Responding To The Challenges
Of The Twenty-first Century
working together for interactive development in a less violent world.

Based in Egypt but internationally linked via international advisory board, the Foundation operates from the heart of the Arab World, the Middle East, a most relevant region in the North South interface and in the meeting interface of the World's major religions. The Foundation is well placed for action towards its objectives.

To demonstrate the theory and practice, initially in a non-European, non-post industrial revolution context, of :

· humane, environment-sensitive, participatory sustainable development.

· the potential for attaining self sufficiency and acceptable standards of living using industry and technology selectively and in service of human and Earth values, and at the same time respecting cultural and behavioural differences and respecting aspects of local knowledge and wisdom.

· new pathways for promotion and maintenance of health at a personal, family, societal and finally international level by applying the new WHO criteria, in concordance with our criteria, that define health as not only the freedom from physical and mental disease, but also the ability, and opportunity-as a right- to grow to full potential, and the ability to form creative interactive relations with the dynamic and pluralistic aspects of "self" , "others" and the environment, thus generating the sense of creative, non-violent well-being on an individual, societal and international level that is our definition of health.

· the potential and mechanisms for resolution of violence in human relations by implementing the above mentioned concept of health through which the "other" can not be externalised or dehumanised or deliberately disempowered as a prelude to abuse or marginalisation. The other not only being "other" nationalities, races and religions, but most fundamentally the other "gender" and the other "generation", including children and old people. The participation and empowerment of women into a truly interactive role is thus a major objective of our work.
In the pursuit of the above objectives we are responding to the international crisis involving post-industrial Euro-America as well as the crisis of the Southern hemisphere. We are responding to the challenge of modernity and techno revolutions determined to give them a human and humane face countering the erosion of human values, human freedom and the erosion of the environment.

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