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Welcome to the NewsLog or Blog of Heiner Benking. A kaleidoscope of insights and impulses collected first in the DaZiBao (Rio) process Seeds of Change Viewsletter of the Club of Budapest since 1995, continually updated ever since. Now available for broader distribution and comments in this blog - enjoy, and come again !
16 Jun 2011 @ 22:08
We have a "blind date" with Mokhtar YAHYAOUI, it was a thrilling, exciting and exhausting week preparing for a stranger on short notice, someone we only knew through "friends of friends", telephone, e-mails, web-sites and study - see his PROFILE:
He was at the time we had in mind for the Salon at CHATHAM HOUSE in London - so that has set the grid ! His visit was to replace on last minute the visit of Alexander Christakis as his trip was not financed [link] - such is life...
YAHYAOUI, now member of the HIGH COMMISSION for the comming elections is someone who thanks AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. and the UN HUman Rights Council a lot and showed personal integrity and daring ! So why not invite him? check:.
He is invited for our ANNA-LINDH SALON here in BERLIN - See documentation of the dialogues, a weeks programme in berlin and links to radio and TV: description[link] thanks to the programme Believe-dialogue-act-citizenship as recently launched: description[link] as part of the Anna-Lindh-Foundation
Some 2nd Salons will take place June 17-24 with a special guest from Tunis, Judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui.We will need to remember the 10th Anniversary of maybe the most critical letter he wrote in is life on July 6, 2001 to his president Ben Ali ….. and see what it has to do with the Elections in Tunesia this autumn…. See High Commission and latest news here. See also his Chatham House presentation from London 4 weeks ago. [link] and his Profile/Articles in French (PDF)
Please ask for the lecture programme between June 17-24 in Berlin and Hamburg – later Paris.
I recommend: German Arab Friendship Society event Thursday, June 23, 18:30 hrs in Berlin and the PRESS CONFERENCE June 22
Please do check the German network of the ANNA-LINDH-FOUNDATION [link] and the SALON ANNA-LINDH-SALON created by Positive Nett-Works, a Member of the German network.
The BELIEVE IN DIALOGUE - ACT FOR CITIZENSHIP initiative has in TUNIS these three tracks:
* Creativity for Change: Culture and Artistic Expression
* Spreading Ideas: Global and Social Media for Social Expression
* Spaces for Participation: Civil Society Development, Dialogue and Tools for Citizenship
Find out more at: [link] and see below some context.. More >
4 Jun 2011 @ 13:22
This was really important and breathtaking - very good people - intensive discussions - I was putting my eck out - from the floor.....
I will transcribe contriutions a.s.a.p.
Einstein Forum - Translating Atonement. Can Countries Learn from Each Other? [link] Translating Atonement. Can Countries Learn from Each Other. Tagungsplakat. Gerichtssaal bei den Nuernberger Prozessen. Zahlreiche Frauen sortieren Akten, ...
www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=751
Konf: Translating Atonement. Can Countries Learn from Each Other ? hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=16105
9. Mai 2011 ... Konferenz. Translating Atonement. Can Countries Learn from Each Other? ... Less Justice: Opening the Archives When Impunity Trumps Atonement ...
Amnesty: 50 Years | Amnesty International USA [link] 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Amnesty International, which began with one person and an idea -- to protect the basic dignity and human ...
www.amnestyusa.org/about-us/amnesty-50-years
50 Years of Human Rights Captured Visually - Amnesty International ...http://blog.amnestyusa.org/amnesty/50-years-of-human-rights-captured-visually/
2 Jun 2011 ... View a collection of five info-graphics that tell the story ...
blog.amnestyusa.org/amnesty/50-years-of-human-rights-captured-visually/
Auftakt 50 Jahre Amnesty International - Pressekonferenz am 25.03 [link]
9 May 2011 @ 06:09
Mothersday brought a nice surprise for me. My article in the long form finally hit the web-streets after a short version had been published a few weeks earlier. The title: Compassion or Ignorance? [link] summing up many years work on making concrete matters, subjects and issues which are not at hand, which are intangible but full of consequences that matter !
My approach is to use agreed upon, common frames of references, sometimes called an embodied covenant using not just words, but maps and models as supersigns.
Why? we have to address issues across scales, from different times, cultures and mind-sets. Easy !? Well maybe check the article..
1 May 2011 @ 12:49
In a 90 minutes Interview in our German radio dradio.de presents the work of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ripl. [link] He is critical about our society, climate sciences, agriculture, infrastructure, ..... and what their impact is on social and cultural coherence and the ruling compact.
I have covered him in my presentations in Geneva at the GYC 2010 [link] and GYC 2011 [link] but it needs such public radio to bring such climate and society issues into the public descourse.
