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The Unity-and-Diversity
World Council is a nonprofit, tax-exempt California corporation. It was
originally formed to develop the ideals and activities undertaken during
International Cooperation Year 1965, which was voted into being by the
General Assembly of the United Nations. The goal of the U.N. in establishing
that year was to encourage a maximum of cooperation among non-governmental
organizations.
Purpose:
The Purpose of the
UDC is to establish and sustain a worldwide coordinating body of individuals,
groups, and networks -- to foster the emergence of a new person and civilization
based on the dynamic integration of diversity among all peoples and all
life.
Objectives:
(1) To realize our
connection to the Source of All Life and to all life forms.
(2) To facilitate
personal and social transformation and cooperative activities for global
peace and justice.
(3) To create an
international vehicle for economic cooperation.
(4) To study and
take action on different issues, as well as making recommendations for
needed action to institutions around the world
(5) To support the
United Nations and its efforts in behalf of global community
Methods:
The
methods we use are based upon our search for universal moral and spiritual
principles. We welcome the coming together of all ethnicities, cultures
and religions into a unity-and-diversity type of community both locally
and around the world. We also use the wisdom gained through the work of
Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in terms of how to achieve
loving and truthful social change in a timely manner.
Executive
Board
-
Leland P.
Stewart, Founder/Central Coordinator -- Author/Compiler, World
Scriptures
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Elizabeth
E. Stewart, Founder -- Compiler, Science and Spirituality
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Andre Graham,
Vice-president -- Producer, L.A. Upside Down
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Dr. Gary
Herbertson, Secretary -- Former Staff, United Nations Environment Program
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Robin Gillies,
Treasurer -- United Nations Association, Pasadena Chapter
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Roger
Eaton -- Coordinator, Global Assembly Dialog
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Stephen L.
Fiske -- Singer, songwriter, composer, peacemaker, Peace Sunday Producer
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Bibi Haleem
-- Leader, King Fahad Mosque
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Felix Winston
-- Executive Director, Cal State Northridge Interfaith Council
World
Board
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Hector Aristizabal
-- Lecturer/activist, Hispanic community
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Dr. Kenneth
Beatty -- Leader, United Religions Initiative Cooperation Circle
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Tahdi Blackstone,
D.Min. -- President, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Los Angeles
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Dr. Robert
Bonnell -- President, Theosophical Society of Long Beach
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Rev. Jan
Chase -- Minister, Unity Church of Pomona; Leader, Inland Valley Interfaith
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Bhante Chao
Chu -- Head monk, Rosemead Buddhist Monastery
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Dr. Laurel
Clark -- Leader, School of Metaphysics; Co-developer, Peace Dome
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Rev. Prof.
Theodore Clarke -- Pasadena City College; Religious Science Minister
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Rev. Albert
Cohen, Executive Director, Southern California
Ecumenical Council
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Rev. Tasnim
Fernandez -- Sufi Order; Teacher, Dance of Universal Peace
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Dr. Jefferson
Tasleem Ghauri -- Founding President, IARF
Pakistan
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Dr.
Linda Groff -- Professor, California State University Dominguez Hills
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Alanna Hartsok
-- Co-director, Earth Rights Institute
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Cliff Ishigaki
-- Founder, Orange County Psychosynthesis Center; former Board member
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Byron DeLear
-- Congressional candidate; interfaith supporter
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Rabbi Bernie
King -- Emeritus, Congregation Shir Ha-ma'a Lot
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Kay Lindahl
-- Author, Sacred Art of Listening; Leader, North
American Interfaith Network
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Bonnie Mansdorf
-- Director, Foundation for
a Healing Among Nations
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Irving Sarnoff
-- Co-founder, Friends of the United Nations;
peace activist
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F. Richard
Schneider, Ph.D. -- Founder, Institute
of Global Education
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Alan Seaman
-- Teacher, meditator; former UDC Executive Board member
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Roger Sorenson,
M.D. -- Former participant, Worldview Exploration Seminar
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Jim Stewart
-- Director, Earth Day Los Angeles
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Rebecca Tobias
-- Interfaith activist; campaign manager for Byron DeLear's Green Party
Congressional candidacy
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Rene Wadlow
-- Editor/Publisher, "Global Perspectives" Magazine
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Rev. Tom
Ziegert -- Minister, Venice United
Methodist Church; peace activist
Advisory
Board
-
Mobed Zarir
Bhandara -- Zoroastrian high priest; editor, Zoroastrian scriptures
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Swami Brahmavidyananda
-- Monk/author, Vedanta Society of Southern
California
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Ruth Broyde-Sharone
-- Producer, "God and Allah Need to Talk" video
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Dr. Ananda
Guruge -- Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of the West
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Mussie Hailu
-- Representative, Association
of World Citizens, Ethiopia
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Rabbi Benjamin
Herson -- Emeritus, Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue
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Adnan Mazarei,
Ph.D. -- Former Professor, University of Teheran, Iran; editor
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Richard Millen
-- Retired attorney; pioneer in mediation
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Hiroshi Motoyama,
Ph.D. -- Founder, California Institute of Human Studies
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Dr.
Robert Muller -- Former Assistant Secretary General, United Nations;
author
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Mangest Nadkarni,
Ph.D. -- Leader, World Union; specialist on work of Aurobindo
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Huston Smith,
Ph.D. -- Author, World's Religions and other books on religion
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Hoang Van
Duc, M.D. -- Former Prof. of Medicine, University of Southern California
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Ali Wassil,
Ph.D., LL.D. -- Co-founder of UDC: author, lecturer
Unity-and-Diversity Contact Information
Leland P. Stewart, B.S.E., B.T.,
Founder/Central
Coordinator
P.O. Box 661401
Los Angeles, CA USA 90066-9201
Phone: 310-391-5735
FAX: 310-827-9187 (contact UDC first)
Email: udcworld1@yahoo.com
Website: www.udcworld.org |