A sparkle of hope
When their teenage son Jimmy was tragically murdered the day after his 16th birthday two years ago, Barry and Margaret Mizen from South London set up the Jimmy Mizen Foundation in his memory. It aims to promote the development of young people through supporting youth organisations and apprenticeship placements. They will tell their moving story.

A major study of the economic and social impact of the United Nations, just completed, has concluded that ‘people matter and ideas matter’, says the projects co-director, Sir Richard Jolly. Sir Richard, who has overseen the UN Intellectual History Project, shared some of the ‘untold successes’ of the UN at a Greencoat Forum at the London Centre for Initiatives of Change on 18 May.Esme McAvoy reports.

UN successes — an untold story
Sir Richard was an Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations from 1982-2000, first with UNICEF and afterwards for UNDP where from 1996-2000 he was responsible for the Human Development Report. His latest book is UN Ideas that Changed the World.

Creating peace — what will it take?
Women have a unique role in either resolving or fuelling conflict. Creators of Peace is an international women’s programme which brings women together to share their stories and learn how to create a culture of peace in their communities, homes and personal lives. Men welcome.

Forgiveness in an unforgiving world
Known for his books on forgiveness, Michael Henderson will draw on his adventures ranging from evacuation to the USA in 1940 to working backstage on Broadway in the ‘50s to speaking at the Melbourne Parliament of the World’s Religions in 2009. Copies of his book No Enemy to Conquer will be available.

Declaring that the earth is not a ‘limitless larder’, The Rt Rev James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, called for action on a ‘personal, parochial and political level’ to tackle the challenges of climate change. He urged that this should be an electoral issue. He was speaking in London in the week just before the Copenhagen summit on climate change.

Sue Riddlestone et Pooran Desai, fondateurs de Bioregional Development
Sue Riddlestone et Pooran Desai, fondateurs de BioRegional Development

Sue Riddlestone and Pooran Desai, co-founders of the multi-award winning charity BioRegional Development spoke passionately of the need to reduce unnecessary consumption and live more sustainably when they addressed a Greencoat Forum in the London centre of Initiatives of Change on 16 September.

Jan Arriens é o fundador de ‘Corredores da Vida’, uma organização que encoraja pessoas a escrever cartas a prisioneiros no Corredor da Morte.

El 16 de junio, en el Foro de Greencoat , en el Centro de Iniciativas de Cambio en Londres, Clare Short, Miembro Independiente del Parlamento por Birmingham Ladywood, habló sobre la necesidad de una transformación profunda en la sociedad para enfrentar el cambio climático y crear un mundo más justo y sostenible. El moderador del foro fue Geoffrey Lean, columnista del Medio Ambiente para el periódico Daily Telegraph.