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Inner peace can transform the outer world. The stillness within us creates beauty in the world. – Lionel Ketchian
My dream is that every child will grow up feeling loved. Then the fact is the future will be taken care of for us all. – Bernie Siegel, MD
I dream that introspection and reflection will yield pure thoughts in all! – Ann Dinan, PhD
2022 Dreams for Peace
You may not be responsible for world peace, but you are responsible for your piece/peace. – Brian Farr
May the world leaders emphatically and irrevocably choose Peace! – Lynn Kitchen
I dream of harmony and peace on the earth … that we get along and take care of our neighbors and become one loving family. – Barbara Muller
What is your peace dream for 2022?
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Editor’s Corner
Barbara Muller is a peace activist, educator, and Peace Podcast host.
Bench of Dreams, Muller Peace Park, Costa Rica
ditor’s Corner: As most of you know, I spent seventeen incredible years traveling and working for peace with my husband Robert Muller. One of the delights of those years was watching dreams being manifested on the Bench of Dreams on the sacred Mount Rasur above the University for Peace in Costa Rica. I would like to invite all of you to create your own Bench of Dreams where you can dream your own future. The dream process that emerged from this magical place is to hold two stones or pebbles while visualizing your dream. One stone is then placed on the Earth so that it will honor and remember your dream. The other stone is kept with you as a reminder of the dream. With this issue of Peace Community magazine, we are honoring artists and authors who are each creating beautiful dreams of peace for our world. We hope you will take time to listen … or re-listen … to the podcasts of these amazing peace people.
– Gratefully,
Barbara Muller
CONTENTS 2 Peace Dreams for 2022 3 Editor’s Corner 4 UNA-USA 6 Recent Peace Podcasts 8 Featured podcasters 10 Robert Muller 14 Brian Berman’s Free Gift 15 Gratitude 16 Int’l Cities of Peace 18 In Passing Back Pieces of Peace ************************************************
The Team
Founder & Editor Editorial & Layout Cover Art
Barbara Muller Tony Morrison & Joyce Wycoff Joyce Wycoff
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” – Maya Angelou
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The United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) is a movement of Americans dedicated to supporting the United Nations. With over 20,000 members (60% under the age of 26) and more than 200 chapters across the country, UNA-USA members are united in their commitment to global engagement and their belief that each of us can play a part in advancing the UN’s mission and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Recent Peace Podcast Highlights
Dinan founded the Ubuntu Leadership Institute after she was called to help fulfill Mandela’s vision to make Ubuntu South Africa’s gift to the world. She is currently writing a book on Communityship and Peace Leadership.
Killelea, CEO of the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) and a Global philanthropist, says, “Peace is a word much used and its meaning is different for everyone and can be expressed in our own vivid and compelling ways.”
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When asked ”How real is the danger of nuclear war?”, the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize responded, “The threat is real!” Dr. Helfand has published studies on the medical consequences of nuclear war in major medical journals and has lectured widely around the world on the health effects of nuclear weapons. Watch or listen #73 6
Education Cannot Wait is working to transform the delivery of education in emergWATCH encies, one that links governments, humanitarian actors, and development efforts to deliver a more collaborative and rapid response to the educational needs of children and youth affected by crises. Listen to hear how her personal letters got her into the United Nations as an intern. Watch or listen #79B Enjoy peace podcasts on PeacePodcast.org
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Peace Podcast #25: Brian Berman Artist for Peace How can you bring peace into your life with Art, Thoughts and Conversation? Listen to Brian talk about his in peace building, and how it came from his years of meditation and peace practices. He teaches love and compassion for oneself as an essential ingredient, for without peace on the inside there can be no peace on the outside. Brian is an award-winning sculptor as well as the former codirector and facilitator of the Compassionate Listening JewishGerman Reconciliation Project. He and his wife Lisa established the educational non-profit Awakening Peace Inc after they cocreated Ojai, CA, as an International City of Peace (ICP).
