General

Nearly 10 years ago, scientists accomplished a feat that many people expected to revolutionize Western medicine. The Human Genome Project, an international research project involving hundreds of scientists and numerous laboratories around the world, announced that it had finished a draft of the human genome, comprising approximately 3 billion base pairs (complementary molecules that make up DNA).

Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life?

Mahatma Gandhi believed that we must be the change we want to see in the world. This was well demonstrated when he helped India gain its independence. Gandhi was a revolutionary man, but he accomplished India's emergence as a nation without starting a revolution. In fact, he advocated no violence. One of the most powerful countries in the world yielded to the commitment of one man and the dream of millions.

What change can we effect? What's the difference we want to make in the world?

SUMMARY STATEMENT

It is something everyone breathes. Something everyone is in . . . like a fog it obscures our vision. Until we are awakened we live with the delusion that we are immune to it. We think we are in control. We think we are autonomous. But this is only because we have forgotten. We have forgotten history and have forgotten to listen to the wisdom of the past . . . to our ancestors. They too were in it. And yet some enlightened souls saw through the veil.

Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly

36/67. International Year of Peace and International Day of Peace

The General Assembly,

Recalling that the promotion of peace, both at an international and a national level, is among the main purposes of the United Nations, in conformity with its Charter,