A Gathering of Village Elders Assembled to Resolve Global Conflicts
The idea for the Global elders started in 1999 with a conversation between Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson. Their idea of The Elders was to create a new gathering of world leaders who will come together to guide and support our "global village."
For their model they looked to traditional village elders, trusted by their people to resolve conflict within their communities.
In 2001 Gabriel and Branson took their idea to Nelson Mandela who enthusiastically set out with the help of Graça Machel and Desmond Tutu to bring together the group of Elders you see here today.
Introducing my superheroes...the Global Elders.
Nelson Mandela Announces the Elders
Announcing The Elders
The Elders launch event in Johannesburg, South Africa. July 18th, 2007.
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Nelson Mandela in the Amazon Spotlight
Mandela: The Authorized Portrait
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More than 60 world figures (including Clinton, Annan, and Bono) and antiapartheid activists (including Tutu and Kathrada) pay tribute and remember the great freedom fighter.
Reasons Why the Elders are Superheroes
- Nelson Mandela Announces the Elders
- Kofi Annan at the Elders Founding Event
- Desmond Tutu at the Elders Founding Event
- The Global Elders Website
- The Global Elders
- The Global Elders on YouTube
- Launch of the Every Human Has a Right Campaign on Flickr
- Every Human Has Rights on YouTube
- Every Human Has Rights Campaign
- Get Involved with the Every Human Has Rights Campaign
- The Elders' Mission to Darfur on YouTube
- The Latest News from the Elders Website
- The New Global Leaders in the Amazon Spotlight
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Kofi Annan at the Elders Founding Event
Kofi Annan speaking at The Elders' founding event
Kofi Annan speaks at The Elders founding event in Johannesburg, South Africa on July 18th, 2007.
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Kofi Annan in the Amazon Spotlight
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War
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Annan rose from humble beginnings as a schoolboy in Ghana to world statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Annan was involved in some of the greatest achievements and failures of the UN in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
All together
the Elders have nearly
1,000 years of
collective experience & wisdom.
Desmond Tutu at the Elders Founding Event
Desmond Tutu reading the words of Ela Bhatt of The Elders
Elders' chair Desmond Tutu reads a letter from fellow Elder Ela Bhatt at The Elders' founding event in Johannesburg, South Africa on July 18th, 1979
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Desmond Tutu in the Amazon Spotlight
Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
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The focus of this compelling biography of Desmond Tutu, written by longtime media secretary, is on Tutu's dynamic leadership role in the apartheid resistance when those racist perpetrators were in power.
The inside story of his life is also a gripping history of the fight for peaceful change.
The Global Elders on Wikipedia
The Global Elders or The Elders is a group of public figures noted as elder statesmen, peace activists, and human rights advocates. The goal of the group is to solve global problems, using "almost 1,000 years of collective experience" to work on solutions for seemingly insurmountable problems like climate change, HIV/AIDS, and poverty, and "use their political independence to help resolve some of the world's most intractable conflicts."...
The Global Elders Website
The Global Elders with Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson, the two men who had the idea to assemble the elders.
- The Elders
- We are moving to a global village and yet we don't have our global elders. The Elders can be a group who have the trust of the world, who can speak freely, be fiercely independent and respond fast and flexibly in conflict situations.
- The Elders' History
- The history of the Elders.
The Launch of the Global Elders on Flickr
The Global Elders
- Elder | Nelson Mandela
- One of the world's most revered statesmen, Nelson Mandela led the struggle to replace South Africa's apartheid regime with a non-racial democracy.
- Elder | Graça Machel
- Graça Machel is a renowned international advocate for women's and children's rights, and has been a social and political activist for decades.
- Elder | Desmond Tutu
- Anglican priest Desmond Mpilo Tutu became the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches in 1979.
- Elder | Kofi Annan
- Kofi Annan of Ghana emerged from the ranks of United Nations' staff to become its seventh Secretary-General, and served from 1997 to 2006.
