Statement
to the World
Summit on Sustainable
Development
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Valuing Spirituality in Development
Valuing Spirituality in Development: Initial Considerations Regarding the Creation of Spiritually Based Indicators for Development (Bahá'í International Community, 1998)
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The Lab, the Temple and the Market
Promoting a Discourse on Science, Religion and Development (sub-section on Spiritual Principles and the Role of Knowledge
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| The Baha'i International
Community has issued
a statement, entitled "Religion
and Development
at the Crossroads:
Convergence or
Divergence?", to
the World Summit
on Sustainable
Development, a
United Nations
conference held
in Johannesburg,
South Africa, 2002. |
-Bahai
World News Service,
23 August 2002.
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| Who
Is Writing
the Future?
Reflections
on the Twentieth
Century |
| This statement
examines the events
of the twentieth
and relates these
developments to
the challenges
facing humanity
at century's end. |
-Bahá'í International
Community, February
1999.
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| Two
Wings of a
Bird: The Equality
of Women and
Men |
| A statement
regarding the emancipation
of women, the achievement
of full equality
between the sexes,
being essential
to human progress
and the transformation
of society. |
-National
Spiritual Assembly
of the Bahá'ís
of the United States.
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| Turning
Point for All
Nations |
| This statement
calls on world
leaders to take
bold new steps
to strengthen the
United Nations'
capacity for global
coordination to
meet the challenges
of the post-Cold
War world. It urges
leaders to convene
a world summit
on global governance
before the end
of the century. |
-Bahá'í International
Community, October
1995.
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| The
Prosperity
of Humankind |
| This statement
examines prevailing
attitudes and practices
in social and economic
development. It
redefines the roles
of all those involved
and questions underlying
assumptions about
the nature of true
global prosperity. |
-Bahá'í International
Community, January
1995.
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| The
Evolution of
Institutional
Capacity for
Social and
Economic Development |
| Bahá'í social
and economic development
focuses on increasing
the capacity of
the friends to
make decisions
about the spiritual
and material progress
of their communities
and then the implementation
of them. |
-Prepared
by the Office of
Social and Economic
Development, 28
August 1994.
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| The
Role of Education,
Media and the
Arts in Social
Development |
| Comments on
the Draft Declaration
and Draft Programme
of Action for Social
Development (A/CONF.166/PC/L.13)
presented at the
second session
of the Preparatory
Committee for the
World Summit for
Social Development. |
-Bahá'í International
Community, 22 August-2
September 1994.
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| Unity
and Consultation
- Foundations
of Sustainable
Development |
| A statement
regarding a key
challenge raised
by the UNCED process
is the development
of new collaborative
efforts among government
institutions, business
associations, non-governmental
organizations,
and citizens' groups
representing the
perspectives of
women, indigenous
peoples, and youth. |
-National
Spiritual Assembly
of the Bahá'ís
of the United States,
1994.
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| BIC
statement of
Global Action
Plan for Social
Development |
| Contribution
to the first substantive
session of the
Preparatory Committee
for the United
Nations World Summit
for Social Development
regarding advocating
the development
of a sense of world
unity as a prerequisite
to social development,
and that constructing
a peaceful and
just planetary
society is not
only possible,
but essential to
humanity's very
survival. |
-Bahá'í International
Community, 31 January-11
February 1994.
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| Bahá'í Social
and Economic
Development:
Prospects for
the Future |
| A statement
approved by the
Universal House
of Justice for
use in orienting
and guiding the
work of Bahá'í social
and economic development
throughout the
world. Ideas for
expanding the number
and range of social
and economic development
activities are
listed, i.e. Degrees
of complexity;
Capacity building;
Learning; Development
of human resources;
Influencing society;
and Integration. |
-16
September 1993.
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| International
Legislation
for Environment
and Development |
| A statement
presented to Working
Group III of the
Third session of
the Preparatory
Committee for the
United Nations
Conference on Environment
and Development
(UNCED). |
-Bahá'í International
Community, August
1991.
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| The
Promise of
World Peace |
| Released in
October 1985, this
statement addressed "To
the Peoples of
the World" outlines
the major prerequisites
for, as well as
the obstacles working
against, the establishment
of world peace. |
-Universal
House of Justice,
October 1985.
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