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His sculptures represent the importance of stillness, serenity, and a peaceful presence as part of creating a sacred space. His role as a peacemaker was born as a child when he wandered through an exhibit about the Holocaust. Later, while facilitating a Jewish German Reconciliation Project in Germany, he realized Hitler had made him, inadvertently, a peace-maker. More at BermanSculpture.com
Peace Podcast #17: Joyce Wycoff Gratitude through art and words Is peace a dance between gratitude and generosity? While searching for the meaning of life, Joyce began exploring gratitude and generosity, seemingly separate yet, somehow, two-sides of the same coin. In 2016, she published Gratitude Miracles, the journal that could change everything and began a serious gratitude practice as she wandered through Mexico for two years, enjoying the beauty, color, music, food, and most of all, the people. After a strong yearning for home brought her back to California, she began a deeper dive into gratitude, recognizing it as a pathway to almost every good thing … self-understanding, relationships, happiness, resilience, health and energy, connection to self and the world around us, relationships, abundance … and peace. She is now working with her long-term collaborator, Lynne Snead to create a radically different approach to practicing gratitude and understanding self. More at GratitudeMojo.com
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Peace Podcast #72: Joni Carley, PhD Author of Alchemy of Power What are the invisible powers of leadership? Joni Carley has been consulting and coaching with private and public sector leaders and their teams for over twenty-five years. Joni’s expertise in values-driven leadership and life development draws on her unique depth of experience—ranging from the jungle to the boardroom, the African Bush to Asian Temples, and from universities to the United Nations.
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She works extensively with the United Nations and in this podcast she talks about factors that business owners (and all of us general) need to master to be successful and prosperous. She refers to “mojo” often in her book and explains that“mojo” is the spark of life and energy and how to develop your own spark. Grounded squarely in data, and anchored deeply in universal wisdom, her book reveals what power is, what it means to have it, how to develop and manage it, and how to navigate the global call to create a better world.
Peace Podcast #4: Bernie Siegel, MD Author of 365 Prescriptions for the Soul Why do some people live longer than expected to? Bernie Siegel, considered one of the world’s most respected doctors, has been a leading advocate of alternative healing. On this podcast, he talks about the real reason some patients live longer than expected. He says they always had a story and it wasn’t about trying not to die, it was about enjoying the time they had left. In what Dr. Siegel calls his favorite book, the one he still reads, here is the BernieSiegelMD.com beginning of Prescription #3: The greatest truth I know about life is that love is the answer. If you ask me what the question is, I will tell you it is every question you could ever ask. Love is always the answer to every question and problem. We are here to love and be loved and learn a few things in the process. We can never be wrong when we choose to love. 8
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Peace Podcast #39: Larry Dossey, MD Author of One Mind Are we on the verge of a new way to heal and practice medicine? Larry Dossey is a distinguished physician of internal medicine, deeply rooted in the scientific world. In this podcast Dr. Dossey explores the role of the mind, consciousness, prayer and spirituality in health. He shares his 30 years of research that propounds the role of spirituality and prayer in healthcare. Dossey lectures widely in the United States and abroad. The impact of his work on consciousness and spirituality brought him to deliver the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India, the only physician ever invited to do so.
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The premise of One Mind is that all individual minds are part of an infinite, collective dimension of consciousness.. This state— which we can all access—explains many diverse phenomena as diverse as epiphanies, creative breakthroughs, and remote healings.
Peace Podcast #29: Anne Baring, PhD Author of Dream of the Cosmos Why do people feel, think and act the way they do? Anne Baring is a symbol of hope for our future development. As you listen you will hear Anne’s outlook on our present condition. Her perspective shows us how blessed we are to be human and opens our minds and hearts to confront the greatest issues facing our time. She helps us understand the roots of our current suffering and leads us to a new and sacred vision for our reality.
