------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In this <em>Update</em> (#82) we share examples of joint efforts by people from different religions who are working together for the common good. These interfaith endeavors include ongoing coalitions</span></span>,<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> campaigns</span></span>,<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and collaborations of religious bodies and leaders as well as more informal cooperation on an ad hoc and short-term basis. An example of the former is the <em>Update's</em> featured resource</span></span>,<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">the recent </span><a href="https://www.unitar.org/about/news-stories/featuredarticles/unitar-co-hosts-8th-geneva-interfaith-dialogue-permanent-mission-jordan" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">8th Interfaith Dialogue at the UN Geneva</span></a></span>,<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">which we attended with much appreciation </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(the video recording is archived and available).</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">An estimated 7.1 billion of the world’s 8 billion people have a religious affiliation—7 out of 8 people. It's the <em>majority</em> world. Hence it makes sense that people of faith are and should be ubiquitously present at the global community tables and in the local community trenches—including collectively—on behalf of sustainable development and wellbeing for all people and the planet. <br /><br /><strong>Three Caveats</strong><br /><strong>1. Identity.</strong> Note that faith is not simply a <em>component</em> <em>of a person’s identity </em>which can be strategically leveraged on behalf of an important issue or agenda. Rather, for many it is the <em>core of their human identity</em> from which compassionate actions flow. Further</span>, <span style="font-size: 14px;">faith-based identity is often foundational for people's commitment to living as global citizens—embracing a deep</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> shared sense of belonging, identity, and responsibility that impels us towards doing better together.<br /><br /><strong>2. Diversity.</strong> Also note that we are absolutely <em>not</em> advocating for a one-world religion even as we are not advocating for a one-world government. Our emphasis rather is to find creative and constructive ways to live and work together in peace and probity, dignity and diversity, true to our values and beliefs, on behalf of the wellbeing of all people and the planet.<br /><br /><strong>3.</strong> <strong>Orientation. </strong>Finally</span></span>,<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> we note that being interfaith-based is more of an orientation rather than a <em>carte blanche</em> commitment to any joint involvement. It does not imply that faith-based people always need to work together or that there might be concerns to warrant not working together.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">We conclude this <em>Update</em> with some personal reflections on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Review </strong>the materials in this <em>Update</em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Take note of any responses--or reactions--you might have to being or working interfaith</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Probe further </strong>into one or more of the items</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. For example</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> you might want to watch the opening presentation from the </span><a href="https://www.unitar.org/about/news-stories/featuredarticles/unitar-co-hosts-8th-geneva-interfaith-dialogue-permanent-mission-jordan" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">8th Interfaith Dialogue at the UN</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (11 minutes) and</span></span>/<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">or check out the </span><a href="https://cptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sj14-soc-religmap/world-religions-map/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">PBS interactive World Religions Map</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Discuss practical applications for your life and work. </span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/689577e1d0e6/global-integration-update-special-news-11829308" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Repentance and Reconciliation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (August 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e8c785caf52d/global-integration-update-special-news-1376705" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Being Faith-Based and Evidence-Based</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (May 2019)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (August 2015)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Being Interfaith-Based<br /><em>Doing Better Together</em></span></strong></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6644056" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/22adbd53-3239-7f54-798a-077b2d84dfdd.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Statistics and Data</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://statisticsanddata.org/data/most-popular-religions-in-the-world-1950-2022/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Major Religious Groups in the World – 1945/2022</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Click on the link above to see the annual demographic comparisons from 1945-2022</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“The nexus between faith, human rights, diplomacy, and multilateralism of course precedes the United Nations by thousands of years. Religious teachings have laid the foundation of the sanctity of human dignity and value, including for societies’ most vulnerable people, centuries before the modern human rights law was conceived.”</em> Opening presentation by Mr. Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNITAR at the </span><a href="https://www.unitar.org/about/news-stories/featuredarticles/unitar-co-hosts-8th-geneva-interfaith-dialogue-permanent-mission-jordan" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">8th Interfaith Dialogue at the UN Geneva</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (10 February 2023) </span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.unitar.org/about/news-stories/featuredarticles/unitar-co-hosts-8th-geneva-interfaith-dialogue-permanent-mission-jordan" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6644528" height="308" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/35d4d6d9-7125-a2f1-0813-d6025ba2542e.png" style="border: 0px; height: 308px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.unitar.org/about/news-stories/featuredarticles/unitar-co-hosts-8th-geneva-interfaith-dialogue-permanent-mission-jordan" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">8th Interfaith Dialogue at the UN Geneva</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(10 February 2023) “The Annual Geneva Interfaith Dialogue serves the purpose of commemorating World Interfaith Harmony Week, established in 2010 by UN General Assembly Resolution 65/5, to raise awareness about the value of interfaith dialogue while facilitating the exchange of best practices on how different faiths can contribute to harmony, peace, sustainable development, and towards building more inclusive communities....[This] event convened a diverse panel of Ambassadors, high-level representatives of the world's major faiths, and the International Geneva community to engage on the links between faith, politics, and society....The event consisted of two separate panel discussions. The first panel was entitled ‘Faith and Multilateralism,’ and the second ‘Faith and Public Policy.’ "<br /><br />--You can watch or listen to the recording </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWktc9QLYK4" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br />---You can read a brief summary on the UNITAR website </span><a href="https://www.unitar.org/about/news-stories/featuredarticles/unitar-co-hosts-8th-geneva-interfaith-dialogue-permanent-mission-jordan" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /><br /><strong>Sponsors and Speakers</strong><br />This two-hour event was co-hosed by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Permanent Mission of Jordan. It brought together a diverse group of Ambassadors, high-level representatives of the world's major faiths, and the International Geneva community who addressed the broad topic of faith and interfaith collaboration for multilateralism and policy.<br /> <br />We especially encourage you to watch or listen to the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWktc9QLYK4" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">opening presentation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> by Mr. Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNITAR (from the beginning to minute 11’30”--and worth listening to more than once!). Here is an excerpt: “How do we make [tolerance and respect for religions and human dignity...and caring for our common future] a part of our daily lives?....Faith, multilateralism, and public policy are the crucial ingredients for effective engagements to save us from ourselves because most of the crises we see today are self-inflicted wounds and we must find ways to heal them...”</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>More Interfaith Resources</strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://contrib.pbslearningmedia.org/WGBH/sj14/sj14-int-religmap/index.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6644100" height="433" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ddb53caa-6057-70be-1f91-99d803dbe56f.png" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; height: 433px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://contrib.pbslearningmedia.org/WGBH/sj14/sj14-int-religmap/index.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">PBS World Religions Map</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Interact by clicking the link above<br />and then clicking a country for more detailed information</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.rfp.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Religions for Peace</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“Religions for Peace is committed to leading effective multi-religious responses to the world’s pressing issues. We believe ambitious goals and complex problems can best be tackled when different faith communities work together....We see the world’s challenges and understand they can benefit from an interfaith, innovative, and inclusive response. Our 90 national and 6 regional Interreligious Councils, or “IRCs,” bring together, not only the vast influence and resources of all faith traditions, but also their spiritual commitment to achieve solutions that leave no one behind.”(quote from the </span><a href="https://www.rfp.org/who-we-are/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)<br /><br /><strong>See many of their resources </strong></span><strong><a href="https://www.rfp.org/what-we-do/resources/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">,</span> </strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>organized by their six priorities</strong>:<br />--Promote Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies<br />--Advance Gender Equality<br />--Nurture a Sustainable Environment<br />--Champion Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion<br />--Strengthen Interreligious Education<br />--Foster Multi-religious Collaboration and Global Partnerships</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.g20interfaith.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">G20 Interfaith Forum</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“The G20 Interfaith Forum (IF20) offers an annual platform where a network of religiously linked institutions and initiatives engage on global agendas (primarily and including the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs). The annual G20 Summits are a critical time and place where priority global issues are considered. The G20 process has evolved since it was established in 2008, with various platforms (ministerial meetings, engagement groups) that allow different sectors and communities to present ideas and recommendations to global leaders. Our goal is to contribute meaningful insight and recommendations that respond to and help shape the G20 and thus global policy agendas.<br /><br />The G20 Interfaith Forum builds on the vital roles that religious institutions and beliefs play in world affairs, reflecting their rich diversity of institutions, ideas, and values. These include interfaith and intercultural organizations, religious leaders, scholars, development and humanitarian entities, and business and civil society actors....The Forums have considered wide-ranging agendas, including economic models and systems, the environment, women, families, children, work, humanitarian aid, health, education, freedom of religion or belief, global security, governance, human rights, and the rule of law</span><span style="color: black;">.” (quote from the </span><a href="https://www.g20interfaith.org/g20-interfaith-forum-about/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">website)</span></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">See more information on their 11 working groups </span><a href="https://www.g20interfaith.org/_working-groups/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></strong></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Berkley Center for Religion Peace and World Affairs</span></a><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> Georgetown University</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs seeks a more just and peaceful world by building knowledge and advancing cooperation through research, teaching, and dialogue. Two premises guide the center’s work: that a comprehensive examination of religion and norms is critical to address complex global challenges, and that the open engagement of religious and cultural traditions with one another can promote peace. To this end, the center engages students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in analysis of and dialogue on critical issues in order to increase the public understanding of religion." (quote from website)</span><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/about" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Research areas and programs:</span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">--Religion in Diplomacy<br />--Globalization and Religion<br />--Religion, Culture, and Society<br />--Religion, Norms, and Ethics<br />--Church and the World</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://charterofconscience.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Global Charter of Conscience: A Global Covenant Concerning Faiths and Freedom of Conscience</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2012).<br />“The Charter has been drafted by people of many faiths and none, politicians of many persuasions, academics and NGOs, all committed to “freedom of thought, conscience and religion” for people of all faiths and none. The Charter calls for the cultivation of civility and the construction of a civil public square that maximises freedom for everyone. It provides a vision and framework to help us discuss and resolve our present problems in a constructive, rights-honouring manner. This long-term endeavour is now even more important than it was at its 2012 launch. As human interconnectedness increases with globalisation and online interaction, differences of belief can collide. The Global Charter of Conscience explains principles which will make it possible for human beings to live together with their deep differences.” Summary</span><a href="https://charterofconscience.org/summary/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /><br /><em>“Keenly aware of the titanic promise and peril of our time, as forms of global interconnectedness reach an unprecedented speed, scale, and scope across the earth, we issue and subscribe to this Charter to address a major world challenge whose resolution will be decisive for the cause of civilization and human flourishing. That is, we address the urgent problems raised by the challenge of “living with our deepest differences” when those differences involve core beliefs, worldviews, and ways of life, and when they are increasingly found within single communities, nations, and civilizations. Our purpose is to set out a vision of the rights, responsibilities, and respect that will be the foundation of a civil and cosmopolitan “global public square,” and the habits of the heart for those who would be “citizens of the world” as well as patriots in their own countries, and so to advance the cause of a “good world” and thus of global civilization over against the forces of global.”</em> Introduction to the Charter</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6644096" height="55" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/a24e50e6-5119-6833-722d-31d9922c2a02.png" style="border: 0px; height: 55px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><a href="https://www.gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2023/01/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6644084" height="118" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/2983bd83-6052-4001-b2f5-4bc48621f0e9.png" style="border: 0px; height: 118px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Excerpted from the <a href="https://www.gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2023/01/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">annual statistical chart</span></a> by Gina A. Zurlo, Todd M. Johnson, and Peter F. Crossing</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Christianity 2023</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"><em> International Bulletin of Mission Research</em>, Vol. 47 (1), Jan</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"> 2023, pp 71-80.<br />----------</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"><em>[You] created all human beings equal in dignity: pour forth into our hearts a fraternal spirit and inspire in us a dream of renewed encounter, dialogue, justice and peace. Move us to create healthier societies and a more dignified world, a world without hunger, poverty, violence and war. May our hearts be open to all the peoples and nations of the earth. May we recognize the goodness and beauty that you have sown in each of us, and thus forge bonds of unity, common projects, and shared dreams. Amen. </em></span><a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/news/2020/enciclica-fratelli-tutti-sulla-fraternita-e-l-amicizia-sociale.html#:~:text=Pope%20Francis%20signed%20the%20Encyclical,of%20all%3A%20people%20and%20institutions." style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Fratelli Tutti--On Fraternity and Social Friendship</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"> (2020)<em>, one of the two concluding prayers of the encyclical by</em> Pope Francis.</span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span><br /> </div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--March 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Developing Character Strengths<br /><em>Being the Leaders Our World Needs</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="14279967" height="693" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/eeb38091-ee65-9b69-e3aa-0123561c0e6d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-francis-kissed-his-feet-who-is-the-cowboy-hat-wearing-president-of-south-sudan#:~:text=Pope%20Francis%20and%20Kiir%20met,the%20leaders%20to%20make%20peace." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pope Francis kisses the feet of rival leaders in South Sudan<br />--Salva Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar--on 11 April 2019</span></a></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>“...character is a variation on three recurring motifs--core, consistency, and cost” (p 16). </em>It is<em> “the essential ‘stuff’ that [a person] is made of, the inner reality in which thoughts, speech, decisions, behavior, and relations are rooted....A person’s core character is best seen in what he or she reveals consistently rather than in a single statement or a random act....Consistent core-character is normally formed best and revealed most clearly in the crucible of testing. Hence the cost</em>.” (pp. 15-16) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://www.ttf.org/product/when-no-one-sees/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">When No One Sees</span></a></em></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>,</em> Os Guinness and Virginia Mooney Withrow</span></span></div>-----------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span><br />I<span style="color: black;">n this <em>Update</em> we share various resources to help support the development of character with a special focus on leadership</span></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> Specifically, we feature </span><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Character</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Virtue</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> and Leadership</span></a></u>, <span style="color: black;">an insightful conversation with Michael Lamb, the Executive Director of the </span><a href="https://leadershipandcharacter.wfu.edu/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Program for Leadership and Character</span></a> <span style="color: black;">at Wake Forest University, organized by</span> <a href="https://www.ttf.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Trinity Forum</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(17 February 2023--60 minute video). One of the main resources highlighted in this conversation was the research on</span> <a href="https://leadershipandcharacter.wfu.edu/vision-2/seven-strategies-for-character-development/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Seven Strategies for Character Development</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">. </span>(Part One)<br /><br /><span style="color: black;">We also share additional resources to help summon and shape the character strengths needed for "being the leaders our world needs" and which are also highly relevant broadly for "being the people our world needs</span></span><span style="color: black;">.<span style="font-size: 14px;">" Note that this <em>Update</em> emphasizes character as being more dispositional than situational--yet without minimizing the role that social and environmental factors can have in influencing everything from pro-social to anti-social behaviors</span>.<span style="font-size: 14px;"> (Part Two)<br /><br />We finish this <em>Update</em> with some personal reflections on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good</span>.<span style="font-size: 14px;">" (Part Three)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Watch </strong>the recent 60 minute video, </span><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Character</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Virtue</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> and Leadership</span></a></u>. L<span style="color: black;">ist a few of the main take-aways for you as well as any points that you might want to clarify or challenge. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Review </strong>the additional resources related to character strengths--historical perspectives on leadership character, principles and tools from positive psychology, and leadership transparency and accountability. What might you want to explore further?</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Discuss practical applications for your life and work. </span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/9e50116116a6/global-integration-update-special-news-11815112" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Moral Health for a More Whole World</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (June 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/fcc80e207742/global-integration-update-special-news-1692273" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Tough Times. Tougher People: Best Selves–Better World</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (October 2020)<br />--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/d8606e383d9c/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1055769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Everyday Global Heroes: Moral Lives Matter</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (August 2017)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources<br />Part One</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Developing Character Strengths</strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><em>Being the Leaders Our World Needs</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="14279923" height="521" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/c36509a5-74f0-fb5c-5857-5e987cd546c3.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“<em>Externally, character provides the point of trust that links leaders and followers</em>.<em> Internally, character is the part-gyroscope, part brake that provides the leader’s deepest source of bearings and strongest source of restraint. In many instances the first prompting to do good and the last barrier in doing wrong are the same--character.”</em> (p.26) </span><em><a href="https://www.ttf.org/product/when-no-one-sees/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">When No One Sees</span></a><span style="color: black;">,</span></em><span style="color: black;"> Os Guinness and Virginia Mooney Withrow </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><u><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Character</span></a></strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Virtue</span></a></strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjedJJ57uiI" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> and Leadership</span></a></strong></u><strong> (<span style="color: black;">17 February 2023, 60 minutes video).</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">"The increasing conflict, chaos, and moral confusion of our time has made leadership more challenging, and the role of character increasingly questioned. What does it mean to lead wisely and well? Is successful leadership defined by “winning”? How is trust built in a cynical age? Wake Forest professor, author, and director of the</span> <a href="https://leadershipandcharacter.wfu.edu/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Program for Leadership and Character</span></a>, <span style="color: black;">Michael Lamb wrestles with such questions by exploring the link between virtue and wise leadership, and showing how character formation enables leaders to establish trust, think wisely, empower others, and persevere through difficult times. </span><a href="https://www.ttf.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Trinity Forum</span></a> <span style="color: black;">held an Online Conversation on February 17 with Michael to better understand how character is formed, why it matters, and how it can contribute to personal, communal, and civic flourishing."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">One of the main resources featured was the research on</span> <a href="https://leadershipandcharacter.wfu.edu/vision-2/seven-strategies-for-character-development/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Seven Strategies for Character Development</span></a> <span style="color: black;">“that have been identified through a rigorous analysis of research in philosophy, psychology, education, and other fields.” Note that these strategies are described in the context of university and graduate students yet have clear applications to people everywhere including the mission community. See the link for a fuller description of the strategies and more information on the research. The seven strategies are:</span><br /><br /><strong>--1. Habituation through practice<br />--2. Reflection on personal experience<br />--3. Engagement with virtuous exemplars<br />--4. Dialogue that increases virtue literacy<br />--5. Awareness of situational variables and biases<br />--6. Moral reminders<br />--7. Friendships of mutual accountability.</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://www.ttf.org/about-us/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Trinity Forum</span></a> (TTF): <span style="color: black;">"Contributing to the renewal of society by cultivating and promoting the best of Christian thought, and helping leaders to think, work, and lead wisely and well. We believe that the distraction, incivility, polarization, and pathology of our age stems in part from the lack of spiritual and character formation in leaders. There are few opportunities to grapple with, reflect on, and discuss fully what matters most. The Trinity Forum endeavors to cultivate, curate, and disseminate the best of Christian thought, to equip leaders to think, work, and lead wisely and well." (quote from website) <br /><br />Note that TTF offers many online archives of conversations (</span><a href="https://www.ttf.org/video/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">videos</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and </span><a href="https://www.ttf.org/trinity-forum-conversations/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">podcasts</span></a><span style="color: black;">) featuring a variety of thought leaders and scholars who include Christian, philosophical, ethical, and scientific perspectives as they discuss many of the challenging issues of our times. See also their curated list of </span><a href="https://www.ttf.org/readings/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Readings</span></a><span style="color: black;"> that include “the best of classic literature and letters, introduced by today’s experts, and tailored for individual reflection.”</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Part Two<br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Developing Character Strengths</span></span><br /><em><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">More Resources</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-francis-kissed-his-feet-who-is-the-cowboy-hat-wearing-president-of-south-sudan#:~:text=Pope%20Francis%20and%20Kiir%20met,the%20leaders%20to%20make%20peace." style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="14279967" height="294" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/abfb4d8d-7029-8f4b-c253-3715e1afa53c.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" width="573" /></a></em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-francis-kissed-his-feet-who-is-the-cowboy-hat-wearing-president-of-south-sudan#:~:text=Pope%20Francis%20and%20Kiir%20met,the%20leaders%20to%20make%20peace." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pope Francis kisses the feet of rival leaders in South Sudan<br />--Salva Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar--on 11 April 2019</span></a></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“Clearly, for anyone who acknowledges the critical place of character at such great moments in history, talk of character today is neither a pious cliché nor a luxury topic that is irrelevant in an age of deadlines and bottom lines. Character is an immense challenge personally as well as culturally....Few issues in our time are more important than the proper place of character for individuals and society...” </em>(pp. 28<em>,</em> 29) </span><em><a href="https://www.ttf.org/product/when-no-one-sees/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">When No One Sees</span></a><span style="color: black;">,</span></em><span style="color: black;"> Os Guinness and Virginia Mooney Withrow</span></span></div><div>----------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-One-Sees-Importance-Character/dp/1576831590" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><em>When No One Sees</em></strong>:</span></a><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-One-Sees-Importance-Character/dp/1576831590" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em> Character and Leadership in an Age of Image</em></span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong> (2007). Edited by Os Guinness and Virginia Mooney Withrow. <em>Readers Guide</em> by Karen Lee-Thorp. </strong>This is a compilation of short biographies about and</span></span>/<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">or writings from 28 historical figures, ranging from Alexander the Great to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Its 28 chapters are interspersed with dozens and dozens of related quotes from a wide range of influential, historical figures<strong>.</strong> The chapters are divided into five parts</span>:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">--The Importance of Character<br />--Character in the Crucible<br />--Cultural Erosions of Character<br />--Spiritual Foundations for Strong Character<br />--Heroes of Character.</span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Virtues and Character Strengths–Resources from Positive Psychology</strong><br /><strong>“Positive Psychology</strong> is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive. The field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play.” This quote is from the </span><a href="https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Positive Psychology Center</span></a><span style="color: black;"> at the University of Pennsylvania. Also see the related materials from the </span><a href="https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Authentic Happiness website</span></a><span style="color: black;"> including free self-assessments for wellbeing, character strengths, and virtues, etc. </span></span></div><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Integrity-and-Accountability-parts-1-and-2-UN-Special-March-and-April-2017-ODonnell.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Integrity and Accountability for United Nations Staff</span></span></strong></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>. <span style="color: black;">Part One–Navigating the Terrain, <em>UN Special</em> (March 2017) and Part Two—Staying the Course, <em>UN Special</em> (April 2017). Kelly O’Donnell. </span></strong><span style="color: black;">“The UN has 17 core competencies. The two discussed in this article are particularly helpful for guiding us through the myriad of moral challenges—internal and external—in UN work. As both a psychologist and a UN representative for the World Federation for Mental Health, I am keenly curious about what helps bring out the best and the worst of my colleagues in the UN and other sectors. And myself. I am especially interested in how the UN’s approach to competencies and values, and in particular the moral-based areas of integrity and accountability, can support staff as they traverse the troubled terrain of our world.”<br /><br />Note that the <em>UN Special </em>is now called <em>UN Today </em>(“the official magazine of international civil servants”). Magazine issues from 2018-current are archived on its </span><a href="https://untoday.