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Transforming Our World Together
Sophia Circles is an Interfaith Education
and Global Action Network which serves to communicate, coordinate and celebrate
the social development endeavors of organizations, groups and individuals.
Working in close partnership with the Sophia Womens World Conference, Beijing
Circles Initiative, and other agencies, Sophia Circles will focus on the
implementation of three goals and strategies:
Actualizing
the UN Beijing Platform for Action and CEDAW
Achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals
Attending the Environment: Bali Outcome and Water
Sophia Circles is a collaborative platform
whose mission is to educate, engage and enroll millions of individuals and
organizations, yet involved or connected into this global movement for peace and
social change.
The vision of Sophia Circles, conceived and established by
global social activist Kimberly King in 2003, seeks to catalyze a worldwide call
to action that inspires people of every state, culture and faith to unite for
the advancement of vial UN Living Documents to "transform the world
together."
Principally, Sophia Circles strives to
educate and align global issues and needs with local actions. By connecting
global UN Living Documents to community-based initiatives, the power of both individuals and collective groups can be leveraged to
accelerate progress toward a peaceful, just and sustainable world.
Sophia Circles will work
to:
Create global, regional
and local community partnerships for action and peace
Link people and their
initiatives to global human rights and social
development
Enable individual and
collective sharing of best practices and lessons learned.
Serve and connect the SophiaWWC Conference and 5WWC participants
with Education
and Action Circles before, during, and post
conference
Foster an environment for
new collaborations and joint-ventures to emerge
Support the vibrant
community of change-agents and world social activists
Sophia Circles will work closely with
diversely collaborative partners from multiple sectors of society. Joint actions
will advance the implementation of the SophiaWWC goals and strategies on the
Journey to Bulgaria and Beyond.
To meet the challenges of our times,
human beings must develop a greater sense of universal responsibility...nation
to nation, human to human, and humans to all forms.
~ His Holiness the
Dalai Lama
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