Africa Peace and Development Network/ Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA)
Invitation, News and Events
On behalf of the Africa Peace and Development Network (MAMA) and affiliates, I am delighted to invite you to Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa (Global Peace). This is a series of weekly academic and professional discourses on peace education, research, and activism as well as on the question of sustainable development. Since 27 October 2021, Global Peace events have been taking place every Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dar-es-Salaam/Kampala/Nairobi. We continue engaging a global audience using the Zoom link below. Please adjust your clock accordingly. We appreciate your participation.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84157580433?pwd=Ny9kRGR1TjBtaHNiTGlFaWU4UW5Mdz09 (No RSVP or prior registration required.)
Theme: “Abandon Fear To Live By Love - Universal Law”
Speaker: Clive Menzies, London, England, UK
Synopsis: A paradigm shift is underway and evident within: groups and communities, the changing global organisational structure and expanding spirituality. We are evolving as a species. Many have lived in fear for the past 2,500/3,000 years in opposition to our innate nature and universal law. In spite of all the incentives to trample on our fellow (wo)man and the penalties suffered for abiding by universal law, willing acts of kindness for complete strangers are increasingly commonplace. There is one overriding law: love thy neighbour as thyself, because we are all instances of universal consciousness and to love God, Allah or Creation is synonymous with loving our neighbour. Who is our neighbour? Everyone and everything.
The current organisational structure, based on simple exchange money, is dying as the new paradigm rises. Its death throes give rise to the madness, abuse, death and destruction we are living through today. Once we live by love, the fear evaporates and we discover our "tribe", the growing number of men, women, boys and girls who aspire to live in harmony with universal law.
Clive Menzies explores the human condition at www.outersite.org, sharing insights from years of engagement with distributed, autonomous, codependent self-organisation (DACSO). This journey took coherent shape with the Critical Thinking project (2012–2019) and continues through collaborations with diverse groups and individuals. Clive’s current focus is on rethinking value as the foundation of organisation and aligning life with the universe’s fundamental principle: love. Living and working alongside like-minded individuals who share a deep spiritual connection to conscious energy makes this way of life not just effortless, but profoundly fulfilling.
Time:
07:00 a.m. Mexico City
09:00 a.m. Washington, DC
10:00 a. m. Buenos Aires
01:00 p.m. (13:00) London
02:00 p.m. (14:00) Berlin/Brussels
04:00 p.m. (16:00) Dar-es-Salaam/Kampala/Nairobi
06:30 p.m. (18:30) New Delhi
09:00 p.m. (21:00) Nanjing
10:00 p.m. (22:00) Tokyo
12:00 a.m. (00:00) Melbourne
Date: 5th November 2025
News and Events
Latest Global Peace Session
We thank Prof. Achim Alan de Merlo, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, for his critical discourse on “A Community in Flux, the Cold War, De-colonisation, 1973-1993”. You may watch a recording of his presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8RmRMNe4U
Quote of the Week
“There's so much madness and violence in the world because the system is dying and creating mayhem in its death throes. It's up to us all in the West and everywhere to withdraw our energy and resources (money) from governments and all the other criminal institutions. A new world is emerging. It's up to each and every one of us to adapt to the way of organising ourselves - sharing what we can and basking in the rewards. Do not let bad actors lead us into the eternal pattern of division and conflict” - MC.
November 24 Global Symposium
The World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence is pleased to announce its 2025 Global Symposium, taking place virtually on 24 November - see below for details and please share widely in your networks including LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-council-on-intercultural-and-global-competence/posts/?feedView=all
Registration at:
https://events.humanitix.com/world-council-annual-global-symposium-2025
MAMA Founding Members and Collaborative Partners
Thanks to generous offers from peacebuilders, development professionals, specialists, academics, researchers, activists, civil society experts, philosophers and intellectuals, we discuss pertinent issues of peace and sustainability around the world and across Africa. Global Peace is brought to you courtesy of: Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Egon Spiegel: University of Vechta, Germany; Prof. Dr. Cheng Liu: UNESCO Chair, Nanjing University, China; Prof. Dr. Lester R. Kurtz: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (MWK), Germany, Dr. Mariana Covolo: Universidad de Congreso (UC), Mendoza, Argentina; Mr. Peter Barus, Vermont, USA, Prof. Janet Gerson: International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE), USA, Prof. Donna Pido and Prof. Odoch Pido, Nairobi, Kenya), Evelyn Voigt and Gordon Breedyk: Civilian Peace Service, Canada and The Peace Professionalism Project, Ottawa, Canada. Some of our key partners include: Catholic Peacebuilding Network (CPN), International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU/FIUC), International Peace Research Association (IPRA), World Intellectuals’ Wisdom Forum (WIWF), African Peace Research and Education Association (AFPREA), the Commonwealth Interfaith Network (CIN), Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS).
MAMA WhatsApp Group and Website
You are warmly invited to join the Africa Peace and Development Network (MAMA) WhatsApp Group. We promote peace by peaceful means (nonviolence) and we reject violence because it is against human dignity and it breeds more violence. Please text me via +255 756 058 511 to join MAMA. For further information, please visit our website: https://www.africapeaceanddevelopmentnetwork.org/
Global Peace Feedback
In order to improve our sessions, we are happy to receive your feedback. In this case, please just send me an email or call me on WhatsApp +255 756 058 511. Thank you.
Webinar Talk Offers
If you would like to give us a talk on any of the issues related to peace and/ or sustainable development, please drop me a line and invite your colleagues to Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa, where we discuss pertinent issues of peace and sustainability around the world and across Africa.
Should you wish not to participate in these transcontinental sessions, kindly let me know. We respect each one’s opinion and everyone’s dignity. Welcome to Global Peace.