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">website</span></a>.</span></div><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Transparency-Warren-Bennis/dp/1118771648#:~:text=Transparency%3A%20How%20Leaders%20Create%20a%20Culture%20of%20Candor%20is%20a,advent%20of%20the%20information%20age." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><em>Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor</em></strong></span></a> (2008)<span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, and James O'Toole, with Patricia Ward Biederman. This book has really influenced our perspectives and practices for developing leaders and organizations of integrity and at times for confronting deviance in leaders and organizations. </span></span><em>“</em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Transparency includes candor, integrity, honesty, ethics, clarity, full disclosure, legal compliance, and other things that allow us to deal fairly with one another.”</em> (p<em>.</em> vii)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We have included four excerpts from the book below. You can find additional excerpts that we have chosen </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yr8q4wnHKWTDR6p73qzuH4EcG3MolbVG/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">. See also the video lecture related to the book by joint-author James O'Toole </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S25CTUOkxvo" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(about one hour).<br /><br />--"No matter the official line, true transparency is rare. Many organizations pay lip service to values of openness and candor, even writing their commitment into mission statements. Too often they are hollow…and inspire frustration, even cynicism, in followers all too aware of very different organizational reality.” (p. 4) </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> “But legislation alone [the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the USA] cannot make organizations open and healthy. Only the character and will of those who run them and participate in them can do that….If a culture of collusion exists instead of a culture of candor, participants will find ways around the rules, new or old, however stringent.” (p. 8)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"…[This large-scale] study revealed that [whistleblowers] almost always found the courage to speak out in their deep commitment to the core values of the organization. Even when labeled traitors by their colleagues, such tellers of unsettling truths often feel passionate loyalty to the organization and act because they feel the secret activity violates its mission and ethical core.” (10)<br /><br />"But at any time an organization makes a seriously wrong decision, its leaders should call for an intensive postmortem. Such learning opportunities are too often overlooked. The tendency is simply to call on the public relations department to spin the mater, to make another inadequately thought-out decision, and perhaps to scapegoat, even fire, a few staff members. Because most companies cover up their mistakes instead of learning from them, systemic flaws in information flow tend to remain to do their damage another day." (pp. 22-23)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Part Three</strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016--California USA Coastline</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--February 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption<br />into our Lives</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Work</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"> and World</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Plenaries from the International Anti-Corruption Conference</strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://iaccseries.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6628048" height="300" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/1452d92b-d0ae-d980-a63e-0bba059d5149.png" style="border: 0px; height: 300px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the </span><a href="https://iaccseries.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">IACC website</span></a></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>“</strong>Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust.….We must hold leaders to account….A vibrant civic space and open access to information are essential. And we must protect the rights and recognize the courage of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing….As an age-old plague takes on new forms, let us combat it with new heights of resolve.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://google.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=66e16f9d8a9699d5d627c279d&id=88e4a747a0&e=5c4b2c5c4a" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Statement on corruption in the context of COVID-19</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(15 October 2020)</span></span></div>---------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (Issue 80) we focus again on the crucial areas of corruption and integrity<em>. W</em>e feature the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://iaccseries.org/20th-iacc/watch-the-sessions/?_gl=1*1ed15b9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTkyMzM1NzE4MS4xNjc0Mzg2MjAx*_ga_GRK444HKV6*MTY3NDM4NjIwMS4xLjAuMTY3NDM4NjIwMS4wLjAuMA.." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">eight plenaries</span></a><span style="color: black;"> from the recent </span><a href="https://iaccseries.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Anti-Corruption Conference</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (IACC) in Washington DC whose overall theme was "Uprooting Corruption--Defending Democratic Values." All 70+ IACC sessions (plenaries and workshops) were live streamed and are or will be available to watch online soon</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>. </em></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Kelly attended in person</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We note that this <em>Update </em>emphasizes "mainstreaming." By this we mean further connecting and contributing to call out corruption at all levels and in all forms in our world and in our own lives--from the personal to the political, from the individual to the international etc. <strong>Everyone has a part to play in the fight against corruption</strong>, <strong>as emphasized at IACC</strong>.<strong> Yet everyone is also vulnerable to the enticing and diverse lures of corruption </strong>and frankly this was a missing perspective and emphasis of the otherwise amazing IACC conference. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In addition to the eight IACC plenaries, we also link to the </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://iaccseries.org/blog/the-washington-declaration-20th-international-anti-corruption-conference-6-10-december-2022-uprooting-corruption-defending-democratic-values/?_gl=1*kp2mf4*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTU3MTEwOTc2LjE2NzQ1NDc5NDc.*_ga_GRK444HKV6*MTY3NDU0Nzk0Ni4xLjAuMTY3NDU0Nzk0Ni4wLjAuMA.." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Conference Declaration</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and provide some summary excerpts below. This Declaration will give you a good feel of IACC's emphases as well as many issues and efforts in the growing anti-corruption movement.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We finish the <em>Update</em> with some personal reflections about being people of integrity who are actively engaged in our world. We want to also "promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good."</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Historical Notes--Celebrate!</strong><br />With this issue of the <em>Update</em> we are celebrating<strong> "10 Years and 100 <em>Global Integration Updates</em>." </strong>We provide a link at the end for some more historical background on our <em>Updates</em>--80 issues sent more formally via MailChimp (2015-current) and 20 previous and foundational ones sent more informally to a smaller group of colleagues (2013-2015). "Our <em>Global Integration Updates</em><strong> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a><span style="color: black;">lobal integrators</span></em><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the common ground for the common good."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Suggested Applications--Making It Personal </strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review</strong> the list of IACC Plenaries below and identify a few that you would like to watch.</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Prioritize</strong> watching at least the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqC1u-6sLo&t=4s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Opening Plenary</span></a><span style="color: black;"> that overviews the conference theme of <em>Uprooting Corruption and Defending Democratic Values</em>. It is well worth your 90 minutes! </span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Read</strong> the IACC <a href="https://iaccseries.org/blog/the-washington-declaration-20th-international-anti-corruption-conference-6-10-december-2022-uprooting-corruption-defending-democratic-values/?_gl=1*5v8g79*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTU3MTEwOTc2LjE2NzQ1NDc5NDc.*_ga_GRK444HKV6*MTY3NDU0Nzk0Ni4xLjAuMTY3NDU0Nzk0Ni4wLjAuMA.." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Conference Declaration</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span>excerpted below which is followed by our personal reflections on being people of integrity<span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Discuss it together and consider practical applications--<em>mainstreaming</em>--for both your work and life<span style="color: black;">.</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/9e50116116a6/global-integration-update-special-news-11815112" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Moral Health for a More Whole World</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (June 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and Planet</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(July 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/fcc80e207742/global-integration-update-special-news-1692273" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Tough Times. Tougher People: Best Selves–Better World</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (October 2020)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption<br />into our Lives</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Work</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"> and World</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Plenaries from the International Anti-Corruption Conference</strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6628288" height="256" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/4338ac23-1cae-fbba-0338-5e544adbe85e.png" style="border: 0px; height: 256px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the </span><a href="https://iaccseries.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">IACC website</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"<strong>Integrity</strong> is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. <strong>Corruption </strong>is moral rottenness—the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness. </em><strong>Global integrity</strong> <em>is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels: individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural." </em></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Global Integrity Day--9 June</span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://iaccseries.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">20th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC)</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> took place in Washington DC from 6-10 December 2022. It was attended by about 2000 people (including Kelly) who are actively and in many cases prominently engaged in anti-corruption work (ranging from high level government officials to grassroots advocates).<br /><br />The 70+ sessions (plenaries and workshops) covered a vast array of topics about the ongoing and changing realities of corruption and measures to fight it. Some of the major topics included: kleptocracy and enablers; whistleblowers and human rights defenders; beneficial ownership and financial secrecy; dark money, straw donors, and shell companies; state capture and regulatory capture; digital dictatorships and transnational crime; human greed, ethics, and values; Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the UN Convention Against Corruption, etc.<br /><br />Note that <em>democratic values </em>were<em> </em>centrally placed in this IACC as they are crucial in the fight against corruption. Democratic societies strive for good governance: the rule of law, respect of human rights, human dignity and equality, free speech and free press, an independent judiciary, voting rights, transparent and accountable governments and strong civil society. Countries with strong democratic values-practices are correlated with lower perceptions of corruption by its citizens.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Established in 1983, the IACC takes place usually every two years in a different region of the world, and hosts from 800 to 2000 participants from over 140 countries worldwide. [It] advances the anti-corruption agenda by raising awareness and stimulating debate. It fosters networking, cross-fertilisation and the global exchange of experience that are indispensable for effective advocacy and action, on a global and national level." (quote from </span><a href="https://iaccseries.org/about/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">IACC website</span></a><span style="color: black;">).</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://iaccseries.org/20th-iacc/watch-the-sessions/?_gl=1*b8h9qo*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzE5OTI3ODQ0LjE2NzQ1NTA3OTQ.*_ga_GRK444HKV6*MTY3NDU1MDc5NC4xLjAuMTY3NDU1MDc5NC4wLjAuMA.." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Watch the IACC Plenaries</span></strong></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click </span><a href="https://hopin.com/events/international-anti-corruption-conference-2022-uprooting-corruption-defending-democratic-values-84a93061-f7c7-43f0-b4a1-955ff27e9e30/registration" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> to see the agenda (descriptions and speakers)<br />for all the IACC sessions (plenaries and workshops)<em>.</em><br />The 60+ workshops will also be available online<em>.</em></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://iaccseries.org/20th-iacc/watch-the-sessions/?_gl=1*b8h9qo*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzE5OTI3ODQ0LjE2NzQ1NTA3OTQ.*_ga_GRK444HKV6*MTY3NDU1MDc5NC4xLjAuMTY3NDU1MDc5NC4wLjAuMA.." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6628292" height="432" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/3d6bb7b9-4f8e-e90e-bf33-576be865014c.png" style="border: 0px; height: 432px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://iaccseries.org/20th-iacc/watch-the-sessions/?_gl=1*b8h9qo*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzE5OTI3ODQ0LjE2NzQ1NTA3OTQ.*_ga_GRK444HKV6*MTY3NDU1MDc5NC4xLjAuMTY3NDU1MDc5NC4wLjAuMA.." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6628296" height="446" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/1d751bb5-0c0c-2853-53da-57be820e79c2.png" style="border: 0px; height: 446px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Images from the </span><a href="https://iaccseries.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">IACC website</span></a></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://iaccseries.org/blog/the-washington-declaration-20th-international-anti-corruption-conference-6-10-december-2022-uprooting-corruption-defending-democratic-values/?_gl=1*5v8g79*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTU3MTEwOTc2LjE2NzQ1NDc5NDc.*_ga_GRK444HKV6*MTY3NDU0Nzk0Ni4xLjAuMTY3NDU0Nzk0Ni4wLjAuMA.." style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Washington Declaration</span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>The IACC Summary Declaration</strong></em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"We, more than 2000 people in person and more than 1000 online from 126 countries and all sectors and walks of life, gathered for the 20<span data-contrast="auto">th</span><span data-contrast="auto"> IACC. We came together sharing a sense of urgency and purpose. We have reaffirmed that we are united and that our collective actions are vital to respond to the global challenges we face, for the future we want.</span>...<br /><br />Facing both crisis and opportunity, in support of this year’s conference theme,<strong> Uprooting Corruption, Defending Democratic Values</strong>, we therefore declare that: </span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Fighting corruption is vital to defending democratic values....</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Trust in institutions must be restored....</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Anticorruption fighters must be protected....</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Global security is under threat more than ever.... </span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Just recovery from the pandemic should be corruption free....</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Anti-Corruption efforts must respond to gender inequality....</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Environmental corruption must be countered....</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Human trafficking and organized crime must be tackled</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Unscrupulous enablers must be stopped....</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The private sector must be brought into the fold....</span></span></strong></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Technology should be leveraged, where appropriate, to strengthen the fight against corruption....</strong></span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The key to success is collective action. There are no unsurmountable obstacles for this brave and committed anti-corruption community. Together we will prevail.” </span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: navy;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;">Being People of Integrity in our World</span></span></strong><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image courtesy and </span></span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">ENOD 2016--California USA Coastline</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>10 Years and 100 Global Integration Updates</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Some Historical Notes to Celebrate!</strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In addition to the 80 <em>Global Integration Updates</em> that we have sent since February 2015 to 1500+ colleagues, we initially sent 20 periodic and informal updates to 10-100 colleagues from January 2013 to February 2015. These </span><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/global-integration/gi-updates/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">20 updates</span></a><span style="color: black;"> are available on our MCA website (scroll to the bottom of the page on the site). Also note that the first </span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.fr/search/label/GI%3AMC-MH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>weblog entries</em> on Global Integration</span></a> <span style="color: black;">began earlier in July 2011 on our CORE Member Care blog site. These 10 entries explored Global Integration in the context of member care and mental health. ogether the 10 weblog entries and the initial 20 updates provide a way to track with the foundational thinking and development of Global Integration.<br /><br /><strong>All the above are good reasons to celebrate!</strong></span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span><br /> </div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a> (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698923494188964887.post-35443616484077642502023-01-05T08:27:00.000+01:002023-01-05T08:27:01.362+01:00Special News--January 2023<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #606060; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><div><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--January 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resisting Despair and Disillusion</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it get worse before it gets worse?</span></em></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6623564" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6e225100-031a-a29c-c253-9a68cd5dbfa0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image courtesy and © Ken Shepherd 2022--Virginia USA snowscape</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">“</span>I welcome this opportunity to gather one last time before the end of the year – and I wish you and your families all the best for 2023.</em></span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Our world faced many trials and tests in 2022 – some familiar, others we might not have imagined just one year ago. There may be plenty of reasons for despair....These and so many other challenges make some want to throw up their hands and give up on international problem solving and diplomacy. But I end this year with one overriding conviction: This is not a time to sit on the sidelines, it is a time for resolve, determination, and – yes – even hope. Because despite the limitations and long odds, we are working to push back against despair, to fight back against disillusion and to find real solutions. Not perfect solutions – not even always pretty solutions – but practical solutions that are making a meaningful difference to people’s lives.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres<em>, </em></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2022-12-19/secretary-generals-remarks-end-of-year-press-conference-including-qa-delivered" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Remarks at End-of-Year Press Conference, 19 December 2022</span></a></span></div>---------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (Issue 79) we focus on progress and setbacks in the efforts to realize wellbeing for all people and the planet<em>.</em> Specifically, we present a sample of short reports and</span></span>/<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">or stories from 2022 (articles, podcasts, videos) from three civil society organizations<strong>: </strong>the International Red Cross Movement, The New Humanitarian, and Human Rights Watch<em>. </em>Collectively this material represents just some of the main issues facing our world and showcases why these issues matter for 2023<em>.</em><br /><br />Underlying the content of this <em>Update</em> are two questions--two messages--to consider<strong>:</strong><br />1 Given the major problems in our world, how do you maintain your sense of optimism and hope for the future of our world? How are you <strong>"resisting despair and disillusion?"</strong><br />2 Given the major problems in our world, in what sense is it accurate--and helpful--to consider that things overall may not get better? "<strong>Will it get worse before it gets worse?"</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We share the above items with a view towards the upcoming major meetings and reviews in 2023 of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<em>.</em> This new year marks the midpoint of the world community's aspirational roadmap</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Transforming our World</em></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u><strong>: </strong></u></span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"><em>. </em></span>You will recall that the 2030 Agenda was adopted by world leaders and member states in September 2015<span style="color: black;"><em> </em>and organized broadly around five overlapping areas</span><span style="color: black;"><strong>: </strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong>people</strong></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> planet</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">prosperity</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> peace</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;"> and partnership</span><span style="color: black;"><em>.</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We finish the <em>Updat</em>e<strong>,</strong><em> as </em>we often do<strong>,</strong> with a few personal reflections related to the theme<strong><em>.</em></strong> This time we share a few thoughts on <strong><em>revisiting</em> depair and disillusion as people of faith-hope-love<em>.</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</strong><br />We so want good news in 2023--lots of it! And we will certainly have good news<em>.</em> Amidst the mire of suffering and injustice, people continue to tenaciously work together locally through globally to make this world a better place<em>.</em> As Martin Luther King Jr<em>.</em> asserts, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”<em> </em>(</span><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a><span style="color: black;">). With these thoughts in mind</span></span><span style="color: black;">:</span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Review</strong> the materials in this <em>Update i</em>n the context of its overall theme of maintaining hope for a better future</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. Do you have any reactions that might reflect your own sense of the future?</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Probe </strong>further into a few of the items that interest you, including the upcoming resources and events related to progress on the SDGs</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. Are there any SDGs that you are particularly interested in tracking?</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Discuss it together and consider practical applications--for both your work and life.</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br />-<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">-</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(Oct</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(July 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/4911684ca85e/global-integration-update-special-news-1472225" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (Feb</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> 2020)</span></span><br /> <br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resisting Despair and Disillusion</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it get worse before it gets worse?</span></em></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6623572" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/38ce1291-5186-434e-a748-6a8a8f19a401.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Image courtesy and © Ron Williams 2022--Texas USA rail line</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“I am more determined than ever to make 2023 a year for peace, a year for action. We can’t accept things as they are. We owe it to people to find solutions, to fight back and to act. At times, discreetly but always with determination – we will fight back. To promote peace and security. To advance the Sustainable Development Goals and address inequalities. To reform a morally bankrupt international financial system. To ensure human rights for all as we mark next year’s 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And to deliver a livable planet to our children and grandchildren. Thank you.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres<em>,</em></span><span style="color: black;"><em> </em></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2022-12-19/secretary-generals-remarks-end-of-year-press-conference-including-qa-delivered" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Remarks at End-of-Year Press Conference, 19 December 2022</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>1</strong>. <strong>A Selection of Materials--International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement </strong><strong></strong><br /><em><strong>"2022: A Year of Challenges...and Inspiring Stories"</strong></em><br />“2022 has been a heavy year for humanitarians. Conflict, mass movements of people, natural disasters of all types, many of which do not get international attention. Meanwhile, many people face personal crises and challenges that may only be known to their close friends, family or local community....These are our special picks in this special end-of year newsletter.”<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/faces-of-yemen/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Faces of Yemen: Our lives beyond conflict</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/quiet-crises-quiet-heros/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Kyrgyzstan--Quiet crises, quiet heroes</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/bangladesh-rising-above/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Bangladesh: Rising above</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/unanswered-questions/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Unanswered Questions about mental health</span></a><u><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/unanswered-questions/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">climate change</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span></u><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/unanswered-questions/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u> </u>and disasters</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/2022/05/because-of-hunger-i-am-here/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Angola-Namibia</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>: </u></span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/2022/05/because-of-hunger-i-am-here/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>‘</u>Because of hunger I am here’</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/rcrcmagazine/ocean-viking-mediterranean-sea?si=13a1f693ba9d4ea9aac46edfb1a164f5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">‘What made me try to cross this sea? I must be crazy’</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/migration-and-trust/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">To trust or not to trust</span></a></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>2.</strong> <strong>A Selection of Materials--The New Humanitarian</strong></span><br /><strong><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2022/12/29/Editors-Picks-2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>"Editors’ Picks: Read These Stories Now to be Ready for 2023"</em></span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">“While you may have a bit of end-of-year time on your hands, here are a few stories our editors would hate for you to have missed, along with their thoughts on why they will still matter in 2023. They include a Dalit journalist’s look at caste discrimination in Indian disaster response, an illustrated diary that explores how life changed in villages around Kyiv as Russian tanks rolled in, and a profile of a farmer in Mali whose peacebuilding efforts with jihadist extremists led to some unlikely victories for his community.” <br /><br />--Reporting on Yemen's war whilst living through it<br />--Aid sector: Tiny steps, not big reforms<br />--India: Caste discrimination in aid <br />--A Syrian refugee reflects on EU asylum double standards<br />--Life on the front line of Russia’s invasion<br />--Easing violence in West Africa’s Sahe--South Sudan: When peace triggers war<br />--Lebanon’s collapse, behind and beyond the headlines<br /><br />Also from <em>The New Humanitarian</em></span></span><span style="color: black;">:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2023/01/04/aid-policy-trends-to-watch-in-2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">What’s on our aid policy radar in 2023--The issues and dilemmas shaping humanitarian policy over the next 12 months and beyond (article</span></a><span style="color: black;">,</span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2023/01/04/aid-policy-trends-to-watch-in-2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> 4 January 2023)</span></a></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>3.</strong> <strong>A Selection of Materials--Human Rights Watch</strong></span><br /><em><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">"</span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/16/top-human-rights-news-2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Top Human Rights News of 2022--The Most-Read Stories of the Year</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">"</span></strong></em><br /><span style="color: black;">“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 dominated headlines this year as horrific attacks harmed civilians around the country. We worked to tell the stories of people on the ground, including those trapped in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, and document potential laws-of-war violations. But throughout the year, we covered many topics from around the world. From the Taliban’s ongoing assault on women’s rights in Afghanistan, to abuses against LGBT people in Qatar ahead of the World Cup, to a rollback of abortion rights in the United States, these were the most-read stories on our site this year." (see link above for the stories)</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/19/top-human-rights-videos-2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Top Human Rights Videos for 2022</span></a><span style="color: black;"> “What were your favorite human rights videos of 2022? Millions of you watched our reels on topics...We counted the views on social media and YouTube, and below are our top ten videos of the year–with the number one video, hitting on a story we bet you know, garnering nearly 4 million views.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/20/ten-good-news-stories-kids-2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Ten Good News Stories for Kids in 2022</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“Despite enormous challenges facing many children around the globe, 2022 also brought good news. As we approach the end of the year, here are 10 areas of progress for children we can celebrate...These areas of progress show what is possible. In 2023, governments should do much more to protect and advance children’s rights. <br /><br /><strong>Note from Kelly and Michèle</strong>—We appreciate very much the work of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in general. However we do take issue with a few of the perspectives presented by HRW in the materials above. A main case in point is that we affirm the importance of protecting the rights of both women (pregnant or not) and children (prenatal or postnatal).