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Martti Ahtisaari, Dr. <office@ahtisaari.fi>
P. Tapio Varis,
Ph.D., Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula
<kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi>
Your Excellency, Dr. Ahtisaari:
(1) My sincere congratulations to your receiving the prestigious Felix Houphuet-Boigny UNESCO Peace Prize (ATACHMENT I and II).
Your extraordinary efforts for global peace certainly deserves for
this prize.
(2) It was my great pleasure and honor to have met with you at the World Summit
for Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia, in November 2005, by the kind
introduction of Prof. Tapio Varis.
(3) I also express my gratitude for your contribution of the following paper to
our book;
Martti Ahtisaari,
President of Finland and Laureate of Fulbright Prize
"The 2000 Fulbright Prize Address"
http://tinyurl.com/ytrrm9
Global
Peace Through The Global University System
Tapio Varis -
Takeshi Utsumi - William Klemm (Eds.)
University of Tampere, Finland 2003
ISBN 951-44-5695-5
The entire contents of this book can be retrieved at;
http://tinyurl.com/kofpf
In
the bottom line of this page, you can find the following;
Interview with Takeshi Utsumi by
Parker Rossman
http://tinyurl.com/fnxxt
(4) I would also like to congratulate your delivering the 14th U Thant
Distinguished Lecture at the UN University in Tokyo on May 26;
Negotiating peace: Martti Ahtisaari to deliver U
Thant Lecture
<http://update.unu.edu/issue49_15.htm>
I regret not being able to attend it, but I would be very delighted if you can
kindly send me your speech transcript so that I would share it with our list
members.
Anyway, pls enjoy your stay in Tokyo.
(5) For your reference, pls visit the followings in
the Projects of GLOSAS <http://tinyurl.com/65sffj>;
(a) Finnish Noblesse Oblige Project:
Our Finnish colleagues attained the world #1 ranking in education, vocational
training and ICTs fields by DAVOS, OECD, UNESCO, etc.
We are very much honored and privileged to have been able to undergird
their activities, especially in the age of globalization of this 21st century.
On the other hand, Japans ranking in the fields by those organizations are
slipping down year after year recently, since they havent overcome yet The
biggest barrier for new development of Human-Centric Knowledge Society is our
Industrial Age mindset! -- the very last words in Dr. Kaisa Kautto-Koivulas
following paper;
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula
and Marita Huhtaniemi,
Nokia Ventures Organization
"Evolution Towards Human-Centric
Knowledge Society. Can Societies Learn from Global Corporations?"
http://tinyurl.com/y5ja49
Our Finnish colleagues are now initiating this Finnish Noblesse Oblige
project to have GUS spreading the know-how of how and why Finnish accomplished
such high rankings –- starting to Japan as the first target country for
preventing further decline of their rankings and national power, and later to
various developing countries.
I would very much appreciate it if you can kindly provide your blessing and
support to Kaisa.
(b) Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG) Project
and
Global network of the Center for
Conflict Management and Resolution (CCMR):
We are now working to establish a global network of the Center for Conflict
Management and Resolution (CCMR) with the use of a globally distributed
computer gaming/simulation system to help decision makers construct a globally
distributed decision-support system for positive sum/win-win alternatives to
conflict and war, particularly focusing on the issues of environment and
sustainable development in developing countries.
The idea involves interconnecting experts in many countries via the global
Internet to collaborate in the discovering of new solutions for world crises,
such as the deteriorating ecology of our globe, and to explore new alternatives
for a world order capable of addressing the problems and opportunities of an
interdependent globe. Gaming/simulation is the best tool we have for
understanding the world's confrontation prone problems and the solutions we
propose for them. The understanding gained with scientific and rational
analysis and critical thinking would be the basis of world peace, and hence
ought to provide the basic principle of global education for peace.
I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly support the above two projects,
as you do for our GUS.
Please have a very
pleasant and safe trip back to Finland from Tokyo.
