Tapio Varis, Chair of global e-learning for UNESCO-(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and member of the board of directors of New York-based Center for Media & Peace Initiativeshas been bestowed with the prestigious Golden Rule Award. Varis has greatly contributed four decades to create a culture of peace, in promoting dialogue and values of new humanism. The Golden Rule Award is awarded by the Interfaith Dialogue Network of Finland, which works in fellowship with Parliament of the World’s Religions. “The Golden Rule Award is a stone given as a sign of gratitude to people who try to implement The Golden Rule in practice. The Golden Rule is the ground for dialogue but it is actually the process of dialogue that leads people to really walk on the path of Golden Rule”, says Heidi Rautionmaa, Finland’s Interfaith Dialogue Network Coordinator and Ambassador to the 2009 Parliament of World’s Religions. Tapio Varis says that education programs must be the fruit of cooperation and communication between people. Present day technologies are starting to enable this and global media ...
↧