</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Some Details of What's Coming in 2023</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Tracking Our Success</em></strong>, <strong><em>Setbacks</em></strong>,<strong><em> and Strategies<br />for Sustainable Development</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6623580" height="194" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/2680b5fe-8ce9-712f-b816-78ca4f6f9686.png" style="border: 0px; height: 194px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Header image from the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GSDR 2023 website</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1<span style="color: black;">.</span><em> </em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report 2023</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="color: black;">The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report will be launched as the world approaches the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda and struggles to rebuild in the aftermath (or in the midst) of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, practical solutions that can accelerate progress on the SDGs will be urgently needed. The 2023 Report will build on the 2019 Report providing evidence that can help decision-makers to accelerate action and overcome impediments that stand in the way of progress on sustainable development. The focus will be on accelerating transformation through important entry points and enabling science to support this acceleration."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2<span style="color: black;">. </span></span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council (10-19 July 2023, UN New York)</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span>"<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), through its outcome on "The Future We Want", established the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in 2012. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The HLPF is the central United Nations platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">at the global level. It is the apex of the architecture for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda established by the 2030 Agenda and General Assembly resolution 70/299.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3<span style="color: black;">. </span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sdg-summit" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the General Assembly–SDG Summit</span> <span style="color: mediumblue;">(September 2023, UN New York)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></span>"<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. It will bring together political and thought leaders from governments, international organizations, private sector, civil society, women and youth and other stakeholders in a series of high-level meetings. They will carry out a comprehensive review of the state of the SDGs, respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world, and provide high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to the 2030 deadline for achieving the SDGs. The SDG Summit will be chaired by the President of the General Assembly. The outcome of the Summit will be a negotiated political declaration."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>4</strong>.<strong> See also:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Indicators--Metadata Repository (UN ECOSOC</span></a>)<span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> “The metadata available in this repository is a work in progress. It reflects the latest reference metadata information provided by the UN System and other international organizations on data and statistics for the Tier I and II indicators in the global indicator framework. This repository will be further updated and periodically reviewed in cooperation with the respective data compilers.”</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sdg-tracker.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Tracker (civil society organization)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “Our SDG Tracker presents data across all available indicators from the </span><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Our World in Data</span></a><span style="color: black;"> database, using official statistics from the UN and other international organizations. It is a free, open-access publication that tracks global progress towards the SDGs and allows people around the world to hold their governments accountable to achieving the agreed goals....The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are defined in a list of 169 SDG Targets. Progress towards these Targets is agreed to be tracked by 232 unique Indicators. Here is the </span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/indicators/Global%20Indicator%20Framework%20after%20refinement_Eng.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">full list of definitions</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> For many Indicators data is available, but major data gaps remain.”</span></span></li></ul><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: navy;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Revisiting Despair and Disillusion</span></strong><br /><em style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love<br />in our Precarious</em>-<em style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Perilous</em>-<em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Precious World</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image courtesy and </span></span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">ENOD 2016--California USA Coastline</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as it in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of good will find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems can actually be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span><br /> </div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a> (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--December 2022</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Hurting Humans--Helping Humans<br /><em>Updates from the Humanitarian Sector</em></span></strong></span><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>Things to know--Resources to use</strong></em></span></span></div><br /><img data-file-id="6609672" height="166" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f78e883f-cfc7-6c4b-8d4d-5ca839540796.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 166px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Department of Chiquimula, Guatemala. "Romuanda (62), makes a carpet at home with her grandchildren. Chronic undernutrition and stunting affect nearly half of all children under 5 in Guatemala. But help is not always available - residents of Chiquimula said: "We don't get support too often out here." " Image from the cover of the <em>GHO 2023</em> (OCHA/Vincent Tremeau).</span></span></div><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Non hay tan buen tesoro como el bien facer</em>,<br /><em>nin tan precioso oro</em>,<em> nin tan dulce placer</em>.</span><br />***</span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Doing good is the greatest treasure,<br />better than gold, better than pleasure.*</em><br />Sem Tob, </span><a href="https://www.biblioteca-antologica.org/es/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SEM-TOB-Proverbios-morales.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Proverbios Morales</span></a><span style="color: black;">,14th century, Spain</span></span><br />---------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> we turn our attention to the growing numbers of fellow humans who are in great need of humanitarian assistance</span></span><strong>,</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> currently estimated to be 339 million people. This staggering statistic of "hurting humans" is more than the population of the United States of America (331 million)! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Calamities and conflicts, and their various underlying influences such as climate shifts, health epidemics, social inequities, poverty, and the endemic practice of corruption and selfish consumption, continue to sadly take their toll on people-planet wellbeing. In many cases the ongoing humanitarian quagmire--locally through globally--involves a <strong><em>vicious</em> cycle of humans <em>hurting</em> humans</strong>. Yet fortunately it also involves a <em><strong>virtuous</strong></em><strong> cycle of humans <em>helping</em> humans</strong>. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Part One--The GHO 2023</strong><br />Specifically we feature the </span><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/gho2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Humanitarian Overview 2023 (GHO 2023)</em></span></a></span><strong>,</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em> </em>just launched on 1 December (Michèle attended the live launch at the UN in Geneva and Kelly virtually attended a sequential launch in Riyadh).<strong> </strong>The report is divided into three areas: <em>Global Trends, Response Plans, and Delivering Better</em>. This highly respected report<em> </em>is<em> </em>published annually by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in collaboration with humanitarian partners across the world.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We</span></span> </strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong style="color: black;">share some key figures and messages from the <em>GHO 2023</em> below with hopes that it will spur you on to read more! Our suggestion is that you set some time aside to look through the short and highly readable <a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/article/glance-0" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GHO 2023 Introduction "At a Glance"</span></a> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>which includes summaries</strong></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> infographics</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;"> and pictures</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">OCHA describes the GHO as "the world’s most comprehensive, authoritative and evidence-based assessment of humanitarian need. It provides a global snapshot of the current and future trends in humanitarian action for large-scale resource mobilization efforts, and explores opportunities to more effectively deliver humanitarian assistance." (</span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-humanitarian-overview-2023-abridged-report-enaresfr" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Humanitarian Overview 2023</em>, page 2</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Part Two--Resources from Five Humanitarian Organizations</strong><br />We also include variety of new and ongoing resources from five other respected organizations in the humanitarian sector:<br />1</span>.<span style="color: black;"> The newly launched </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3D7c39f46b61%26e%3Da8fa1a0034&source=gmail&ust=1668464988991000&usg=AOvVaw3slNyieWYBRrug2NL5Xm9X" href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=7c39f46b61&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Child and Family Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Resource Collection</span></a><span style="color: black;"> by the MHPSS Network and the MHPSS Collaborative.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">2</span>.<span style="color: black;"> The newly launched </span><a href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/system/files/2022-11/Key%20Operational%20IASC%20Guidance_Executive%20and%20Operational%20Summaries.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summaries for Key Operational Guidance</span></a><a href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/system/files/2022-11/Key%20Operational%20IASC%20Guidance_Executive%20and%20Operational%20Summaries.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong> </strong></span></a><span style="color: black;">by the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC). <br />3</span>.<span style="color: black;"> The newly launched </span><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/har2022/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Humanitarian Accountability Report 2022: Accountability is Non-Negotiable</em></span></a> <span style="color: black;">along with the growing number of resources for </span><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/organisational-culture-and-people-management/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">organizational health and staff wellbeing</span></a> by the <span style="color: black;">Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance (CHS Alliance).</span><br /><span style="color: black;">4</span>. <span style="color: black;">The online reports and analyses by The New Humanitarian</span></span><strong>,</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> especially its </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Weekly Roundup</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> of news and stories.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Review</strong> the list of organizations and resources described below</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Probe </strong>further into a few of the items that interest you the most</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. The </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-humanitarian-overview-2023-abridged-report-enaresfr" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>GHO 2023 Abridged Report</em> </span></a><span style="color: black;">is a great place to go deeper.</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Discuss it together and consider practical applications--for both your work and life!</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c35dc88ee23d/global-integration-update-special-news-12148220" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arming the World–Promoting Positive Peace</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (September 2022)</span><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><em>/</em></strong></span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Planet</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(July 2021)</span><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0a00948d193c/global-integration-update-special-news-1486885" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Stories from the Sectors: Desperate Journeys and More</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(March 2020)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Hurting Humans--Helping Humans<br /><em>Updates from the Humanitarian Sector</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>Things to know--Resources to use</strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6609704" height="253" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/b5e5801b-bf3d-63f8-3d56-047318ff41d8.png" style="border: 0px; height: 253px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Interactive map from a </span><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/?bs=eyJibG9jay1mY2Y5MmQ2MS0wOGU3LTQ3NDktYTMzMC04YTE2ZmYxNjg0NWEiOnsidGFyZ2V0IjowfX0%3D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>GHO 2023</em> webpage</span></a><span style="color: black;"> showing the needs for humanitarian assistance and protection (339 million people) and the number of people targeted by inter-agency-efforts (239 million people)</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em> </em>See the report for more details.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Tórnase sin tardar la mar mansa muy brava;<br />el mundo hoy despreciar al que ayer honraba.<br />Por ende el grande estado al hombre que ha saber,<br />face venir cuitado y tristezas haber.</em></span><br />***<br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Just as placid seas can quickly turn fierce in a storm<br />so honor today can become tomorrow’s scorn.<br />Therefore remember our exalted state<br />can suddenly turn to sadness by fate.*</em><br />Sem Tob, </span><a href="https://www.biblioteca-antologica.org/es/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SEM-TOB-Proverbios-morales.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Proverbios Morale</span><span style="color: black;">s</span></a><span style="color: black;">,14th century, Spain</span></span><br />---------<br /><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Part One</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>GHO 2023</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em>DIre News and Resolute Action</em></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/gho2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Humanitarian Overview 2023 (GHO 2023</em></span></a><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/gho2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>)</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, OCHA "The <em><strong>Global Humanitarian Overview</strong></em> is the world’s most comprehensive, authoritative and evidence-based assessment of humanitarian needs. It aims to fight hunger, killer diseases, gender-based violence and displacement, through plans that prioritize those who need help the most." (</span><a href="https://gho.unocha.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>GHO website</em>, 2022</span></a><span style="color: black;">). <strong>Here are some of the main highlights organized into the three main sections of the report: <em>Global Trends, Response Plans, and Delivering Better</em>.</strong> <br /><br /><strong>1</strong>.<strong> Global Trends<br />Some highlights from the </strong></span><strong><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/article/glance-0" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Introduction--At a Glance</span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>"After 20 years, forced displacement shows no sign of slowing</strong>. More than 1 per cent of the world’s population — or 103 million people — are displaced...<br /> <br /><strong>Violent conflict continues to take a heavy toll on civilians,</strong> especially when explosives are used in populated areas. Children remain especially vulnerable, and the number of attacks on schools and hospitals has increased. Violence against aid workers is increasing, and 98 per cent of those killed were working in their own country.<br /> <br /><strong>The largest global food crisis in modern history is unfolding</strong>, driven by conflict, climate shocks and the looming threat of global recession. Hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger. Acute food insecurity is escalating, and by the end of 2022, at least 222 million people across 53 countries are expected to face acute food insecurity and need urgent assistance. Starvation is a very real risk for 45 million people in 37 countries.<br /> <br /><strong>Climate change is contributing to humanitarian crises worldwide</strong>, with climate-related disasters driving increased levels of risks and vulnerability. The past eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record and 2022 is estimated to be among the hottest...<br /> <br /><strong>The global goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is no longer achievable,</strong> with 90 million more people experiencing this challenging reality than previously projected. Available jobs remain at below pre-pandemic levels, and rising inflation is expected to reach 10 per cent in emerging markets and developing economies...<br /><br /><strong>Global education is in crisis due to the pandemic’s ongoing impacts</strong>. Schoolchildren in middle-income countries endured significantly longer school closures than those in high-income countries. The digital divide persists: Of the 1.6 billion students out of school, 1.3 billion had no Internet connection at home or a device to learn on — a situation that is even more acute for those students living in humanitarian crises."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">2</span></strong><span style="color: black;">.</span><strong><span style="color: black;"> Response Plans<br />Some highlights from the </span><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/article/global-achievements-0" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Introduction-Global Achievements</span></a></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6609712" height="505" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f746266c-4de5-c3fa-7507-02e789ce0227.png" style="border: 0px; height: 505px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">"</span><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/article/global-achievements-0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Achievements" for 2022</span></a><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/article/global-achievements-0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></a><span style="color: black;"> See the report for more details.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>"Reaching more people with quality aid</strong>. In 2022, the UN and partner organizations aimed to assist 216 million people through 35 country plans and 8 regional plans. This equated to an 18 per cent increase in the original number of people targeted for assistance at the beginning of 2022, largely driven by<strong> </strong>the combined effect of climate change, the war in Ukraine, economic shocks and growing food insecurity. Of all people targeted by plans at country level, 157 million of those people (79 per cent) benefited from at least one form of aid during the year.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Humanitarians invested in understanding the needs of affected communities, listening to their priorities and feedback to adapt their response</strong>: 14.9 million people used feedback mechanisms to share their concerns, make complaints and ask questions. And when financial assistance was expressed as the most pressing need, humanitarians adapted, for example by providing multipurpose cash assistance to 4.2 million Ukrainians...<br /><br /><strong>Faced with rising hunger across the globe, humanitarians took action to fight food insecurity, preserve lives and livelihoods, and limit the adoption of negative coping mechanisms</strong>...<br /><br /><strong>Faced with a continuing and complex health crisis, humanitarian partners worked on all fronts</strong> to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensure the maintenance of essential health services, and respond to new cholera and Ebola outbreaks. Emergency health assistance reached 40.3 million people in the first half of 2022...<br /><br /><strong>Multisectoral humanitarian assistance</strong>.<strong> </strong>In 2022, humanitarians provided food, health care, dignified shelter, basic non-food items (NFIs), and safe water, sanitation and hygiene. <strong>Assistance was designed and adapted across different sectors to reach the increasing number of people forced to flee their homes</strong> and becoming displaced in host communities or camps. The Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster and partners provided 9 million displaced people with assistance. Rural communities living in hard-to-reach areas were also prioritized. For example, in Afghanistan’s Badghis Province, 195,000 people accessed clean water..."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>3</strong>. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Delivering Better<br />Some highlights for the </span></span><a href="https://humanitarianaction.info/article/glance-0" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Introduction—At a Glance</span></span></a></strong></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="6609756" height="234" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/a9bd8010-5622-73df-7f0e-fb19a6301165.png" style="border: 0px; height: 234px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Larkana District, Pakistan</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">A boy uses a large cooking pan to ferry people from a flooded community in Larkana District, Sindh Province. OCHA/Pierre Peron</span></span></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>"The Central Emergency Response Fund and the Country-Based Pooled Funds continue to demonstrate their unique ability to expand and contract, anticipating a crisis and adapting as it evolves</strong> to ensure that life-saving assistance reaches people in need. As of November 2022, the funds have allocated $1.7 billion to assist people most in need.<br /><br /><strong>Humanitarian negotiations are the backbone of access, and they help reach populations in need,</strong> despite increasingly difficult operating environments...<br /> <br /><strong>Early action is helping to reduce the incidence of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).</strong>..<br /> <br /><strong>The critical role played by local and national actors is reflected in increasing levels of leadership and participation in humanitarian response</strong>. Local and national actors are included in at least 80 per cent of all Humanitarian Country Teams, and they help with programming and funding decisions. Local women-led organizations are increasingly engaged in the design of humanitarian programme cycles and planning, particularly in Ethiopia, Iraq, Myanmar, Palestine, Syria and Yemen.<br /><br /><strong>Efforts for greater accountability to the people affected by crises have gained momentum, </strong>ensuring community engagement and accessible systems for feedback into operations..."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6609692" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5b89ceda-5506-2c44-4f3a-679f59d84f3a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">These young Afghan girls and their families were displaced by violence--like millions of other people globally. They sought refuge in the Tajikan site for Internally Displaced Peoples, near to Kandahar City. Image: Cover of the<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://gho.unocha.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Humanitarian Overview 2022</em></span></a>, <span style="color: black;">OCHA/Charlotte Cans (November 2019)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Part Two</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Five Humanitarian Organizations</em></span></span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>New and Ongoing Resources </strong></em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/toolkit/children-and-families-mhpss-resource-collection" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6593520" height="217" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/970deaed-6656-ce7a-5230-061e87c605c1.png" style="border: 0px; height: 217px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Organizations 1 and 2</strong>. </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3D7c39f46b61%26e%3Da8fa1a0034&source=gmail&ust=1668464988991000&usg=AOvVaw3slNyieWYBRrug2NL5Xm9X" href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=7c39f46b61&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Child and Family Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Resource Collection</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3D27019c980d%26e%3Da8fa1a0034&source=gmail&ust=1668464988991000&usg=AOvVaw0w1DvQeu76thLNKSVND_50" href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=27019c980d&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MHPSS Network</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and the </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3Dd9dd5fa65b%26e%3Da8fa1a0034&source=gmail&ust=1668464988991000&usg=AOvVaw3b7YkG3EifoM3PxS9mgrVx" href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=d9dd5fa65b&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MHPSS Collaborative</span></a><span style="color: black;">. This extensive set of materials for humanitarian and development settings (including the Ukraine crisis) is well organized online and easy to access. Here are three examples:<br /><br />--The </span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/toolkit/children-and-families-mhpss-resource-collection/resource/ukraine-parenting-response-helping-children-and-parents-cope" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Ukraine Parenting Response: Helping Children and Parents Cope leaflet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> gives 14 sets of practical tips that parents and caregivers can use to support themselves and their children during crisis. The leaflet covers tips on self-care for the parent or caregiver, different ways of supporting children to cope with stress, anger and loss, as well as advice and practical tips for ensuring their safety and protection.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/toolkit/children-and-families-mhpss-resource-collection/resource/ukraine-parenting-response-helping-children-and-parents-cope" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="6593516" height="312" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/db9c6200-d361-324c-b8cf-b2ecaae28499.png" style="border: 0px; height: 312px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 450px;" width="450" /></span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--“The </span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/toolkit/children-and-families-mhpss-resource-collection/resource/psychological-first-aid-training-manual-for-child-practitioners-cf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners</span></a><span style="color: black;"> is for training people working with children on how to provide Psychological First Aid (PFA). The training aims to build skills for providing physical and emotional comfort by modelling calmness and teaches participants active listening that can be used to encourage children in distress to voice their concerns and needs. It provides information on connecting children in distress to practical assistance through referral networks and information on positive coping strategies. The training also includes a one day training for humanitarian workers on stress management.” Note also the sequel </span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/toolkit/children-and-families-mhpss-resource-collection/resource/pfa-for-children-ii-dealing-with-traumatic-responses-in-children" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychological Frist Aid for Children II: Dealing with Traumatic Responses in Children</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">--"The </span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/toolkit/children-and-families-mhpss-resource-collection/resource/supporting-and-responding-to-forcibly-displaced-children-training-module-for-child-helpline-counsellors" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Supporting and Responding to Forcibly Displaced Children Training Module for Child Helpline Counsellors</span></a><span style="color: black;"> aims to enhance child helpline counsellors’ knowledge and support for children on the move, specifically those who have been forcibly displaced. By taking this module, child helpline counsellors will be able to follow a child’s journey from pre-flight, during flight and after flight while learning about the key concepts and issues associated with each phase of the flight. Case studies and self-reflection exercises are also found throughout the training module along with a final assessment to help child helpline counsellors evaluate their knowledge and contemplate on the key concepts, case stories and programmes they previously studied.”</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em><img data-file-id="6592004" height="450" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/143c7cf5-3981-ced9-5d5e-2afb29c1e166.png" style="border: 0px; height: 450px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 450px;" width="450" /></em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Organization 3<span style="color: black;">.</span></strong> <a href="https://d1h79zlghft2zs.cloudfront.net/uploads/2022/09/Humanitarian-Accountability-Report-2022-full-report.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Humanitarian Accountability Report 2022: Accountability is Non-Negotiable</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance (CHS Alliance)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. "[This report] draws on seven years of accountability data analysis, system-wide studies and expert thought. The report is an evidence-based overview of the current state of accountability in the aid system, providing a critical opportunity to see the trends, patterns, weaknesses and strengths. It aims to answer the question – is accountability to people affected by crisis really a non-negotiable for the aid system?<br /><br />The report finds that:<br />--Overall, the aid system is falling short when it comes to meeting core accountability commitments to people affected by crisis.<br />--A pattern appears: a system that does not listen to or adapt for people facing crises.<br />--Aid organisations which monitor and measure how they work against a universal accountability standard over time do change how they work and become more accountable to those they serve. They make the biggest gains in the hardest to tackle areas.<br />--Unless leadership of aid organisations ensures that accountability to those they serve is non-negotiable, already vulnerable people risk being exploited, abused or ignored and precious resources are used ineffectively.” (</span><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/get-support/resource/har-2022/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">quote from CHS Alliance website</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">See also the growing number of resources by the CHS Alliance for </span><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/organisational-culture-and-people-management/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">organizational health and staff wellbeing</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Here are three examples:</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><em><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/get-support/resource/working-well-aid-worker-well-being-and-how-to-improve-it/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Working Well? Aid Worker Well-Being and How to Improve It</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “</span></em><span style="color: black;">[This report is an initial project of] the </span><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/get-support/article/cultivating-caring-compassionate-aid-organisations/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Initiative to Cultivate Caring, Compassionate Aid Organisations</span></a><span style="color: black;">...The initiative[ looks] at the intersections between mental health, people management and organisational culture using the lens of care and compassion. The concepts of care and compassion were chosen to frame the initiative as they seem to resonate with most people working in the sector, both as a motivating factor in choosing this type of work and also as the characteristics of the kind of organisation which they would like to work in.