De Doelgroep
van de organisatie zijn de mensen vanaf 5 tot 18 jaar die hun scholen bemensen voor waar het het te leren gedeelte betreft vanuit de "oude / traditionele opvatting". ( Met de notie dat oude en traditioneel niet dezelfde lading vertegenwoordigen. Oud kan bijv. slaan op de oude opvatting hoe de traditie voort te zetten in de huidige tijd. )
er worden vele evenementen georganiseerd op deze school in dit grote land ( zo'n 18 % van de wereldbevolking ).
en daar blijkt ook dat de leraar zich leert aan de leerling ...
(kan te denken geven voor ons westersen)
hier vanwege een mailing die ik ontving ... een bericht inzake iets dat daar wordt opgezet / beleefd:
Dear Friends, I write to ask for you cooperation in organising participants of the World Youth Leaders Summit (WYLS), which is to be held this year in India.
As you may already know, WYLS aims to bring about comprehensive regeneration of society, religion, and sciences by propagating holistic, goal oriented approaches in solving the current pressing issues that affect the global community. These involve political, spiritual, economic, environmental, and sociological concerns, as well as countless other areas that require our shared care and attention.
This summit is both supported and financed by the Shri Ramanuja Mission Trust, a charitable organisation situated in South India. Founded by Chaturvedi Swami, a religious leader of the Hindu denomination (Shri Vaishnavism in the South of India), the Mission has centres throughout the Indian subcontinent, with joint headquarters in Chennai and Hyderabad. (Attached to this mail you will find detailed information about Chaturvedi Swami, along with some of the Missions’ current and future projects). My name is Patrick Nickisch and I am entrusted by Chaturvedi Swami as the organiser and coordinator for the summit. I got the offer to organise this project at the Global Assembly of the UnitedReligions Initiative (URI), held in December 2008, which I attended as a part of young leaders program.
The present summit is not a URI project, though some of the URI members are involved in it. At the moment, I am serving within the URI as a member of the Executive Board in Europe (EEC), and participate in the think-tank like satellites with the Global Office of the URI in San Francisco. I am a HinduVaishnava theologian and a young priest in my faith and tradition, starting to teach and represent the Hindu faith on various occasions, as well as working in areas of consciousness research and human potential development. The participants of the WYLS should be dynamic, committed and qualified with scientific and social pursuit, with a strong foundation of heritage
and values. As a general rule they should be roughly between 20 and 35 years of age, with some rare exceptions perhaps. The plan of the summit is to work on surveys, which will then create the foundation for future cooperation and follow-up actions for the years to come. As the situation of our world is complex, this summit serves as a step towards world-wide cooperation to check the imbalances in the current human civilisation. This project work will be the basis for developing a long term plan where various NGO’s and other organisations, industries, associations and individuals will continue to work, along with the participants, depending on the level of cooperation and mutual agreements. Members of the summit can also become members of the registered World Youth Leaders council, where they can continue the work for years to come.
Depending on their survey topic and individual choice, participants can serve as a ‘global council’, with prospects to become increasingly able to develop global strategies and be catalysts for change, especially when backed up with so many already existing initiatives around the world. You can start to participate in the WYLS from May/June until November/December 2009.
Participants need to prepare and conceptualize their research topic before coming to India, where they can start working with a focused approach on their topic within the Indian context. (You can find more details about the
survey and topics of the summit in the attached file as well.) Each participant will need to choose one of the 33 topics to work on, either alone or within teams, depending on their preference and complexity of the topic.Here is just a short synopsis of the practical steps of the work and the list of the topics:
1. Conceptual study.
2. Global Study with exclusive report on a specific area, problem and solution tools.
3. Complete Indian survey.
4. To cull out trouble-shooters, status-enhancers and principles of Ethics and Management from Indian systems of knowledge and practice resources.
