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CULTURE

ART CULTURE DEVELOPMENT

Expanding the use of art in education, cultural exchange and other human development

COMMUNITY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

Utilizing strategies of research and communication to assist cultural exchange in groups identifying as communities

CULTURE

a : The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
b : The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
c : The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation

MULTICULTURALISM

The concept of experiencing other cultures, preferrably in a positive way

PROGRESSIVE CULTURAL EXCHANGE

Individuals and associations sharing culture and development resources to engage in constructive social enterprise

SUCCESSFUL MULTICULTURALISM

Constructive interaction between cultures
 
ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS    
EDUCATION

THE HUMANITIES

Tools we use to examine and make sense of the human experience in general and our individual experiences in particular. The humanities enable us to reflect upon our lives and ask fundamental questions of value, purpose, and meaning in a rigorous and systematic way [Courtesy of "Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities"]
 
ENVIRONMENT AND HABITAT

THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

A project of Earth Day Network and Redefining Progress, measures how much land and water is needed to produce the resources we consume and dispose of the waste we produce. [From "The Earth Day Network/The Ecological Footprint"]

SUSTAINABILITY

Achieving satisfying lives for all within the means of nature - now and in the future. [From "The Earth Day Network/Sustainability"]

 

 
GOVERNANCE & LAW

SOCIAL DIPLOMACY

The art and practice of negotiating affairs without arousing hostility.
[Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary]
 
HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS SELF-ACTUALIZATION

The process of establishing oneself as a whole person, able to develop one's abilities and to understand oneself

 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A learning process where you make experiments because you have a problem where you don't know the solution
 
SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION    
OTHER

MANIFESTO

A written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer
[Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary]

SOCIAL EQUITY

The fair, just and equitable management of all institutions serving the public directly or by contract, and the fair, just and equitable distribution of public services, and implementation of public policy.
[National Academy of Public Administration: http://www.napawash.org/aa_social_equity/]

STRATEGY

A detailed plan that enables an organisation to develop knowledge, techniques, systems and actions that will achieve new objectives
[Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary]
 
UNDERGOING DEFINITION/REDEFINITION PROCESS

UNIVERSAL COMMUNITY

SOCIAL INCLUSIVENESS

GENDER EQUITY

HUMAN PURPOSE

Human Beings have a job, a role, a part to play, a purpose, real work, a raison dÕetre within the evolutionary destiny/design unfolding on Earth. Let us presume that it is neither the destruction of the living biosphere, nor total destruction of the human race. Therefore, creative survival of a genetically diverse and creatively capable population of human beings may still be a desirable objective.
 
 

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