Peace and environment activist Satish Kumar on his love of blackbirds in Devon.
The latest world conference, held in Nairobi in November 2005, yielded the Nairobi Declaration on Sport, Peace, and Environment, which calls upon the IOC and national Olympic committees to act as leaders in promoting environmental sustainability through sports.
Prof. (PD), Free University of Berlin (ret).; chairman of Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS); editor of five English language book series published by SpringerNature; works on peace, security and environment.
He approached life with a child's optimistic exuberance and was a dogged warrior for peace and the environment.
A steady stream of provocative interventions in debates around social justice, peace and the environment followed, alongside poetry, drama, drawings and novels.
My advice to Mr. Obama: Simply present yourself as a humble, open listener with a genuine interest in peace and the environment.
U.S. history is filled with stories of successful movements, beginning with the American Revolution and continuing through abolition, suffrage, civil rights, peace and the environment.
It fell to Shirin Ebadi, the exiled Iranian Nobel peace prize winner and human rights activist, to break the tension, interrupt her speech and make the link between the bird, peace and the environment.
From 1977 to 1987 he was senior minister at Riverside Church, New York City, where on a world and local level he continued to pursue social programs related to poverty, nuclear disarmament, homelessness, juvenile delinquency, peace, and the environment.
A speechwriter for the German chancellor Willy Brandt, Grass was never afraid to use the platform his fame afforded, campaigning for peace and the environment and speaking out against German reunification, which he compared to Hitler's "annexation" of Austria.
"The combination of the 'war on terrorism' and demands to combat EU-wide protests on a range of issues - peace and the environment, racism and globalisation - means that domestically the political police - special branch and MI5 - are more intrusive in everyday political activity than at any other point in British history," claims Tony Bunyan, editor of the Statewatch bulletin.
