World Voice

World Voice: Inspiring a Conscious Signature is a snap shot in time that brings together people from around the globe to become part of the historical record of the times. Contributors share their lives, passions, poetry, stories, and their humanity by inviting the reader to step into another's shoes and be part of their life by association. The World Voice series has the goal of fostering communication and commonality of all people across cultures and beyond borders. In supporting World Voice you are helping to create a community where neighbors might become friends, and all people have the opportunity to continue a conversation into the next volume. It's our hope that World Voice might inspire readers as it does the contributors to take hold of their own creative capacity and to fashion their life in a way that makes them proud to be living it! Together, we will positively impact one life at a time and touch the whole world. So take your place, take a chance, and leave your mark.

This book is part of the World Voice Project Book Series which invites you to become part of one of the largest emerging Community Learning Networks (CLN) seeking to encourage a participatory culture worldwide. This project selects works that bring about conversation, raise awareness, contrast thoughts and opinions, entertain, inform, and give voice to those who have struggled to be heard. We do this in order to express who "WE" are on a global scale. These works become part of the historical record while inviting the reader to step into another's shoes. The World Voice Project has the goal of fostering the communication and commonality between people across cultures and beyond borders. It is our hope that the World Voice Project might inspire its readers to take hold of their own creative capacity and fashion their life in a way that makes them proud

World Voice: Beginnings began as an independent Thanatology study in China. Thanatology is the study of how we deal with loss in our lives and how we refocus back on what matters to us in life. Inspired by the many people I met, people willing to tell me the story of their lives, my study grew. As I got to know these people I felt as though I was blessed to be able to have this experience. By sharing with you their words you will be able to gain considerable insight into their everyday world. You may agree with the people here or disagree. I invite you to offer your own story and become a part of the World Voice project. When you read World Voice: Beginnings you are not simply a reader, you will become part of this voice. Take a chance and leave your mark. In sharing what truly matters to you, you will learn that you are not alone.

There are times when we all feel that no one is listening to us, and no one understands us. I look back on moments of my life where my path was elusive and I longed for expression. In creating World Voice: Invisible Lines I have shaped a platform where people across the globe can come together and share their voice. In sharing the sorrowful joy and the joyful sorrow of our lives as engaged people we begin to see ourselves in the lives of one another. World Voice: Invisible Lines is a snap shot of a small space in time and a select few people that now know "We" are listening. The goal of this book is to foster communication and commonality of all people across borders. We all have a need to share ourselves with another and when you read this book you share in their voice. Take your place, take a chance, leave your mark, and share your voice. We are a community within your community, and listening is only one part of the conversation.

There are times when we all feel that no one is listening to us, and no one understands us. In sharing the sorrowful joy and the joyful sorrow of our lives as engaged people we begin to see ourselves in the lives of one another. World Voice: Connected Communities is a snap shot of a small space in time and a select few people that now know "We" are listening. Writers from around the globe share their lives, passions, poetry, stories, spiritual pilgrimages, and their own humanity, while becoming part of the historical record of a burgeoning global society. The World Voice book series has the goal of fostering communication and commonality of all people across borders. In supporting the World Voice series you are making a difference in people's lives by taking part in creating a community where neighbors might become friends, and all people can connect meaningfully to improve the quality of one life at a time with the intention to touch the whole world. So take your place, take a chance, and leave your mark.

Ilona Klímová-Alexander brings Europe's largest transnational and most marginalized ethnic minority, the Roma (Gypsies), into the discourse of international relations. The book describes and analyzes the attempts of the Romani activists to gain voice in world politics by interacting with the United Nations (UN) system and explores their capabilities and impact. This study has three objectives: it provides an introduction to global Romani activism in terms of its anatomy, history, political manifestos, goals and activities; it establishes the extent and essence of the Romani voice in world politics and its influence on the UN discourse on Roma; furthermore, it looks at how interacting with the UN system has affected the organizational structure of the global Romani activism and its discourse. Based largely on primary resources and fieldwork, this book will engage international relations scholars, political scientists and those concerned with social movements and ethnic and racial studies.

Brings together the most important and inspiring speeches made by James Wolfensohn during his time as World Bank president.

The author examines how indigenous activists are cultivating international support for a programme of self-determination and legal protection, as well as how the indigenous voice in world politics is transforming civic discourse within the international community. With the United Nations designating 1993 as the `Year of Indigenous Peoples', this book could not be more timely.