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World
Citizenship Institute (WCI)
James Foster, Director
WCI is a
world-wide interfaith and multicultural online network
of peacebuilders. Currently representatives from
more than 75 countries are actively engaged in
peacebuilding activities. All participants
subscribe to the World Citizenship Creed. A major
component of WCI is its Advanced Studies (WCIAS).
Peacebuilding
Institute of East
Tennessee (PIET)
Interim Director, James Foster
PIET began in 2000,
as a local initiative to gather peacebuilders from
around the world for the purpose of deepening our
understanding of the work of peace, and developing
mutually supportive relationships. PIET’s mandate
is to prepare and individuals to practice peacebuilding
and nonviolence from an ecumenical and interfaith
perspective.
PIET
offers several programs each year, which provide
opportunities to learn peacebuilding, nonviolence and
nonviolent communication techniques, and to network with
others.
Mustard Seed
Project (MSP)
Director, Kandy
Turner
MSP, an ongoing project of
PIET, provides funding for a wide variety of
peacebuilding projects and activities. Applicants from
around the world can request small sums for specific
peacebuilding needs.
Institute of Spirituality
and Global
Economics (SAGE)
Co-Directors, Bob Rundle & John Lackey
SAGE is an institute that has
grown out of a study group of the United Church of
Christ, Knoxville TN. SAGE seeks to continue the
explorations of that group, sharing relevant articles
and articulating the connections between spirituality
and global economics.
International
Congress of World Citizens
(ICWC)
(Projected)
ICWC is a proposed
gathering of peacebuilders from all over the world.
It would run for 5 days bi-annually and include: (1)
plenary sessions to consider resolutions prepared ahead
of time by a Resolutions Committee; (2) addresses by
leading peace activists from around the world and (3)
workshops on a wide variety of topics relevant to
peacebuilding. Worldwide interest in the programs of
PIET and WCIAS indicate that the time may well be right
to organize such a congress.
Institute for
Human Rights Research (IHRR)
Director, Dr. Liem Doan
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World
Citizenship for Advanced Studies
Institute (WCIAS)
President, James Foster
Vice President for Academic Affairs,
(position open)
WCIAS is a graduate level online program of study in the
areas of: world citizenship, international relations,
international political economy, economic justice and
globalization, human rights, and conflict transformation
and peace education. The program is designed to be
affordable to students in developing countries.
WCIAS
also publishes the online semi-annual journal, “eJournal
of World Citizenship and Global Peace.” It is
available online, and is free to those who request it.
www.ChristianSpirituality.org
Institutes for Christian Spirituality (ICS)
Director, James L. Foster
This Institute, formed in
1988, is under the direction of its founder, James L.
Foster, a Christian mystic and theologian. It is
the research arm of ICS and
publishes En Christo: A Journal for a New
Christianity, an online quarterly (available
free to those who request it), edited by James
Foster and John Lackey. It also facilitates
occasional workshops on various aspects of Christian
Spirituality such as centering prayer, dream analysis,
gifts for ministry and spiritual eldering.
ICS includes the
following three Institutes:
Institute for Interfaith
Relationships (IIR)
Director, Rev. Marcia C. Free
The purpose of IIR is to
promote the healing of relationships among those of
differing religious traditions. Toward this end,
we promote interreligious dialogue through formal and
informal contacts, including electronic publications,
seminars, and such other means as the Institute may have
at its disposal.
Institute for Sacred
Psychology (ISP)
(position open)
ISP seeks to address through
published articles, and occasional workshops and
seminars the separation of psychology and spirituality,
which it views as inseparable, inasmuch as human beings
are innately spiritual. Through published articles
and occasional workshops and seminars, ISP seeks a
deeper and sacred understanding of what it means to be
made in the image of God.
Institute for Spiritual
Direction (ISD)
(position open)
ISD provides occasional
workshops, seminars and published materials to encourage
the practice of spiritual direction on an interfaith
basis. It also provides personal spiritual
direction to a limited number of individuals.
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