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MISSION STATEMENT: PEACE BY PEACEFUL MEANS TRANSCEND has as its mission: To bring about a more peaceful world by using action, education/training, dissemination and research to handle conflicts nonviolently, with empathy and creativity, for acceptable and sustainable outcomes. TRANSCEND membership encompasses over 500 invited scholars/practitioners from more than 60 countries, with 24 Conveners in 14 World Regions. * By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively — a never-ending process; * By transforming conflicts we mean enabling the parties to go ahead in a self-reliant, acceptable and sustainable manner; * By with empathy we mean the ability also to understand the conflict the way the parties understand the conflict themselves; * By without violence we mean that this process should avoid any cultural violence that justifies direct or structural violence; * By creatively we mean channeling conflict energy toward new realities, accommodating the parties and meeting basic human needs. ***** THEORY Violence: Insulting basic needs by actor intent or structure operating Basic Human Needs: Survival-Wellness-Freedom-Options-Identity-Meaning Peace: Negative: No violent relations Positive: Equity-Empathy relations Development: Reducing inequality – Lifting the bottom up Environment: Increasing diversity – Increasing symbiosis PRACTICE Peace: Solving underlying conflicts – Conciling underlying traumas Development: Building cooperatives – Guaranteed Basic Income Environment: Less depletion-pollution – More diversity-symbiosis This Theory/Practice presupposes insight in Deep Culture Deep Structure Deep Nature ***** A GENERAL PHILOSOPHY UNDERLIES OUR 13 PROGRAMS: 1. Peaceful Conflict Transformation 2. Peace-Building 3. Nonviolence 4. Reconciliation 5. Peace Education 6. Peace Journalism 7. Peace Business 8. Peace Systems 9. Peace and Gender 10. Peace and the Arts 11. Peaceful Foreign Policies 12. Peace Departments/Ministries 13. UN People’s Assembly THE TMS BOARD: (alphabetical order ALL) Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa – Editor Jake Lynch – Advisor/Peace Journalist Johan Galtung – Founder/Advisor/Editorialist Malvin Gattinger – Webmaster/Chief Information Officer FORMER TMS ASSOCIATES/WORKERS/INTERNS: Abigail Flores – Volunteer Intern Akyar Abdiwelli – Volunteer Intern Caroline Hargreaves – TMS Resident Journalist Dominik Lehnert – Video Production Assistant Emma Heidenreich – Volunteer Intern Filipe Nogueira Sousa – Volunteer Intern Kimberlye Kowalczyk – TMS Resident Journalist Menoosha Y. Susungi – Website Designer Sebastian W. 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