UN Parliamentary Assembly Group

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Comment by Sandra dos Santos Pires on February 7, 2010 at 2:49pm

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
CIVICUS seeks nominations of individuals to stand for election to its Board of Directors
Deadline for nominations: midnight GMT, Saturday 20th of February 2010

Dear Colleague,

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit nominations for the upcoming CIVICUS Board elections. I sincerely hope you will take up this opportunity to
participate in the governance of CIVICUS and that it will inspire you to renew your membership of our organisation. At the time of submitting your nomination, it is not vital that your membership is up to date. However, to be eligible to vote for the final candidates you would need to be a paid up member of CIVICUS.

Background:

The CIVICUS Board of Directors is the organisation’s governing body. It comprises 13 directors elected to serve three year terms. Any current or prospective member of CIVICUS may stand for election to the 13 seats.

To ensure transparency and avoid conflicts of interest, the Board has created an ad hoc Nominations Committee to develop a list of candidates to be presented to the membership of CIVICUS. Members will elect the 13 directors from a list of approximately 26 names. The list will consist of current Board members eligible to stand for re-election and individuals not currently serving on the Board but who are nominated by CIVICUS’ members.

The outgoing Board Chairperson, Anabel Cruz, (Uruguay) will chair the Committee. Other members will include one current Board member who will not stand for election and three persons of prominent standing in the civil society movement who are not CIVICUS directors and who also will not stand for election to the Board. The CIVICUS Secretary General, Ingrid Srinath will serve as an ex-officio member of the Committee.

Selection Criteria:

In selecting nominees, the Committee will take into account CIVICUS’ needs for a Board to be filled by persons who:

• Have institutional and individual credibility in the civil society movement at national, regional and/or international levels;
• Have experience at managerial levels and/or as a member of boards of directors;
• Have demonstrated a commitment to CIVICUS’ mission, vision, values and programmes;

The Committee will also consider CIVICUS’ needs for a Board that collectively is:
• Broadly representative of CIVICUS’ global reach and geographic diversity;
• Broadly representative of CIVICUS’ membership composition (by institutional type, national location, etc.);
• Diverse in terms of gender, age, race, ethnicity and cultural background;
• Diverse in terms of experience and talents.


The Call and Directions:

The CIVICUS’ Nominations committee requests nominations from Members and partners of the organisation. You may nominate yourself and/or others.

A nomination will be certified when CIVICUS receives by midnight GMT, Saturday, 20 of February 2010

1. A completed Nomination Form for each nominee (copy the blank form as you need).
2. A letter of intent from each nominee (other than self-nominees who have submitted the nomination form for themselves).

See Nomination Form Section B about what the letter of intent should include. (Note: a nominee does not have to be a member of CIVICUS
when nominated, but she/he or his/her organisation must join no later than 30th April 2010.)

Please submit completed nomination forms (attached) or download here:
http://www.civicus.org/media/CivicusNominationForm.pdf

To:
Anabel Cruz,
Chair – CIVICUS Nomination’s Committee
By e-mail to: boardelections@civicus.org or
By fax to: + 27 11 833 7997

Please contact Sandra Pires at sandra.pires@civicus.org for further information on CIVICUS membership.


Warm regards,

Anabel Cruz
Chair of the Board of Directors

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
PO BOX 933, 2135, Johannesburg, South Africa
www.civicus.org

Comment by Prince Godwin Korieocha on February 7, 2010 at 9:41am

The call for UN Parliamentary Assembly it’s a welcome development.

Comment by Conrad Rein on January 18, 2010 at 12:36pm

Invitation_MUNUSAL2010.pdf

Comment by Abdullahi Adam on January 6, 2010 at 2:51am

The understanding of the dichotomy between "Global Government" and "Global Governance" is imperative for equal representation in "Global Democracy". The United Nation needs the active participation of all.

Comment by Tony Fleming on December 29, 2009 at 6:54pm

Great to see the support for the Campaign here. I work closely with the Campaign on its social media outreach and am happy to discover this group up and running.

For those who have not yet discovered it and would like to join, the Campaign's official Facebook group is at http://www.facebook.com/unpacampaign and our Twitter feed is at http://www.twitter.com/unpacampaign.

(We have partially reached our goal of 2000 Facebook supporters by the end of this year - we're currently just over 1500. If you can help by becoming a fan yourself and inviting friends and colleagues who may be interested, it might help push us over the top in the new few days.)

Feel free to post any comment, questions, ideas on the Facebook page.

best,
Tony Fleming

Comment by Olusola Adeoye on December 4, 2009 at 5:57am

Great, i discover this somehow too late. i still believe i can learn and make some useful contribution. everyone kindly welcome me on board and thanks our able Prof. for this good job.
thanks SIR

Comment by Binod Kumar Bhujel on October 26, 2009 at 3:05am

I also want to join in it.

