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This article, written when Elise Boulding was 82 years old, integrates themes that she had written about over a period of many years into a multidimensional view of citizenship that embraces love of the local community, one’s nation, the international community as exemplified by the constellation of institutions that make up the United Nations and Gaia/Mother Earth herself.
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This text was published as: “New Understandings of Citizenship: Path to a Peaceful Future?”, in: David Krieger (Ed.), Hope in Dark Times (Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 2003):119–132. Per communication with Capra Press dated 7 July, 2015 rights have reverted to the author, which are now held by Russell Boulding, who has granted permission to reprint.
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The 10,000 societies is a term referring to the existence of thousands of ethnicities, and appears in UNESCO’s 1996 report on Our Creative Diversity, as well as in Guy Ankerl’s Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations (Geneva: INU Press, 2000).
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See UNESCO, A Practical Guide to the World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988–1997 (Paris: UNESCO, 1987).
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A vivid description of citizen’s involvement in the development of the law of the sea is found in Citizen Action for Global Change. The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea, by Ralph B. and Miriam L. Levering, (Syracuse University Press, 1999).
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See Elise Boulding, Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History (Syracuse University Press, 2000), for more information about current developments with regard to peace culture and the involvement of INGOs in peace development work. For specific information about Culture of Peace Decade activities, contact David Adams, Global Movement for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence, 256 Shore Drive, Branford, CT 06405. On the Internet, http://www.culture-of-peace.info/.
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The UN Association of the United States (UNA-USA) is located at 801 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017-4706.
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The United Nations Chronicle is published quarterly by the United Nations Department of Public Information, United Nations, Room DC2-0853, New York, NY 10017.
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UNDIR and UNRISD are both located in the Palais des Nations, CH 1211, Geneva, Switzerland.
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The resolution on the importance of women in peacebuilding is Resolution 1325, adopted by the Security Council at its 4213th meeting, on 31 October 2000. Copies are available from International Alert, One Glyn St., London SEll, 5HT, England.
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See N. Kritz, (Ed.), Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, General Considerations. Vol. I (Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1995). See also Martha Minow’s Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (Boston: Beacon, 1998).
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An example of that type of healing program is found in Z. Narvaez (Ed.), Promotores de Paz, Revista del Programa de Educación y Acción para La Paz, Vol. 2, Numero 1, Febrero 1997 (Managua, Nicaragua: Centro de Estudios Internacionales).
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See K. Bird and L. Lifschutz, (Eds.), Hiroshima’s Shadow, Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (Stony Creek, CT: The Pamphleteers Press, 1998).
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See Kenneth Boulding, Sonnets from Later Life, 1981–1993 (Pendle Hill Publications, Wallingford, PA, 1994):55.
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Boulding, J.R. (2017). New Understanding of Citizenship: Path to a Peaceful Future? (2003). In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: Writings on Peace Research, Peacemaking, and the Future. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30987-3_8
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