New World Order without Ideologies

[PrincessofHeaven]

Three years ago, at the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Prague, Vaclav Havel emphasised that the “the crucial task is to fundamentally strengthen a system of universally shared moral standards that will make it impossible, on a truly global scale, for the various rules to be time and again circumvented with still more ingenuity than had gone into their invention.”

http://ecumene.org/hassan0203.htm

[Believer in miracles]

From his site.....

http://www.elhassan.org/lcd/media/articles.html#Artcl7

Reflections on a Common Heritage
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/914966.html

By El Hassan bin Talal

As Muslims, Jews and Christians, we are all bound by a common heritage of spiritual struggle under one God. The coincidence of Ramadan and Tishrei reminds us that we share similar mechanisms for spiritual renewal. Unfortunately, we also share the sin of departure from true fundamentals. Ironically, in attempting to preserve the traditions and customs of our shared civilization, many individuals are undermining the very foundations on which it was built. The children of Abraham have lost their way.

Every religion celebrates the concept of "truth" in faith.

Restoring "truth" in faith requires difficult concessions on all sides. To ease this essential process, we must learn about our respective faiths and search for common standards. We must teach our children about their true inheritance and provide them with the necessary tools of understanding to separate faith and politics. That is the only way we can survive our present, terrible reality of conflict and build a future of dialogue, understanding and respect.

To this end, I call on Muslims to separate the actions of the Israeli state from the demands of the Jewish faith. We must all recognize the right of a related faith as demanded by the Prophet and his early followers. We must remember those many centuries of coexistence, respect and united community-building. Similarly, many Jews must question their belief that a "terrorist gene" unites the populations of Gaza and the West Bank. To accept this, they must also believe that this inbred violence affects Jews, and indeed, Christians, for we all share a common DNA of faith.

As we near the end of our respective reflective months, Jews and Muslims must remember their common spiritual roots and recognize the folly of politicized faith. Neither of our communities have a monopoly on truth, but certain shared values, including the honest search for truth itself, must not be subjugated to arbitrary political whims.

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Organizations he is involved with...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hassan_bin_Al_Talal

Advisory Board of think tank Gold Mercury International, London, UK
Board of Directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, DC (2002)
Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group
Informal Advisory Group to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
International Board of the Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator of the:
World Conference of Religions for Peace

Chairman of the:

Policy Advisory Commission for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (1999–2002)
Co-Chair of the Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues
Co-Chair of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (ICIHI)

President of the:

Club of Rome 1999-2007
Arab Thought Forum since 1981
Board of Directors for the Center for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at OU

Established the:

Al al-Bait University in Mafraq
Hashemite Aid and Relief Agency
Islamic Scientific Academy
Triannual Conferences on the History and Archaeology of Jordan
The Amman Baccalaureate School
The Al-Hassan Youth Award

Founded the:

Royal Scientific Society (1970)
Annual Bilad Al-Sham Conference (1978)
Al al-Bait Foundation (1980)
Arab Youth Forum (1988)