In Time Of War, A Monument To PEACE
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From The Washington Post...
For U.S. Institute of Peace, new home is 'like a temple'
Well it's about time we built something with Peace in mind and i do like the concept how this building and those who work there will work towards peace in the world.
More on the building itself.... http://www.usip.org/building/index.html
More about them... http://www.usip.org/about-us
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For U.S. Institute of Peace, new home is 'like a temple'
Well it's about time we built something with Peace in mind and i do like the concept how this building and those who work there will work towards peace in the world.
What is it? Who works there? The answer: the U.S. Institute of Peace, which often is followed by a variant of "the what?" The headquarters of the 27-year-old independent institute, scheduled to open to the public this year, is designed to raise the profile of a humble agency that occupies five floors of the National Restaurant Association.
"The new building is like a temple," said Qamar-ul Huda, a senior program officer in the institute's religion and peacemaking program. "We have monuments to those who fought in wars all over Washington, and rightly so, but we don't recognize the peacemakers. This building helps." It may also help to draw attention to Huda's small but increasingly active program, which studies the role of religion in war and peace and engages religious leaders in peacemaking.
Plenty of universities and independent think tanks are working at the nexus of religion and peace, said Ambassador Dane F. Smith, a senior adviser on Darfur at the State Department who has written a book about American peace-building institutions.
But the institute is a congressionally chartered, taxpayer-funded institute. Its willingness to work with religious leaders contrasts with popular conventional wisdom elsewhere in government, Smith said.
"Certainly the guidance to diplomats in the field is that they can meet with religious leaders - but don't go too far," Smith said.
The 325 employees at the independent, nonpartisan institute work outside the administration's foreign policy apparatus at the neighboring State Department, and they can't make government policy. The board, appointed by the president, must be equally divided among Republicans and Democrats.
Its annual $44 million operating budget is dwarfed by the State Department's - $54 billion in fiscal 2010. Congress allotted $100 million for the new, 150,000-square-foot headquarters, which was designed by Massachusetts-based architect Moshe Safdie and will cost $183 million. The institute must raise the balance from the private sector.
More on the building itself.... http://www.usip.org/building/index.html
More about them... http://www.usip.org/about-us
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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