Charter for Compassion Annual Report 2016-17
Global Compassion Movement
We believe that a compassionate world is a peaceful world.
We believe that a compassionate world is possible when every man, woman and child treats others as they wish to be treated-with dignity, equity and respect.
We believe that all human beings are born with the capacity for compassion, and that it must be cul vated for human beings to survive and thrive. 1 Challenge
“Our world is dangerously polarized. There is a worrying imbalance of power and wealth which results in the control and dominance of a few over the many. Growing rage, malaise, aliena on, and humilia on have erupted in terrorist atroci es that endanger us all.
We are engaged in wars that we seem unable either to end or to win. Disputes that were secular in origin, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, have been allowed to fester and become “holy,” and once they have been sacralized, posi ons tend to harden and become resistant to pragma c solu ons. Yet we are bound together more closely than ever before through digital media.
Suffering and want are no longer confined to distant, disadvantaged parts of the globe. We all face the terrifying possibility of environmental catastrophe. It has become impera ve to apply the Golden Rule globally, ensuring that all peoples are treated as we would wish to be treated ourselves. If our communi es, ins tu ons, and ethical tradi ons fail to address this challenge, they will fail the test of our me.”
~Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life