Director Dr. Carlos Warter Mission and Purpose:

This work is accomplished by empowering individuals and groups to create projects in their home regions that are in alignment with their own vision for their communities. A better quality of life, holistic health, ecological education and public policy grounded in an altruistic perspective for public service are its objectives. It was established in 1982 as a non-profit educational corporation and was granted the Peace Messenger Award by the United Nations in 1987. The World Health Foundation for Development and Peace premises are based on the integration of the global meaning of health, education and Peace and its applications to the development of science, art, technology and human values.

Developing Responsible Citizenship:

Every year hundreds of thousands of men and women become citizens of this great nation. They bring new skills, talents and ideas to our society, they bring diversity and multiplicity to our culture, they inspire others and build careers, families and new businesses.Unfortunately, many of them come from countries and cultures where disobedience of the law, civil dishonesty and corruption is a way of life. Frequently, they have not being able to enjoy in their communities the benefits of responsible citizenship, consequently cannot appreciate its value and importance.

Americans by Choice Education Program:

Americans by choice is an educational program designed to teach appreciation and respect for civility and the laws. Through a conscientious and empowering methodology new residents and citizens to be, learn to recognize, to value, to welcome and to enjoy the great outcome that responsible citizenship and community involvement have in their adoptive society and the entire country at large. The comprehensive American by Choice Educational Program on Public Spirit for New Residents and Citizens of the United States of America has two interrelated activities: The Individual Empowerment Program and the Institutional Empowerment Program.

Dr. Warter speaks at the State of the World Forum:

The growing integration of the world through information technology and economic globalization illustrates profoundly the need for rigorous multi-stakeholder dialogue and inquiry into the practical design and the compassionate, sustainable management of human systems. Increasingly, with information technologies empowering individuals everywhere, humanity's future rests with the people of the world and the networks they are creating.

Successful global governance must include not only governments but the private sector and civil society as peers in a co-creative process of discernment and cooperation. Only when these three major sectors of society are included in the deliberations concerning the human future will the answers we seek begin to emerge.

The intent of the State of the World Forum is to work with partners world-wide to accomplish two objectives: to help galvanize the emergence of the private sector and civil society as key players in global governance; and to keep the questions of ethics and equity on the forefront of humanitys decisions related to globalization and the applications of scientific and technological advances.

Nothing short of this is worth the potential future to which the 21st century and the third millennium point. It is to this that Forum 2000 is dedicated.

Americans by Choice Educational Program:

Americans by Choice Educational Program is a comprehensive educational program developed by The World Health Foundation for Development and Peace and implemented by The Corporation for Educational Empowerment. Its mission is to empower individuals, through a process of personal rediscovering and revaluation, first, to be able to recognize and appreciate their own, as well as others, ethnic cultural values and heritage, and secondly, to learn how to incorporate these values and personal abilities into the American society and culture so they can participate as active and productive members.

Purpose of the Program:

I. To serve as a foundation for the teaching and dissemination of notions oriented to a better quality of life in which participants will develop abilities as responsible and active citizens.
II. To develop new educational projects in the fields of mutual understanding.
III. To connect and disseminate information of related skills to individuals and groups who are in the process of developing global vision.
IV. To disseminate technology and information via audiovisuals, publications and seminars with purposeful and positive meanings oriented to the promotion of a better culture.

The Problem:

Immigration policies implemented in the last 10 years plus recently signed international treaties, agreements and Congressional Acts, are attracting massive immigration and quickly incorporating them into our communities. They globally make tremendous contributions to the diversity and multicultural composition of our society which is translated into great benefits to the community. However, an unprecedented large number of the newcomers, are culturally and civilly unprepared to incorporate themselves and fully assimilate the U.S. culture of the third millennium, creating a progressive deterioration of the common standard of living as well as the general well-being of the society.

In addition, the lack of social and civil adaptation, creates a constant conflict between the maladjusted immigrant, the civil framework and the established authorities, originating a psychological and emotional wear out of all parties. The World Health Foundation for Development and Peace has identified these two alarming and very destructive circumstances taken place in our communities and wants to help.