He speaks about the water cycle and humidity, systems sciences, cycle economy, urban farming, ... all very relevant and critical. All covered in many entries in this blog below. See Intelligent Water and other recent entries: [link] Maybe start here:
[link] or here: [link] He is like Klaus Töpfer seeing CO2 as an asset - not as a waste !! So see what I wrote at the COP-15 UN Climate Summit, see 3 entries, scroll up: [link] and and. Besides he is a very nice guy !
Please check his work and website: [link] and come back as my topic is CULTURE-AGRICULTURE opening the Tagore exhibition tonight.
PS:
Willy Ripl has just returned from Australia. I recommend his Natural Sequence Farming presentation
The ABC's Australian Story for the first time ever, produced, a 3rd and 4th episode about Peter Andrews and his Natural Sequence Farming process. ... www.nsfarming.com
and some earlier presentaions: Defining the Science and - Natural Sequence Farming
Defining Natural Sequence Farming. Prof Wilhelm Ripl, Dr Jan Pokorny, Prof Haikai Tane. The role of biodiversity and the water cycle in the ... www.nsfarming.com/news061008.htm
30 Apr 2011 @ 10:31
INVITATION and INFORMATION about multi-series of events starting tomorrow with the 150 years celebration in honoring of Rabindranath Tagore. It is not only his 150th, but also 100th and 70th of Tagore this year - all important dates.
If in Berlin com Sunday May 1st and 8th to the Humboldt University in Berlin INVITATION, or later in August as a late eulogy of his 70th of his death.
I am rushing to polish our website so please check and follow: [link]
27 Apr 2011 @ 18:51
Announcing the World Culture Festival, July 2-3, in Berlin:
Prologue:
This is a unique entry in my blog because ...
''The Event:''
I am just comming from a press-conference in the Indian Embassy, where we learned about the planned dimensions of the event in early July and many locations and plans around that event - so stay tuned as this seems to be gigantic - but who else than people from India and the world would be able to cope with such a challenging vision?
This is what Google helps you find:World Culture Festival The Grand Celebration in the Olympiastadion Berlin as well as the World Pavilions .... "In the past 30 years the Art of Living Foundation has been bringing ... AND www.artofliving.org/world-culture-festival The Grand Celebration in the Olympiastadion Berlin as well as the World Pavilions will be ... of the 30th Anniversary of The International Art of Living Foundation. ... Welcome to Berlin! Read More. "30 years of the Art of Living: A big ... More >
22 Apr 2011 @ 15:42
todays trilogy of important days for me needs attention, even when "not in town" and busy with all these interconencted issues, needing contexts adn "elevators" between the scales.
I will not focus on Good Friday, but the idea to sacrifice for a global common makes sense and can reduce the the inflcition of suffering. See PANETICS and Eulogy for Ralp G. H. Siu and his International Society
TODAY IS WATER DAY UN [link] and IIED [link] I have written extensively about Water as a common and link for survival, see all the events in Geneva and Berlin the last weeks.
This is Heiner Benking's News Log, a private-public diary presenting events, symposia and happenings in Berlin and elsewhere - my farings, foci, issues and concerns.
PLEASE CONSIDER THIS PERSONAL BLOG an ARTISTIC and PERFORMATIVE MEDIA INTERVENTION !
The Log links to my work and interests and presents issues and special concern of maybe a very small group of "concerned, engaged generalist" - a Global Interest Group (GIG). This needs to be seen in contrast to the ubiquitous Specialized Interest Groups (SIGs), the "scientific" approach to organize subject areas and specialization and standardization and harmonization! of means, nomenclatures, and modes of thinking. My favorite stories in the WHOLENESS SEMINAR include:
BELA BANATHY: "GENESIS
OF GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY" and "IVAN HAVEL: Longing for Unified Knowledge" where a "specialist" runs into the founding session of the early foundations General Systems, mumbling "this is not my field" or where Ivan M. Havel expresses his search for other kinds of knowledge.
As a starter I also recommend to check my MINDPRINT site, where we add the need for HANDPRINTS and MINDPRINTS, as FOOTPRINTS are good to visualize and communicate numbers, densities or consumption per area, but are not sufficient to negotiate and "harmonize" across domains and communicate gains in different cultures, technologies, times,... in short: incompatible but relevant information and our work on dialog, peace, policy-making, and multi-modal, faceted issues and consequences.
What am I? This is a "well-packed" question for which I have not the or a single answer. Some called me an in-betweener, go-getter, facilitator, hub, marvel-hero, trim-tab, bricoleur, bricoleers??? - career designeer, .... Some even "hank" which I disliked or Story which I liked very much !!
I have no single answer as I feel we need to walk the talk and sing and dance Life ! in spectra and fields in multiple embodied spaces.
To nebulous an answer? I am sorry but I do not go for overclaims and oversimplifications, under-complex and over-simplistic approaches with clan-think mindsets about real issues in clear contexts!
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