Description: A new economic paradigm for a culture of peace.
non-violent (20) new paradigm (12) economic model (6) aparigraha (2) peace-economics (1) economics of non-harming (1) economics of non-greed (1)
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GCFP (Global Coalition for Peace) is a 501 © 3 educational non-profit foundation incorporated in the sate of Maryland, U.S. GCFP's main purpose is to replace the various forms of violence present in our every day life with love, respect and compassion. It was formed specifically to address the response of the US government to the events of 9/11. Our preoccupation with the exacerbation of violence promoted by that response led us to search for an answer. It was clear that neo-liberal imperialistic practices
Economics pervades all areas of life and international relations; therefore looking at it from the perspective of Yoga (the wisdom of the East, which in sanskrit means "union") we saw that the main problem with the prevailing economic system was its violence. Therefore the idea of an economics of non-violence (Ahimsa) became one of our main concerns. Four years of research yielded a four-volume compilation of alternative strains of economic theory and practices. (See Supplemental Materials page). Some commo