Global
Education Associates (GEA)
President
: Gerald
F. Mische,
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1848, New York City, NY 10115 (USA)
Ann Smith, Exec. Dir.
PH: (212)870-3290
FX: (212)870-2729
Members:
3,000.
Membership Dues: associate, $35 (annual) •
supporter, $100 (annual) sponsor, $1,000 (annual) • student, $10
(annual) • benefactor, $500 (annual). Staff: 3.
Budget: $500,000.
Languages: English. Multinational.
Description: International organization
which "facilitates the efforts of concerned people of diverse
cultures, talents, and experience in contributing to a more humane and
just world order." Hopes to change international competition over
weapons, money, and scarce natural resources to international cooperation
through education. Has held over 2000 workshops and conferences in North
and South America, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, and India.
Programs include: Religious Orders Partnership, AFRUS-AIDS, Books for
African Children, Global Action to Prevent War, Earth Child, Millionth
Circle. Libraries: Type: reference. Holdings: 2,200; books. Subjects:
global issues, alternative futures, education, united spirituality,
religions.
Structure: Board of trustees; Advisory Council.
IGO Relations: UN/DPI list
NGO Relations: Participates in International Network
for a UN Second Assembly (#FF0385) Consultative Status: ECOSOC
and UNESCO
Awards: Jerry Mische Global Service Award.
Frequency: annual.
Type: Recognition.
Recipient: For service to the global community.
Computer services: database • mailing lists • online
services.
Activities: Conducts and cosponsors
conferences, workshops, leadership seminars - on all continents. Research
, publication and education program focusing on: global crises;
local/global linkages; alternative world order structures; strategies
toward a more just and human world order; inner dimensions of world order.
All initiatives are pursued in a holistic framework.
Services Provided: consultancy, provision of speakers.
Publications: Breakthrough Newsletter News (in
English) 3/year Promotes the movement toward a global community. Contains
book reviews and research updates. Price: included in membership dues;
$25.00/Year for non-members. ISSN: 0889-3942. Circulation: 3,000.
Advertising: not accepted
• Star Wars and the State of Our Souls.
• Toward a Human World Order. Monograph. Explores the
linkage between local and global concerns.
• Whole Earth Papers. Monographs. Explores the linkage
between local and global concerns.
• Environmental Security and the United Nations System,
Past, Present and Future Patricia Mische, Global Education
Associates,1998.
Conventions/Meetings: annual conference, workshop, and
meeting
Members: A network of individuals and consultant associates
in 80 countries:
Africa - Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya,
Lesotho, Liberia, Mauritius, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania
UR, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia. Americas - Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados,
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Guatemala,
Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia
- Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Korea,
Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,
Thailand. Australia: New Zealand, Samoa. Europe - Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France,
Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Rumania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom,
USSR, Vatican, Yugoslavia.
