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Das Ganze - alles - wächst qualitativ durch Lernen in EINEr Welt in Vielfalt - sowie durch "compassion and action" zu einer Welt in Balance.

Im Bewusstsein, dass alles über den innersten Kern allen Seins, einem alles umfassenden GEIST, miteinander verbunden ist, stehen wir Menschen vor der Aufgabe, ein Gleichgewicht zu gestalten, das

1. die gewachsene und sich weiter entwickelnde Basis allen Seins, die Natur (Biosphäre) schützt und erhält;
2. ein friedliches, liebevolles MITEINANDER der Menschen in Sozialstrukturen ermöglicht, die von der "Goldenen Regel" geprägt sind;
3. die materiellen Früchte menschlichen Forschens und kreativen Arbeitens in diesem MITEINANDER in einer offenen, fairen und zugleich effizienten Weise allen Menschen - entsprechend ihrem Engagement - zukommen lässt. Dies bedingt einen globalen Markt, der jedoch durch die Korrekturfaktoren 1. + 2. zwingend begrenzt ist, also eine globale "Öko-soziale Marktwirtschaft.

Voraussetzungen für die aktive Mitgestaltung eines Gleichgewichts zwischen den 3 Faktoren sind ein globales oder gar kosmisches Bewusstsein (eine Bewusstheit) sowie die Möglichkeit zum Erwerb der für die aktive Teilnahme am Gesamtsystem erforderlichen Fähigkeiten.
Solche Fähigkeiten wachsen unter dem Einfluss elterlicher Liebe und bewusster, frühkindlicher Förderung sowie anschließender guter Grundbildung, welche die unterschiedlichen Anlagen der Menschen erkennt und individuell unterstützt.

Aufgaben der Gemeinschaft sind die Schaffung eines sicheren rechtlichen Rahmens und die Gewährung der Startchancen bei der individuellen Entwicklung aller Menschen im Rahmen ihrer jeweiligen, sich weiter entwickelnden Kultur.
Die Gesamtverantwortung der Gesellschaft für die Lebensgestaltung und für den damit verbundenen "Erfolg" des Einzelnen endet mit dem Alter des Menschen, in dem er seine frühzeitig erworbenen Fähigkeiten im Rahmen der gesellschaftlichen Strukturen eigenständig nutzen und lebenslang weiter entwickeln kann - also nach einer hochwertigen Grundbildung.

Eine solidarische Gesamtverantwortung für ein menschenwürdiges Leben bleibt jedoch gegenüber all den Menschen bestehen, die unverschuldet, z. B. durch Krankheit oder sonstiges Schicksal, keine Fähigkeiten erwerben können, die sie zu eigenständiger Lebensführung befähigen.
In welchem Ausmaß eine Grundsicherung des Alters und der Gesundheit von der Allgemeinheit zu organisieren und zu finanzieren ist, hängt von einem demokratischen Entscheidungsprozess der jeweiligen (staatlichen) Gemeinschaft ab.
So lange allerdings noch keine der für eigenständige Entwicklung und Risikoabsicherung erforderlichen Rahmenbedingungen - insbesondere noch kein hochwertiges, allgemein zugängliches Früh- und Grundbildungssystem - gestaltet sind und Wirkung entfalten können, ist eine Synthese von individueller und globaler Solidarität für ein menschenwürdiges Leben aller Menschen unserer Einen Welt unverzichtbar.

Im Entwicklungs- und Gestaltungsprozess auf allen Ebenen sind Leitprinzipien und Verfahrens-Strategien bzw. Arbeits-Ziele relevant:

- TRANSPARENZ aller Ziele, Pläne und Aktivitäten,
- SUBSIDIARITÄT - d. h. Vorrang der kleinstmöglichen Einheit,
- TEILNAHME aller derer, die von Entwicklung betroffen sind,
- DAUERHAFTIGKEIT aller Maßnahmen zur Erhaltung der Natur und der kulturellen Werte in all ihrer Vielfalt - soweit diese nicht den allgemeinen Menschenrechten widersprechen,
- ERMÄCHTIGUNG (empowerment) aller, die keine Macht haben,
- KAPAZITÄTSENTWICKLUNG aller Selbsthilfe-Strukturen,
- EIGNERSCHAFT (ownership) all derer, die sich selbst entwickeln wollen.