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/get-support/resource/working-well-aid-worker-well-being-and-how-to-improve-it/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6592556" height="450" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/4f4af461-757b-9307-dee1-8c37be916c9f.png" style="border: 0px; height: 450px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 450px;" width="450" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><em><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/get-support/resource/human-resources-hr-toolkit-for-small-and-medium-nonprofit-actors/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Human Resources (HR) Toolkit for Small and Medium Nonprofit Actors</span></a> </em><span style="color: black;">“This 36-page toolkit provides resources to inform and support the enhancement of a formalized and systematized framework for people management practices in nonprofit, humanitarian and development organizations.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><em><a href="https://www.chsalliance.org/get-support/resource/staff-survey-toolkit/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Staff Survey Toolkit</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. This toolkit is designed for organisations and departments undertaking employee surveys. The toolkit contains guidelines outlining the process to follow step-by-step, whether you decide to run it in-house or out-source it, as well as a template to adapt and use. Undertaking an employee survey provides organisations with feedback, as well as insights into the levels of employee engagement that exist. This toolkit has also been aligned to the Nine Commitments of the </span><em><a href="https://corehumanitarianstandard.org/files/files/Core%20Humanitarian%20Standard%20-%20English.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) on Quality and Accountability</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> and can therefore be used to assess how well the CHS has been implemented and embedded by an organisation.” </span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6593524" height="377" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f4fd6a8f-8393-32f8-241b-b48427520823.png" style="border: 0px; height: 377px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image above</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Some of the items currently covered by The New Humanitarian (image from website)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Organization 4.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Weekly Roundup</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> of news and stories and its many other online reports and analyses, </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The New Humanitarian</span></a><span style="color: black;">. You can sign up for the free <em>Weekly Roundup</em> and</span></span><strong>/</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">or daily updates </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/subscribe" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<strong> </strong>Here are three recent examples of summary news articles from the website: </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2022/11/07/COP27-climate-justice-humanitarian-financing-debt-economy-health-food" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">A Humanitarian Lens on COP27 Loss and Damage, Debt Relief, and Climate Justice</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “On the summit’s opening day, 6 November, countries agreed to make loss and damage financing a core agenda item to be discussed over the next two weeks. Simply having the topic on the slate at all is an early win for frontline communities and vulnerable countries: Wealthy nations have long pushed back on attempts to discuss funding for climate damages at the yearly summits. The high-level negotiations come amid new signals that the climate emergency is spiralling, with clear humanitarian consequences from unprecedented floods in </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2022/09/05/Pakistan-floods-urgent-questions-climate-crisis" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Pakistan</span></a><span style="color: black;"> to repeat droughts in the </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2022/10/31/hunger-somalia-worst-drought-decades" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Horn of Africa</span></a><span style="color: black;">.” (check the website for updates-analyses of COP27)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2022/11/16/DRC-rebels-demobilisation-disarmament-M23" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Challenge of Demobilsing Rebels in DR Congo</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<strong></strong> “The Democratic Republic of Congo has been encouraged to </span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/a-credible-and-legitimate-political-process-needs-to-be-the-foundation-of-any-lasting-settlement-in-drc" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">accelerate</span></a><span style="color: black;"> the rollout of a new programme to demobilise rebel fighters amid surging conflict with armed groups, including the M23, which has seized yet more territory in eastern parts of the country. But there are limited funds for the programme – which is yet to begin activities more than a year into its creation – and local analysts and combatants are sceptical it will succeed given the failure of three prior demobilisation schemes to ease violence.”</span><br /><br />--<a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigation/2022/11/14/Haiti-gang-violence-women-gender-based-violence-war-humanitarian-needs" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Surge in USe of Rape Against Women and Rivals by Haiti Gangs</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “...With a growing family and unsteady work selling bottled sodas and food staples, the couple could only afford to rent in </span><a href="https://web.rnddh.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/10-Rap-Cite-Soleil-Femmes-et-Filles-violees-16Aout2022-ENG.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Cité Soleil</span></a><span style="color: black;">, a seaside shantytown where </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2022/07/29/Haiti-gang-violence-escalates" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">armed groups</span></a><span style="color: black;"> have turned streets into battlegrounds. The gang violence became so intense </span><a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/at-least-234-dead-hurt-in-5-days-of-haiti-gang-violence-un-says/6661673.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">in July</span></a><span style="color: black;"> of this year that Madeline and Baptiste made the agonising choice to send their six children away to a shelter, for safety. Days later, the pair awoke in the middle of the night to find the neighbourhood in flames. Grabbing what belongings they could, they fled toward Carrefour Lanmò, or “Crossroads of Death” – an intersection frequented by armed groups. They made it through, Madeline recalled, but an armed gang stopped them afterwards and dragged them onto a sidestreet..."</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/key-operational-iasc-guidance" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6593528" height="349" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/c7b1db0c-0e81-12f8-d62f-729986d4c801.png" style="border: 0px; height: 349px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image above</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Some of the categories for IASC guidance and tools (image from website)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Organization 5</span></strong><span style="color: black;">. </span><a href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/system/files/2022-11/Key%20Operational%20IASC%20Guidance_Executive%20and%20Operational%20Summaries.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summaries for Key Operational IASC Guidance</span></a><span style="color: black;">,<strong> </strong>Interagency Standing Committee (IASC). "Given the huge amount of expertise, time, and collaboration that has contributed to the body of IASC tools and guidance, the IASC secretariat launched a review to improve the usability of IASC products for time-pressed colleagues, within the IASC and beyond. Following this review, we are pleased to announce the launch of</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/about-principals/key-operational-iasc-guidance-executive-and-operational-summaries&source=gmail&ust=1668464983923000&usg=AOvVaw1FnrIfHV6MrGiIGSWSYR6t" href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/about-principals/key-operational-iasc-guidance-executive-and-operational-summaries" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">IASC product summaries for </span></a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/key-operational-iasc-guidance&source=gmail&ust=1668464983923000&usg=AOvVaw23MVQHlN4CGJTtz2o9mq9q" href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/key-operational-iasc-guidance" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">21 Key Operational IASC Guidance</span></a><span style="color: black;">, with more to follow over the coming weeks. These summaries should take no more than 2.5 minutes to read and print- and mobile-friendly versions are available on the IASC website. We cannot thank enough those colleagues from across the IASC community who have contributed to this process." (email form the IASC Secretariat, 10 November 2022)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Here are three related examples from IASC:<br />--The </span><a href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/inter-agency-standing-committee/summary-iasc-good-practices-preventing-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-and-sexual-harassment-and-abuse" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary of IASC Good Practices: Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment and Abuse of Aid Workers</span></a> overviews <span style="color: black;">"actions undertaken by IASC members to protect from and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and sexual harassment and abuse (SHA)...This summary aims to promote good practice and learning within the IASC and identify opportunities for collaboration, where possible, responding to calls for the IASC to “share and promote best practices on preventing, investigating, and responding to sexual harassment and assault ”.”<br /><br />--The </span><a href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/iasc-task-force-collaborative-approaches-field-security/saving-lives-together-framework-improving-security-arrangements-among-igos-ngos-and-un-field-2015" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Saving Lives Together: A Framework for Improving Security Arrangements Among IGOs, NGOs and UN in the Field</span></a><span style="color: black;"> "was created in recognition of the fact that the organisations of the United Nations Security Management System (UNSMS), International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) and Intergovernmental Organisations (IOs) face similar security challenges when operating in volatile environments. SLT was established to provide a framework to improve collaboration on common security concerns and enhance the safe delivery of humanitarian and development assistance.”<br /><br />--The </span><a href="https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/iasc-protection-priority-global-protection-cluster/iasc-policy-protection-humanitarian-action-2016" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Policy on Protection in Humanitarian Action</span></a> <span style="color: black;">“defines the centrality of protection in humanitarian action...[and] also underlines the need to implement this commitment in all aspects of humanitarian action and across the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC)...with due consideration for mandates and expertise and in line with humanitarian principles.”</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">*Translations of Sem Tob's two "moral proverbs" cited above are by Kelly O'Donnell</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). 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William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--November 2022</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Children's Day</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Children--Parents--Families<br />Love Them All!</strong></span></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6527700" height="733" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/_compresseds/e8970c45-a25d-b831-d2b0-b115adf1ff32.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 733px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="http://www.mjmullenbronze.com/gallery2.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">"Fiat" by Michael J</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></u></span><a href="http://www.mjmullenbronze.com/gallery2.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Mullen (1989,11 foot bronze)</span></a> <span style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 14px;">(</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/kjv/luke/1-38.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Luke 1:38</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 14px;">)</span><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California USA (Image KOD) </span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">"Bearing in mind that, as indicated in the </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/resources/educators/human-rights-education-training/1-declaration-rights-child-1959" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Declaration of the Rights of the Child</span></a> [1959],<span style="color: black;"> 'the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth'</span></em><span style="color: black;">...<em>" </em><br />Preamble, </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-rights-child" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)</span></a></span><br />---------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#77) we are celebrating children around the world--and parents and families everywhere! We specifically focus on the upcoming </span><a href="https://www.unicef.org/world-childrens-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Children's Day (WCD, 20 November)</span></a></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> The theme this year is <strong>"Equity and inclusion, for every child</strong></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;">.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong></strong><strong>"</strong></span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><a href="https://www.unicef.org/world-childrens-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Children's Day</span></a><span style="color: black;">...November 20th is an important date as it is the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the </span></span></em><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=554dfa2526&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Declaration of the Rights of the Child</span></span></a><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. It is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the </span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=dd9fb76f87&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></a> [<a href="https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CRC&Lang=en" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ratified by 196 UN member states</span></a>]<span style="color: black;">...World Children's Day</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> offers each of us an inspirational entry-point to advocate, promote and celebrate children's rights, translating into dialogues and actions that will build a better world for children.” </span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(quote from </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-childrens-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN website</span></a><a href="https://www.unicef.org/world-childrens-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">)</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Our Focus</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Specifically, we focus on two items as part of our commitment and contribution to WCD and the theme this year, <strong>"Equity and inclusion, for every child":</strong></span><br /><br />1<span style="color: black;">. T</span>he <strong>Preamble</strong> in the <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-rights-child" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></a> (CRC, 1989), and especially its compelling reaffirmation that "<em><span style="color: black;">the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth</span></em></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">" </span></em><span style="color: black;"><strong>Love children before and after birth!</strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2</span>.<span style="font-size: 14px;"> Some of <strong>our favorite statues</strong> in the world</span>.<span style="font-size: 14px;"> Really! These statues for us collectively reflect things that we cherish--the best of humanity: the sanctity of human life at all stages, the strength and courage of women and mothers, and the central role of the family--father, mother, children. <strong>Love them all!</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Explore</strong> the text of the CRC Preamble below (11 paragraphs) as well as the images of the statues. What thoughts and feelings do they stir up for you?<br />--<strong>Probe </strong>into the </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-rights-child" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">CRC </span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">itself and read through all 54 articles. Are there some articles that you find particularly relevant, questionable, and/or that you want to explore further?</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Share</strong> this Update about WCD and the CRC with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Discuss it together and consider practical applications.</span></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">How neat it would be if each of us could identify one special, new way to support children, parents, and/or families during the month of November--something locally through globally! A good place to start for ideas is on the </span><a href="https://www.unicef.org/world-childrens-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">website for WCD</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span><strong> See also the list at the end of 10 related observances--International Days</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6536408" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ad4f6b9b-07af-abb6-52e2-03803f303fb9.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We are displaying this sign in advance of WCD--Promoting both parents and chidren!<br />Sign courtesy of </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.carenetsect.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, New London, CT USA</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We are also promoting the new </span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/toolkit/children-and-families-mhpss-resource-collection" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Child and Family Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Resource Collection</span></a><span style="color: black;"> by the </span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MHPSS Network</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;">and the </span><a href="https://mhpsscollaborative.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MHPSS Collaborative</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(an extensive set of materials for humanitarian/development settings including the Ukraine crisis)</span></span><br />---------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span><br />--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/2d06b402a2b9/global-integration-update-special-news-1570073" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The UN at 75: “<em>We the peoples.</em>..”: Engaging in UN International Days</span></a> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">(July 2020)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/643fd77fc50a/global-integration-update-special-news-1266301" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age–film, blog, etc.</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(September 2018)</span></span><br />--<span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Education for Global Citizenship: The Gyeongju Action Plan etc</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><strong>.</strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(June 2016)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-childrens-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>World Children's Day</strong></span></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Children--Parents--Families<br />Love Them All!<br /><br /><img data-file-id="6530488" height="628" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/fd9474cf-c509-b2d6-032d-e1fb2ca3edf3.png" style="border: 0px; height: 628px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></strong></span></em></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Infographic of 42 Articles of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) </span><a href="https://www.unicef.org/rosa/reports/convention-rights-child" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNICEF South Asia website</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> Articles 43-54 focus on how the Convention works.<br />Click here for a </span><a href="https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text-childrens-version" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">child-friendly version</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (UNICEF).<br /><br /><em>I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">----------</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Preamble (11 paragraphs)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Convention on the Rights of the Child</em></span></strong></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The States Parties to the present Convention,</span></span></strong></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Bearing in mind that the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person, and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,<br /><br />--Recognizing that the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6527696" height="242" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/569912e6-63d2-230b-833d-a341267336fd.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 242px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Detail from <a href="http://www.mjmullenbronze.com/gallery2.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">"Fiat" by Michael J Mullen (1989,11 foot bronze)</span></a><br />Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California USA (<a href="https://biblehub.com/kjv/luke/1-38.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Luke 1:38</span></a>)</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Recalling that, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations has proclaimed that childhood is entitled to special care and assistance,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6527732" height="685" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/bf018167-414e-a91d-2bd6-5c437d770c3b.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 685px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Bronze statue of a family by </span><a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kees_Verkade" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Kees Verkade</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (1978)<br />Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen, Vogelenzang, The Netherlands</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Convinced that the family, as the fundamental group of society and the natural environment for the growth and well-being of all its members and particularly children, should be afforded the necessary protection and assistance so that it can fully assume its responsibilities within the community,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Recognizing that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6527704" height="733" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/4b4ac22a-e7cc-f788-bc9e-94506fb49a72.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 733px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1MR2133323U43.1111&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!341944~!14&ri=2&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Outdoor+Sculpture+--+" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Bronze with patina statue of Sacagawea and her infant son</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (</span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shoshone-people" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Shoshone People</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">by Harry Jackson (1980, 12 feet), Santa Barbara, California USA. She was a crucial guide in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). (Image KOD)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Considering that the child should be fully prepared to live an individual life in society, and brought up in the spirit of the ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular in the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Bearing in mind that the need to extend particular care to the child has been stated in the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924 and in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted by the General Assembly on 20 November 1959 and recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in particular in articles 23 and 24), in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in particular in article 10) and in the statutes and relevant instruments of specialized agencies and international organizations concerned with the welfare of children,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6530524" height="271" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/99e57216-5cac-9f8e-ef9f-e670d50d627d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 271px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Michèle and Erin<em> in utero</em>, May 1989, Noord Holland, The Netherlands<br />Six months before the UN General Assembly adopted the CRC</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Bearing in mind that, as indicated in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, "the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth",</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6527708" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/bb5ba044-26b3-1e3d-6e72-57a2985fe4bb.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Detail of</span></span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1MR2133323U43.1111&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!341944~!14&ri=2&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Outdoor+Sculpture+--+" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">bronze with patina statue of Sacagawea and her infant son</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (</span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shoshone-people" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Shoshone People</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">by Harry Jackson (1980, 12 feet), Santa Barbara, California USA</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Recalling the provisions of the Declaration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally; the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules); and the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict, Recognizing that, in all countries in the world, there are children living in exceptionally difficult conditions, and that such children need special consideration,<br /><br />--Taking due account of the importance of the traditions and cultural values of each people for the protection and harmonious development of the child, Recognizing the importance of international co-operation for improving the living conditions of children in every country, in particular in the developing countries,</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--<strong>Have agreed as follows: </strong>[the 54 articles of the CRC]</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="2990685" height="366" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/255c350e-3d0f-49b2-945e-8ebedb97bc0a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br />UN image</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>See also these 10 related observances:</strong><br />--6 February: </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/female-genital-mutilation-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--8 March: </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Women's Day</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--15 May: </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-of-families" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Day of Families</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--1 June: </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/parents-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Day of Parents</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--4 June: </span><a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/childvictimday/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <br />--12 June: </span><a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/childlabourday/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Day Against Child Labour</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--30 July: </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Day against Trafficking in Persons</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--12 August:</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/youthday/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Youth Day</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--11 October: </span><a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/girlchild/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Day of the Girl Child</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">--25 November: </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/ending-violence-against-women-day" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: mediumblue;">nternational Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women </span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="14253523" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/dd099b12-7ab9-3a77-1f9b-ff7e72bae78a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="550" /></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; 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(MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span><br /> </div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a> (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--October 2022</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, and Hope</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Sustainable Development or Sustainable Destruction?</strong></span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>A Message to the United Nations General Assembly--<br />and to the World </strong></span></span></em><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1127071" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6522652" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/731852c3-eed2-1450-a1db-d931816ba832.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">UN image: Opening address at the UNGA by S-G Guterres, 20 September 2022</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">"Progress on [major global] issues and more is being held hostage by geopolitical tensions. O<strong>ur world is in peril--and paralyzed</strong>. Geopolitical divides are: Undermining the work of the Security Council. Undermining international law. Undermining trust and people’s faith in democratic institutions. Undermining all forms of international cooperation. We cannot go on like this.....<strong>But by acting as one, we can nurture fragile shoots of hope</strong>...." </span></em><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-09-20/%E7%A7%98%E4%B9%A6%E9%95%BF%E5%90%91%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%A8%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%B2%E8%AF%9D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the UN (20 September 2022)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (bold font added for emphasis)</span></span></div>---------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">In this <em>Update </em>we enter into the world of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the 77th one which commenced 20-27 September 2022 at the UN in New York. We feature the opening address by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 20 September. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Mr. Guterres again (and over and over!) raises the alarm about the major issues plaguing our world--primarily humans palguing humans via geopolitical tensions, conflicts, climate change, poverty, etc.). And he calls for urgent action and solidarity by member states and the world community for the sake of people and the planet now and in the future. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The title and theme of this <em>Update</em>--perils, paralysis, hope--reflects our summary take-away from Guterres' address. In spite of the ongoing perilous picture that he paints, the Secretary-General also emphasizes "hope": hope for collaborative change for the common good in line with the fundamental values and commitments of the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Charter (1945)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Sustainable Development or Sustainable Destruction?<br />Or something in-between like <em>Sustainable Survival</em>? </strong><br />For many people, including ourselves, hearing yet another dark message about the state of the world can lead to a variety of responses: It can stir up a sense of "doomsday message fatigue," or lead to a sense of helplessness and hopelessness, or fill us with immobilizing fear. Perhaps though it can also stoke the fires of responsible resolve to work on a couple important issues in our personal lives and lifestyles, in our communities, and in our spheres of influence. We surely hope so!<br /><br />Are we as humanity heading towards ubiquitous destruction rather than equitable development? Or perhaps a standoff between the two: basic survival?