Comment by Joseph George Slovinec on October 13, 2009 at 3:04pm

Thank you. I would like to join the main group in Peace and Collaborative Development Network that honors the United Nations. I want to congratulate President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize after I attended Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs at the same time he was an undergrad there and I voted for him for United States Senate in 2004 after we were both in Chicago for 20 years. The White House said President Obama was "surprised and humbled" with the honor: it intended to give "momentum to set of causes.". I feel Obama's admirers can say he also deserved the prize with several main activities President Obama did to promote peace during 2009: These include:
- President Obama's popularity at the G-20 summit in London and later in Pittsburgh on cultural links with Europe and the economy
- President Obama deserved excellent ratings at his United Nations speech in September 2009 and during the session he thoroughly enjoyed presiding over the United Nations Security Council with ease: He also talked to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas who urgently needs U.S. economic development assistance after President Bush neglected Palestinian goals in that area, yet it is respected that Bush favored the roadmap.
- The Norwegian Nobel Committee cites arms control as a reason for the prize, and President Obama gave an excellent speech in Prague on nuclear arms control: I am 25% of Czech ancestry and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was of Czech origins.
- President Obama's attendance at the Trinidad summit improved U.S. relations with Latin American countries
- President Obama gave an excellent speech on peace during his Cairo, Egypt visit in June 2009
- Multilateral issues including his popularity in the Pew poll. The Norwegian Nobel Committee used the word "multilateral" in the award, and President Obama increased his support of multilateral diplomacy when he met with the United Nations Security Council after rumors President Bush invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003 to avoid French or Russian vetoes in the Security Council: Bush was too unilatelal and did not prove an Iraqi violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441. I hope President Obama gives encouragement to Columbia students who study the United Nations like I did including a Baruch Fellowship shortly after graduation in 1983 at United Nations Association of U.S.A. where I did editing with UNA inspiration from Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Dean Harvey Picker and his wife Jean, and Fred Eckhard who then edited the Interdependent.
I respect the Alliance of Conflict Transformation with many George Mason U. professors encouraged my interest in your network, and you have an academic duty to encourage a responsible bipartisan debate among Virginia voters: please appeal for a more intellectual approach during a political debate with early insults and unclear concepts and I will praise you to my fellow Democrats. A Pew Global Attitudes survey proved Obama was much more popular in foreign nations than George W. Bush when the question was asked if Obama "Will Do Right Thing in Foreign Affairs?" with 2009 - Britain 86% after 16% under Bush in 2008, France 91% after 13% under Bush in 2008, Brazil 76% with a main negative score for Obama among Palestinians where Pew said 84% had an unfavorable view after Cairo speech and 80% were unfavorable after it. I seldom get questions on my DePaul M.A. in History thesis in recent years, yet it increased in importance in the Obama years along with my DePaul research on U.S. Senator Paul Douglas from Obama's neighborhood: My topic was on President Theodore Roosevelt, who also attended Columbia University, and his work on mediating peace between France and Germany indirectly with diplomats at Algeciras, Spain after the 1905 Morocco crisis in addition to his mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, the main reason the Nobel Academy gave for awarding Theodore Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. Former President Jimmy Carter did similar personal mediation between Israel and Egypt, negotiated the 1979 agreement to favor the United Nations Security Council agreement for giving the Peope's Republic of China a seat and keeping democracy in Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act, and made many Carter Center visits as a former President to encourage democratic elections before he got the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. President Woodrow Wilson received the Nobel Peace Prize for his League of Nations campaign at the Versailles peace conference in 1919. Yet the Nobel Peace Prize was also awarded to a Swiss founder of the Red Cross, refugee organizations, Vice President Dawes from Evanston, Illinois in 1925, Secretaries of State Cordell Hull in 1945 and George Marshall in 1953 after the most successful U.S. war ends of World War II and Korea, and less famous Asian activists. The only example of a totally undeserved award was to North Vietnamese Communist negotiator Le Duc Tho in 1973 who declined it, since North Vietnam disregarded the Jan. 27, 1973 peace treaty with the United States when it invaded and conquered South Vietnam on April 30, 1975.
When I remember my conversations with students at Marist High School in my class if 1976 who said Lyndon Johnson started the Vietnam War and Nixon and Kissinger ended it, I hope President Obama gains advice from U.S. Senator George McGovern who answered my questions on Lincoln's Birthday 2009 on his plan to end the Vietnam War by July 1969 if he became President and discussed desires to see peace in Iraq and Afghanistan, former President Carter, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who deserved a prize at a later time than 1973 for his overall career including influence on Nixon's greatest diplomatic successes in ending the Cold War with visits to the Soviet Union and China in 1972: their generations knew World War II and studied history more passionately than the often apathetic generation of Barack Obama and myself. The world expects Barack Obama to honor his campaign promise to end the Iraq war in 2010 with the prize: yet the U.S. and world should respect the Nobel Peace Prize's awarding to a first-year President with hopes he will continue work for future successes in peace.

Comment by kettemalet Anthony fabrice on June 30, 2009 at 12:08pm

We are facing to train some members of our NGO in peace and development so i request someone to help us to giving addresses of internatinals peace institutes.
Regards

Comment by Frank Palatnick on June 22, 2009 at 12:39am

The key to global community is through ' Conversation ' and
' Compassion '. A=pi r2.....Acknowledgement of Understanding equals the wholistic approach times rigor squared Copyright 2007 Frank Palatnick All rights reserved. In other words, for the world to have ' community ' everybody must converse rigorously and with compassion.

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