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Jane Wells

Jane Wells


Creating A Vision Of The End of Atrocity

Posted: 04/25/11 12:40 PM ET

What do Peter Gabriel and Ann Curry have in common?
Kathy Freston and Luis Moreno-Ocampo?
John Prendergast and Carolyn Forche?

They have all shared their vision of what a world free of atrocity would look like.

With genocide and crimes against humanity occurring across the globe, the time has come to build a vision for a world without atrocity. Leaders as diverse as the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King have shown us the need for vision to build a path to lasting peace and progress. But, to date, we haven't created a collective vision of a world free from atrocity. We've had conventions, treaties, sanctions, military interventions, technological interventions, social movements, cultural artifacts and discussions. But If we as a global community don't have a vision of a better future, how will we really create one?

3Generations, the organization dedicated to ending injustice and atrocity through the power of storytelling, has just launched "The End of Atrocity," an ongoing campaign and project to build a vision for what our world would look like if there were an end to genocide, crimes against humanity and atrocity.

For the first stage we gathered 14 visionaries on the front lines of activism against atrocity (those named above, as well as Stephen Smith, Alex Stark, Scilla Ellworthy, Brian Steidle, James Smith, Jerry Fowler, Rachel Lloyd and Freddy Mutanguhua). We asked each of them to answer the question, "What would our world look like without genocide?"

Based on these visions we have created the following Manifesto. It is an organic process: all are invited to participate through our blog. We launch it here today:

FIRST: There is no "other." We are all one, irreversibly connected.



FOURTH: We have always been connected, but technology and communication now connects us directly in ways that reduce the "otherness" of people. Access to the tools of technology and communication must be used to help us grow our collection of stories of being human and will put a human face on that which we used to view as "other."








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