<strong> </strong>We do not know. <strong>But</strong> w<strong>e are not losing our hope--nor our faith and love! </strong><br /><br />We finish the <em>Update</em> with our <strong>Personal Reflections</strong> about "being people of faith-hope-love." We also include the <strong>message by Archbishop Justin Welby on 19 September 2022</strong> <strong>at </strong></span><strong><a href="https://archbishopcranmer.com/archbishop-of-canterbury-queen-funeral-sermon-on-the-crown/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">the funeral service at Westminster Abbey</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u> </u></span></strong><strong><a href="https://archbishopcranmer.com/archbishop-of-canterbury-queen-funeral-sermon-on-the-crown/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">for Elizabeth II</span></a></strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> The funeral, much of which was organized in advance by the Queen herself, was viewed by an estimated and unprecedented global audience of over four billion people. Here is one excerpt for starters about her exemplary life of service and underlying faith and hope in God:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>We will all face the merciful judgment of God: we can all share the Queen’s hope which in life and death inspired her servant leadership. Service in life, hope in death. All who follow the Queen’s example, and inspiration of trust and faith in God, can with her say: ‘We will meet again.’” </em>You can access the full t</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">ext</span> <a href="https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/full-text-of-the-archbishop-of-canterbury-s-sermon-at-queen-s-funeral" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> and the v<span style="color: black;">ideo</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hWqPpKDdE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Explore. </strong>Read the five excerpts below from Guterres' speech. How does the message of "perils, paralysis, and hope"--or any other major theme--fit with your experience and understanding of the world today?<br />--<strong>Relevance.</strong> Dive deeper into the speech by listening to and/or reading the entire speech</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Consider a few ways that the perspectives are practically relevant for your life and work.<br />--<strong>Discuss</strong>. Share and discuss this <em>Update </em>with others. Perhaps have a go at relating the message (address) of Secretary-General Guterres with the message (sermon) of Archbishop Welby.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c35dc88ee23d/global-integration-update-special-news-12148220?e=4bbe566fe4" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arming the World--Promoting Positive Peace</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (September 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=7f89950dcf&e=4bbe566fe4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=6b9a115d25&e=4bbe566fe4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Doomsday: Next Stop, Global Dis-Integration?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (June 2017)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, and Hope</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Sustainable Development or Sustainable Destruction?</strong></span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>A Message to the United Nations General Assembly--<br />and to the World </strong></span></span></em><br /><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-09-20/%E7%A7%98%E4%B9%A6%E9%95%BF%E5%90%91%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%A8%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%B2%E8%AF%9D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6522656" height="213" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ac83c2c7-b1bd-1a73-186a-665c27ffc50b.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 213px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">UN image: S-G Guterres' opening address to the UNGA, 20 September 2022</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"The divergence between developed and developing countries…is at the root of the geopolitical tensions and lack of trust that poison every area of global cooperation, from vaccines to sanctions to trade. But by acting as one, we can nurture fragile shoots of hope…So, let’s develop common solutions to common problems--grounded in goodwill, trust, and the rights shared by every human being." </em></span></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-09-20/%E7%A7%98%E4%B9%A6%E9%95%BF%E5%90%91%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%A8%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%B2%E8%AF%9D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the UNGA (20 September 2022)</span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">---------</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Here are five excerpts from the UN Secretary-General's opening address to the UN General Assembly on 20 September 2022</span></span>. N<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ote that in spite of the ongoing dire picture that he paints, he also emphasizes "hope"--hope for collaborative change in line with the fundamental values and commitments of the UN Charter for the common good</span></span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Click </span></span><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1127071" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> for the video of the address<br />Click </span></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-09-20/%E7%A7%98%E4%B9%A6%E9%95%BF%E5%90%91%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%A8%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%B2%E8%AF%9D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">HERE</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> for the text of the address<br />Click </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://media.un.org/en/webtv" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> to access UN WebTV in order watch archived events and speeches on various issues at the 77th UNGA.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen</strong>, Our world is in big trouble. Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider. Challenges are spreading farther. But as we come together in a world teeming with turmoil, an image of promise and hope comes to my mind...<br /><br />--<strong>Excellencies</strong>, We need action across the board. Let’s have no illusions. We are in rough seas. A winter of global discontent is on the horizon. A cost-of-living crisis is raging. Trust is crumbling. Inequalities are exploding. Our planet is burning. People are hurting – with the most vulnerable suffering the most. The United Nations Charter and the ideals it represents are in jeopardy. We have a duty to act. And yet we are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction. The international community is not ready or willing to tackle the big dramatic challenges of our age. These crises threaten the very future of humanity and the fate of our planet. Crises like the war in Ukraine and the multiplication of conflicts around the globe. Crises like the climate emergency and biodiversity loss. Crises like the dire financial situation of developing countries and the fate of the Sustainable Development Goals. And crises like the lack of guardrails around promising new technologies to heal disease, connect people and expand opportunity.<br /><br /> --<strong>Excellencies</strong>, Progress on all these issues and more is being held hostage by geopolitical tensions. Our world is in peril – and paralyzed. Geopolitical divides are: Undermining the work of the Security Council. Undermining international law. Undermining trust and people’s faith in democratic institutions. Undermining all forms of international cooperation. We cannot go on like this.<br /><br />--<strong>Excellencies</strong>, The climate crisis is coming on top of other heavy weather. A once-in-a-generation global cost-of-living crisis is unfolding, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine. Some 94 countries – home to 1.6 billion people – many in Africa – face a perfect storm: economic and social fallout from the pandemic, soaring food and energy prices, crushing debt burdens, spiraling inflation, and a lack of access to finance. These cascading crises are feeding on each other, compounding inequalities, creating devastating hardship, delaying the energy transition, and threatening global financial meltdown. Social unrest is inevitable – with conflict not far behind. It doesn’t have to be this way. A world without extreme poverty, want or hunger is not an impossible dream. It is within reach. That is the world envisaged by the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. But it is not the world we seem to have chosen. Because of our decisions, sustainable development everywhere is at risk. The SDGs are issuing an SOS. Even the most fundamental goals – on poverty, hunger and education – are going into reverse. More people are poor. More people are hungry. More people are being denied health care and education. Gender equality is going backwards and women’s lives are getting worse, from poverty, to choices around sexual and reproductive health, to their personal security.<br /><br />---<strong>Excellencies</strong>, The divergence between developed and developing countries – between North and South – between the privileged and the rest – is becoming more dangerous by the day. It is at the root of the geopolitical tensions and lack of trust that poison every area of global cooperation, from vaccines to sanctions to trade. But by acting as one, we can nurture fragile shoots of hope. The hope found in climate and peace activists around the world calling out for change and demanding better of their leaders. The hope found in young people, working every day for a better, more peaceful future. The hope found in the women and girls, leading and fighting for those still being denied their basic human rights. The hope found throughout civil society seeking ways to build more just and equal communities and countries. The hope found in science and academia, racing to stay ahead of deadly diseases and end the COVID-19 pandemic. The hope found in humanitarian heroes rushing to deliver lifesaving aid around the world. The United Nations stands with them all. We know lofty ideals must be made real in people’s lives. So let’s develop common solutions to common problems — grounded in goodwill, trust, and the rights shared by every human being. Let’s work as one, a coalition of the world, as united nations. Thank you."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Note:</span></span></strong> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Recall that the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/ga/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN General Assembly</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (UNGA) "is the main policy-making organ of the [United Nations]. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations has an equal vote. The UNGA also makes key decisions for the UN, including: appointing the Secretary-General on the recommendation of the Security Council electing the non-permanent members of the Security Council, [and] approving the UN budget. The Assembly meets in regular sessions from September to December each year, and thereafter as required. It discusses specific issues through dedicated agenda items or sub-items, which lead to the adoption of resolutions." (quote from the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/ga/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNGA website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Being People of Faith-Hope-Love in a Perilous World<br /><span style="background-color: lightblue;">And a Messsage about the Life of Elizabeth II</span></strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=26420e3814&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6522752" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6d6c9a7b-86a9-5ac4-3272-4befca228d17.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, 19 September 2022</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that both fundamentally and ultimately we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as it in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime...we seek to embrace lifestyles that prioritize a deep, practical<strong> love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.<br /><br />We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of good will find common ground for the common good. </strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">In line with these reflections above, we want to share t<span style="color: black;">he<strong> </strong>message (sermon) by Archbishop Justin Welby on 19 September 2022 at the funeral service at Westminster Abbey for Elizabeth II. It was<strong> </strong>watched by an estimated and unprecedented global audience of over four billion people. She was a remarkable woman with a steadfast underlying faith as a follower of Jesus Christ<strong>. </strong>You can also access the full text</span> <a href="https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/full-text-of-the-archbishop-of-canterbury-s-sermon-at-queen-s-funeral" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> and the v<span style="color: black;">ideo</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hWqPpKDdE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span><br />---------------------------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6522756" height="275" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/03defc7a-de9b-cfa0-206f-e9fc8338e1bb.png" style="border: 0px; height: 275px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 275px;" width="275" /> <img data-file-id="6522760" height="275" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/929dc96a-36ff-ea13-ee0d-45faefc6d8cb.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 275px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 275px;" width="275" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Archbishop Justin Welby giving the sermon at the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II <br /> Wesminster Abbey, 19 September 2022</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Message by Archbishop Justin Welby about the life of Queen Elizabeth II</span></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death. The pattern for all who serve God – famous or obscure, respected or ignored – is that death is the door to glory.</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Her late Majesty famously declared on a 21st birthday broadcast that her whole life would be dedicated to serving the nation and Commonwealth.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Rarely has such a promise been so well kept! Few leaders receive the outpouring of love that we have seen.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Jesus – who in our reading does not tell his disciples how to follow, but who to follow – said: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ Her late Majesty’s example was not set through her position or her ambition, but through whom she followed. I know His Majesty shares the same faith and hope in Jesus Christ as his mother; the same sense of service and duty.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In 1953 the Queen began her coronation with silent prayer, just there at the High Altar. Her allegiance to God was given before any person gave allegiance to her. Her service to so many people in this nation, the Commonwealth and the world, had its foundation in her following Christ – God himself – who said that he “came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">People of loving service are rare in any walk of life. Leaders of loving service are still rarer. But in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The grief of this day – felt not only by the late Queen’s family but all round the nation, Commonwealth and the world – arises from her abundant life and loving service, now gone from us</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">She was joyful, present to so many, touching a multitude of lives.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We pray especially for all her family, grieving as every family at a funeral – including so many families round the world who have themselves lost someone recently – but in this family’s case doing so in the brightest spotlight.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">May God heal their sorrow, may the gap left in their lives be marked with memories of joy and life.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Her late Majesty’s broadcast during COVID-19 lockdown ended with: ‘We will meet again’ -- words of hope from a song of Vera Lynn. Christian hope means certain expectation of something not yet seen.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Christ rose from the dead and offers life to all, abundant life now and life with God in eternity.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As the Christmas carol says, “where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in.”</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We will all face the merciful judgment of God: we can all share the Queen’s hope which in life and death inspired her servant leadership.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Service in life, hope in death. All who follow the Queen’s example, and inspiration of trust and faith in God, can with her say: ‘We will meet again.’”</span></span></em></p><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--September 2022</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arming the World</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Promoting Positive Peace</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Facts for Advocacy and Action from 10 Sources</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ed40d772-b8a8-5dbb-5edb-3c08bd58e3f9.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Boy in a "rebel" camp--Central African Republic--source unknown</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>“The clouds that parted following the end of the Cold War are gathering once more. </em><em>We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. </em><em>Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict. </em><em>Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation."</em> UN Secretary-General António Guterres<em>.</em> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-08-01/secretary-generals-remarks-the-tenth-review-conference-of-the-parties-the-treaty-the-non-proliferation-of-nuclear-weapons" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Remarks to the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1 August 2022)</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------</span></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />Welcome to the 75th issue of our G<em>lobal Integration Updates</em>! We are celebrating nearly eight years of providing strategic resources and personal reflections via the <em>Updates</em> to help "shape and support the emerging diversity of <em>global integrators </em>who as learners-practitioners are committed to the common ground for the common good."<br /><br />In this <em>Update </em>we focus on the various ways that <strong>the world is being outfitted for</strong>,<strong> participating in</strong>, <strong>and being impacted by</strong> <strong>armed conflicts</strong>.<strong> </strong>Specifically, and in the context of summoning us all to promote "positive peace" in our lives and world, we share summary statistics and information from 10 respected sources about national military budgets and military personnel, arms-selling and arms-buying countries, nuclear arsenals, civilian firearms and homicides, mines and munitions, UN Peacekeeping missions, forcibly displaced people, child soldiers, etc.<br /><br />For many people, including ourselves, reviewing the summary statistics and information below can be both surprising and alarming</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;"> It can also be saddening and maddening! </span><strong style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">But we do not lose hope--nor our faith and love! </strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">See our Final Thoughts at the end about "being people of faith-hope-love in our fractured world." We echo the words of Martin Luther King Jr.:</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Our Purpose</strong><br />Our purpose in compiling these summary statistics and information is to help us all better track with the "big picture" of the "offense and defense industry." However, we are not offering specific analyses or judgements. Rather we hope that this collective (all-in-one-place) information will inspire you and many others towards <strong>greater awareness, advocacy, and action to promote positive peace in our world. </strong><br /><br />"<strong>Positive Peace</strong> is defined as the attitudes, institutions and structures that create and sustain peaceful societies. The same factors that create lasting peace also lead to many other positive outcomes that societies aspire to, including: thriving economies. better performance on ecological measures. Other factors that improve with Positive Peace are measures of inclusiveness, wellbeing and happiness. Therefore, Positive Peace can be described as creating an optimal environment for human potential to flourish." Executive Summary (page 4), </span><em><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PPR-2020web.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Positive Peace Report 2020</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">,<em> Institute for Economics and Peace</em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--<strong>Explore</strong><strong>. </strong>Choose one or more items below that you want to explore further including summary statistics, reports, and organizations. <br />--<strong>Relevance</strong><strong>.</strong> Consider a few ways that the materials are practically relevant for your life and work.<br />--<strong>Discuss</strong>. Share and discuss this <em>Update</em> with others in view of “advocacy and action” to promote positive peace.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/d40ac0629a27/global-integration-update-special-news-11449161" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Staring War in the Face</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (April 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/ad30f29619c1/global-integration-update-special-news-10514349" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace on Earth: Sharing our Stories and Strategies</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(January 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0ed050cc4349/global-integration-update-special-news-7088769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Genocide: Bearing Witness…</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (December 2020)<br />--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Doomsday: Next Stop, Global Dis-Integration?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (June 2017)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arming the World</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Promoting Positive Peace</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Facts for Advocacy and Action from 10 Sources</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8032b5fd-421f-f121-997a-9f52a0d3a17b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 343px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the cover of </span><a href="https://icrcndresourcecentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/icrc_002_4015.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Children in War</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">,<em> </em>Christoph von Toggenburg<strong>/</strong>ICRC (2009)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“We are a world in pieces.</em><br /><em>We need to be a world at peace.”</em><br />UN Secretary-General António Guterres</span><br /><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=b719153dcd&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN General Assembly, 19 September 2017</span></a></span><br />-----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: black;">One:</span> <a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Citizen</span></a></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/facts-about-world-conflicts" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">10 Heartbreaking Facts About Ongoing Conflicts Around the World</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> (</span><span style="color: black;">April 2022)<br />“1. <strong>There Are at Least 27 Live Conflicts Right Now.</strong> According to the Council on Foreign Relation’s </span><a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/?category=us" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Conflict Tracker</span></a> [see image below in this <em>Update</em>]<span style="color: black;">, there are currently 27 ongoing conflicts worldwide. The tracker categorizes conflict into three groups: “worsening,” “unchanging,” and “improving.” Right now, there’s not a single conflict described as “improving.” Of those worsening are the conflict in Ukraine, the war in Afghanistan, political instability in Lebanon, the war in Yemen, the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, and the conflict in Ethiopia....<br /> <br />3. <strong>2 Billion People Currently Live in Conflict-Affected Areas.</strong> A </span><a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2022/sgsm21216.doc.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">quarter</span></a><span style="color: black;"> of the entire global population lives in conflict-affected areas. Some of the worst affected places are Ethiopia's Tigray region, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan. According to the UN, last year, 84 million people were forcibly displaced because of conflict, violence, and human rights violations. This year, it is estimated that at least 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance."</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/17772c76-31cd-3f52-81f5-2abd34db31ba.png" style="border: 0px; height: 250px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image source:</span> <a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Council on Foreign Relations, Global Conflict Tracker</span></a></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Two: </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/un75/new-era-conflict-and-violence" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">A New Era of Violence and Conflict</span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">“The nature of conflict and violence has transformed substantially since the UN was founded 75 years ago. Conflicts now tend to be less deadly and often waged between domestic groups rather than states. Homicides are becoming more frequent in some parts of the world, while gender-based attacks are increasing globally. The long-term impact on development of inter-personal violence, including violence against children, is also more widely recognized. Separately, technological advances have raised concerns about lethal autonomous weapons and cyberattacks, the weaponization of bots and drones, and the livestreaming of extremist attacks. There has also been a rise in criminal activity involving data hacks and ransomware, for example. Meanwhile, international cooperation is under strain, diminishing global potential for the prevention and resolution of conflict and violence in all forms.” (excerpt from the summary)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">United Nations Peacekeeping</span></span></a></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“UN Peacekeeping helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. We have unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy troops and police from around the world, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to address a range of mandates set by the UN Security Council and General Assembly.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6511444" height="403" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6cad9e3d-fc2e-33a0-32fc-a5a7bb60b85c.png" style="border: 0px; height: 403px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Three:</strong></span> <a href="https://www.sipri.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)</strong></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“</span><em><a href="https://www.sipri.org/yearbook/2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SIPRI Yearbook 2022</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, and armed conflicts and conflict management, along with efforts to control conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.” Below are some examples from the </span><a href="https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/yb22_summary_en_v3.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">See page 18ff also for information on chemical, biological, and health security threats.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/08b76396-b534-0e04-6adf-be3424ab40b7.png" style="border: 0px; height: 374px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /></p><hr />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/91589583-c6fc-9d3f-c793-7ff86d2412da.png" style="border: 0px; height: 515px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><hr />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/cf7dc079-51c8-5114-0e3f-d1430675db5b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/373dc526-b9bc-bf43-05fd-bc997c56daa5.png" style="border: 0px; height: 527px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5b3f5cef-8d45-f892-b88e-7d3a05acfc3a.png" style="border: 0px; height: 563px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Four:</strong></span> <a href="https://www.rescue.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>International Rescue Committee</strong></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.rescue.org/article/top-10-crises-world-cant-ignore-2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Top Ten Crises the World Cannot Ignore in 2022 (updated July 2022)</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“The International Rescue Committee has released its 2022 Emergency Watchlist, a global list of humanitarian crises that are expected to deteriorate the most over the coming year. Most Watchlist countries—the top ten in particular—have experienced almost non-stop conflict over the last decade, hampering their ability to respond to global challenges like COVID-19 and </span><a href="https://www.rescue.org/topic/climate-change" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" title="Climate Change"><span style="color: mediumblue;">climate change</span></a><span style="color: black;">. These 20 countries are home to 10% of the global population but account for 89% of those in need of humanitarian aid worldwide. (N.B. The 2022 Emergency Watchlist was compiled before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For updates on the humanitarian situation inside Ukraine, and for refugees who have fled to neighboring countries, please visit our </span><a href="https://www.rescue.org/topic/ukraine-crisis" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Ukraine Crisis page</span></a><span style="color: black;">.)<br /><br />Displaced families, and in particular </span><a href="https://www.rescue.org/outcome/women-girls" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">women and girls</span></a><span style="color: black;">, are disproportionately affected by the crises, which are more than a series of unfortunate events, stresses David Miliband, IRC president and CEO. “The story told by the Watchlist makes a bigger argument,” he writes in the report, “not just that there are more poor and more people forcibly displaced, but that the scale and nature of humanitarian distress around the world constitutes a system failure.”<br /> <br />The IRC has produced a Watchlist each year for over a decade. Over this time, it has evolved from a purely internal aid for emergency preparedness planning into a public report that warns global leaders, policymakers and concerned citizens not just where crises are deepening but why they are deepening and what can be done about it.”</span></span><hr /></div><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Five:</span> <a href="https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNHCR Figures at a Glance</span></a></strong></span></div><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/c4029b8a-9dcc-772a-913e-23f117962c12.png" style="border: 0px; height: 272px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/dc7ad121-ab7a-56da-98fa-7db48c2ac1f1.png" style="border: 0px; height: 230px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5ac4e31c-a134-5933-fffb-c91473702057.png" style="border: 0px; height: 231px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Six:</span> <a href="http://the-monitor.org/en-gb/home.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor</span></a></strong><br /><a href="http://the-monitor.org/en-gb/reports/2021/landmine-monitor-2021/major-findings.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary of Landmines</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“Casualties. 2020 was the sixth year in a row with high numbers of recorded casualties due to mines, including improvised types, as well as cluster munition remnants and other explosive remnants of war (ERW). The continuing high casualty total recorded is mostly the result of increased conflict and contamination observed since 2015. In 2020, at least 7,073 casualties of mines/ERW were recorded: 2,492 people were killed and 4,561 people were injured, while the survival status was unknown for 20 casualties. The 2020 total represents an increase from the 5,853 casualties recorded in 2019, and is more than double the lowest annual recorded total (3,456 in 2013). The vast majority of recorded mine/ERW casualties were civilians (80%) where their status was known. In 2020, children accounted for half of all civilian casualties where the age was known (1,872). As in previous years, in 2020, men and boys made up the majority of all casualties (85%) for which the sex was known.”<br /> <br />See also the </span><a href="http://the-monitor.org/en-gb/reports/2022/cluster-munition-monitor-2022/major-findings.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary of Cluster Munitions</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><hr /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Seven: </strong></span><strong><a href="https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Small Arms Survey</span></a></strong><br /><a href="https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Firearms Holdings</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“There are more than one billion firearms in the world, the vast majority of which are in civilian hands. The Small Arms Survey estimates that of the one billion firearms in global circulation as of 2017, 857 million (85 per cent) are in civilian hands, 133 million (13 per cent) are in military arsenals, and 23 million (2 per cent) are owned by law enforcement agencies. Our studies suggest that the global stockpile has increased over the past decade, largely due to civilian holdings, which grew from 650 million in 2006 to 857 million in 2017.”