dear friends,<br><br>has anyone objections that we endorse this as p2p foundation (I can also do it in personal capacity)<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kamran Mofid</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:k.mofid@gcgi.info">k.mofid@gcgi.info</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:39 PM<br>Subject: A Call to Action and the Endorsements<br>To: <a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> </div><div class="gmail_quote">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin-right:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="text-align:left"><font size="4">Dear Freinds,</font></p><p style="text-align:left">
<font size="4">Please see below: A Call to Action and the Endorsements.</font></p>
</blockquote><div><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)" face="tahoma,sans-serif" size="4">A Call To Action</font></span></u></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-family:Calibri">The world is riveting toward a possible turning point and we hope that
you are able to stand with us in this call to action</span></u></b></font></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"></span></u></b><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"> </font></div>
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</font><div style="text-align:left"><b><u><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"></span></u></b><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font size="4">Hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, employed
and unemployed, black and white, men and women, have come together in a
continuing and lasting global unity, partaking in a dialogue of civilisations,
faiths, cultures and peoples in consideration for the common good.<span> </span>This global movement has risen in a thousand
cities on six continents: from Tahrir Square to Alexandria and Tunisia; Rio de
Janerio to Bogota; Santiago, Chile to Barcelona; Zuccotti Park to Oakland; Wall
Street to St. Paul’s; Frankfurt to Brussels: Rome to Athens; Toronto to
Vancouver, Chicago to Philadelphia, Sydney to Brisbane and more, rejecting neo-liberalism
and its prevailing economic and business models, demanding a better, kinder and
more humane world. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font size="4"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font size="4">The crises of ecological devastation and glaring social
and economic inequality are pushing the planet to the brink of catastrophe.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></font> </div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Calibri">We, the undersigned, co-authored
the document noted below- A Call to Action- and sought the support of interested
parties, by asking them to consider endorsing it. As the current global crises
have clearly shown, the whole world is waking up to the value of co-creation
and the harnessing of knowledge from diverse sources, disciplines, experience
and expertise. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">We are gratified by the level
of enthusiastic support for the Call. We also received wise arguments and
sincere suggestions on how to make this more inclusive, so that many more can
join and sign the petition. We have acknowledged these suggestions and have incorporated
them into the Call to Action. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">The final document and the
list of our endorsees are noted below. It goes without saying that we are most
grateful for all your ongoing support. It is only when we work together that we
may change the world for the better. </span></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></b></font></font> </div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Kamran
Mofid PhD (ECON), </span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Founder, Globalisation for the Common Good
Initiative (</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">UK</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">)</span></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4">
<span style="font-family:Calibri"></span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Jamshid Damooei PhD (ECON), </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Co-director,
Centre for Leadership and Values, </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">School of Management</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">, </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">California</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal"> Lutheran University, </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">USA</span></b></font></font></div>
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</font><div style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal"></span></b><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Steve
Szeghi PhD (ECON), </span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Dept
of Economics, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Wilmington College</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Ohio</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">USA</span></font></font></div>
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</font><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span><font face="tahoma,sans-serif" size="4"> </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">To Read the Call to Action: See below</font></span></div>
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</font><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span> </div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)" face="tahoma,sans-serif"><b>A Call To Action: Endorsements</b></font></span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"></font></span> </div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="3">
</font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Calibri">*</span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">Hans Christof Graf von Sponeck, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">Germany</span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">, former</span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN"> UN Assistant Secretary-General and
UN Humanitarian Coordinator for </span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">Iraq</span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">New
York</span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">USA</span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN"></span></font></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri">*Prof. Johan<span> </span>Galtung, Founder, TRANSEND, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">France</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> and
the </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">European</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">University</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">
Centre for<span> </span>Peace Studies (EPU), </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Austria</span><span style="font-family:Calibri" lang="EN"></span></font></font></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri">*Luk Bouckaert, Emeritus Prof. Centre for Economy and
Ethics, Catholic University Leuven, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">and President, European SPES-Forum </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">, Belgium</span></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left">
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<span style="font-family:Calibri">*Paul Shrivastava, David O'Brien Distinguished Professor
of Sustainable Enterprise, and Director, David O'Brien Center for Sustainable
Enterprise, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada and </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN">The 50+20 Steering <i>Committee </i>(</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri">A project to
transform management education worldwide)</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4">
<span style="font-family:Calibri">*</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri">Fred Dallmayr - Packey J. Dee Professor in the Departments of
Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA and
Co-Chairman, World Public Forum, Dialogue of Civilizations, Russia and Austria</span></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4">
<span style="font-family:Calibri">*Prof. Hans Kochler, Chair,
Political Philosophy, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">University of Innsbruck</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Austria</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">, and
President, International Progress Organisation (I.P.O), </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Vienna</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Austria</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></font></font></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri">*Nancy Roof, Founder, Kosmos
Journal, Co-Founder Values Caucus at United Nations, Co-Founder Spiritual
Caucus at United Nations, USA, </span></font></font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif" size="4">and many more</font></div><div><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#000000" face="tahoma,sans-serif" size="4">See the complete list of endorsements and the Call to Action:</font></span></p>
</div><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><a href="http://gcgi.info/news/139-a-call-to-action" target="_blank"><font size="4">http://gcgi.info/news/139-a-call-to-action</font></a><font size="4">-</font></span></p>
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<div style="text-align:left"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif" size="3">
</font>Kamran Mofid PhD (ECON)<br>Founder, Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative(GCGI)<br><a href="http://www.gcgi.info" target="_blank">www.gcgi.info</a></div><div>Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie School of Business, <br>
Dalhousie University, Canada<br><a href="http://sba.management.dal.ca/" target="_blank">http://sba.management.dal.ca</a><br>GCGI 2012 Conference, Dalhousie University, Canada</div><div><a href="http://management.dal.ca/news/CommonGood/" target="_blank">http://management.dal.ca/news/CommonGood/</a></div>
<div>Member of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC), the World Public Forum, Dialogue of Civilisations</div><div><a href="http://www.wpfdc.org/" target="_blank">http://www.wpfdc.org/</a></div><div>Founding Member, World Dignity University, and Global Advisory Board, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies</div>
<div><a href="http://www.humiliationstudies.org/education/education.php#foundingmembers" target="_blank">http://www.humiliationstudies.org/education/education.php#foundingmembers</a></div><br>
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