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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.

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