</span></span><br /> </div><div><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/b88e236d-6fba-860c-7a8f-37e9f1866b08.png" style="border: 0px; height: 178px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /></div><hr /><div>----------</div><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/b7a93afc-c84e-f409-d8ae-61086597106d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 533px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/highlight/2022-update-small-arms-surveys-global-violent-deaths-gvd-database" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2022 update of the Small Arms Survey’s Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“According to the latest update of the Small Arms Survey's </span><a href="https://smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-violent-deaths-gvd" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database</span></a><span style="color: black;">, loss of life resulting from interpersonal violence decreased substantially between 2016 and 2020. The GVD database collates data on homicides and direct conflict deaths into a single ‘violent death’ indicator (not including suicides), dating back to 2004. In its 2022 update, estimating lethal violence as of the year 2020, the database reveals that the global rate of violent deaths decreased from 9.1 per 100,000 people to 6.8 per 100,000 people between 2016 and 2020. Similarly, firearm-related violent deaths on the global scale decreased from 3.9 per 100,000 in 2016 to 2.7 per 100,000 in 2020. In total, 531,000 people died violently in 2020, out of which 40 per cent (211,000) were killed by firearm.<br /> <br />However, while the decrease in the global violent death rate and count suggests a positive trend, the impact of ongoing conflicts (such as in Ukraine), as well as recent increases in homicides in some countries, risk reversing it. This also implies that possible progress towards meeting </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/peace-justice/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Target 16.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</span></a><span style="color: black;">—reducing all forms of violence and related death rates—would similarly be stymied.”</span></span><hr /><hr /> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Eight:</strong></span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Human Rights Watch </strong></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.hrw.org/topic/childrens-rights/child-soldiers" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Child Soldiers</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Thousands of children are serving as soldiers in armed conflicts around the world. These boys and girls, some as young as 8 years old, serve in government forces and armed opposition groups. They may fight on the front lines, participate in suicide missions, and act as spies, messengers, or lookouts. Girls may be forced into sexual slavery. Many are abducted or recruited by force, while others join out of desperation, believing that armed groups offer their best chance for survival. We are working to prevent the use of child soldiers and to hold accountable the people who send children to fight.” </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Nine:</strong></span> <a href="https://theirworld.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Theirworld</strong></span></a><br /><a href="https://theirworld.org/resources/child-soldiers/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary information on Child Soldiers</span></a></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>“What is a child soldier? </strong>Any girl or boy below the age of 18 who is recruited or used by an armed force or armed group, in any capacity. A child soldier is not just someone who is involved in fighting. They can also be those in other roles such as cooks, porters, messengers, human shields, spies, suicide bombers or those used for sexual exploitation. It includes children recruited and trained for military purposes, but not used in war.”</span></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br /><strong>How many child soldiers are there?</strong> There are an estimated 250,000 child soldiers in the world today in at least 20 countries. About 40% of child soldiers are girls, who are often used as sex slaves and taken as “wives” by male fighters<br /> <br /><strong>Where are child soldiers recruited?</strong> Fifty countries still allow children to be recruited into armed forces, according to Child Soldiers International. Many non-state armed groups also recruit children. The UN Secretary-General’s annual “name and shame” list for 2017 highlighted the armed forces of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for recruiting and using under-18s for armed conflict. But non-state armed groups also recruit children in these and other countries.”</span></span></div></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ten:</span> <a href="https://www.economicsandpeace.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Institute for Economics and Peace</span></a><span style="color: black;">—</span><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Vision of Humanity</span></a></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f14536d7-1acc-5148-a4b1-b75ff940ed44.png" style="border: 0px; height: 311px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GPI-2022-web.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Institute for Economics and Peace (2022)</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GPI-2022-web.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Peace Index 2022</span></a></em><br /><span style="color: black;">“This is the 16th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks...163 countries comprising 99.7 per cent of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, and measures the state of peace across three domains: the level of societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and the degree of Militarisation. In addition to discussing the findings from the 2022 GPI, the report includes an analysis of the military conflict in Ukraine. It covers likely increases in military spending, new and emerging uses of technology in the war, its impact on food prices and global shipping routes. The report also contains a deeper analysis on violent demonstrations around the world....<br /> <br />Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008. It is joined at the top of the index by New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark and Austria. Afghanistan is the least peaceful country in the world for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Yemen, Syria, Russia and South Sudan. All of these countries have been among the ten least peaceful countries for the last three years....Of the 163 countries in the GPI, 84 recorded deteriorations, while 77 recorded improvements and two recorded no change in score. Fifteen of the 23 GPI indicators deteriorated between 2008 and 2021 while eight improved. Two of the three GPI domains deteriorated since 2008, with Ongoing Conflict deteriorating by 9.3 per cent and Safety and Security deteriorating by 3.6 per cent....<br /><br />Moving forward, the 2022 GPI reveals a world in which many nations have begun to recover from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many of the ramifications of the lockdowns remain, including supply chain disruptions and delays, product shortages, higher energy and food prices. It is also a world that is suffering from increasing inflation, the highest levels in forty years in some countries and without an improvement in sight. The rise in food and fuel costs has increased food insecurity and political instability globally, but especially in low-resilience regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and MENA. It is in these already unstable conditions that Russia launched an attack on Ukraine in February 2022. The conflict will only exacerbate these issues further. The conflict will accelerate global inflation, with Western sanctions further contributing to shortages and hikes in prices. The impacts have been only partially captured in 2022 GPI. These near-term implications to global peacefulness may lead to deteriorations in food security, increases in militarisation and military expenditures in Europe, and greater likelihood of political instability and violent demonstrations." (excerpts from the Executive Summary)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Final Thoughts</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Being People of Faith-Hope-Love in a Fractured World</strong><br /><br />I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span><br /> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that both fundamentally and ultimately we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as it in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime...we seek to embrace lifestyles that prioritize a deep, practical<strong> love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.<br /><br />We do not want to further <em>problemitize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of good will find common ground for the common good. </strong>And<strong> </strong>we affirm, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., that human progress comes from "<em>the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be coworkers with God."</em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (70 issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--August 2022<br />Repentance and Reconciliation</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Learning from the Pope's Pilgrimage of Penance</strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6493040" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/272343d4-73ce-a5c6-43fd-f312c81e1e2b.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Pope Francis in Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada July 25, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"Dear brothers and sisters! I have come to your native lands to tell you in person of my sorrow, to implore God’s forgiveness, healing and reconciliation, to express my closeness and to pray with you and for you. I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again asking forgiveness, of telling you once more that I am deeply sorry. Sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the indigenous peoples. I am sorry. I ask forgiveness, in particular, for the ways in which many members of the Church and of religious communities co-operated, not least through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation promoted by the governments of that time, which culminated in the system of residential schools." </em></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/read-the-full-text-of-pope-francis-speech-and-apology-1.6001384" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pope Francis<span style="text-align: justify;">,</span> 25 July 2022<span style="text-align: justify;">, </span>Maskwacis, Alberta<span style="text-align: justify;">, Canada</span></span></a></div><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------</span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update </em>we probe into the crucial need for repentance (including giving and receiving apologies and forgiveness) and its central place in the efforts to further reconciliation (including restoring trust and relationships). It is a tough topic with huge implications for the wellbeing of all people and the planet!<br /><br /><strong><em>Repentance</em></strong> involves a significant shift in one's thinking and behavior as a result of understanding and acknowledging wrongdoing. <strong><em>Reconciliation</em></strong> involves a significant shift in broken relationships from alienation and animosity towards reconnection and restoration. There is so much more of course that could be said about these terms--please excuse the brevity here of our definitions!</span></span><br /><br /><strong>S<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">pecifically we present Pope Francis' current week-long "Pilgrimage of Penance" in Canada among Indigenous peoples and feature his 30 minute address on 25 July (links to the text and to the video)</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. His public apology to Indigenous peoples on behalf of the Church has been long overdue and from our perspective reflects the courage and contrition needed to own the long-term grievous wrongdoings in the past and their ongoing negative consequences.</span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"I myself wish to reaffirm this, with shame and unambiguously. I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples."</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Repentance is Good</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We believe it is <em>good</em> to repent and to seek reconciliation as much as possible and that this is something to be <em>practiced</em> by us all (people of faith or of no particular faith) and at all levels</span>:</span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">individual-interpersonal-institutional-international and everything in-between. There may be other terms used rather than <em>repentance</em> and <em>reconciliation</em> such as "full apology" and "relational restoration" respectively yet the basic core aspects remain the same--to acknowledge wrongdoing and take responsibility for one's actions with a view to heal broken relationships. <em>"I was wrong--I am sorry--Please forgive me--I will change--Let's maintain or restore our relationship." </em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We think that there is so much to learn from the Pope's address as well as the long and arduous process that it has taken to admit and repent from wrongdoings. The same is true for other institutions</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;">and countries</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;">who have been willing to confront ingrained leadership</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> systemic</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and structural deviance and cultures of corruption</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">. A</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;">greeing on the "truth" and way forward however can be quite a challenging process for two or more parties in conflict since there can be so many </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">issues</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> identities</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and resources etc</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> at stake not to mention misinformation and disinformation etc.! Robert Schreiter’s sobering comments on reconciliation at the societal level are also applicable at all levels</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">:</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br />“Truth-telling, struggling for justice, working toward forgiveness: these are three central dimensions of the social process of reconciliation. In all situations I know, they are never undertaken on a level playing field; the consequences of oppression, violence, and war are not predisposed to honesty, justice, and even good intentions in all parties. Nor are the processes, for the most part, orderly. And they never seem complete, In fact, we usually experience them as truncated, prematurely foreclosed, high-jacked by the powerful....We can find ourselves acquiescing to half-measures, half-truths, compromised solutions.” (Schreiter, 2005, quoted in </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mcaresources/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wise Doves and Innocent Serpent</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">s</span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mcaresources/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">?</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mcaresources/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Doing Conflict Resolution Better</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">).</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Consider these items below as you review the materials in this <em>Update</em>--especially reading the text and</span><strong>/</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">or watching the video of the Pope's 25 July address</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">1. How is the Pope <em>specifically </em>apologizing: acknowledging wrongdoing<em>, </em>taking responsibility<em>,</em> demonstrating changes<em>, </em>making<em> </em>amends<em>, </em>seeking to restore relationships<em>,</em> calling for justice? Is anything missing?<br /><br />2. What helps and hinders "unambiguously" acknowledging wrongdoing and making full apologies? Can you cite other organizations and leaders that have publicly apologized <em>fully</em> (with or without having been "caught" for wrongdoing)?</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">3. List a few take-aways for your personal life and for your work settings<em>. </em>How might this example among Indigenous peoples be supportive of any efforts to reconcile with others?<br /><br />4. Where else in the world is <em>cultural genocide</em> taking place currently? See the final section below on "Cultural Genocide--Into USA history and current practices internationally<em>."</em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0ed050cc4349/global-integration-update-special-news-7088769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Genocide: Studying, Preventing, Confronting, Punishing, Healing</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (December 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/4911684ca85e/global-integration-update-special-news-1472225" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(February 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/5b21acaec259/global-integration-update-special-news-1449681" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace, Justice, Inclusion and Strong Institutions: SDG 16+</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(December 2019)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Repentance and Reconciliation</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Learning from the Pope's Pilgrimage of Penance</strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6492948" height="217" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ab357383-10ba-aed5-9033-77bd090271a0.png" style="border: 0px; height: 217px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Pope Francis is in Canada to personally affirm Indigenous peoples and to apologize for the Church's abusive and catastrophic roles in their history and lives including in residential schools.<br />25 July 2022</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Maskwacis, Alberta Canada</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"Dear brothers and sisters, many of you and your representatives have stated that begging pardon is not the end of the matter. I fully agree: that is only the first step, the starting point. I also recognize that, “looking to the past, no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient” and that, “looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening” (Letter to the People of God, 20 August 2018). An important part of this process will be to conduct a serious investigation into the facts of what took place in the past and to assist the survivors of the residential schools to experience healing from the traumas they suffered." </em></span></span><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/read-the-full-text-of-pope-francis-speech-and-apology-1.6001384" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pope Francis<span style="text-align: justify;">,</span> 25 July 2022<span style="text-align: justify;">, </span>Maskwacis, Alberta<span style="text-align: justify;">, Canada</span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">-----------<br /><br /><img data-file-id="6493044" height="440" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/bd6896dd-8a04-a93c-e63f-3a3c199d10a9.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 440px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"A woman sings Canada's national anthem in the Cree language during a visit by Pope Francis" Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada July 25, 2022. Adam Scotti/Prime Minister's Office/Handout via REUTERS</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>.</em></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Text</strong><br />--Read the text of Pope Francis' 25 July address </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/news/full-text-pope-francis-apology-to-the-indigenous-peoples-in-canada" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">--See the short commentary by the Editorial Director of Vatican News</span> <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2022-07/a-request-for-forgiveness-for-attitudes-incompatible-with-the-go.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>"Remembering the devastating experiences in residential schools is shocking, indignant, painful, but necessary."</em><br /><br /><strong>Pictures</strong><br />See 40+ pictures of the Pope's tour in Canada </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/in-pictures-popes-canada-apology-tour-idUSRTS9XJX6" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (Reuters)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Videos</strong> <br />--Watch the video (30 minutes) of Pope Francis' 25 July address </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87PLRrbP0w" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--Watch somme of the short videos of the Pope's "Pilgrimage of Penance" in Canada on the Vatican News site </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/search.html?q=Canada&in=all&sorting=latest" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> </span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Cultural Genocide<br /><em>Into USA history and current practices internationally</em></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6493036" height="269" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/41a15c41-734d-4bdc-230f-642308e352f1.png" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 269px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><br /> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Screenshot from the opening of the PBS documentary described below</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">-<span style="font-size: 14px;">-See the Vox documentary on Native American children and boarding schools in the USA </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqWRyBCHhw" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE </span></a><span style="color: black;">(2019<em>,</em> 14 minutes)</span></span>. <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"How the US stole thousands of Native American children."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<span style="color: black;">See the PBS documentary on Native American children and boarding schools in the USA </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo1bYj-R7F0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> (2017<span style="color: black;"><em>,</em></span> 57 minutes)</span>.<span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"A moving and insightful look into the history, operation, and legacy of the federal Indian Boarding School system, whose goal was total assimilation of Native Americans at the cost of stripping away Native culture, tradition, and language. </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nativeamerican" spellcheck="false" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">#NativeAmerican</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/indigenous" spellcheck="false" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">#Indigenous</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/indianboardingschools" spellcheck="false" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">#IndianBoardingSchools</span></a><span style="color: black;">"<br /><br /><strong>--And there are other countries currently doing the same with "colonial</strong></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>, </em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>re-educational and vocational etc</strong>.<strong>" boarding schools where indigenous children and people are being forcibly assimilated in order to change their cultures (including political and religious beliefs) in line with those of the state and dominant party in power</strong>.<br /><br />--See the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Wikipedia</em> entry on "Cultural Genocide"</span></a><span style="color: black;"> including the many historical examples</span></span><br /><br />-<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">-See the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_commission" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Wikipedia</em> entry on "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions</span></a>"<span style="color: black;"> including descriptions of various commissions</span></span></p><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; 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(MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="137" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">global integrators</span></a><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (70 issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Special News--July 2022<br />Transforming Mental Health for All</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>World Mental Health Report 2022</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>World Health Organization</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="6479476" height="216" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/dac61187-81a6-c53c-a9a0-9901ff40849a.png" style="border: 0px; height: 216px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;">Image from the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO website</span></a><span style="color: black;">--credit iStock.com /Vardhan</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“Our vision is a world where mental health is valued, promoted and protected; where mental health conditions are prevented; where anyone can exercise their human rights and access affordable, quality mental health care; and where everyone can participate fully in society free from stigma and discrimination. To achieve this ambitious transformation, a concerted and renewed effort is needed in all countries, whether they are rich or poor, stable or fragile, affected by emergencies or not....Ultimately, there is no health without mental health.” </em>Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General World Health Organization (page vi of the</span> <a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1433523/retrieve" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Mental Health Report 2022</span>)</a></span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------</span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update </em>we are delighted to feature the new landmark <em>Report</em> from the World Health Organization (WHO)--</span><u><em><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Mental Health Report</span></a><a style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">:</span></a><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Transforming Mental Health for All</span></a></em></u> (2022). <span style="color: black;">This is the second such major report in WHO's history with the first one published 20+ years ago as the focus of the </span><em><a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/42390" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Health Report—Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope</span></a> </em>(2001)<span style="color: black;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>We cannot overemphasize how helpful, compelling, and <em>understandable</em> this comprehensive <em>Report</em> is!</strong> We attended the online launch<em> </em>in June and after further reviewing it, we concluded that it is highly relevant for people and peoples around the globe and that it should be shared widely with colleagues across sectors, countries, disciplines, etc.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>“Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. This “World Mental Health Report” is designed to inspire and inform better mental health for all. Drawing on the latest evidence available, showcasing examples of good practice from around the world, and voicing people’s lived experience, it highlights why and where change is most needed and how it can best be achieved. It calls on all stakeholders to work together to deepen the value and commitment given to mental health, reshape the environments that influence mental health, and strengthen the systems that care for mental health.”</em> (quote from </span><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)<br /><br /><strong>It's Encouraging--A Light in the Darkness!<br />Especially encouraging for us is the overall positive tone of the <em>Report</em> </strong>(in addition to the stark statistics presented on ongoing global mental ill health and its many underlying environmental-social influences). And we very much appreciate the emphasis on <strong>the testimonies of dozens of courageous people </strong>with "lived experience" who have struggled to maintain their health and who in many cases have helped to develop supportive community services and improved national mental health services. <strong>We can <em>so</em> relate and we think you can too!</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making the <em>Report</em> Relevant for You</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">1. <strong>Look over the sample items from the <em>Report</em> which we present below</strong> (e.g., the Table of Contents, charts, testimony, core quotes, conclusion). Is there a chapter or topic that you especially would you like to probe further?<br /><br />2. <strong>Have a look at a few of </strong><strong>the six short testimonies</strong> (one page each--taken from the <em>Report</em>) that are located towards the bottom on the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/world-mental-health-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Report's</em> webpage</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">Personal stories of course are so powerful and bring to light challenges and strategies for "transforming mental health for all." Is there a testimony with which you particalrly relate?</span><br /><br />3<span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;"><strong>Read</strong> <strong>the concise </strong><strong>10-page Executive Summary </strong>which is available in these languages: </span><a href="https://www.who.int/ar/publications/i/item/9789240050860" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arabic</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> | </span><a data-sf-ec-immutable="" href="https://www.who.int/zh/publications/i/item/9789240050860" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Chinese</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> | </span><a href="https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9789240050860" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">English</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> | </span><a href="https://www.who.int/fr/publications-detail/9789240050860" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">French</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> | </span><a data-sf-ec-immutable="" data-sf-marked="" href="https://www.who.int/ru/publications/i/item/9789240050860" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Russian</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> | </span><a href="https://www.who.int/es/publications/i/item/9789240050860" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Spanish</span></a> <span style="color: black;">Can you identify a few items that are especially relevant for your own life and work?</span><br /><br /> <span style="color: black;">4. <strong>Share this Report (and this <em>Update</em>) with your colleagues and networks!</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going Further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/5b462b677000/global-integration-update-special-news-8683017" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health and Wellbeing for All</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (October 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/4911684ca85e/global-integration-update-special-news-1472225" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/319410199677/global-integration-update-special-news-1421889" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health for All–Me Too!</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (October 2019)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Transforming Mental Health for All</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>World Mental Health Report 2022</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>World Health Organization</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="6479476" height="216" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/dac61187-81a6-c53c-a9a0-9901ff40849a.png" style="border: 0px; height: 216px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Current Status of Mental Health Globally</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Mental health conditions are very common in all countries of the world. Most societies and most health and social systems neglect mental health and do not provide the care and support people need and deserve. The result is that millions of people around the world suffer in silence, experience human rights violations or are negatively affected in their daily lives.<br /><br />This should not be the story of mental health, globally or in your country. And it does not have to be. This report argues for a transformation in mental health and shows that it is possible. Using findings from research and practice, it explores diverse options to deepen the value and commitment we give to mental health, to reshape environments that influence mental health, and to develop and strengthen community-based mental health services. Using examples of positive change from across the globe, this report shows that every country, no matter its situation, has many opportunities to significantly improve mental health for its adults and children.” <br /><br />Dévora Kestel Director Department of Mental Health and Substance Use World Health Organization (page vii of the </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1433523/retrieve" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Mental Health Report 2022</span></em><span style="color: black;">)</span></a></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6480044" height="380" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6d4c892d-81ce-d3e5-a728-53aaf5f1844c.png" style="border: 0px; height: 380px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"This report is designed to inspire and inform the indisputable and urgent transformation required to ensure better mental health for all. While promoting a multisectoral approach, this report is especially written for decision-makers in the health sector. This includes ministries of health and other partners in the health sector who are generally tasked with developing mental health policy and delivering mental health systems and services.” </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">(page xiii in the Executive Summary of the </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1433523/retrieve" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Mental Health Report 2022</em></span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>How the Report is Organized--Table of Contents</strong></span></span><img data-file-id="6480056" height="722" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6a36a60d-f40a-4f21-df52-4283e33f3f31.png" style="border: 0px; height: 722px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“WHO Member States adopted the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031029" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2030</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">. They committed to meet global targets for improved mental health. These were focused on strengthening leadership and governance, community-based care, promotion and prevention, and information systems and research.