- Elder | Ela Bhatt
- Ela R. Bhatt is widely recognised as one of the world's most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development. Known as the "gentle revolutionary" she has dedicated her life to improving the lives of India's poorest and most oppressed women workers, with Gandhian thinking as her source of guidance.
- Elder | Lakhdar Brahimi
- Lakhdar Brahimi has spent 40 years helping to keep the peace across the world. Now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he lectures regularly in the US, Europe, Africa and the Arab world on international relations, conflict and conflict resolution.
- Elder | Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Few people have had an impact on society as global as Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a medical doctor and Master of Public Health (MPH). She spent 10 years as a physician and scientist in the Norwegian public health system and served 20 years in public office, including 10 years as Prime Minister of Norway.
- Elder | Fernando H Cardoso
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso was Senator, Minister of Foreign Relations, Minister of Finance and President of Brazil for two successive terms from 1995 to 2002, winning both elections in the first round by an absolute majority.
- Elder | Jimmy Carter
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States of America, was born in Plains, Georgia, in October 1924.
- Elder | Mary Robinson
- Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997) and more recently United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), has been a human rights advocate for most of her life.
- Elder | Muhammad Yunus
- After receiving his PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University in the United States, Muhammad Yunus returned to his home country of Bangladesh in 1972. There he founded the Grameen Bank Project in 1976, and transformed it into a formal bank in 1983.
- Elder | Aung San Suu Kyi
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced Daw Aung Sawn Sue Chee) served as the figurehead for Burma's struggle for democracy since 1988, and is one of the world's most renowned freedom fighters and advocates of non-violence.
The Global Elders are a new gathering of world leaders who have come together to guide and support our "global village."
The Global Elders on YouTube
Jimmy Carter in the Amazon Spotlight
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
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The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, and he has continued his public and private diplomacy ever since, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work for peace, human rights, and international development.
Launch of the Every Human Has a Right Campaign on Flickr
Every Human Has Rights on YouTube
Every Human Has Rights
The Elders introduce their Every Human Has Rights Campaign. video produced in partnership with ActionAid
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Every Human Has Rights Website
- Every Human Has Rights
- 2008 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary. It's time for a global conversation about human rights and the values that unite us as one human family. But it can also be a time when each of us chooses to take human rights into our daily lives, by joining a powerful people network.
Every Human Has Rights Campaign
Every Human Has Rights on YouTube
Every Human Has Rights - Freedom of Expression
Mary Robinson, speaking on behalf of The Elders, invites you to participate in the Every Human Has Rights campaign. www.everyhumanhasrights.org
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Get Involved with the Every Human Has Rights Campaign
Read it - Sign it - Spread the Word
- Read it | Every Human Has Rights
- Read the full Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Sign It | Every Human Has Rights
- Sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Make your pledge personal.
- Help Spread The Word | Every Human Has Rights
- Help Spread The Word about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
More Books by the Elders Available on Amazon
The Elders' Mission to Darfur on YouTube
They began the trip in Khartoum, where they met with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir, other government officials, and representatives of opposition political parties, the United Nations, the African Union, the diplomatic community and international organizations, including humanitarian agencies.
More about the Elders Mission to Sudan
Graca Machel, Jimmy Carter and Lakhdar Brahimi travelled to Sudan to meet with a wide segment of leaders and civil society.
Their report presents an action plan to galvanize the international community into bringing an end to the region's suffering.
- Mission to Sudan
- The Elders Mission to the Sudan.
The Elders are a group of leaders convened to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackling some of the world's toughest problems.
The Latest News from the Elders Website
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The New Global Leaders: Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik, David Simon and the Remaking of International Business
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These three corporate executives (of Virgin, Asea Brown Boveri, and British Petroleum, respectively) are presented as role models of leadership styles for the new global executive.
Take a look at Branson, dubbed "the Builder" by the authors.
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