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Charter for Compassion is a document written in 2009 that urges the peoples and religions of the world to embrace the core value of compassion. [1] The charter is available in more than 30 languages and has been endorsed by more than two million individuals.
Andrew Himes (born 1950) is an American writer and editor. He was the founding executive director of the Charter for Compassion, launched in 2008 by TED.com and Karen Armstrong, with the mission of supporting the emergence of a "global compassion movement".
Awarded the $100,000 TED Prize in February 2008, Armstrong called for drawing up a Charter for Compassion, in the spirit of the Golden Rule, to identify shared moral priorities across religious traditions, in order to foster global understanding and a peaceful world. [20] It was presented in Washington, D.C. in November 2009.
The book begins with Armstrong's early life experience as a nun in an authoritarian convent; she talks about the problems she encountered there, and recounts the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, and finally her leaving the convent.
C. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Cetingrad Charter; Charter 08; Charter 77; Charter 88; Charter 97; Charter for Compassion; Charter for European Security
Compassion involves "feeling for another" and is a precursor to empathy, the "feeling as another" capacity (as opposed to sympathy, the "feeling towards another"). In common parlance, active compassion is the desire to alleviate another's suffering. [1] Compassion involves allowing ourselves to be moved by suffering to help alleviate and ...
He is on the advisory board to the Fogarty Institute of Innovation. Additionally, Doty is on the advisory board of a number of non-profit organizations including the Charter for Compassion of which he is Vice-Chair. He is the former Chairman of the Dalai Lama Foundation. He also writes a blog for the Huffington Post. [9]
In 2013 Compassion Games International, [20] an activity of the Charter for Compassion, used "coopetition" to describe their annual games between cities about who can commit the most acts of kindness and compassion. [21]