<br /><br />But WHO’s latest analysis of country performance against the action plan shows that progress has been slow. For most of the world, the approach to mental health care remains very much business as usual. The result? Mental health conditions continue to exact a heavy toll on people’s lives, while mental health systems and services remain ill-equipped to meet people’s needs. In the meantime, global threats to mental health are ever present. Growing social and economic inequalities, protracted conflicts, violence and public health emergencies threaten progress towards improved well-being. Now, more than ever, business as usual for mental health simply will not do." </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">(page xiii in the Executive Summary of the </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1433523/retrieve" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Mental Health Report 2022</em></span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a> </div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Listening to Our Voices--Taking Action</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"Throughout this report you will find narratives from people around the world with lived experience of mental health conditions. Their accounts show what effective health and social support looks like, how it can lead to recovery, and how this means different things to different people. And they tell of the suffering, stigma and social exclusion that happens in the absence of environments and services that protect and support mental health and that offer affordable, quality care. Ultimately, these stories are a reminder that investing in and transforming mental health means investing in people. Everyone has a right to mental health. Everyone deserves the chance to thrive."<br /><br />Dévora Kestel Director Department of Mental Health and Substance Use World Health Organization ( page vii of the </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1433523/retrieve" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Menta Health Report 2022</span></em><span style="color: black;">)</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6480068" height="457" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0f3b9666-b991-99e1-5bd9-0967c3a816f8.png" style="border: 0px; height: 457px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Mental Health and Sustainable Development</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Mental health is a lot more than the absence of illness: it is an intrinsic part of our individual and collective health and well-being. As this report shows, to achieve the global objectives set out in the </span><em><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031029" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2030</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em> </em>and the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="color: black;">, we need to transform our attitudes, actions and approaches to promote and protect mental health, and to provide and care for those in need. We can and should do this by transforming the environments that influence our mental health and by developing community-based mental health services capable of achieving universal health coverage for mental health. As part of these efforts, we must intensify our collaborative action to integrate mental health into primary health care. In so doing, we will reduce suffering, preserve people’s dignity and advance the development of our communities and societies.”</span><br /><br />Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General World Health Organization<span style="color: black;">(page vi of the </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1433523/retrieve" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Mental Health Report 2022</span></em><span style="color: black;">)</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6480060" height="674" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/277d5e85-2b5d-b10a-8594-59683895243b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 674px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /><hr /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pulling It All Together--Conclusions</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“The </span><a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/17-06-2022-who-highlights-urgent-need-to-transform-mental-health-and-mental-health-care" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">report</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;">urges all countries to accelerate their implementation of the </span><em><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/mental-health-action-plan-2013-2030-flyer-what-member-states-can-do" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2030</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. It makes several recommendations for action, which are grouped into 3 paths to transformation that focus on shifting attitudes to mental health, addressing risks to mental health and strengthening systems of care for mental health. They are:<br /><br />•1. <strong>Deepen the value and commitment we give to mental health.</strong> For example:<br />•Stepping up investments in mental health, not just by securing appropriate funds and human resources across health and other sectors to meet mental health needs, but also through committed leadership, pursuing evidence-based policies and practice, and establishing robust information and monitoring systems. <br /><br />•Including people with mental health conditions in all aspects of society and decision-making to overcome stigma and discrimination, reduce disparities and promote social justice.<br /><br />•2. <strong>Reshape environments that influence mental health, including homes, communities, schools, workplaces, health care services, natural environments.</strong> For example:<br /><br />•Intensifying engagement across sectors, including to understand the social and structural determinants of mental health and intervening in ways that reduce risks, build resilience and dismantle barriers that stop people with mental health conditions participating fully in society. <br /><br />•Implementing concrete actions to improve environments for mental health such as stepping up action against intimate partner violence and abuse and neglect of children and older people; enabling nurturing care for early childhood development, making available livelihood support for people with mental health conditions, introducing social and emotional learning programmes while countering bullying in schools, shifting attitudes and strengthen rights in mental health care, increasing access to green spaces, and banning highly hazardous pesticides that are associated with one fifth of all suicides in the world.<br /><br />•3.<strong> Strengthen mental health care by changing where, how, and by whom mental health care is delivered and received.</strong><br />•Building community-based networks of interconnected services that move away from custodial care in psychiatric hospitals and cover a spectrum of care and support through a combination of mental health services that are integrated in general health care; community mental health services; and services beyond the health sector.<br /><br />•Diversifying and scaling up care options for common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, which has a 5 to 1 benefit–cost ratio. Such scale up includes adopting a task-sharing approach that expands the evidence-based care to be offered also by general health workers and community providers. It also includes using digital technologies to support guided and unguided self-help and to deliver remote care.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(from the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/17-06-2022-who-highlights-urgent-need-to-transform-mental-health-and-mental-health-care" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO website</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and nearly identical with the one page Conclusion (chapter 8 summary) on page xx in the Executive Summary)</span></span><hr /><hr /></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="6479476" height="216" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/dac61187-81a6-c53c-a9a0-9901ff40849a.png" style="border: 0px; height: 216px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“World mental health report: transforming mental health for all. 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William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Special News--June 2022<br />Moral Health for a More Whole World</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022</span></em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector</strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6450811" height="288" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/2d04c4a0-9edc-4b77-af7e-eb365bdad5d3.png" style="border: 0px; height: 288px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>"Integrity</em></strong><em> is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. <strong>Corruption</strong> is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the abuse and exploitation of people and the planet. It is <strong>integ</strong></em><strong>roty<em>. </em></strong></span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2F8d1c93fec26c%2F21ablt91fq&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1OV3dELH3kuf9b0EeTZ9M3" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><em>Global integrity</em></strong></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em> </em></span><span style="color: black;"><em>is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural." </em></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day website</span></a></span></div>---------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>What does integrity have to do with wellbeing and sustainable development? Everything!</strong> Integrity is at the core of moral health<em>.</em> And moral health at all levels--like <em>global</em> integrity--must be at the core of promoting and protecting wholeness for all people and the planet<em>.</em> <strong>There is no "planetary health" without moral health!</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> we focus (again!) on the very practical and personal linking of our work in global integration with integrity<em>.</em> Specifically we present a selection of five<strong> "spotlight events" for you from </strong></span><strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><em>.</em></span><strong><span style="color: black;"> </span></strong><span style="color: black;">The focus this year is on "integrity and corruption in the health sector<em>." </em><br /><br />These special events are free<em>, </em>on-demand video-webinars that can further equip you and colleagues across sectors with the understanding and tools for fostering integrity and fighting anti-corruption<em>. </em>We are both honored and challenged to be the initial GID convenors and website coordinators since the GID launch in 2020!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Have a Look!</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Take a few minutes to review the materials that we present below. Note the ones you would like to explore further. You will find a description of GID's empahses, a list of the GID spotlight events with suggestions for applications, examples of new resouces on the GID website, and ways to get involved in GID. <strong>Spread the word! </strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going Further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/10615112b280/global-integration-update-special-news-1320969" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day and Moral Health</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2019)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/d8606e383d9c/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1055769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Everyday Global Heroes: Moral Lives Matter</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (August 2017)<br />--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Living in Global Integrity</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (April 2017)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Moral Health for a More Whole World</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022</span></em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector</strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6450815" height="155" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 155px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">“Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust.….We must hold leaders to account….A vibrant civic space and open access to information are essential. And we must protect the rights and recognize the courage of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing….As an age-old plague takes on new forms, let us combat it with new heights of resolve.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres</span></em><span style="color: black;">,</span> <a href="https://google.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=66e16f9d8a9699d5d627c279d&id=88e4a747a0&e=5c4b2c5c4a" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Statement on corruption in the context of COVID-19</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(15 October 2020)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">---------<br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>What is GID?</strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Four foundational emphases</em> </strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>"Global Integrity Day (GID)</strong> <strong>is a positive day </strong>to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year.<br /><br /><strong>GID is a strategic day</strong> to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet.<br /><br /><strong>GID is a solemn day</strong> to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so.<br /><br /><strong>GID is a companion day</strong> to complement </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fen%2Fobservances%2Fanti-corruption-day&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3qKEkaxRuWW-AHzQDGnj-S" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN International Anti-Corruption Day</span></a><span style="color: black;">, 9 December (and vice versa). Both Days are practical rallying points, six months apart, for fostering common ground, organizing events, sharing initiatives, and involving the public." (description from the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img height="113" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 113px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Spotlight Events</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Integrity and corruption in the health sector</em></span></span></strong></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Spotlight Event 1.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffpinetwork.org%2F2021%2F12%2F21%2Fwebinar-corruption-and-anti-corruption-in-health-care-why-do-we-speak-so-little-about-them%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw02rEbI8ZFq8-EUUSGDtpCH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Health Care: Why Do We Speak So Little About Them?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (13 December 2021), a one-hour webinar organized by the </span><a href="https://fpinetwork.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Faith and Public Integrity Network</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Spotlight Event 2.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7jMHkqvCxI&t=17s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Contributions for Moral Health from Peace Psychology</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (7 November 2018), a 25 minute presentation during </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.genevapeaceweek.ch%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1YfbLfJVThHRSJduGTmNi6" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Geneva Peace Week, held at United Nations</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /> <br /><strong>Spotlight Event 3.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2F19thiacc.pathable.co%2Fmeetings%2Fvirtual%2F8BuwME7mRpkJLTeAg&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3YpNvv9DZRccI90PVdkMYu" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Breaking Vicious Cycles of Dirty Money and Impunity</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (4 December 2020), a plenary from the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2F19thiacc.pathable.co%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2IGuy0wMk0K8Ofu5Zlk5oa" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">19th International Anti-Corruption Conference</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (90 minutes with Q and A).<br /> <br /><strong>Spotlight Event 4.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalintegritynetwork.org%2Fpost%2Fgin-conference-on-april-30-2022&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw341f3GYNzDsEUsJ9pVMaLS" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Integrity and Anti-Corruption on the Frontlines</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (30 April 2022), five interviews with advocates in the Christian faith-based sector around the world organized by</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://www.globalintegritynetwork.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Lausanne-WEA Global Integrity Network</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (about 20 minutes each).<br /> <br /><strong>Spotlight Event 5.</strong> The Use of Technologies for Battling Corruption (free e-course available online from 9 May-June 20--in </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FArabicanticorruption&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0vggeikt8hq-mNeGvDfii0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arabic</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Ftechcombatcorruption&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0k0p9thdx-YtjU37cqzHBA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">English</span></a><span style="color: black;">) offered by the </span><a href="https://www.unitar.org/sustainable-development-goals/people/our-portfolio/anticorruption" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img height="113" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 113px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Applictions</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Making the most of the GID spotlight events</em></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Watch one or more of these events during the week before or after 9 June, including doing so interactively with friends and colleagues. Consider:<br /><br />--What did you find the most interesting or helpful?<br />--List a few things that you would like to explore more.<br />--Was there anything you thought to be controversial or not helpful?<br />--List some practical applications for you/your settings.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Click </strong></span><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nn8NJDHlTLlRiYLCGJHXusZVBSz5skB8/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong> for more information and resources for the spotlight events.<br />Spread the word!</strong></span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img height="113" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 113px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Recent Resources Added to the GID Website</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In the "Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector" section--homepage</span></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">1</span></strong><span style="color: black;">.</span><strong><span style="color: black;"> Psychological Insights on integrity and corruption</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2a6RIMNQZrxXE9HuulqYbs" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Behaviors</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> (2020, 3rd edition). Caroll Tavris and Elliot Aronson. See the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">T</span><span style="color: mediumblue;">able of Contents</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">P</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">reface</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">I</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ntroduction</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">and Chapter </span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">1</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in the Amazon book preview.<br /><br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMoral-Disengagement-People-Harm-Themselves%2Fdp%2F1464160058&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0juI1Z3HtfcDlKFFv6zmHI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Moral Disengagement</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMoral-Disengagement-People-Harm-Themselves%2Fdp%2F1464160058&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0juI1Z3HtfcDlKFFv6zmHI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">: </span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMoral-Disengagement-People-Harm-Themselves%2Fdp%2F1464160058&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0juI1Z3HtfcDlKFFv6zmHI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">How People Do Harm and Live with Themselves</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2016). Albert Bandura. Moral disengagement refers to a variety of ways that people (individuals<em>,</em> groups<em>,</em> and social systems) selectively absolve themselves from self-sanctions and responsibility for their harmful behaviors Bandura identifies eight mechanisms of moral disengagement. You can read a summary </span><a href="http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/sports-psychology/moral-development/moral-disengagement/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /><br /> --</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3O3fj9EU_Wych1vxv-yeXx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The S</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3O3fj9EU_Wych1vxv-yeXx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">o</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3O3fj9EU_Wych1vxv-yeXx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">cial Psychology of Good and Evil</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> (2016, 2nd edition). Edited by Arthur Miller. See the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Table of Contents, Int</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">r</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">oduction</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">-</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Overview, and Index</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in the Amazon book preview.<br /><br />--Positive Psychology Resources. “Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive. The field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play.” </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fppc.sas.upenn.edu%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3Xqd0hMdZ0IjjLV0RXgHYF" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Positive Psychology Center</span></a><span style="color: black;"> at the University of Pennsylvania. Also see the related materials from the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0eOTQcg0gD8yqkF4Scl8fg" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Authentic Happiness website</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> including free self-assessments for wellbeing, character strengths-virtues, etc.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>2<span style="color: black;">.</span> </strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>More Health Sector Resources</strong><br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fti-health.org%2Fcontent%2Fthe-ignored-pandemic%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2-fbtQZE7eYkppSeVqIe7U" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Ignored Pandem</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fti-health.org%2Fcontent%2Fthe-ignored-pandemic%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2-fbtQZE7eYkppSeVqIe7U" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ic (2019)</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. Transparency International (TI). “Achieving the ambitious goal of universal health coverage will require more resources, and the better use of existing resources. At the same time, efforts to achieve universal health coverage are being significantly undermined by widespread corruption in frontline healthcare service delivery. Corruption in the health sector kills an estimated 140,000 children a year, fuels the global rise in anti-microbial resistance, and hinders the fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Unless the most harmful forms of corruption are curbed, universal health coverage is unlikely to be achieved.” <br /> <br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fpublications%2Fi%2Fitem%2Freinforcing-the-focus-on-anti-corruption-transparency-and-accountability-in-national-health-policies-strategies-and-plans&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3z5k9937PPkfQcAmmwlwtK" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Reinforcing the Focus on Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability in National Health Policies, Strategies and Plans</span></a></em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fpublications%2Fi%2Fitem%2Freinforcing-the-focus-on-anti-corruption-transparency-and-accountability-in-national-health-policies-strategies-and-plans&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3z5k9937PPkfQcAmmwlwtK" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> (2019)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. World Health Organization and UKaid. “Corruption causes significant losses of public money and may impede the ability of nations to make evidence-based policy choices and build consensus on the most effective approaches to transform health systems as part of the universal health coverage agenda. Corruption in the health sector has high costs both in terms of lives lost and resources wasted. Researchers estimate global average annual losses from health care fraud and error to be 6.19% of total expenditures, amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars (Gee & Button, 2015). Corruption is also a significant predictor of child mortality and other negative health outcomes...”<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmembercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3Db2a6c7c8c7%26e%3Da8fa1a0034&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1BnsbTJNoVIezbJqlYNPAx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War</em></span><span style="color: black;"> (2021)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Leonard Rubenstein. "Bringing together extensive research, firsthand experience, and compelling personal stories, <em>Perilous Medicine</em> offers a path forward, detailing the lessons the international community needs to learn to protect people already suffering in war and those on the front lines of health care in conflict-ridden places around the world.”<br /> <br />--T<em>he World We Want: Actions Towards a Sustainable, Fairer, and Healthier Society</em>. A Short-film Trilogy produced by </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fphmovement.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3Etdd8YjOZ40UbkKvei-Mo" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">People’s Health Movement</span></a> (<span style="color: black;">2022). </span></span><br /><br />><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/otHKAR3mmPE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Film I. Building Equitable Health Systems</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “The first film records the voices of community health workers and health care professionals and health rights activists from across the globe, on the learning’s from the COVID pandemic for the design of healthcare systems...” </span></span><br /><br />><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/6pPA8w2yJQc" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Film II. Rethinking the SDGs.… in the Pandemic Aftermath…</span></a><span style="color: black;">“The second film shines a spotlight on the Sustainable Development Goals - in what political economic context and what unequal power relations they arose and have continued to perpetuate...” </span></span><br /><br />><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/DosIdxMob_0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Film III. Post-Pandemic Global Economics</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">. </span><a href="https://youtu.be/DosIdxMob_0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Re-structure, Reform or just Re-vitalize</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> “The third film delves into the hegemonic, extractive and grossly unequal economic model, which prevails today...[and] underscores the need for a transformative shift...premised on fairness and justice that would ensure human survival...”</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img height="113" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 113px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Ways for You to Get Involved</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Participate in GID to support your work--and world!</strong></em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--1. Review the GID Overview and website. Share your ideas with us about further developing GID.<br /><br />--2. Send us core resources for the GID website in general or specifically related to the annual theme.<br /><br />--3. Include a short description and logo/link for GID on your website.<br /><br />--4. Spread the word about GID via social media and with your colleagues and networks.<br /><br />--5. Join with others to promote integrity by endorsing GID as a group, organization, or network.<br /><br />--6. Organize an event or webinar related to your organization's purpose as it connects to GID's emphases--do so around the time of GID on 9 June and/or UN Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December. We may then "spotlight" these events/webinars on the GID site to support your work and GID.<br /><br />--7. Probe further into a few resources on the GID site that are relevant for you and your settings.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">There is no "planetary health" without moral health!</span></strong></em></span></span><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img data-file-id="247905" height="154" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="150" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="137" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="300" /></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">global integrators</span></a><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (70 issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Special News--May 2022<br />Into the Global Fray</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Four New Books from Friends<br /><br /><img data-file-id="6431197" height="203" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f890ccdc-4fb5-efc9-7771-a4761cd6f715.png" style="border: 0px; height: 203px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></strong></em></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/global-integration/gi/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based).</span></span></em><br /> </div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rd8VktT8xY" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"><em>Somewhere over the Rainbow</em>--Eva Cassidy--music video</span></span></strong></span></a></div>---------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update</em> we are delighted to feature four new books from friends with whom we have worked internationally and across sectors in various areas. Linking the books together is this month's theme, "Into the Global Fray"--into the <em>global</em> <em>integration</em> fray. It is a reflection of both the challenges and opportunities for living in peace with one another and promoting equity, justice, and wellbeing for all people and the planet. <br /><br />We think you will enjoy and appreciate these new books. And so...we encourage you to venture further into the global fray by delving into at least one of them!</span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.pelagia.net/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pelagia: Between the Stars and the Abyss (2021</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">by Steve Holloway</span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.perilousmedicine.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;"> (2021)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">by Leonard Rubenstein</span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Behavioral-Science-in-the-Global-Arena-Mental-Spiritual-Social-Health" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Behavioral Science in the Global Arena: Global Mental, Spiritual, and Social Health (2022)</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> edited by Elaine P. Congress, Dalton Meister, Shenae C. Osborn, and Harold Takooshian</span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.figt.org/member-pr/12711933" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Global Nomad’s Guide to University Transition (2022 second edition)</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> by Tina L. Quick</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going Further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/ad30f29619c1/global-integration-update-special-news-10514349" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace on Earth–Sharing our Stories and Strategies</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0a00948d193c/global-integration-update-special-news-1486885" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Stories from the Sectors: Desperate Journeys and More</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (March 2020)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Into the Global Fray</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Four New Books from Friends<br /><br /><img data-file-id="6431197" height="203" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f890ccdc-4fb5-efc9-7771-a4761cd6f715.png" style="border: 0px; height: 203px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></strong></em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/global-integration/gi/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAGH0AT-os" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"><em>What a Wonderful World</em>--Eva Cassidy--music video</span></span></span></a></strong><br />----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em><a href="https://www.pelagia.net/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pelagia:<br />Between the Stars and the Abyss (2021)</span></a></em></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Steve Holloway</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://www.pelagia.net/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6431289" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/62a3bea6-33bc-8bc3-43b6-3e344b806c19.