Sincerely yours,
Takeshi Utsumi
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of GUS
ATACHMENT I
From: Tapio Varis <Tapio.Varis@uta.fi>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:45:40 +0300
To: <office@ahtisaari.fi>
Cc: <utsumi@columbia.edu>, <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Subject: Congratulations for the UNESCO Peace Prize
H.E. President Martti Ahtisaari
Finland
Your Excellency,
On behalf of the UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning at the University
of Tampere, Finland, I extend my warmest congratulations to you for
receiving the Felix Houphuet-Boigny UNESCO Peace
Prize. I also want to
send you the congratulations of other colleagues working with our
Unesco Chair, especially Dr. Takeshi Utsumi whom I
had a pleasure of
introducing to you at the WSIS Summit in Tunis in 2005.
We have been enjoying reading your contribution to our book and I
personally am very proud of having your support in my work during many
decades.
Yours very sincerely,
Tapio Varis
Professor of Vocational Education with special reference to global
learning University of Tampere, Finland
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning
ATACHMENT II
From: Tapio
Varis <Tapio.Varis@uta.fi>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 22:38:04 +0300
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Unesco Peace Prize to president Martti Ahtisaari
Dear Tak,
This is the information of the UNESCO Peace Prize that I congratulated
President Ahtisaari in the name of myself and you
(copied it to you
earlier today)
Sincerely,
Tapio
UNESCO
http://portal.unesco.org/unesco/
Martti Ahtisaari receives 2007 Houphout-Boigny
Peace Prize
Nations Unies The Flix
Houphout-Boigny Peace Prize was
attributed to Martti Ahtisaari,
President of Finland from 1994 to
2000, and founder of the non-governmental organization Crisis
Management Initiative. Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, president of the international jury
that awards the Prize, declared that the laureate had been chosen "for
his lifetime contribution to world peace."
In a personal message to Mr Ahtisaari,
the Director-General of UNESCO,
Kochiro Matsuura, expressed great pleasure at this
recognition and
congratulating the laureate. Recalling the outstanding nature of Mr
Ahtisaari's career at the service of dialogue and
world peace, Mr
Matsuura stressed its closeness to UNESCO's ideals.
Mr Ahtisaari carried out
numerous peace missions for the United
Nations, in particular in Namibia and the Balkans. In the framework of
the Crisis Management Initiative, he organized in September 2007
during a week in Helsinki negotiations between Iraqi Moslem Sunnite
and Shiite groups to help re-establish dialogue between the two
communities.
With the Crisis Management Initiative, he also facilitated the peace
process between Indonesia and the Aceh separatists. This process led
to the signing of a peace treaty between the Indonesian Government and
the Gerakan Aceh Merdeka
(GAM, Free Aceh Movement) ending the conflict
in the province.
In 2000, he supervised the disarmament process of the Irish Republican
Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland at the request of the British government.
The Flix Houphout-Boigny
Peace Prize was created in 1989 by UNESCO's
General Conference "to honour living
individuals, and active public or
private bodies or institutions that have made a significant
contribution to promoting, seeking, safeguarding or maintaining peace,
in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and the
Constitution of UNESCO."
The international jury which awards the prize comprises distinguished
personalities such as Mario Soares, former President
of the Republic
of Portugal and the Argentinean Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Adolfo
Prez Esquivel.
Previous laureates of the Prize include Nelson Mandela and Frederik
W.
De Klerk; Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Prs and Yasser
Arafat; King Juan
Carlos of Spain and former US President Jimmy Carter; and Senegalese
President Abdoulaye Wade.
List of Distribution
Martti Ahtisaari, Dr.
Former President of Finland
Erottajankatu 11 A
00130 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358 9 6987024
Fax: +358 9 6127759
E-mail: office@ahtisaari.fi
Web: http://www.ahtisaari.fi/
P. Tapio Varis,
Ph.D., Professor
Acting President, Global University System
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains
Professor and Chair of Media Education
Research Center for Vocational Education & Hypermedia Laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 229
FIN-13101 Hameenlinna
FINLAND
+358-3-3551-3608
GSM: +3358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-614-5611 or +358-3-3551-3611
tapio.varis@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
www.ecml-eu.org -- about ECML project.
http://www.uta.fi/conference/mediaskills/
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula
Ph.D.(educ.), Lic.Techn., Docent
Adjunct Professor, New Learning Environments
Tampere University
Tampere, Finland
Mobile: +358 400 403 632
kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi
or
Kruununtie 8 C
02180 Espoo, Finland
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
*
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association
in the U.S.A.) *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
*
* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of
*
* Global University System (GUS)
*
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-5913, U.S.A.
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* Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: utsumi@columbia.edu
*
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