[Note:  The following description is p. 2 of The IPCR Journal/Newsletter Summer 2008 issue]

Letter From the Editor

 

 

More and more people, in more and more parts of the world, are coming to the conclusion that we—collectively—have a need for problem solving on a scale most of us have never seen before.  This writer is the founder and outreach coordinator for The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative.  The Mission Statement for The IPCR Initiative is included in this issue on p. 32.  This particular issue of The IPCR Journal/Newsletter (Summer, 2008) introduces a recently completely proposal (by this writer) titled “1000Communities²”[accessible for free at The IPCR Initiative website (at www.ipcri.net)].  This issue includes:

 

1)  one of the three outreach messages currently being used to share the “1000Communities²” proposal with people who might be able to make good use of it

2)  the section of the “1000Communities²” proposal titled “15 Suggestions for Preliminary Survey Questions”  (A well-developed set of survey questions, administered to 150 key leaders from a variety of fields of activity in a community, would do much to bring to the fore the need for, and the potential of, Community Visioning Initiatives at the local community level

3)  Appendix 6 from the “1000Communities²” proposal.  Appendix 6 is titled “Integrating Spiritual Wisdom into the Everyday Circumstances of Community Life”.  [This writer believes that there is a profound and critical need for an exponential increase in compassion for our fellow human beings.  And yet… an exponential increase in compassion for our fellow human beings is, currently, not widely recognized as an essential and critical element of most comprehensive responses to the challenges of our times.  This writer hopes that he can contribute something to bringing this need to the forefront of more and more responses to the challenges of our times.]

4)  a reprint of the contents of the “Workshops” section of The IPCR website (at www.ipcri.net).

 

There is much that can be done to generate goodwill and promote peace that has not been done.  There is much that needs to be done.

 

                                                                                                            Stefan Pasti, Editor

                                                                                                           The IPCR Journal/Newsletter

                                                                                                            July 26, 2008

 

 

Table of Contents

 

The “1000Communities²” Proposal—A Multiplier Effect of a Positive Nature…………           3

15 Suggestions for Preliminary Survey Questions (Section 9 from “1000Communities²”)…..           9

An Excerpt from “Peacebuilding in its Most Compassionate Form”……………………           22

Integrating Spiritual Wisdom into the Everyday Circumstances of Community Life

            (Appendix 6 from “1000Communities²”)………………………………………………………..            23

An Invitation to a Short Story (“The Spirit of the Sacred Hoop”)…………………………………….          28

About IPCR Workshops (from The IPCR Website at www.ipcri.net)......................................        29

The IPCR Copyright Policy……………………………………………………………....        31

The IPCR Mission Statement……………………………………………………………         32

A List of Related Fields of Activity………………………………………………………         33

The Potential for a Wide Range of Workshop Offerings………………………………...         33

Notes and Source References (relating to quotations and excerpts on p. 1)……………..         34

About the Writer and Editor of this Issue………………………………………………..         34

 

 

The IPCR Journal/Newsletter

“… bringing to the fore what is often hidden….”