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Communities Without Boundaries International (CWBI) is an international non-governmental tax exempt organization carrying out peacebuilding and sustainable development projects in the US and around the globe, and founded on the philosophy and principles of nonviolence as espoused by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas K. Gandhi. Their mission is to foster peace through development and the empowerment of communities using the philosophy and principles of nonviolent social change. Its missions are carried out through research, education, and technical assistance in underprivileged, conflict, and post-trauma/conflict communities around the globe.〔(Communities Without Boundaries International Home Page )〕 Their work can be found in Africa,〔(Honoring Nelson Mandela in Nigeria )〕 the Balkans, Turkey,〔(Martin Luther King III with CWBI working with Turkey youth )〕 Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia,〔(CWBI working in Nepal )〕 and North America. CWBI enters communities to break down social boundaries by creating peaceful bridges. The programs are intended to relieve suffering, increase security, and help people take charge of their lives and their communities. The techniques employed for accomplishing their work are utilized in community building and community development programs. Constructing local, regional, and international partnerships builds on greater communities for implementing peaceful non-violent social change. Their partnerships are integral for developing and implementing several initiatives: ''From Chaos to Community'' and ''Youth Without Boundaries''. The success of these initiatives led CWBI to speak at the 50th Anniversary March on Washington. ==History== Martin Luther King, Jr. called for a coalition of organizations to bring on new strategies for overcoming barriers enforced by distressed and disadvantaged communities. After his assassination, organizations emerged with new outlooks on breaking barriers, but many were not considering the power nonviolent social change philosophy could bring to underprivileged and disadvantaged parts of the world. CWBI's emergence came from two previous organizations looking to grasp the same message from Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1990 Coretta Scott King established the Center for Community Development to fill the void of her late husband's vision. Seven years later this initiative was launched nationally as the National Institute for Community Empowerment (NICE) by Johnny J. Mack. Their flagship project was the American Cities Project, targeting neighborhoods in major city urban centers across the United States. The goal of the project was community restoration and revitalizing communities through nonviolent social development. In 2007, NICE was re-articulated and Realizing The Dream (RTD) was born in collaboration with Martin Luther King III. RTD was designed to look at the problems and opportunities of the 21st century in freedom, justice, and equality. Simultaneously the organization works towards eliminating poverty, racism and violent conflict in the United States and throughout the World. RTD was eventually subsumed into the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 2010. In the fall of 2011, CWBI was founded by Johnny Mack, who held responsibility for the launch of both NICE and RTD. He was joined by Dr. Maneshka Eliatamby. CWBI was established to continue the legacy of NICE/RTD. Lessons and strategies were adopted from these campaigns and pursued. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Communities Without Boundaries International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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