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Anne has always been fascinated by the power of individuals to shape and influence history. As a world traveler, former fashion designer, and now a Jungian analyst, she explores mythology, religion, and psychology. Her latest book The Dream Of The Cosmos presents the crises of our time with great clarity and offers solutions for individual and planetary healing. Every page is filled with hope for our new beginnings and for a new civilization of love, peace and kindness. It is the one book everyone must read now! 9
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… people creating a more peaceful world “Prophet - The Hatmaker’s Son is the inspiring, true story of Robert Muller, a man who lived through the atrocities of World War II and then dedicated his life to peace. Gillies brings to vivid life the remarkable achievements and astounding story of this great global citizen. Prophet is a reminder to every reader why war does not work– and offers a path to a better way.” – Mary Manin Morrissey, author of Building Your Field of Dreams and No Less Than Greatness “Robert Muller has had a very large, positive influence on me. He has a wonderful, global outlook and a loving, kind-hearted attitude of forgiveness and understanding and patience. I have great admiration and respect for him. He’s one of the greatest men to come along in a long time” – Ted Turner, AOL TimeWarner “Robert Muller has seen our species at our worst and still ebulliently believes in our best. In his presence, you want to rise and rise and rise again to whatever occasion is before you. He is a global treasure–and so will you be if you let his spirit enter your life. I did … and look what happened!” – Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life “When the true history of the Twentieth Century is told, Robert Muller’s name will stand out as one of the greatest world servers of all time. This powerful book is filled with stories and anecdotes that delight as they illumine the path of greatness. He is a spiritual giant as well as a hugely original thinker, and the story of his life is a testament to the glory of the human spirit.” – Jean Houston, PhD, author of Jump Time
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When Robert Muller was 25, tragedy changed the course of his life. "It was towards the end of World War II," he tells me. "I was part of the French resistance. My company got a message that there was a barracks nearby and which 20 armed German shoulders were hiding. I was the only one who spoke German, so I was assigned to negotiate. They were young men, boys really, frightened and desperate. Through a megaphone I persuaded them to come out. I promised them that we wouldn’t harm them, that they would be safe and sent home in a few days time. They came out and surrendered.” Muller frowns deeply, and continues in a low voice. "The next day I was informed that they were all dead -- shot by the French resistance.” He crosses his arms, covering the necklaces he got from Pope John Paul II and the Hopi Indians. Then he throws his arms up in the air, “Can you imagine how I felt? They had been betrayed! To this day I still see their faces in front of me.” Upon hearing the news that they had been killed, Muller ran up the hill and fell to the ground sobbing, repeating to himself, “My Ode Magazine, January/February 2006 12
God, what have I done? Later when he descended the hill, he was a man with a mission. But how do you work effectively for peace, that was what the young Robert Muller asked himself as he worked toward his degree in economics at the University of Strasbourg near his family home in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. His answer arrived while he was on the train after the end of the war he had forgotten to bring anything to read but remembered that the French Association for the United Nations was offering a prize of 5,000 francs to the best student essay on developing a world government. So he jotted down his thoughts and a few weeks later he was informed he had won the essay contest and was invited to be an intern at the newly created United Nations in New York. That was 1948. The internship would mark the beginning of a distinguished 40-year career at the UN, during which Muller coordinated a number of UN agencies, ultimately rising to Assistant SecretaryGeneral, a position he occupied under three consecutive Secretary-Generals.
