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Who Are We?
We are a coalition of organizations and individuals working in the New
England area to demonstrate the relevance of the United Nations and to
advocate for the United States government to take a positive leadership
role in achieving the goals of the UN Charter:
- to save succeeding generations from the scourge
of war....
- to reaffirm fundamental human rights and
freedoms...
- to establish respect for international law
- to promote social progress and better standards
of life
CSUN
Board of Directors
Richard Bail, M.D.
Founder, Communities without Borders
Arthur Holcombe
President, Tibet Poverty Reduction Foundation
Saran Kaba-Jones
FACE Africa
David Kimball
Boston Chapter, Nonviolent Peaceforce
Envoy to Unitarian Universalist U.N. Office
Jacqueline Ladd
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Suzanne Pearce
Cambridge-Yerevan Sister City Association
Peter Smith, Co-Chair
20-20 Vision, Green Decade/Newton
Nancy Wrenn, Treasurer
Retired, Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection
Boston chapter Nonviolent Peaceforce
CSUN Advisers
Brian Aull
Baha'i Community of Cambridge
Elise Boulding
Prof. Emeritus of Sociology, Dartmouth College
Author
Severyn Bruyn
Retired Prof. of Sociology, Boston College
Author
Thomas Gale
Veterans for Peace, Samantha Smith Chapter
Willard Johnson
Prof. Emeritus of Political Science, MIT
Boston Pan-African Forum
Dieter Koch-Weser, M.D.
Retired, World Health Organization
Harvard School of Public Health
Winston Langley
Associate Provost, UMass. Boston
Author
David Lewit
Boston-Cambridge Alliance for Democracy
Dr. Naeem Rathore
Former Staff of the U.N.
International Rotary
Dr. Paul Walker
Legacy Program of Global Green USA
Ruth Weizenbaum
National Alliance for Democracy
Joseph Wronka
Professor, School of Social Work, Springfield College
Author
What Do
We Believe?
In 1945, the United States played a leading role in the creation of the
United Nations. This remarkable organization is based on humanity's best
ethical ideals, such as human rights, the rule of law among nations, and
the economic and social advancement of all people as a requirement for
peace. The UN has mediated disputes, concluded treaties and agreements,
created democracies, educated children, and conquered diseases. With
adequate support and participation from its member states, nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) and citizens, the UN can become an instrument through
which the international community can protect human rights, promote
universal prosperity, and make war obsolete.
We believe it is time for the United States to greatly strengthen its
support of the UN and to make the goals of the UN charter the foundation
of US foreign policy. At the same time, we recognize that people are
important actors, as evidenced by the ever-increasing influence of social,
environmental, and humanitarian NGOs. We believe that the UN should take
this opportunity to use ever more democratic processes to give people as
well as states a voice in the UN system and in world affairs.
How Are We Working to Achieve This?
- We network
with and promote organizations who are implementing the goals of the
United Nations both locally and globally
- We communicate with public officials about
foreign policy issues related to the UN
- We are developing a model workshop on the
United Nations, its challenges and potential
- We support efforts to create new mechanisms of
democratic participation by people in the world's affairs
- We offer conferences on critical issues
confronting the UN, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the
decade theme of Building a Culture of Peace. Since 1994 we have offered
over a dozen major conferences.
On December 10, 2006 CSUN held a conference on Human Rights: a Tool for Change in Massachusetts? at the Boston Public Library. Panelists discussed the human rights of prisoners through the lens of United Nations human rights treaties. Forty human rights organizations supported this conference.
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