The participants will form a team that includes analysts, researchers, students, media, NGO and other people who are going to do the survey and research in the following areas:
1. Poverty Alleviation
2. Dialogue between Civilizations
3. Moulding the new Generation
4. Hopes and Hazards of Modern Science
5. Education and Ethics
6. Social Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
7. Media – Responsibility and Ethics
8. Yoga, Vegetarianism and Ayurveda – The Dawn of the West
9. Global Campaign against Cow Slaughter
10. Recession, Crisis and Risk Management
11. Disaster Detection and Management
12. Temples of Vishnu
13. Holy places of India
14. Hindu Rituals and Practices
15. Drug Addiction and Alcoholism
16. Women Empowerment
17. The Endless Combat (Tyranny, Atrocities and Communal clashes)
18. Harnessing Youth Energy and Talents
19. Education – Instruction Methodology and ProductiveLearning
20. Democracy and Political Engineering
21. Indian History, Archaeology, Literature and Traditions
22. Leadership Design
23. Control, Management, Organization and Governance
24. Challenging Diseases, Prevention, Treatment andSocialization Issues
25. The Power of Mind (Neuro Psychology, Psychology, Evolution in Cybernetics, ParaPsychology and Mysticism)
26. Self Help, Micro Financing and Cottage Industries
27. Application of Traditional Art forms as Tools for Solace, Peace, Energy, Accomplishment, Love and Harmony
28. Cross-Cultural Relations
29. International Relations – Global Village concept (Challenges and Solutions)
30. Environment – Resources, Exploration, Reverence,Utility, Exploitation, Degradation and Remediation
31. Human Family System – a Philosophical, Historical global survey
32. Splendour in Silence – a survey of Natural Beauty
Apart from your personal field work, you may use assistance and guidance from known, reliable and efficient sources, such as the Internet, previous statistical reports, excerpts from journals and books, available video and
photo clippings and interviews, etc.
There is a non-profit organization in the Presidio called Internet Archive founded by Brewster Khale They work with 80+world-class universities and libraries creating the world's largest digital open-source library. (www.rchive.org).
Meanwhile, for clarifications and modifications alongside your research, you can have our guidance and directions as well. For the duration of your field work in India, you will be able to meet various politicians, academics, charitable associations and a variety of professionals. These meetings will be organised during the time of your stay. There will also be a supportive network in India, which will both host participants and provide local people who will help in terms of travel and communications in India. The results of the surveys will be published. That’s why the end results need to be in a presentable format by the 15th of November 2009. There is some space until beginning of 2010 for the ‘final work’, but the presentable data needs to be delivered in November. If otherwise
unfeasible, there is no need for you to be physically present for the final presentation. Since the WYLS invites people for such a long time, we will adjust accordingly to accomodate each participant in the most practical way.
There will be assessment criteria in place in order to document the progress on the surveys and assure the alignment with other topics, given that they are often reciprocally connected. Supervision and help will be offered throughout the entire span of the work (in India, before the field work, and after the field work), which will be managed by me and a small coordinating team set into place to support the participants along their way. If you would like to participate in the project, please send me your up-to-date professional CV, the same as if you would apply for a professional job. This includes the contact information, basic Bio data, educational and work history. A photo is a general request, part of the standard application procedure. The applicants would need to inform us when they could come for the maximum amount of time. It is possible that some can come from June to September, others from September to November, some can come for the entire 6 months, and others not more than 2 months at the maximum. Many possibilities are open and will be welcomed for the WYLS on part of the organisers. However, every member has to be present on August 15th, the independence day of India, where we will held central unifying conference, with rare exceptions which have to be discussed in such cases on an individual
basis. Thank you very much for reading this invitation. I kindly ask you to consider this invitation for yourself, or to forward this information to your respective networks/organisations and give a number of young people in
your area an opportunity to work on this initiative. We need to draw from as many resources of expertise as possible, and I thus invite you to support this cause in whatever form you are able to.
I am looking forward to read your applications. Yours sincerely,Patrick Nickisch WYLS Main CoordinatorURI Executive Committee Europe (EEC)
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