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Santa Barbara … International City of Peace #323
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OUR VISION in adopting City of Peace as a designation: We believe in the fundamental right to peace for all of our citizens. For the work of the United Nations Association of Santa Barbara as well as the legacy of fostering a culture of peace in the City, County, and beyond, Santa Barbara is, hereby, established as an International City of Peace. 1. The United Nations Association of Santa Barbara and Tri-Counties has persistently and consistently waged the cause of peace in our community. 2. The organization created the Santa Barbara UNA Peace Prize, now in its 5th year of being awarded to people in our community who are waging the cause of peace and advancing human rights in the world. Past awardees include Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, World Business Academy, PACE Universal, and Unity Shoppe, Direct Relief International, and the Santa Barbara Film Festival. 3. The organization hosts speakers monthly at our UN Association meetings for the cause of peace. In the pandemic, we quickly vaulted our capabilities to host international speakers on the subject of peace over Zoom and lower the barriers for our community to participate. 16
4. Barbara Muller hosts Peace Podcasts to spread the cause of peace in our community. 5. The organization is a foremost advocate against human trafficking in our county, hosting education forums and penning articles for our media that awaken others as to how they can end human suffering to become a more peaceful community. 6. The UN Association hosted Youth In Peril to bring awareness and promote collaborative efforts to end youth violence in our community. 7. The organization sent delegates to the UN’s Global Organizing Summit, to meet with Congressional leaders to advance the cause of the United Nations, and to the United Nations 65th Annual Conference on the Status of Women and the International Generational Forum for Equality in Mexico City and Paris to promote peace and equality for all. Total Worldwide Cities of Peace to date:
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Peacebuilding Now How we create a community culture of peace is evolving. Peace building is more effective at the community level where needs are known and solutions come from collaboration and cooperation between all sectors of society: the arts, education, environment, business, safety and security, recreation, faith-based, service, wellness, and government. *** Goals in becoming a City of Peace: We support the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1947. What does it mean to our community to have Peace Officers, rather than policemen? We believe it leads to healthier, more cohesive communities. What does it mean when we resort to diplomacy and peace-building to solve our problems? We believe it creates a city with greater respect for one another, a culture of inclusivity and collaboration, that benefits all of our citizens. When peace is the desired outcome of negotiations and community discussion on issues that arise, We believe the community will obtain far better results that will be reflected in increased wellbeing and welfare of its citizens. AA[[
Barbara Muller is an internationally known peace maker. She is President of the United Nations Association, Santa Barbara, CA Chapter, (www.unasb.org) and a popular peace podcaster (PeacePodcast.org).
Sharon Byrne is VP Communications, United Nations Association of Santa Barbara and Tri-Counties since 2015. She is a community organizer, specializing in efforts to create community voice, and reduce crime and homelessness via humanitarian initiatives.
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In passing …
Avon Mattison President & Co-Founder/ Steward of Pathways To Peace (PTP)
On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, we lost a lifelong peacemaker, Avon Mattison, and the world lost an amazing peacebuilder. Please send thoughts and prayers to her family and friends, whose lives are forever changed for the better because of the heart and mind of this loving woman. Avon Mattison was a Peacebuilder and InterOrganizational Consultant, Advisor and Mentor with five decades of experience. She worked with innovative leaders, groups and organizations on the “frontline” building a diverse regenerative Culture of Peace, inter-generationally and multi-culturally for the Common Good & future generations.
emerging youth leaders. Avon Mattison was also connected with the U.S. Foreign Service for three years in the European Community during the Cold War era. Through Pathways To Peace, she cocreated the Culture of Peace Initiative in 1983/84 in colleagueship with former UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller. This local/global Peacebuilding Initiative unites the strengths of over 4,000 international organizations and focuses co-operative Peacebuilding along diverse pathways/sectors. The celebration of life for Avon included a touching video which can be seen here. http://pathwaystopeace.org/
She was Co-Founder and President of Pathways To Peace (PTP), an international Peacebuilding, educational and consulting organization. PTP has Consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and is an official Peace Messenger Organization of the United Nations (UN). Avon had served as special advisor to United Nations Conferences, Declarations and Programmes, and also to renowned international leaders and 18
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In Gratitude … I am deeply grateful for my extraordinarily gifted partners. My IT person, Tony Morrison, who supported me for every Podcast, designed the PeacePodcast Website and created the Peace Podcast App. I would not have these quality shows and internet presence without you! Joyce Wycoff, my Editor and design genius who created this new format and worked tirelessly to bring you our January 2022 Peace Community Magazine. And extraordinary gratitude goes to all the visionary Peace Podcast guests and I thank you dear Podcast viewers for your emails and love as we work together for Peace On Earth. Happy New Year!
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