The Solution:

In order to provide a practical and viable solution for the Problem The World Health Foundation for Development and Peace has commissioned and contracted an executive separate legal entity named The Corporation for Educational Empowerment whose mission is to formulate and implement educational plans to remedy and hopefully reverse this critical development.

Source Element:

We acknowledge the contributions of all the people quoted or whose words and ideas you may recognize in this document that have not been cited because they have become part of the public domain.

We are standing on the shoulders of giants. We dedicate this document to all forefathers and all descendants, to all the peoples of the earth who join us in spirit and in our quest for wholeness. We acknowledge the inspiration and contribution of Dr. Halfdan Mahler, Former Director General of The World Health Organization, The late Willis Harman, former President of IONS Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy, The Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Staff, assistants and supporters of The World World Health Foundation for Development And Peace for Development And Peace.

Introduction:

As Dr. Halfdan Mahler, Director-General of The United Nations World Health Organization, said, "We have the resources and technology to achieve Health for All by 2000 A.D., what we lack is the inspiration and commitment." We are very close to this date and very little changes have really been achieved since the Alma Ata Declaration.

We, The World Health Foundation for Development And Peace, will provide the inspiration and commitment needed to find solutions to problems of health existing in the world. We understand that the body's cry for help in illness must be understood for what it really is, the human spirit crying out for fulfillment, meaning and purpose.

We realize that we are not separate from one another, and that our combined Self is greater than the sum of our individual beings.

The World Health Foundation for Development And Peace began with the vision of a small group of people in the San Francisco area holding the dream of Health for All in their hearts and souls.

Our purpose is to contribute to a shift in global consciousness which creates the conditions necessary for the End of Needless Suffering and The Achievement of Health for All.

We join with the 158 nations which have already signed the Alma Ata Charter with The United Nations World Health Organization to provide the inspiration and commitment to create those conditions necessary for a global shift to occur.

Definition of Health:

By "Health" we do not mean just the absence of disease. Health is a quality of connectedness. As Socrates said in 500 B.C. "There is no illness of the body apart from the mind."

Our first step is to see Health as flowing from an awareness of our own wholeness. Health is the integration of mind, body and spirit, and our awareness and appreciation of everything we think, do and feel. From this awareness we will come to know that health and fulfillment are possible in each moment, here and now. Health goes beyond what we can see and measure. It has spirit quality, and energy flow. As Indira Gandhi said, "Wellness is not the absence of illness but a glowing vitality, a feeling of wholeness with a capacity for continuous intellectual and spiritual growth."

Wellness is never static. We do not get well or stay well. We move through degrees and levels of wellness. Each person has an inherent right to wellness. The "well" being does not have a superior quality like strength, bravery, youth, or even freedom from illness. From the context of wholeness one can have wellness even when physically handicapped, aged, in pain or in fear. We can move into a state of wellness no matter what our current state of health happens to be. We can grow and change, and allow ourselves to be healthy and happy in any given moment.

The Relationship between Health and Wholeness

Wholeness is the context which allows for the integration of mind, body and spirit. It is a condition from which we experience ourselves in balance and harmony. This wholeness is a context from which we can view circumstances that may have seemed hopeless, as opportunities for what is possible, and as a source of learning which contributes to wholeness. All circumstances are opportunities for wholeness.

Wholeness is not perfection. It is the acceptance of one's complete humanness which includes both our strengths and weaknesses. Wholeness may include all states of health. Wholeness is a context for experiencing illness as connecting us to others who are healthy. When we declare ourselves to the world as being whole and complete we include within this declaration our present state of health and our ever changing circumstances. This declaration is on going and it is wholeness.

As we become aware of our wholeness we begin to see how we have viewed ourselves as broken or imperfect and separate from others. We must acknowledge that our sense of separation is pervasive and that it is an illusion. There is no separation. Our fear of each other and our fear of unity divide us. The time has come for us to take a stand and to know that each of us is whole and complete and part of a larger world which is also whole and complete.