IFLAC

THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR Culture And LITERATURE For PEACE

Time to Abolish War • Peace is a Human Right

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth. Albert Einstein, c 1920.

 

1 BASIC PLATFORM

We "Friends of Literature" PAVE - believe that literature promotes freedom and the enrichment of the quality of life. On the threshold of the 21st century, we shall endeavor to pave the way towards the fulfillment of our main ideal: "One world and one humanity, all living in peace". It is our goal to help build a Middle East and a World beyond war towards year 2000, by the means of literature, culture and art. This endeavor is in harmony with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights embodied in the Charter of the United Nations. It is likewise the basic platform of the "Friends of Literature". We strive for freedom of speech and expression, and for freedom from hostile and oppressive violence whether it be was or physical, mental or moral oppression. We believe in the liberty of people everywhere and in their right to pursue their various human endeavors and obtain equal civil justice.

 

2 ACTIVITY

The Friends of Literature Association was founded in 1985 in Haifa, and was registered as a Voluntary Association in 1987. There are ten branches in the Jewish, Arab and Druze sections in Israel actively and harmoniously working together. We hold regular literary and cultural meetings: lectures, poetry readings, story telling, new books interviews, literary weekend seminars, literary festivals, symposiums, congresses, Jewish and Arab Students-Writers Meetings and Workshops, etc.

 

3 PUBLICATIONS

We publish a monthly newsletter, which includes information about activities in all the various branches. We also publish a yearly anthology: GALIM - WAVES: LITERATURE, CULTURE AND ART. To celebrate the tenth years of the FLAC foundation we will publish a trio-lingual LIRIT ANTHOLOGY in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. It will include articles, stories, poems, art, etc.

 

4 INTERNATIONALS CENTERS

To celebrate the tenth year of the establishment of "The Forum of Culture for Peace Association", in 1995, we are planning to open International Branches to pave the way towards our goals and ideals, throughout the world. We believe that with the aid of out international branches, working all together towards a new world beyond war, poverty and hunger will gradually be reduced and can eventually be abolished. Also in a world beyond war where a great part of the human resources will go to building and not to destroying - new creative, ethical, aesthetically, literary and cultural peaks can be reached.

 

5 MEMBERSHIP

Friends of literature and culture, writer, poets, literary, translators, journalists, teachers, students, etc., are invited to join the above Association. Please send 30$ for Registration and Annual payment, to our Headquarters. Donations are welcome:

IFLAC

THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR CULTURE AND LITERATURE FOR PEACE

c\o Judith Zilberstein: Director, P.O.B. 6293 - Haifa Israel, 31063.

 

Pave Peace Network

Deploring the fact that humanity did not succeed to banish war - ALBERT EINSTEIN WARNED US: The splitting of the atom has changed everything save our mode of thinking.

 

A NEW WAY: The International Pave Peace Network present this much needed new mode of thinking. It shows that we have the creativity and power to change both ourselves and the world. It introduves us to a radical new way of realizing the latent possibility of our potential influence to abolish and outlaw the concept and practice of warfare.

 

PURPOSE: To outlaw war by developing and implementing the theory and arctic of paving a world beyond war, by using literature (in its broadest sense), the pen, the computer, modern technology, science and the media - throughout a national and international network developing implementing paving.

 

A LEAP INTO CONSCIOUSNESS: IFLAC brings awareness and technique to the baffled citizen of his or her power as an individual, or part of a group or an association - to contribute some of his/her energy and thinking and reality toward the abolishment of warfare and the vision of a world beyond war - for ourselves and the new generation.

 

 

Michael Holmboe Meyer

Director IFLAC, Norway

http://home.sol.no/~kmeyer/index.htm

 

 

 

IFLAC PAVE PEACE MAGAZINE

by president IFLAC dr. Ada Aharoni
Conflict Resolution, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Ada Aharoni is an Israeli poet, writer and professor. Ada was born in Cairo, lives in Haifa, and is President of IFLAC: PAVE PEACE, the International Forum for Literature and Culture for Peace. She writes in Hebrew and English, and her works have been translated into Arabic. Ada Aharoni sent a letter and the poem "From Haifa to Near Faraway Cairo to Egyptian President Sadat in 1977. This poem prompted Sadat to say, in his November 1977 address to the Israeli parlaiment (Knesset): "Let us make the poem a reality."

 

 

The International 1999 Congress of Culture

and Literature Toward an Area of Peace

 

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 

HOW YOU CAN HELP THE POOR
Make a FREE donation of food around the world:

Every 3,6 seconds someones dies of hunger; 3/4 of the deaths are children under 5.

On the Web, the United Nations` The Hunger Site lets you click on a button,
and somewhere in the world a hungry person gets a meal to eat at no cost to
you.
So, visit the site . . . http://www.thehungersite.com . . . and pass the word.


Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

 

Appeal by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
From : The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
To : Heads of States of all member countries of the General Assembly of the United Nations

 

 

FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

Today, in every single country throughout the world, there are many children silently suffering the effects and consequences of violence.

This violence takes many different forms : between children on streets, at school, in family life and in the community. There is physical violence, psychological violence, socio-economic violence, environmental violence and political violence. Many children – too many children – live in a "culture of violence".

We wish to contribute to reduce their suffering. We believe that each child can discover, by himself, that violence is not inevitable. We can offer hope, not only to the children of the world, but to all of humanity, by beginning to create, and build, a new Culture of Nonviolence.

For this reason, we address this solemn appeal to all Heads of States, of all member countries of the General Assembly of the United nations, for the UN General Assembly to declare:

That the first decade of the new millennium, the years 2001-2010, be declared the "Decade for a Culture of Nonviolence";

That at the start of the decade the year 2000 be declared the "Year of Education for Nonviolence";

That nonviolence be taught at every level in our societies during this decade, to make the children of the world aware of the real, practical meaning and benefits of nonviolence in their daily lives, in order to reduce the violence, and consequent suffering, perpetrated against them and humanity in general.

Together, we can build a new culture of nonviolence for humankind which will give hope to all humanity, and in particular, to the children of our world.


With deepest respect,

The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates


Signed by: Mairead Maguire Corrigan, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Aung San Suu Kyi, The 14th Dalaď Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Elie Wiesel, Mgr. Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Yasser Arafat, Mgr. Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta, Norman Borlaug, Oscar Arias Sánchez, UNICEF, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Betty Williams, Lech Walesa, Joseph Rotblat, Henry Kissinger, Jody Williams, John Hume, David Trimble, Rigoberta Menchu Tum and the American Friends Society

 

 

 

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There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race,
other than the creation of a world government.
With all my heart I believe that the world's present system
of sovereign nations can lead only to barbarism, war and inhumanity,
and that only world law can assure progress toward a civilized peaceful
humanity.
Albert Einstein

 

Global Branches

IFLAC (The International Forum for Culture and Literature for Peace) was established in 1985.

The international IFLAC: PAVE PEACE was started in 1997 and is registered as a non profit NGO in California.

Other IFLAC-related links:

International Peace Research Association (IPRA)

http://www.copri.dk/ipra/ipra.html


MidEast Web features Peace Poems by Ada Aharoni in several languages



ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE GROUPS 

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile.
Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. 
Poetry is a spirit who swells in the soul,
whose nourishment is the heart,
whose wine is affection.
Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.
~Kahlil Gibran~

PROPOSAL TO THE IPRA FOUNDATION AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE MEETING OF IPRA (18TH General Conference, Tampere, Finland, August 5 -10, 2000), TO ESTABLISH MEPRA: THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

Director of IFLAC FOUNDATION Michael Holmboe Meyer Norway and Scandinavia

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