ABSTRACT
Global awareness of our interconnectedness is rising all over the world. In 2011, the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research and the Muhammadan League of Scholars organized a joint conference in Morocco to allow thinkers and decision makers from various backgrounds to think together about the direction we need to, want to, and ought to move toward. The concept of "global visioning" is described in detail by Daisaku Ikeda in his 2009 Peace Proposal. Ikeda suggests the creation of an "office of global visioning within the UN secretariat" as one element of a strategy to enhance the United Nations system's effectiveness. He stresses that ample attention should be paid to reflecting women's perspectives and the voices of young people in the operations of such a unit, and discussions should always have a focus on the empowerment of youth and children. The chapter also provides an outline of this book.
