INSTITUTE ON WORLD

PROBLEMS 

 

     IOWP

        Seminars

 
 

(Carrying forward the work of the Graduate School of World Problems)

Link to IOWP website

World-wide seminars on World-problems and their integrated solution under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

The Institute is a 501 C3 tax-deductible organization registered in the USA

The Institute is interested is sponsoring sustainable projects in developing countries, especially South Asia, Africa, and South America

The Graduate School of World Problems was begun in 1982 by an act of the Provisional World Parliament.  The Institute On World Problems was founded in 2001 to provide the initial activation of the Institute On Governmental Procedures and World Problems identified in Article 8, Section D of the Constitution of the Federation of Earth.   The Institute has the educational mission of studying world problems in relation to good government, of promoting sustainable development around the world, of promoting Esperanto as a universal language and English as a second language, and of promoting democratic world law and nonviolent procedures of conflict resolution everywhere on the Earth.

 

 

To date seminars have been held in:

  • Ghana, May-June 2002

  • Lucknow, India, June 2002 

  • Kara, Togo, June 2003  (photos of seminar)

  • Lucknow, India, June-December, 2002 

  • Chennai, India, December 2002

  • South Bangladesh, January 2004

  • Kolkata, India, January 2005

  • Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2005

  • Kameoka, Japan, January 2005 

  • Tepotzlan, Mexico, May 2005 

  • Lucknow, India, September 2005

  • Erode in Tamil Nadu, South India, September 2005

  • Kalamata, Greece, March 2006

  • Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 2007

  • Toronto, Canada, May 12-13, 2008

  • Chennai, India, June 2008

  • San Jose, Costa Rica, January 2010

  • Zagreb, Croatia, March 2010

  • San Jose, Costa Rica, May 2011

  • Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 2011

  • Chennai, India, June 2011

  • Bangalore, India, June 2011

  • Raquette Lake, NY, USA, July 2011

  • Northern Costa Rica, September 2011

 

Some photos of selected seminars

 

Takoradi, Ghana, June 2002

 

 

Kara, Togo, June 2003

 

 

South India, January 2004

 

 

Kameoka, Japan, January 2005

 

 

Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2005

With Members of the Bangladesh World Peace Council

 

 

Tepotzlan, Mexico, May 2005

 

 

Erode, South India, August 2005

 

 

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Judge Weeramantry, former President of the World Court in the Hague, was a guest speaker at this June 2006 seminar in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

 

Toronto, Canada, May 12-13, 2008

Toronto:  Dr. Eugenia Almand showing a photo of the location of the first session of the Provisional World Parliament in Brighton, England.

 

 

Chennai, India, June 2008

We call on prominent peace leaders prior to the Seminar.

 

On the stage waiting for the WCPA Conference and IOWP Seminar to begin.

 

 

 

At the entrance to the University of Madras prior to the
WCPA Conference and IOWP Seminar

 

Some participants in the Costa Rica seminar in January 2010

 

Bangalore, India, June 2011

 

 

 

San Carlos, Costa Rica, September 2011

In Costa Rica, with the help of WCPA Vice-President and Director of Fundacion CEPPA, Celina Garcia, we connected with several Alternatives to Violence (ATV) groups in northern Costa Rica helping expand their conception of nonviolence to a global scale.

 

 

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