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Barbara Fields
/ Executive Director, The Association for Global New Thought /

Dr. Barbara Fields
Co-founder and Project Director – The Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence 1998-2006; Program Director - 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago; Co-founder and Project Director of the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet: Dharamsala, India, 1999, Trent, Italy, 2001, and Rome, 2004; Co-director, with Dr. William Ury, of Harvard Global Negotiation Project’s Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East; Conference and Program Director for the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies 1996 (Chicago) and 2000 (Tacoma, WA); Program Director - International Buddhist-Christian Theological Encounter, Purdue University and the Lilly Foundation 1998-2004; Participant - UNESCO Seminar on Religion and Peace, Granada, Spain, 1998.

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, United Church of Religious Science, 2005, and Religious Science International’s first Peace Award in 2003; Recipient of The Peace Museum's 1998 Community Peacemaker Award, in the area of Diplomacy. Serves on the Boards of EarthAction, the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and La Casa de Maria in Santa Barbara, CA. Co-founder of The Earth Network, a non-profit alternative television organization dedicated to the environment, social action, and the human spirit for which she  received the 1994 Visionary Award from the Center For New Television; Contributing author, The Community of Religions (Continuum Press, 1996).

Barbara Fields

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