Kernergebnis eines dreißigjährigen Lernprozesses in der Entwicklung-Zusammenarbeit: Niemand, nichts, kann entwickelt WERDEN. Alles muss sich von innen und "unten" nach außen und "oben" entwickeln. Entwicklung gehört den sich Entwickelnden (s. ownership-Prinzip).

Dem widerspricht nicht die ergänzende Notwendigkeit "oben": "Eine Treppe muss von oben nach unten gereinigt werden."

Politischer Leitgedanke:
Damit die Menschheit in Frieden überleben kann, müssen wir zunächst ein globales - oder gar kosmisches - Bewusstsein für Einheit in Vielfalt entwickeln und dann eine legal verbindliche, durchsetzbare faire und beständige globale Ordnung fördern - für eine Welt in Balance im Geiste einer tätigen Liebe (compassion) und Solidarität.

Peter Hesse - www.solidarity.org - April 2010

Download als pdf

In Haiti I followed a
wake-up call for change in 1981.
There I learned to "heal-solve" problems.
This resulted in my first book in English:

"VISION WORKS !
From Vision to action.
From Haiti to ONE world in diversity."

380 pages, 125 color photos, 30 drawings,
Hardcover ISBN 978-3-9811650-2-9, € 29

VISION WORKS
is on stock in the USA and available from
Babbitt's Books: 119 E. Beaufort Street, Normal, IL, 61761, USA
at US $ 39,- plus freight in the USA $ 4 (or $ 6,50 priority)
Tel.: 1-309-454-7393 and (only in the USA): 1-888-875-3773,
babbits.books@gte.net

Distribution through Amazon in the USA and in GB is in preparation

Why this book?
Who might enjoy reading, who might benefit from reading this book?
Those, who seek a fulfilled, happy life which makes some deeper sense for themselves and for our world.
This book tells the story of a learning process to solve problems, to make visions work.
It is also the story of a search for meaning in life. Emotional experiences, intuition and initially unnoticed higher guidance propelled the learning process.
It became successful - supported by an awakening consciousness for our "ONE world in diversity" and some mystical experience along the path.
The book addresses readers who, like me, are constructively angry and dissatisfied with our world sliding out of balance, readers who want to be engaged in a sustainable integral development of humanity, who especially want to give children a chance through good early care and education.
Peter Hesse

Essentials from VISION WORKS
From vision to action. From Haiti to ONE world in diversity.
Wake-up calls for change. ISBN 978-3-9811650-2-9 - by Peter Hesse

The first chapters of VISION WORKS deal with my path to first awake my conscience and to start learning what really helps healing problems.
After waking up to the need of contributing to some healing process, I made mistakes because I believed that I knew what solves problems, what heals. I first needed to listen humbly.

This resulted in following the wish of Haitian villagers to "do something" for the development of their children, to help providing a starting chance in life for deprived children.
A first village pre-school led to the introduction of a trainable method for early childhood development, the Montessori method - introduced by Carol Guy-James from Trinidad, who became my project partner after the creation of the Peter-Hesse-Foundation in 1983.

Over 800 Haitians have been trained to be Montessori pre-school teachers and 50 pre-schools were opened by "our" teachers with various Haitian partners since that time.

This led to deeper learning and to a guiding vision of priority for basic education in ONE world in diversity:

Conscious that ALL is interconnected through the inner nucleus of all that exists through an all encompassing divine SPIRIT, we human beings have the freedom and face a challenge to co-create a balance which
1
protects and preserves the grown and further developing base of all that exists: nature;
2
enables peaceful loving TOGETHERNESS of people, capable to lead a life in dignity in social structures, which are defined by the "golden rule";
3
allows all people to benefit from the fruits of research and creative productivity - according to their engagements and efforts - in an open, fair and efficient way.