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>An engaging novel about life on our precarious</em></strong>,<strong><em><br />perilous</em></strong>,<strong><em> and precious earth--and sea--in 2066</em></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Former special forces agent turned particle physicist Ben Holden is on the run. Those seeking him will stop at nothing to get their hands on his wife’s scientific research, which is believed to hold the key to unleashing chaos in the West and advancing their cause.<br /><br />But in reality it’s Ben’s biometrics that have the potential to unlock the information they so desperately need. Within the oceanic world of Pelagia, in the year 2066, Ben finds sanctuary among the sea settlers of the South Pacific Pelagic Territory, but his respite is short-lived…”<br /> </span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">You can learn more about our amazing ocean and the background to this book plus interact with Steve on the </span><a href="https://www.pelagia.net/blog/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pelagia Blog</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></strong></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em><a href="https://www.perilousmedicine.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perilous Medicine:<br />The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War (2021)</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Leonard Rubenstein<br /><a href="https://www.perilousmedicine.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6431297" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/a4d018b1-578f-3e1f-5f42-39954cbf3ae0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Compelling case studies</strong>, <strong>lessons</strong>,<strong> and a summons for safeguarding<br />health care providers and services in conflict settings</strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Pervasive violence against hospitals, patients, doctors, and other health workers has become a horrifically common feature of modern war. These relentless attacks destroy lives and the capacity of health systems to tend to those in need. Inaction to stop this violence undermines long-standing values and laws designed to ensure that sick and wounded people receive care.<br /><br />Leonard Rubenstein―a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities against health workers around the world―offers a gripping and powerful account of the dangers health workers face during conflict and the legal, political, and moral struggle to protect them. In a dozen case studies, he shares the stories of people who have been attacked while seeking to serve patients under dire circumstances including health workers hiding from soldiers in the forests of eastern Myanmar as they seek to serve oppressed ethnic communities, surgeons in Syria operating as their hospitals are bombed, and Afghan hospital staff attacked by the Taliban as well as government and foreign forces. Rubenstein reveals how political and military leaders evade their legal obligations to protect health care in war, punish doctors and nurses for adhering to their responsibilities to provide care to all in need, and fail to hold perpetrators to account.<br /><br />Bringing together extensive research, firsthand experience, and compelling personal stories, <em>Perilous Medicine</em> also offers a path forward, detailing the lessons the international community needs to learn to protect people already suffering in war and those on the front lines of health care in conflict-ridden places around the world.”<br /> </span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">You can learn more listening to the Public Health on Call podcast interview with Len as well as other interviews with him </span><a href="https://www.perilousmedicine.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></strong></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Behavioral-Science-in-the-Global-Arena-Mental-Spiritual-Social-Health" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">B</span></a></em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Behavioral-Science-in-the-Global-Arena-Mental-Spiritual-Social-Health" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ehavioral Science in the Global Arena:<br />Global Mental, Spiritual, and Social Health (2022)</span></a></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">A volume in the </span><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/series/International-Psychology" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Psychology</span></a> series</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Edited by Elaine Congress, Dalton Meister, Shenae Osborn, Harold Takooshian</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Behavioral-Science-in-the-Global-Arena-Mental-Spiritual-Social-Health" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6431305" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/15e1c9ce-ea7f-6a56-5d19-6e4aa8ee7e13.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>The many ways that behavioral scientists are increasingly<br />contributing to wellbeing for all people and the planet</em></strong></span></span><br /> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">“In 2020, the Psychology Coalition at the United Nations (PCUN) launched a bold new series of books, describing how evidence- based behavioral research is increasingly used by United Nations and other decision-makers, to address global issues. These issues reflect the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030—such as health, poverty, education, peace, gender equality, and climate change.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">This PCUN volume brings together 34 experts in 14 concise chapters, to focus on diverse issues in mental, spiritual, and social health (TOC in the book title-link above). The chapters are co-authored by leading global experts as well as “rising star” students from many nations--offering readers a concise overview of each topic, a glossary of key terms, study questions, and bibliography. This volume is suitable as a textbook for diverse courses in psychology, social work, cross-cultural and international studies.” We are really pleased to have jointly authored chapter one with Dr Julian Eaton on "Mental Health: Collaborating for Sustainable Development and Well-Being<em>."</em></span><br /> </span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">You can learn more by visiting the website for the </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://psychologycoalitionun.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychology Coalition at the United Nations</span></a> <span style="color: black;">including the annual </span><a href="https://www.unpsychologyday.com/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychology Day at the United Nations</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(the theme for the April 2022 event is “Building Hope Contributions to a Roadmap for Climate Action”).</span></span></strong></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em><a href="https://www.figt.org/member-pr/12711933" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Global Nomad’s Guide<br />to University Transition (2022 second edition)</span></a></em></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Tina L. Quick<br />Guest authors Amanda Bates, Lois Bushong, Lauren Wells<br /><br /><a href="https://www.figt.org/member-pr/12711933" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6431313" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/cf2b144b-8f0d-51c9-c33b-c977a9d7eab6.png" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em>Superb guidance for excelling<br />at cross-cultural journeys into university life</em></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong> “</strong>Starting college in a new country is exciting, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming....Tina addresses in detail the four most common stumbling blocks [global nomads and Third Culture Kids] face in the transition to college/transition that can come as a huge surprise. She strongly believes if all students were aware of them, they would have smoother transitions.<br /><br />• <strong>The transition cycle</strong>—Involvement, Leaving, Transition, Entering, Re-involvement<br />• <strong>TCK identity development</strong>—the search for congruence in the sense of who they are as TCKs<br />• <strong>Unresolved grief</strong>—from multiple losses and separations<br />• <strong>Relationships</strong>—how global nomads relate differently from their domestic peers<br /><br /><strong>The <em>Second Edition</em> includes new articles by the </strong>guest authors on “diversity, equity, and inclusion and building a career; mental health issues and finding a counselor; dismantling your grief tower and romantic relationships; as well as updates and new stories brought about by 10 years of cultural change and a pandemic and an expanded Parents’ chapter addressing the fallout of common parenting strategies as well as how parents can come alongside their students, prepare them for the journey, and support them throughout this major transition.”<br /> </span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">You can learn more about Tina’s background and insights as a global nomad and trainer-consultant in her ExpatFocus Interview </span><a href="https://www.expatfocus.com/education/interview-with-tina-quick-author-of-the-global-nomad-s-guide-to-university-transition-2453" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></p><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img data-file-id="247905" height="154" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="150" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="137" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="300" /></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">global integrators</span></a><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (70 issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). 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font-size: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img align="none" height="263" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /></span><br /><span style="color: #006666; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Special News--April 2022<br />Staring War in the Face </strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED<br />to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war..."</em></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/preamble" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Preamble of the UN Charter (1945)</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; font-size: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img data-file-id="6327533" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8032b5fd-421f-f121-997a-9f52a0d3a17b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;">Image from the cover of </span><a href="https://icrcndresourcecentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/icrc_002_4015.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Children in War</em></span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-align: justify;">,</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"><em> </em>Christoph von Toggenburg</span><strong style="font-size: 15px;">/</strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;">ICRC (2009)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“We are a world in pieces.</em><br /><em>We need to be a world at peace.”</em><br />UN Secretary-General António Guterres</span><br /><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=b719153dcd&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN General Assembly, 19 September 2017</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">---------</span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update</em> we probe deeper into the reality of war. We share 10 resources that we have found helpful over the years for understanding armed conflicts in our world, the experiences of people in war, and the efforts to prevent and alleviate warfare's destructive impacts. Many of these materials are from the</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/movement" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement</span></a><span style="color: black;">. This is a crucial subject into which to delve if "we the Peoples of the United Nations" are to really help "save succeeding generations [following WWII] from the scourge of war."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>What's Happening in Our World?</strong> </span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For a quick, visual overview of 27 ongoing armed conflicts in the world--</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">not the least of course is the war raging in eastern Europe now--</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">have a look at the summary maps by </span><a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-are-the-worlds-ongoing-conflicts-today/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Virtual Capitalist</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> The maps are organized in terms of territorial dispute, civil war, interstate, political instability, transnational terrorism, and sectarian conflicts. </span><span style="color: black;">Are there any conflicts that you were not aware of or had forgotten about?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--<strong>What interests and impacts you?</strong> Choose one or more resources below that you want to explore further. What is it about the topic that interests you and</span><strong>/</strong><span style="color: black;">or impacts you the most</span>?</span><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>What is relevant for the world</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>?</strong></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> List a few ways that this <em>Update</em> and/or some of its resources are specifically relevant for the people and places in the world experiencing armed conflict.</span></span><br /><strong style="font-size: 15px;">-<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">-What else about war</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>?</strong> What other resources and materials have influenced and been of help to you? List a few ways that your past experiences and worldview shape how you "stare war in the face."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going Further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/ad30f29619c1/global-integration-update-special-news-10514349" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace on Earth: Sharing our Stories and Strategies </span></a><span style="color: black;">(January 2022)</span><br />--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/0ed050cc4349/global-integration-update-special-news-7088769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Genocide</span></a></span><span style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 15px;"><u>: </u></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0ed050cc4349/global-integration-update-special-news-7088769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>B</u>earing Witness</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(December 2020)</span><br />--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/c83778c797e5/global-integration-update-special-news-1466097" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Shaping the Future We Want: UN75 Global Conversation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2020)</span><br />--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/fa07f87335df/global-integration-update-special-news-1438125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (November 2019)</span><br />--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/f259810c3a95/global-integration-update-special-news-1214153" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pea</span></a><a href="https://mailchi.mp/f259810c3a95/global-integration-update-special-news-1214153" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ce Psychology and Sustaining Peace</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (May 2018)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong style="font-size: 15px;"><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="200" /> </em></strong><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; font-size: 15px; height: auto; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /></span><strong style="font-size: 15px;"><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Staring War in the Face </strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED<br />to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war..."</em></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/preamble" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Preamble of the UN Charter (1945)</span></span></a><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6342881" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/fba4b49d-2214-adf0-5d59-7830d0848937.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image from </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/sites/default/files/waronchildren/pdf/waronchildren.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The War on Children</em></span></a></span><em>.</em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Save the Children (2016</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> page 32)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"What are your hopes for your future</em>?"</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/un75" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Shaping Our Future Together</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">United Nations (2020--five minute video)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”</em></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/111810-no-one-is-born-hating-another-person-because-of-the" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom</span></a></span><br />----------<br /><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>We the Peoples</strong></span>...</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span><strong>1<span style="color: black;">.</span></strong><strong> <a href="https://www.icrc.org/en/document/people-on-war" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>People on War</em></span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>. ICRC (2016). Summary (four pages) and full report.</strong> "</span><span style="color: black;">Between June and September 2016, over 17,000 people in 16 countries were asked to share their views on a range of issues relating to war–in the People on War survey. The results are both reassuring and alarming....Almost half of those surveyed in conflict-affected countries believe the </span><a href="https://www.icrc.org/en/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/geneva-conventions" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Geneva Conventions</span></a><span style="color: black;"> prevent wars from getting worse. But we also see that people are becoming resigned to the death of civilians as an inevitable part of war.<br /><br />There is a disconnect between public opinion and the policies and actions of States and armed groups. Violations of the laws of war–including the targeting of civilians, humanitarian workers and hospitals–continue. Yet the survey results clearly show that the majority of people understand that these practices are wrong and that civilians and health-care workers and facilities must be protected."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"> 2.</span></strong></span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://icrcndresourcecentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/icrc_002_4015.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Children in War</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"><em> </em>ICRC (2009). The 2020 version is available for purchase </span><a href="https://shop.icrc.org/children-in-war-print-en.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>.</strong> “Conflict increases the vulnerability of those who are already vulnerable, especially children. A child needs a family and a community that provide a nurturing and protective environment. The effects of war on the young can be devastating.</span></span><span style="color: black;">.. </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Children are imprisoned, raped, maimed for life, even killed. Armed conflict tears families apart, forcing thousands of children to fend for themselves and to care for very young siblings. Exploitation of children, which often increases during armed conflict, takes many forms, such as forced labour or – in extreme cases – slavery. This may be the fate of children who have been recruited by armed forces or armed groups or of children in detention.<br /> <br />Child trafficking, for purposes such as unlawful adoption and forced labour, may also increase. Boys and girls deprived of the protection of their parents and other relatives are most at risk. Destitution and the loss of close relatives may force young girls into early marriages or prostitution and very young children to become the heads of their families. The disruption of public services can restrict children’s access to health care and education. At least half of the world’s out-of-school children of primary school age live in conflict-ridden countries. In addition to their immediate suffering, children are also psychologically damaged by witnessing atrocities committed against their loved ones. But the resilience of boys and girls must not be underestimated. Well-targeted care can help them recover, cease to be victims of war, and take possession of their lives.” (page 1)</span></span></p><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>We the Peoples</strong></span>...</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6329145" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5ed994f2-ab0a-59a3-901b-d5b6f152c5fc.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"ICRC hospital</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Kabul</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"> This little girl was injured buy an antipersonnel mine while guarding her sheep</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">"</span><br /><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39867679/Children_and_War_Special_Brochure_ICRC" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Children and War</em></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="text-align: justify;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"> ICRC (1994</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"> pages 14-15)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>3</strong></span>. </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39867679/Children_and_War_Special_Brochure_ICRC" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Children and War</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">ICRC (1994). </span></strong><span style="color: black;">This 32 page "Special Brochure" in particular has impacted us over the years. Through poignant images and comments as well as short overviews about suffering, family separation, child soldiers, etc. it brings the reality of war and its consequences on people and especially children clearly into the light--and into our souls.<br /><br /><em>"I was caring for my sheep as usual. I stepped into the fold and saw a round thing</em>.<em> When I picked it up it exploded</em>.<em> Here I have illustrated my leg injuries with the drawing of a shoe, even though I know I will never wear shoes again." </em>(image above)</span></span></p><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>4</strong>.</span><strong><span style="color: black;"> </span><em><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">RCRC Magazine</span></a></em></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>. </em>An online magazine with video stories, photo galleries, special series, archives from 1995-2018, and more. Amazing, moving, informative! </strong>Just one example is the issue in 2018, </span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/2018-issue-1/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">"Seeking Peace of Mind--Coping with the Psychological and Mental Health Impacts of Crisis</span></a><u><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/2018-issue-1/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>"</em></span></a></u> <span style="color: black;">Our goal is to <strong>connect</strong> you with powerful stories told by people around the world who are coping with enormous challenges due to natural disasters, climate change, health emergencies and conflict. We want to <strong>share</strong> what we <strong>learn</strong> from these stories so that—together—we can better <strong>understand</strong> the realities many people face and how we can all help them find solutions. We also hope to <strong>inspire </strong>you to engage and join with others—including the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement—in working to make life better for all people around the world."</span></span></p><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><span style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>We the Peoples</strong></span>...</span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="6327573" height="432" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/c43fd1b9-bafc-4810-4952-d7acdddee00f.png" style="border: 0px; height: 432px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the cover of </span><a href="https://pscentre.org/?resource=pfa-a-short-introduction&selected=single-resource" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>A Short Introduction to Psychological First Aid</em></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> <br />Psychosocial Centre<span style="text-align: justify;">,</span> IFRC (2019)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>5</strong>. </span></span><strong><a href="https://pscentre.org/?resource=pfa-a-short-introduction&selected=single-resource" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>A Short Introduction to Psychological First Aid</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">. Psychosocial Centre, IFRC (2019)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>.</strong> Also available in Ukrainian, French, and Greek. </span></span><span style="color: black;">"<span style="font-size: 14px;">Psychological first aid [PFA] is a simple, yet powerful way of helping someone in distress. It involves paying attention to the person’s reactions, active listening and if relevant, practical assistance to help address immediate problems and basic needs. Learning psychological first aid skills and understanding reactions to crises empowers helpers to help others and apply the same skills to their own lives. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>A Short Introduction to Psychological First Aid</em> contains chapters about What is PFA, Who needs PFA and How to provide PFA. It also contains a short introduction to PFA for children and PFA in Groups." See the other </span><a href="https://pscentre.org/?resource=pfa-a-short-introduction&selected=single-resource" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">overview guides for PFA by the IFRC</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (free downloads).</span></span></p><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><strong>6</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>.</strong> </span></span><a href="https://international-review.icrc.org/sites/default/files/reviews-pdf/2020-05/irrc_101_911_reduced_.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>International Review of the Red Cross--Special Issue on Children and War</em></span></a> (August 2019<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span> Volume 101<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span> Number 911)<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span> "<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In wartime, children are especially vulnerable to a myriad of risks that deprive them of the opportunity to fully experience childhood and are all too often drawn into hostilities. In the ever-evolving circumstances of armed conflict, how can we provide all children with the protection they are both morally and legally entitled to and ensure that their needs and rights are fulfilled? To address this question, and just after marking the 30th anniversary of the </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-rights-child" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></a><span style="color: black;">, the Review has chosen to dedicate this issue to children affected by armed conflict."</span></span></p><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>We the Peoples</strong></span>...<br /><br /><img data-file-id="6355693" height="145" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/33d1c111-8fd8-995a-391a-b16520a02da0.png" style="border: 0px; height: 145px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the</span> <a href="https://www.unhcr.org/subscribe-to-the-unhcr-newsletter" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNHCR website (bi-weekly newsletter information)</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">7</span>. </span><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span></a><span style="color: black;">. "</span></strong><span style="color: black;">At least 82.4 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 26.4 million refugees, around half of whom are under the age of 18. There are also millions of stateless people, who have been denied a nationality and lack access to basic rights such as education, health care, employment and freedom of movement...1 in every 95 people on earth has fled their home as a result of conflict or persecution...Our workforce is the backbone of UNHCR. As of 31 December 2020, we employ 17,878 people, of whom around nearly 91 per cent are based in the field. We work in 132 countries and territories, with personnel based in a mixture of regional and branch offices and sub and field offices. Our teams work hard to help the displaced, specializing in a wide range of disciplines, including legal protection, administration, community services, public affairs and health." (quote from website) See also UNHCR's </span><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/news-and-stories.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">News and Stories</span></a><strong><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/news-and-stories.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">.</span></a></strong></p><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>8. </strong></span><strong><a href="https://www.unocha.org/about-ocha" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong> (OCHA) </strong>"This section provides an overview of OCHA’s mandate, its leadership and how it is funded. It also includes a detailed section on OCHA’s flagship and thematic publications, and on the </span><a href="https://www.unocha.org/about-us/agenda-humanity?gclid=Cj0KCQjwuMuRBhCJARIsAHXdnqPw3cypmqbXdFKgQcpNhqwcuhxFSI1hBqutXUEp1Nk70SXgnReOjx8aAt7-EALw_wcB" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Agenda for Humanity</span></a><span style="color: black;">--a plan put forward by the UN Secretary-General calling on global leaders to stand up for our common humanity and reduce humanitarian suffering." Note that Commitment 1 of 5 in the Agenda is for "Political leadership to prevent and end armed conflicts."</span></span></p><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><div style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>We the Peoples</strong></span>...</span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><img data-file-id="2990685" height="366" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/255c350e-3d0f-49b2-945e-8ebedb97bc0a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></em></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Source--UN photo</span></span></p></div><div style="font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>9<span style="color: black;">. </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/peace-and-security" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations--Peace and Security</span></a></strong></span>.<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Review the various mandates</span></span><span style="color: black;">,<span style="font-size: 14px;"> structures</span>,</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> and efforts of the UN to prevent war and maintain peace--for better or for worse--throughout the world since its establishment in 1945. </span></span><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>10<span style="color: black;">. </span><a href="https://www.sipri.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)</span></a></strong><a href="https://www.sipri.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></a> <span style="color: black;">“SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. Based in Stockholm, SIPRI is regularly ranked among the most respected think tanks worldwide. SIPRI's vision is a world in which sources of insecurity are identified and understood, conflicts are prevented or resolved, and peace is sustained. SIPRI’s mission is to: undertake research and activities on security, conflict and peace; provide policy analysis and recommendations; facilitate dialogue and build capacities; promote transparency and accountability; and deliver authoritative information to global audiences.”</span></span></div><hr style="font-size: 15px;" /><div style="font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img data-file-id="247905" height="154" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="150" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="text-align: justify;">Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong><span style="text-align: justify;"> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="137" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="300" /></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">global integrators</span></a><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (70 issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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