Catherine Bordeau
Clergy Leader at Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, is the newest member of the NES Council. Catherine has extensive experience at the UN in the areas of Women's Empowerment and AIDS.
Kay Dundorf
Sylvain Ehrenfeld
Dr. Sylvain Ehrenfeld is an International Humanist and Ethical Union Representative to the UN.
View his "From the Un" Articles here.
Martha Gallahue
Martha Gallahue is an Ethical Culture Leader with National Ethical Service. As Main Representative for National Ethical Service at the UN, she facilitates a Climate Change Working Group at the UN and recently participated in the Durban Climate Change Conference at the UN. This Working Group is in association with the CONGO Committee on Sustainable Development. http://www.trunity.net/CoNGOSD/ She was one of the 1253 US citizens arrested outside the White House to remind President Obama not to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Martha also represents United Religions' Initiative and is active on the UN Committee of Religions. Google Committee of Religious NGO's at the UN for more information. She is a Council member of The Spiritual Caucus.
She is on the faculty of National Peace Academy.us as an edulearner and a founding member of the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace, a civil society initiative at the United Nations. Go to nationalpeaceacademy.us for more information.
At the UN, she spoke on two panels in October during the Week of Spirituality on October 25th and on November 10th for a program sponsored by the sub-committee to end racism and all forms of discrimination. She speaks frequently at local Societies' on various topics of global importance.
Kurt Johnson
Dr. Kurt Johnson is Vice-President of National Ethical Service. At the UN, he works with the Eco-Spirituality Working Group in association with the CONGO Committee Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns.
Lucile Kleiman
Lucile Kleiman, Vice-President of NES and long time member of New York Society for Ethical Culture.She serves as circulation manager of our snail mail postings.
Jackie Pope
Rose L. Walker
We celebrate the life of Rose L Walker who died in the company of her family on Friday, June 17th, 2011, at 101 years of age.
Rose served on the National Ethical Service Executive Board until she died. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Schnurr Award, a national service honor given by The UN Foundation.
She received in 2010 the Felix Adler Award from The American Ethical Union. Those who loved her celebrate her radiance and devotion to the ethical culture message of comprehensive interrelatedness practiced within the ethical culture movement. Through NES she ably represented us at the United Nations.
The Rose L Walker Fund was established in 2006 to ensure that the ethical culture voice at the UN will continue into perpetuity. If you would like to donate to the Fund, please make your check out to National Ethical Service and in the lower left section of the chick, put Rosel L Walker Fund and your contribution will be placed into this account. For more information, contact Kay Dundorf, Treasurer of NES at kdundorf@nationalserviceaeu.org
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About the National Peace Academy
The National Peace Academy is a learning center and activistsʼ resource supported by National Ethical Service for its appropriateness to the fulfillment of our NES Mission. Our Mission is to realize global peace expressed in 21st century activism. We define peace as the “wholeness ( a cooperating collective consciousness ) of right relationship with ourselves, others, other cultures, Earth, all life and the greater whole of which we are all a part.” (paragraph 16, The Earth Charter).
The National Ethical Service is a founding member of a world wide civil society organization at the UN called the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace. Find us at http://www.culture-of-peace.info/cultureofpeace.html.
Ending Violence & Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
Durban Climate Change Conference - November/December 2011
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011, brought together representatives of the world's governments, international organizations and civil society. The discussions sought to advance, in a balanced fashion, the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, as well as the Bali Action Plan, agreed at COP 13 in 2007, and the Cancun Agreements, reached at COP 16 last December.