This requires a global market economy which however must be effectively limited by the correcting factors 1 and 2 - therefore a global "Eco-social Market-Economy".

Preconditions for the freedom to co-create a balance between those 3 factors are a relevant global consciousness and the possibility to obtain/learn the capabilities which are needed to actively take part in the whole system. Such capabilities grow under the influence of loving parents and of conscious early childhood development, followed by good basic education which recognises and promotes the human predisposition in its variety.

The opportunity to learn is a basic human right.
Creating opportunities for early and for life-long learning is a noble duty of global humanity - as well as creating publicly financed basic safety-nets for old age and illness.

This is "only" a vision - but needed for the survival of humanity.
As long as democratically agreed world-wide framework-conditions, which are needed for the individual development and the covering of risks, are not yet created and producing results - especially as long as there are no high quality early- and basic-education systems accessible for everyone - a synthesis of individual and collective solidarity for a dignified life of all human beings is needed - and is possible.

VISION WORKS convincingly argues for such change
and shows how political and administrative realities can be changed
on the basis of a realistic vision - followed by a loving managerial process.
VISION WORKS introduces such managerial structures to development realities.

VISION WORKS pleads for a "world in balance" with the help of a
global solidarity plan, a "Global Marshallplan"
and suggests guidelines for "heal-solving" solidarity-work.

The ongoing learning process since 1981 with people in need has produced some
conclusions for successful action, which can be summarised in
principles and guidelines for action.
Those guiding principles are equally valid on the micro-level, when working with people
and their direct representatives, on mezzo- and country-levels
as well as on a global level:

TRANSPARENCY
of all development-goals, objectives, plans and activities,
SUBSIDIARITY
giving preference to the smallest possible unit,
PARTICIPATION
of all, who are concerned for true integral development - and:
SUSTAINABILITY
of the natural environment, the base of all existence and of our cultural heritage.

These principles are widely accepted and may sound even simplistic.
If they were truly and fully observed in reality, development efforts in our world would by now have been much more successful than reality shows.

There are additional guiding words, which can also be applied like principles,
but which should better be considered as methodical development goals, as action goals.

EMPOWERMENT
of those without power,
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
to initiate self-help structures - and most important:
OWNERSHIP
of those people, who want to develop themselves.
(To apply OWNERSHIP to states only works in well functioning states.)

VISION WORKS shows how these guiding words can and should be applied to be successful in practical development work. VISION WORKS also deals with the underlying realities and suggests a feasible healing-path for some of our world's basic problems.

One reality is evident, when learning happens "in the field" - but
some development politicians still have a problem in fully accepting this reality:

Nobody, nothing can BE developed.
All must develop from inside out, and
all development must be owned by those developing.

The political requirement for sustainable development,
"a staircase must be cleaned from top to bottom",
is no contradiction to the above reality.



For humanity to survive in peace
we must first develop
a global (or even cosmic) consciousness
towards oneness of all in diversity
and then promote the
political creation of a legally binding,
fair and sustainable global order
for a world in balance
in the spirit of compassion and solidarity.

VISION WORKS draws personal conclusions acquired in practical field-work, while spending the Peter-Hesse-Foundation's own limited resources to obtain the best possible results in human development in true partnership with those, who wish to develop themselves.

The hardcover book has 380 pages, contains 125 colour photos and 30 model-drawings.
It is published by the "Peter-Hesse-Stiftung", Otto-Hahn-Str. 2, D-40699 Erkrath, Germany
on the 25th anniversary of the Peter-Hesse-Foundation on 7 December 2008.
It is being sold for € 29,- in Europe and for $ 39,- in the USA.

Here are some of Peter Hesse's model-drawings, which are being used in VISION WORKS (in pdf).

Essentials from VISION WORKS in 4 pdf-pages

Content and forewords of the book can be viewed here
in the English section under "CV - Peter Hesse personally" - Publications