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Global Majority is an international organization committed to the promotion of non-violent conflict resolution. We aim to accomplish this through education, negotiation, mediation and advocacy. We believe that violent conflict is antithetical to the sustained growth and health of humanity. Therefore we believe all forms of informal and formal dialogue to be essential and preferred methods of conflict resolution. 
Global Majority members share a common commitment to organize and facilitate an international movement promoting nonviolent conflict resolution. Violence is too often the preferred option for resolving conflict. The nature of violence is rooted in political marginalization, poverty, racial and gender discrimination, environmental degradation, population displacement, and inadequate healthcare.  We are forming a global network to pressure state and non-state actors to stop resorting to violence and start dialogue. We recognize and emphasize the universal human right of all people to realize their fullest potential of human capacity and develop cultures of peace. We believe that the global majority want peace but too often lack a voice in the decisions affecting our lives. We believe that can change! 
Advocacy: To promote a fundamentally new manner of thinking in global relations, Global Majority is developing national, regional, and global advocacy campaigns that embody our aim to give voice to the global majority. 
Education and Training: Since its inception in 2004, Global Majority has demonstrated its capacity to engage both the local and international communities in adopting and promoting nonviolent conflict resolution principles and practices.  The organization utilizes two primary tools in this endeavor: training workshops and conferences. By conducting both focused training programs and broad, public conferences, we ensure that our message reaches a wide audience among the diverse global communities. 
Research and Analysis: Global Majority conducts research to raise global awareness about current conflicts, to explore non-violent conflict resolution practices, to analyze violent conflicts, to recommend non-violent solutions and, ultimately, to prevent violent conflict. Translating vital materials into different languages is a key component of Global Majority .
Networking: We are building an alliance of organizations and global citizens devoted to peace and the resolution of disputes through negotiation, mediation, and other forms of non-violent conflict resolution. Our International Advisory Board, which consists of such professionals working to create peace in their home countries and around the world, is the seed of Global Majority network.

THE GLOBAL PLEDGE
Download the Global Pledge Here

Declaration of Principles Promoting Dialogue: Giving Voice to the Global Majority
Preamble: Recognizing that violence is too often the preferred option for resolving conflict and that the spiral of violence continues to impact innocents; considering the need to convert global military budgets to investment in programs that will uplift the human condition; recognizing the multi-faceted nature of violence rooted in political marginalization, poverty, racial and gender discrimination, environmental degradation, population displacement, and inadequate healthcare (especially as manifest in HIV/AIDS crisis), and believing that the global majority want peace but too often lack a voice in the decisions affecting our lives, I endorse the following principles as part of the Global Majority Pledge with the goal of developing a global network to pressure governments and others resorting to violence to sit down and negotiate:

  1. Peace can be achieved through the active participation of the global majority;
  2. Non-violent conflict resolution (NVCR) must be adopted and practiced by all;
  3. Constructive dialogue, negotiation, mediation, and other forms of non violent conflict resolution can replace military and armed conflict;
  4. Gender, racial, and ethnic equality must be respected as critical to the achievement of effective cooperation and dialogue among people and should be prioritized in education, government relations, business, and diplomacy;
  5. Inclusion of diverse stakeholders and interest groups in constructive dialogue is critical to the achievement of durable and non-violent alternatives to violence;
  6. To be human is to respect the humanity of others. Respect can be cultivated, earned, and modeled;
  7. Social responsibility must be practiced and promoted by all sectors of the global community including civil society, governments, businesses, labor, religious organizations, academia, the media, and the military;
  8. Non-violent direct action that is creative and supportive of dialogue should be supported at the local, regional, and global level among individuals, organizations, and networks;
  9. The practice of peace will build the path to peace.

---- SIGN THE GLOBAL PLEDGE AT WWW.GLOBALMAJORITY.ORG ----

Contact Information for Global Majority
479 Pacific street 5C
Monterey, California 93940, USA
Tel.: +1.831.372.5519
Fax.: +1.831.372.5519
E-mail: info@globalmajority.net
www.globalmajority.org